Singapore startup news
Tech and startup news from Singapore in February 20201 touched on items in subjects including women-focused venture capital, plant-based meat alternatives, Singapore’s fintech landscape, and locall artificial intelligence startups selected for the EY Foundry program.
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Technology news: February 2021
Artificial intelligence | Blockchain | Cryptocurrency
Cybersecurity | FinTech
- Global Launch Singapore – recorded livestream of Batch 1 Demo Day now on YouTube, from 500 Startups
- Singapore: Karana to launch its first product, a plant-based pork alternative made from young jackfruit, across 6 restaurants
- Kia Partners with S Lab Asia for pilot project of last-mile delivery services in Singapore using Niro EV, a step towards a new purpose-built vehicles business
- Singapore: Students, parents and others join petition calling on Education Ministry not to install tracking and remote access software on students’ personal devices
- Graduation Day for F10 Singapore Accelerator set for February 26th, running online and showcasing the fintech startups in Batch 1
- Monetary Authority of Singapore reportedly reviewing regulatory approach to ‘buy now, pay later’ firms, in part due to concerns over debt these services encourage
- 500 Startups opens applications for batch 3 of cross-border accelerator programs, Global Launch Singapore and Global Launch San Francisco
- ICYMI: Singtel telco giant suffered a set of coordinated, wide-ranging cyber-attacks using unpatched security bugs in Accellion legacy file-transfer platform
- Singapore: Digital Water Hackathon registrations close February 28th, seeking startups and innovations to help water systems improve operational efficiency
- Download: Singapore Fintech Landscape 2020 & Beyond
- Singapore: 2 artificial intelligence startups selected for EY Foundry startup incubator, joining 12 other startups from 5 countries
- ICYMI: Huawei launches developer lab in Singapore to provide software dev resources to those building apps for Huawei Mobile Services, its alternative to Google
- Singapore’s women-focused VC firm, Her Capital, makes inaugural investment in Hong Kong’s Neufast video interviewing HR startup
- The 6 startups from Asia on Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 batch, from India, Singapore and The Philippines
- ICYMI: A brief mention for the 25 winners of the recent UNWTO SDGs Global Startup Competition, including startups from Malaysia, Singapore, India and Hong Kong
- Philippines: Eskwelabs selected for Singapore-based Spaze Ventures’s Eduspaze Accelerator with focus on online education in data skills
- Singapore’s Transcelestial Technologies gains $2M investment to boost internet service in the Philippines and provide telcos with affordable options for 5G
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