Startup news, Singapore
Singapore’s tech, startup and VC funding news, as covered in the online press across December of 2019.
Our Singapore tech news round-ups focus primarily, but not exclusively, on the city-state’s early-stage startups, regardless of industry, covering artificial intelligence, blockchain, digital payments and more.
- Singapore: Tezos to partner Tribe, gov’t-backed blockchain platform, for Tezos blockchain developer training focused on producing more crypto professionals
- Singapore’s JustCo coworking space operator secures $74M in part-JV deal, expanding to Japan
- Singapore: An intro to NOICE CARE’s just-launched 100% toxin-free, certified organic botanical natural toothpaste, sustainably packaged and refillable
- Singapore: Hydroleap secures $2.6M from major investors with solution for wastewater treatment that replaces chemicals with electricity
- Singapore-based Matrixport crypto trading, custody and lending startup (founded by co-founder of China’s Bitmain) expands into Europe with new Zurich office
- Singapore: “This is the start of the downward slide for what little remains of political and press freedom in Singapore” – deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch
- Singapore: Blockchain-focused Tribe Accelerator unveils the 9 startups selected for the 2nd edition of its Global Demo Tour
- Singapore: Tribe Accelerator secures $15.7M for 9 participating firms with market-ready blockchain solutions, the 2nd Tribe cohort to receive funding
- Singapore: Student team builds system to identify student stress levels using facial recognition and AI in China Huawei Atlas AI Developer Challenge Competition 2019
- Singapore: DiMuto supply chain solutions startup backed by government-owned SGInnovate VC firm with blockchain, IoT and AI driven agricultural track-and-trace
- Singapore: Facebook’s capitulation to Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act sets ominous precedent, with gov’t defining “correct facts”
- MVL, parent of blockchain ride-hailing app TADA, raises $5M Series A with over 50K drivers and over 500K users across Singapore, Vietnam and Cambodia
- Singapore: An intro to SensorFlow, offering hoteliers AI and IoT solution to reduce energy consumption, optimise operational efficiency and hit sustainability targets
- Singapore’s Temasek investment group backed by Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp and Marubeni trading house for new AI-focused fund for Asia
- Style Theory online platform for renting designer apparel in Indonesia and Singapore raises $15M with plans for RFID tagging, process streamlining and more
- Singapore’s SpaceChain launches the first active bitcoin node on the International Space Station, outside any country’s jurisdiction and safe from hardware hacks
- Singapore: An intro to 5 women entrepreneurs, working in areas from e-commerce to transportation
- Singapore Immigration opens new face and iris scanning lane, aimed at doing away with passport and thumb-print scans
- Lazada e-commerce giant launches co-branded credit card with Citi in Singapore, with sights set on young professionals
- Singapore’s Neuron Mobility raises $18.5M, in part to accelerate e-scooter sharing service in Australia and New Zealand
- Singapore: An overview of Group-IB’s Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2019/2020 report, unveiled at the recent CyberCrimeCon conference
- Singapore’s Practical Smarts blockchain specialist acquired by Deloitte in move to enhance distributed ledger tech advisory offerings in Southeast Asia
- Singapore Airlines Accelerator 2020 Spring Batch applications close December 16th for aviation and travel-tech startups
- Singapore: An overview of the Networked Trade Platform, simplifying trade digitally, streamlining international trade and making finance checks easier for banks
- Singapore: An introduction to Talino Venture Labs, inclusion tech-focused ‘venture builder’ which recently launched three corporate venture-backed startups
- Singapore: Zilliqa consolidates startup programs under new ZILHive brand, and unveils the projects that won the fifth wave of ZILHive Grants
- An in-depth look at stablecoins and more in the cryptocurrency and blockchain worlds, in conversation with Zilliqa’s VP Growth and Strategy
- Singapore: See-Mode Technologies gains regulatory approval for AI-powered software to analyse and report ultrasound images of cardiovascular, heart disease
- Singapore: Money20/20 Asia opens applications for 2020 edition of Startup Pitch initiative, seeking startups focused on low-income and rural communities
- Singapore’s Kacific startup launches satellite from Space X Falcon 9, aiming to provide broadband connectivity to the underserved across the Asia-Pacific region
- Inaugural Geo Connect Asia 2020 event set for March 18-19 in Singapore, bringing together the world’s geospatial tech and location intelligence solutions providers
- ICYMI: Singapore’s WORBLI blockchain platform offers ‘compliance as a service’ with Agenix, to reduce time and expense for companies in satisfying mandatory regulations
- Singapore: Omniaz startup applies augmented reality to alcohol bottle labels as way to further engage consumers and drinkers
- Singapore: A look inside Microsoft’s new Asia-Pacifi headquarters, featuring its first Experience Center in Asia
- Singapore: Robot guards tested in underground rail emergency exercise, featuring surveillance cameras, sensors and video analytics capabilities
- Osome joins 500 Startups’ Global Launch program to provide participants company formation experience, bookeeping and corporate administration in Singapore
- Singapore: An intro to Dacxi, crowd-financing fintech startup helping the public buy blue-chip cryptocurrencies
- Singapore: Grab partners Singtel in digital bank license bid, aiming to focus on SMEs without access to credit and digital-first consumers
- An intro to 8 Asian food-tech startups working on the future of food, from meatless meat to sustainability
- Indonesia and Singapore to improve cooperation in e-commerce, fintech, data services, and development of tech parks and innovation hubs
- South Korea’s Terra blockchain payment network expands to Singapore, opening SEA hub with aim of securing licensing from monetary authority
- A brief intro to 5 of Southeast Asia’s early-stage startups, working in farming, logistics and more
- Sri Lanka’s nCinga SaaS startup acquired in $15.5M deal by Singapore’s Zilingo online fashion platform
Other subject-specific news from December 2019:
Blockchain in Asia • Crypto news, Asia • AI news • Fintech in Asia
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