Singapore’s startup news
A wide-ranging collection of February 2020’s tech, startup and funding news from Singapore.
Each link below leads to the original online news source for each item, and each item is drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily news feed:
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- Singapore: Anchanto ecommerce logistics startup aiming to raise $35M to aid broad business base manage end-to-end ecommerce operations
- Singapore: Founders of Sea and Grab join the city-state’s Economic Development Board in leadership re-organisation
- Singapore: Deloitte SheXO Program launch set for February 17, to support development of established, emerging and aspiring women leaders
- Singapore: BetterSG collective launches, hoping to use technology to address inequality, racism, classism, injustice and other social issues
- An intro to Singapore-based Jenfi, aiming to expand access to small and medium business loans for owners in Southeast Asia
- Singapore: Gmedes launches G-MEDS medication delivery app, providing clinics with access to on-demand locally-approved meds, OTC drugs and supplements
- Singapore: 548-unit condo to offer residents virtual medical consultations via HiDoc kiosk with webcam, and sensors capturing temperature, heart rate and blood pressure
- Singapore: Lumitics tech startup raises $557K with ‘smart waste tracker’, using sensors and image recognition to identify what restaurants and kitchens discard
- Singapore: Clear secures $13M with smart B2B contracts built on cryptographic methods, allowing ease of execution while retaining data control
- A brief look at the competition between SEA countries for technical talent, in terms of both hiring and retention
- Singapore: EduSpaze accelerator unveils 9 startups for inaugural cohort, selected from 200 applicants and including startups from Singapore, Australia and Malaysia
- Fast-growing US-based cryptocurrency lending startup BlockFi preps for Singapore office opening to focus on Asia Pacific institutional clients
- Singapore: CYFIRMA cybersecurity firm raises Series A funding with cyber threat analytics looking at both dark and surface web spaces
- Singapore: World Blockchain STO Summit set for February 26th, with focus on securitized token offerings
- Singapore: 2020 Budget features additional SG$300M under Startup SG Equity, gov’t and private co-investment scheme, to be set for deep-tech start-up investment
- Singapore: 2020 Budget will see Singapore spend $719M over 3 years on improving government cyber- and data-security systems
- Singapore: WhatsHalal food scanner app startup secures funding on a valuation of S$4.5M
- Singapore: Facebook complies with ‘fake news’ law, but describes it as “contradict(ing) the government’s claim that (the law) would not be used as a censorship tool”
- Singapore: National University to open Centre for Trusted Internet and Community to study internet use and regulations
- Standard Chartered JV’s with Australia’s Assembly Payments to offer payment solutions to the global ecommerce industry from Singapore base
- Cambodia: Singapore’s PLMP Venture Capital awarded Asset and Fund Mgmt licence by SEC of Cambodia as part of wider 10-year aim to incubate 10K SMEs
- Indonesia: An overview of Nongsa D-Town, aiming to be a digital talent and innovation hub for Southeast Asia
- Indonesia’s ride-hailing giant, Grab, acquires Singapore’s Bento Invest robo-advisory startup, aiming for a rebrand as GrabInvest to move into retail wealth managment
- Digital payments between Thailand and Singapore and Cambodia expected to begin mid-2020 using QR code-based service
Other news in February 2020
Other subject-specific news from across Asia-Pacific in February 2020:
• Blockchain news across Asia-Pac
• Artificial Intelligence news, Asia
• Cybersecurity and data security news
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