Tech in Singapore
Our Singapore-focused technology news round-up for October 2021 is drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily feeds. This month’s articles cover items across technologies, issues, startups and more including: Draper Startup House’s first investment; anti-money laundering in Singapore; education-tech in the city-state; Singapore’s cybersecurity strategy; and many more.
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- Singapore’s United Overseas Bank to spend up to $500M on new personalised digital banking app, aiming to double digital customers to over 7M across ASEAN by 2026
- 93% of all Singaporeans had heard of crypto and 43% owned it, with adoption highest among 26-45 year-olds. 66% of respondents in that group said they owned some crypto’
- Singapore: Monetary Authority to launch data sharing platform, COSMIC, in bid to fight money laundering, sharing data with 6 of region’s largest financial institutions
- Singapore: UnaBiz raises $25M with IoT sensor data management and analysis in manufacturing, assets management, smart cities and more
- Singapore: A brief video intro to the recently-distributed TraceTogether device, a helping track who a person has interacted with and the locations they’ve visited
- Singapore: ASEAN-Singapore Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence opens, aiming to help ASEAN member states develop cybersecurity capabilities
- Singapore: Auspac Investment Management launches US$50M fund, looking ats 2-3 deals each quarter over 3 years and focusing on Series A-stage startups
- Singapore Cybersecurity Strategy 2021 available to download, outlining 3 strategic pillars and 2 ‘foundational enabler’ statements
- Singapore: 3 startups – Indie, RunGo and Thrust Carbon – advance to Grand Finals of WiT Startup Pitch 2021 with travel-tech and sustainability solutions
- Singapore: Doyobi professional development platform for educators gains $2.8M seed funding with focus on STEM subjects
- Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association unveils 2021 SVCA Award winners
- ICYMI: ‘FinTech in Singapore 1H 2021’, a brief overview from UOB, United Overseas Bank
- China: Coach luxury fashion brand partners GQ China to release 6 NFTs on Ethereum, working with Singapore’s ZKBox
- ICYMI: Draper Startup House Ventures launches global fund with target of creating 1M entrepreneurs by 2030, with first investment in Singapore’s Ferne Health telehealth startup
- Standard Chartered invests $500M in Singapore’s digital lending unicorn Atome Financial as part of 10-year multi-product partnership to roll out BNPL services across Asia
Tech news, Asia: Other editions
Our other editions provide a variety of ways to keep up to date with the technology ecosystems across Asia and the Indo-Pacific – email, social media, on Medium, by mobile app and more.
