Founder (CEO) - Magnetic Curing and Debonding for Circular Manufacturing

Who We Are

ATUM is a Singapore deep-tech venture builder and investor. We build companies from breakthrough, IP-backed research, bringing capital, operational muscle, and partners from industry, VC, and government into every build. We’ve built and backed 15 ventures, and we invest in fast-scaling deep-tech with real fundamentals, not hype.

The Venture

Factories still cure glue, coatings and composites in ovens that heat the whole room when only the part needs it, wasting most of the energy. And the bonds they make are permanent, so mixed-material parts such as battery packs and bonded electronics get scrapped whole instead of repaired or recycled.

We’re fixing both. The core is a ceramic additive from NTU that stirs into any adhesive or resin with no reformulation. A standard magnetic coil heats it from the inside, curing the part with 5 to 10 times less energy than an oven, and each particle switches itself off at a set temperature so nothing scorches. Run the field again and the bond releases on command, ready to be taken apart later for repair or recycling.

Debonding and composites are the biggest prizes: debond-on-demand is what circularity rules now push for (the EU already requires 95 percent of a vehicle recovered and 85 percent recycled), opening EV battery disassembly, electronics rework and mixed-material recycling, while volumetric curing reaches joints ovens cannot. Curing adhesives and coatin