Singapore’s startups
News in June 2019
Today’s startup news:
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- Singapore: US$30M set for 5G trials to fuel the city-state’s goal of leading the global digital economy, with a key focus on ports management
- Singapore: Monetary Authority to issue up to 5 new licences to digital banks, and to begin taking applications from August
- Singapore: Monetary Authority studying whether to allow virtual banking licences, potentially paving the way for on-demand operators to offer financial services
- Digital Industry Singapore launches with the aim of helping to create 10K tech jobs
- Singapore: Tourism Board calls for local and international outfits to join Singapore Tourism Accelerator – applications close August 1st
- Singapore: Grab Ventures preps for 3rd batch, focusing on early-stage, post-seed startups engaged in sectors aligned to its core business
- Singapore’s Grab ride-hail firm backs UK’s Splyt Technologies, aggregator for ride-hail platforms, in widening super-app move
- Singapore: Circles Life telco startup rolls out mobile services in Taiwan as its first overseas market; sights set on Indonesia and Australia for late-2019
- Singapore: Indorse blockchain-driven human resources tech startup secures $6.5M
- Fave, mobile payment and reward platform, acquires Singapore’s CutQ and Malaysia’s FoodTime in regional growth move
- Singapore’s InstaReM digital remittance company partners Thailand’s Kasikornbank to power cross-border payments for the bank’s clients in select markets
- Singapore: Accelerating Asia accelerator preps for expected first close of $5M pre-seed fund in July
- Singapore: Consentium chat app to launching debit card allowing users to instantly spend the Ethereum-based cryptocurrency they earn on the app as cash
- Singapore’s e27 tech media and events platform partners Wholesale Investor to help startups raise funds
- Singapore: Intellectual Property Insurance Initiative launched to provide innovative businesses insurance for IP infringement legal expenses worldwide
- Singapore: The Codette Project’s Women-Only Tech For Good Hackathon 2019 set for 13-14 July
- Singapore: Deal Fridays initiative launched by Monetary Authority and Enterprise Singapore aiming to match the city-state’s startups with potential investors
- Singapore-based Asia Partners Fund Management launches, aiming to make tech startup investments of between $20M and $100M
- Singapore FinTech Festival and Singapore Week of Innovation and TeCHnology merge as SFF x SWITCH to consolidate fintech and deep tech themes for November event
- Singapore’s Vertex Ventures partners Japan Inc for $770M unicorn-focused fund, aiming to match Japanese businesses with promising startups
- Singapore: Sparrow launches platform to make options trading accessible for institutions and individuals, with Ethereum-based smart contract settlement
- Singapore: 6 deep tech startups prep to compete for expansion opportunities in Suzhou, China
- Singapore: Accelerating Asia launches ASEAN Smart City accelerator program, partnered by the Australian Government
- An intro to 4 startups combating food wastage in Southeast Asia
- Seamless Asia 2019 set for 26-27 June in Singapore – 9 conferences in 1, looking at the future of payments, banking, identity, ecommerce and reatail
- Singapore-based GROW agri-food tech accelerator launches in partnership with Australia’s Rocket Seeder agrifood accelerator and AgFunder VC
- Singapore: A look at how the city-state’s libraries are using augmented reality, robotics and artificial intelligence
- Singapore: ComfortDelGro passenger transport giant’s $100M fund backs 3 startups in on-demand bus tech, fleet management and autonomous vehicle safety
- Singapore Fintech Festival set for November 11-15
- Singapore Academy of Law Future Law Innovation Program launches accelerator program targeting legal tech startups
- Singapore: WhatsHalal blockchain-driven startup gains US$2.8M via Initial Exchange Offering on Tokenize Exchange
- An intro to Singapore-based Ecomobi, an AI-powered social selling platform connecting brands with key opinion influencers as a way to boost sales
- Singapore: TechStorm tech-focused TV channel closes pre-A with 20-country coverage
- Singapore: A collection of the city-state’s startup and tech-related news from the past month
- Singapore: An inside look at The Start Pre-Accelerator Programme
- Taiwan’s Vision Program tech startup demo day coming to Singapore, June 25th
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