October, November & December 2020
Sri Lanka’s tech news
The Q4 2020 collection of Sri Lanka’s tech news, below, provides readers with a brief, one-page source for tech news headlines concerning Sri Lanka which were reported online in October, November and December of 2020. Headline news items featured were drawn from Startup News Asia’s monthly Sri Lankan tech news coverage, which itself was drawn from our daily tech news feeds.
Sri Lanka tech news headlines listed below are, like our monthly summaries, directly linked to the articles behind each Sri Lankan tech news headline – but with no middle-man platforms in the way, and no misattribution or misappropriation of ownership or authorship. This provides Sri Lanka’s tech audience with instant access to the platforms and journalists responsible for each tech news item, and in a quick-reference quarterly format.
October 2020 | November 2020 | December 2020
December 2020
- Download: Central Bank of Sri Lanka Payments and Settlements Department’s Q2 2020 Payments Bulletin (pdf)
- A look at some of the country’s startups in digital payments, working towards a cashless society
- Angel Fund shortlists 5 startups for investment, working in blockchain, IoT, healthtech and more
- An overview of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka’s regulatory sandbox, launched this year for use by domestic and international fintech firms
- Sri Lankan investor and entrepreneur to open Bhutan’s first privately-funded tech park in January 2021, The Bhutan Education & Technology Academy Park
- A brief look at the startups from Vietnam, The Philippines, Sri Lanka and Singapore that won at Microsoft’s inaugural Emerge X Regional Pitching Competition
November 2020
- A look at the recently-completed KICKASS Bootcamp, 1-month program focused on business development skills for Sri Lanka’s women founders and leaders
- UN Development Programme launches HackaDev National Youth Social Innovation Challenge to crowdsource social innovations in response to COVID-19
- “Sri Lanka recorded the 2nd-highest malware encounter rate at 9.07% in 2019. Despite a 14% decrease, this was 1.7 times higher than the regional average.”
- Healthnet takes local win at Seedstars World Competition with online pharmacy platform and delivery service
- A look at Gavesha, locally-made microcontroller making electronics and programming accessible to children with modular ‘LEGO for tech’ approach
October 2020
- Mobitel and Huawei launch country’s first mid-range 5G smartphone
- An overview of 99x technology firm, and its steps into the startup world
- Ceylon Chamber of Commerce launches CCC Council for Startups, aiming to boost economic development through entrepreneurship
- disABILITY app launches to support children with a disability and their families, including teletherapy services for people with cerebral palsy
- SLASSCOM launches Women Technopreneurs Forum to support, promote and grow women technopreneurs, aiming for 1000 startups by 2025
- A brief look at Sri Lanka Association for Software Services Companies’ aims for the Startup Sri Lanka initiative
- GoodLife X Accelerator unveils the 10 startups graduating from batch 2, focuse on food, travel, wellness and design
- A brief intro to 4 of the startups set to present at the 2020 Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit from November 18-20
- Australia’s GoMicro lands funding and major partnership to test its AI assessment app on tuna for Sri Lankan supermarket chain
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