Tech news: Singapore
Singapore’s tech startup news from August 2019
(Today’s startup news: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook)
- Singapore: Startup Station Accelerator, a Facebook and Infocomm Media Development Authority partnership, unveils 10 graduating startups
- Singapore’s Terra gains backing from HK’s blockchain investor HashKey Capital with price-stable cryptocurrency aimed at mass adoption
- Singapore: StakeWithUs blockchain infrastructure startup secures $595K
- Singapore’s DiMuto blockchain startup preps to turn durian fruit into traceable digital assets before distribution from Thailand
- Singapore: TRIBE Accelerator unveils OpenNodes, platform aiming to bring together gov’t agencies, corporates, and blockchain firms for innovation and collaboration
- Singapore: A brief look at the 5 blockchain startups recently graduated from the government-backed LongHash blockchain incubator
- An overview of the 8 startups selected for Accenture’s 2019 FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific program
- Singapore: Financial services and e-payment firms must follow new ‘cyber hygiene’ rules from August 2020, in effort strengthen defence against rising threats
- Singapore: PowerACE 2019 seeks startups working in clean energy solutions, with participation in Asia Clean Energy Summit 2019 to follow
- Singapore: Aspire neo-bank raises $32.5M with SME-focused banking services
- Singapore: Bambu digital wealth-tech startup raises $10M series B, led by Franklin Templeton and Chicago’s PEAK6 Strategic Capital
- Singapore: F10 FinTech Hackathon – 48-hours Idea to Prototype – set for 13-15 September
- Singapore: Ai Palette gains $1M seed funding with machine learning to predict food-related trends for companies, and to fast-track new product development
- Singapore: Play Ventures raises $40M to fuel game-focused seed-stage VC fund, exceeding initial target by $10M
- Singapore Gov’t Health Promotion Board partners Fitbit on Live Healthy SG initiative, encouraging citizens towards physical activity, better sleep and nutrition
- Singapore: HOMI IoT startup raises $1.3M with end-to-end service customer services
- Singapore: Padang & Co partners Aardvark Labs for CATALYST Collaborative Workspace coworking space to support medical and health tech startups
- Singapore: REALly property management marketplace and app secures $361K to streamline real estate management
- Singapore: A brief look at 3 retail startups’ unmanned stores tech, spanning RFID, biometrics, facial recognition, cashless payment and AI
- Singapore: abillionveg, reviews platform for plant-based food and lifestyle, secures $2M to build social impact
- Singapore: NUS Enterprise partners Wonderlabs data analytics startup for TechASEAN ecosystem database
- seedstars Singapore set for August 22
- Singapore adds to tech and startup focus with launch of Innovation Enablers Network
- Singapore Airlines’ AppChallenge – 5th edition applications close August 23rd
- Singapore: An interview with Seedplus venture firm partner, Tiang Lim Foo, outlining the seed stage investment firm’s plans for SEA
- Vulcan Capital enters Singapore with $100M corpus to invest in Southeast Asia’s startups
- Singapore: A brief intro to the 10 startups that recently presented at the *SCAPE HubQuarters Fellowship Demo Day
- Cambodia: Phnom Penh to gain a blockchain-powered neighborhood with Singapore’s Limestone Network connecting homes, offices, malls and schools
- Singapore’s Anywheel buys 5999 license-lapsed share bikes from Land Transport Authority to donate to needy students in Myanmar
- Gozem, Singapore-registered ride-hailing startup operating in West Africa, to launch digital wallet and food and parcel delivery service next year
- Vietnam’s HCM City representative suggests Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam’s southern hub take turns holding SE Asia startup fair to develop and collaborate
- Cambodia: Development Council approves Creatanium Blockchain Smart City project with PLMP Fintech blockchain firm in Belt & Road tie-in with China
- Enterprise Singapore’s take on the key developments in Vietnam’s startup scene that make it an ideal market for Singaporean startups to consider
