September’s month-end tech startup news from Singapore
Singapore’s tech startup news in September 2021 covered items across a wide range of technology areas including: fem-tech startup funding; Singapore Fintech Club, a JP Morgan-backed initiative; real-time money transfers from India to Singapore; Singapore-focused venture capital funds; and more.
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- ICYMI: A brief intro to the 15 bank and fintech finalists selected for the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Global CBDC Challenge
- Singapore: An intro to the 6 medtech and health-tech startups featured in the recent Catalyst x AA Innovation Program Demo Day
- ICYMI: Singapore Fintech Club, a community platform for Singapore’s fintech professionals, run by Singapore Fintech Association with support from JP Morgan
- An overview of the recent Alternative Protein & FoodTech Show held in Singapore, and including the winners of the event’s Startup Pitch Competition
- Singapore’s Accelerating Asia targets $20M with Accelerating Asia Fund II, looking to bridge the market gap for pre-Series A investments in South and Southeast Asia
- Singapore: Homage, tech-enabled care-giving startup, raises $30M to focus on integrating with aged and disability care payment and provider infrastructure
- Singapore: Portcast raises $3.2M pre-Series A with data-driven logistics systems including predictive adjustments from ‘fine grain’ info including satellite and weather data
- Singapore’s TechLawFest 2021 event set for September 22-24, looking at subjects including legal analytics, automation, privacy-preserved data and more
- Singapore: Standard Chartered signs deal with BetaPlus, part of Singapore’s biggest trade union group, to form a digital bank
- Singapore’s TechStorm unveils partnership with Hong Kong Cable Television Limited to deliver esports, tech and gaming content on pay-to-view Cable TV service
- Singapore Games Week set for October 11-17, showcasing the local gaming industry and communities
- Singapore: Autonomous robot public patrolling trials commence, aiming to identify individuals and groups engaging in ‘undesirable social behaviours’
- Singapore’s PayNow to link with India’s Unified Payments Interface, enabling real-time transfers from India to SG via mobile numbers, and from SG to India through virtual payment addresses
- Singapore’s BuzzAR gains $630K funding with AR applications in retail outlet navigation, gaming and more
- Monk’s Hill Ventures VC firm launches MHV Scouts community, aiming to invest in pre-seed and seed startups across Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines and Malaysia
- Singapore: A look at QuickCharge, allowing owners of electric vehicle chargers to to become ‘energy merchants’ with Charge & Earn programme
- Singapore: bolttech insurtech startup extends major Series A fundraise, backed in part by EDBI, investment arm of Singapore Economic Development Board
- An intro to the 12 travel-and-tourism focused startups selected for the WiT Startup Pitch of the Year 2021 event set for October 19th
- Singapore: Ackcio raises $4M Series A with real-time wireless data acquisition tech for industrial monitoring in harsh environments
- Singapore: Cyberdyne Tech Exchange sells first tranche of carbon neutrality tokens backed by China carbon credits, following launch of China’s carbon trading market in July
- Singapore: Ease Healthcare fem-tech startup raises $1.3M seed funding with focus on women’s health services, launching app for appointments, tests on-the-go, health tracking and more
- Singapore: Forge Ventures launches $21.88M debut fund, looking to invest in 15 SEA companies over 3 years and focusing on Singapore and Indonesia
- Central banks in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and South Africa to conduct joint cross-border payments trial using different central bank digital currencies
- EDUtech Asia 2021 Conference set for November 9-11, running online from Singapore
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