Q3 2016
Startup News Asia
Singapore
- Singapore expands elderly tech skills schemes for social inclusion
- Global Payment Summit set for Singapore in October
- Israel’s OurCrowd secures permit to expand crowdfund platform to Singapore
- Rise of fintech heralds Singapore payments revamp
- Singapore continues Asia fintech push with Swiss Cooperation Agreement
- Singapore Fintech Festival: Fintech Awards applications close end August
- Singapore: Bambu robo advisor raises US$400K
- Singapore: Hitachi, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi test blockchain w cheques
- Singapore: IDA, Merrill Lynch, HSBC partner on blockchain trade finance prototype
- Singapore: PayPal launches ‘cashless restaurants’ and Innovation Lab
- Singapore: UOB to let customers use smartphones to withdraw cash
- Singapore’s DBS innovation chief embraces fintech disruption
- S’pore online payments co, Red Dot Payment, lands funding for expansion
- Report: Attitudes towards innovation in Singapore
- Singapore: Inland Revenue Authority to run hackathon
- Income Future Starter, Singapore’s insurance tech accelerator program
- Singapore: Biofourmis lands $1m to bring AI to healthtech data mgmt
- 11 startups continue to 2nd round of muru-D Singapore bootcamp
- 2-minute roti bread startup rolls out in Singapore
- A look at KYC-Chain, blockchain finalist in Fintech Innovation Lab AP
- A look at Singapore-based RockstarZ Asia’s approach to startups
- A survey looks at Singapore’s setup costs for tech startups
- A*STARTCentral launches, Singapore’s first open innovation platform
- Are accelerators beginning to pivot to their next generation?
- Are Singapore’s startup accelerators facing an existential crisis?
- Cafebond aims to make Singapore the world’s artisan coffee capital
- New York’s Byte Academy lands funding, sets Singapore as Asian-region HQ
- Paris aerospace accelerator Starburst to establish Singapore edition
- RiseWinter Tech aims to tackle global e-sports with big data
- Singapore mobile security startup Appknox lands funds for SE Asia focus
- Singapore startup Glints raises US$2million for jobseeker skills portal
- Singapore: AI startup ViSenze lands US$10.5m
- Singapore: Angel Investing Course set for October
- Singapore: Coda Payments fintech startup secures $2m
- Singapore: GovBuy experiments with online auctions for micro-coding work
- Singapore: Honestbee launches app-connected on-demand laundry service
- Singapore: IDA to vouch for startups for international business
- Singapore: Interfone SIM sticker, now on IndieGoGo, for all travelers
- Singapore: JFDI closes bootcamp programme
- Singapore: KPMG launches accelerator for corporate innovation
- Singapore: Latize big data startup lands $1.4m to scale globally
- Singapore: Mercedes partners NUS Enterprise for ‘Startup Autobahn’ accelerator
- Singapore: Spotizen finds free parking lots using phones & big data
- Singapore: SWITCH Tech & Innovation Convention set for later this month
- Singapore’s BandLab music collab platform acquires San Fran design co
- Singapore’s Channel 8 to produce Chinese drama about startups
- Singapore’s Dymon Asia Ventures to raise $50m fintech-focused fund
- Singapore’s Fynd lands funds for home repair of your mobile phone
- Singapore’s LunchActually lands funds to expand dating apps
- Singapore’s Refash lands US$294K to help women clear wardrobes
- Singapore’s Seedly aims to make finance mgmt easy for millennials
- Singapore’s TraderWave takes place in MaGIC Accelerator
- A look at eBeeCare, Singapore health and home care platform
- Alipay quietly invests in Singaporean startup, M-Daq
- Hub Singapore launches The Mission Movement, part of Smart Nation initiative
- Meet Singapore’s Gotrainer, ‘Uber for personal trainers’
- PwC Singapore launches Venture Hub, 1-stop shop for investors, startups
- Singapore: Edtech startup Cialfo raises funding, targets China & India expansion
- Singapore: Venturecraft sets $36.8m growth-stage medtech fund
- Singapore’s Crowdo gets licence for P2P lending, equity crowdfunding
- Singapore’s resort-cum-varsity startup vKirirom lands $2.9m
- Singapore’s Wobe wins startup comp for female entrepreneurs
- Singtel Future Makers ’16 open to mid-August for social entrepreneurs
- TechInnovation Singapore: tech-industry brokerage event, Sept 21-22
- UNFRAMED unveils 6 Singaporean startups targetting eldercare
- What Singapore has – and lacks – for startups
- Singapore: Single digital identity announced for businesses
- Singapore: You can now hail a driverless taxi with a smartphone
- World’s first self-driving taxis hit Singapore streets
- Sabre Corp to hold Destination Hack travel-tech hackathon in Singapore
- Asia PE VC Summit 2016: September 30 in Singapore
- Singapore: Aurora Media sets up $30m media content fund
- Telstra-backed muru-D announces 2nd Singapore startup cohort
- A look at one of Singapore’s newer coworking spaces, The Great Room
- Is fintech the next frontier for Hong Kong’s battle with Singapore?
- A look at 4 HR tech startups from Singapore
- How Singapore is building a ‘Smart Nation’
- Singapore social app Paktor lands $10m for Japan, Korea expansion
- Singapore startup scene a big draw for China’s entrepreneurs
- Singapore’s Arcadier launches DIY marketplace for the non-technical
- Singapore’s soCash gains $400k funding
- Zilingo lands US$8M to bring fashion, lifestyle products from small merchants
