Singapore’s tech startup news
Singapore’s tech news headlines: November 2020
Singaporean startup news headlines listed here were drawn from online platforms, journalists and news sources covering Singapore’s technology, startup and funding spaces in November 2020.
Each Singapore startup news item listed connects readers directly to the full article behind that news headline; this gives an at-a-glance grasp of Singapore’s tech startup news, whilst also connecting readers with the full details for a listed startup news item.
Startup News Asia’s monthly Singapore snapshots give a regular and brief-but-broad overview of Singapore’s startup news for a specific month, and include international news items relevant to Singapore alongside more obvious domestic Singapore startup news items.
- Singapore: A look at Hoolah, initially offering ‘buy now, pay later’ solutions for e-commerce platforms and now also providing a physical, in-store option
- Singapore: An overview of the recent Singapore International Cyber Week, in part looking at cyber risks to the ASEAN digital economy, expected to grow to $200BN by 2025
- Fidelity Digital Asset enters the Asian cryptocurrency market via partnership with Singapore’s Stack Funds, gaining local and regional investor knowledge
- Singapore: WeBuy social commerce platform raises $6M Series A with group buying business model focusing on social media channels
- Singapore: Accelerating Asia VC fund and accelerator plans new fund launch in Q1 2021, in the range of $20-50M
- Singapore: IT Leader Awards nomination closing date now extended to November 14th, around the theme of ‘Tech Heroes From Crisis’
- SEA Point accelerator for corporate-startup collaboration preps for 2021 launch, coordinated by Singapore’s KK Fund and IGPI Singapore
- Singapore: SMU Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship unveils 27 startups selected for Business Innovations Generator incubation program
- Singapore: LingoAce raises $6M Series A+ with Chinese language learning platform, with syllabus in line with China and Singapore’s education ministries
- Singapore Tech Forum set for November 17-20, bringing together figures from tech, business and government
- Women in Cyber: Interview with Dr Chong Yoke Sin, President of Singapore Computer Society and former CEO of the Integrated Health Information Systems
- Singapore FinTech Festival x Singapore Week of Innovation & TeCHnology set for December 7-11, featuring round-the-clock online and in-person events
- Singapore’s Shopee sets new record with 200M items sold on Singles’ Day via 20M hours of livestreams
- Singapore: New pass for foreign tech industry experts set to open for applications in January in bid to maintain city-state’s competitiveness
- An intro to the 27 startups selected for incubation by Singapore Management University’s Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Singapore: Magorium takes win at WASTE 20/20 competition with tech converting plastic into high quality asphalt premix for road construction
- Video: A snapshot of 16 of Singapore’s tech, startup and funding-related news headlines, QR coded to enable reading direct from your screen
- Singapore: StashFin neobanking startup lands partnership with Visa to launch co-branded prepaid credit cards, expanding its digital banking footprint
- Singapore’s X-ZELL takes overall win at MedTech Innovator 2020 Asia Pacific Final with early cancer detection from blood samples of just 10mL
- Singapore: Cash-IN-Asia gains S$5M with B2B financing platform for Asia-Pacific MSMEs, with AI and data analytics providing 3-minute application and onboarding
- Singapore: Pulsifi gains $1.8M with HR platform combining organizational psychology and data science to deliver SaaS solutions
- Singapore: The Wolfpack Pioneer VCC launches with $5M debut fund focused on early-stage startups in APAC in the direct-to-consumer space
- Singapore: EP!C Digital Summit set for December 12th, focusing on getting young people interested in entrepreneurship
- Australian Border Force partners Singapore Customs and Singapore Infocomm Media Development Authority for trial of blockchain-backed digital verification in cross-border trade
- Singapore’s Bank-Genie partners Australia’s Cufa NFP to implement digital banking solutions with 23 credit unions in rural Myanmar
- Vietnam: Ministry of Education planning to implement blockchain technology for issuing diplomas in 2021, partnering with Singapore’s TomoChain
- An intro to the 15 food and agtech startups selected for Rabobank’s FoodBytes! Pitch 2020 virtual competition, including firms from Australia, India and Singapore
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