January, February & March 2021
Malaysian tech news
Malaysia’s first quarter 2021 technology news summary gathers the country’s tech and startup news headlines from across January, February and March of 2021.
Technology news headlines from Malaysia reported across Q1 of 2021 highlighted developments in fields including the country’s digital economy moves, licensing for digital banks, crowdfunding and P2P lending platforms and many more.
Items listed are headlines only, hyperlinked, without accompanying text, providing a one-glance overview of Malaysia’s tech news in Q1 2021 along with one-click access to the full article behind each Malaysian tech news headline.
January 2021 | February 2021 | March 2021
Malaysian tech news: March 2021
- Malaysia’s Juwai IQI proptech firm to build data and technology team of over 1000 employees in KL, building out end-to-end system for real estate marketing and sales
- Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre launches fully virtual 5th Cohort of Global Accelerator Programme, accepting applications until March 30th
- Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre’s Virtual FinTech & InsurTech Bootcamp registrations close 10th March for program commencing March 22nd
- Malaysian Armed Forces establishes Cyber Warfare Signals Regiment to strengthen capacity and preparedness around cybersecurity challenges and cyber threats
- Download: Malaysia Digital Economy Blueprint (pdf)
- Malaysia Digital Economy Corp launches 2 funding facilitation initiatives: Founders Grindstone for startup capacity building; and Investor Matching to match startups with VCs
- Malaysia’s digital insurance firm Ouch! secures $364K seed funding, aiming to make the process of purchasing insurance simpler and less jargon-heavy
- Malaysia: KL Startup Summit 2021 set for March 26-28
- Malaysia: 2021 E-Nation Conference set for March 31, delivering events virtually and in-person, and produced by Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre
- Malaysia: Alpha Startups for Insurtech applications now open for pre-acceleration program delivered by FWD Start-Up Studio and 1337 Ventures
Malaysian tech news: February 2021
- Malaysia: An overview of MDEC grants and funding programmes, and the creative and tech firms and startups that have received support
- Malaysia: Hong Leong Bank and Hong Leong Islamic Bank select 3 startups for pilot projects, working on food security, gig economy and e-waste management
- Malaysia: Inaugural KL Startup Summit 2021 set for March 26-28, running virtually with Microsoft Malaysia as the main sponsor
- EduTech Malaysia 2021 virtual conference starts tomorrow, February 24th, looking at the challenges and opportunities in education technologies
- ICYMI: A brief mention for the 25 winners of the recent UNWTO SDGs Global Startup Competition, including startups from Malaysia, Singapore, India and Hong Kong
Malaysian tech news: January 2021
- Malaysia: Bank Negara Malaysia issues policy document on licensing framework for digital banks, including standards on Shariah, business conduct, anti-money laundering and beyond
- Malaysia: Bank Negara Malaysia issues policy document on licensing framework for digital banks, including standards on Shariah, business conduct, anti-money laundering and beyond
- Malaysia: A brief, 1-page round-up of Malaysia’s recent tech, startup and funding news headlines – PDF download, headlines linked to each article, and QR coded to read from print
- Malaysia: Sunway iLabs Super Accelerator concludes Virtual Demo Day featuring 5 startups pitching to over 100 venture capitalists and partners
- Malaysia: Asia Foundation partners Asean Coordinating Committee on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises to train 200K rural people on digitalisation
- Malaysia: CapBay secures $20M Series A, aiding SMEs grow and unlock cashflow trapped in their supply chains by providing financing solutions
- Malaysia: A brief overview of the recent MYHackathon 2020 competition and winners, aiming for digital solutions to improve delivery of key public services
- Malaysia’s CodeZero partners Cincinnati’s Lisnr for digital version of the business card in project named Zero, transferring data between devices using sound
- Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation launches Alternative Funding Program, partnering with 11 equity crowdfunding and P2P platforms to aid MSMEs with cashflow
- Global Startup Awards 2020 winners unveiled, with Founder of the Year awarded to Cambodia’s Agribuddy and Malaysia’s Gobi Partners taking Investor of the Year
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