Timothy Wee
Chief Executive Officer, Chat4Good Technologies
Recipient, Spirit of Enterprise Startup Award 2025
AI Research Fellow, SUTD Social AI Studio
ex-VC Team Lead, Protégé Ventures
About
Timothy Wee is the CEO and Co-founder of Chat4Good Technologies, a social enterprise pioneering AI-driven conversational platforms for social impact across Southeast Asia. As an AI Research Fellow at Singapore University of Technology and Design's Social AI Studio, he specializes in Applied AI and Natural Language Processing, with a focus on making AI accessible for social good.Timothy served as Chair of SUTD's Technology Entrepreneurship Programme (STEP) Executive Committee and Team Lead at Protégé Ventures, responsible for 1/4 of the fund. He led the only undergraduate team to win the $50,000 Create4Good Social Innovation Fund Hackathon Champion prize in 2022-23, competing against established startups and graduate teams.His work at Chat4Good has enabled nonprofits to scale their impact through autonomous AI solutions, including WhatsApp chatbots for preliminary myopia screening that cut costs while reaching more beneficiaries. The company is building its own AI infrastructure to provide free or subsidized AI resources to social enterprises. Timothy was recognized as one of 53 entrepreneurs at the Spirit of Enterprise Awards 2025 for his innovations in leveraging AI for community impact.
Experience
So far, he has worked on AI text-based analysis, houses made from plant waste, and AI-generated weight-saving bicycle cranks, amongst other things. He has also built an online directory to hasten students’ access to critical information (for which he received the SUTD ROOT Outstanding Individual Award), contributed to a computer vision-based system to count sterilised items at a national hospital in Singapore, and remotely controlled a 3D printer with a Telegram bot.Of late, he's just taken his fourth and fifth hackathon wins at Stanford Treehacks in Feb 2023, working on ControlDB, a decentralized database solution at 1/100th the cost of traditional ones.
Fun Stuff
In his free time, you may find him playing fingerstyle guitar (10+ years of experience), mountain biking (founded SUTD CyclingGeng, grew from 5 to 50 members in 1 year) or tending to his garden of carnivorous plants.
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