An Israeli firm Trendlines launches an initial public offering (IPO) on the Singapore Exchange's Catalist board yesterday (16 Nov 2015), news here. It is called a medical and agricultural tech incubator firm. So what is an incubator firm?

An incubator firm is a firm that fosters early-stage companies through the developmental phases until such time as the company has sufficient financial, human and physical resources to function on its own. It is like growing a child, you seek to provide for them with resources, when they are on all fours, until they finally grow up with a degree and can work to provide for themselves (and hopefully give you a share too).

Singapore has a few incubator programs (might be called Accelerators too), a list of some of them can be found here, where my prior workplace was involved in a partnership with Clearbridge Accelerator's subdivision (I actually ......