Singapore’s startup news from June 2020, drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily news feeds
The June 2020 round-up of Singapore’s startup news provides an overview of the city-state’s tech, startup and funding news. Headlines featured are intended to provide a broad but easily-scanned understanding of Singapore’s recent tech and startup developments.
Headlines listed are linked to Singaporean startup news articles, with each linked to an article reported online in, or concerning, Singapore’s startup scene across the month of June 2020. Each link will take you to the online news article for that headline on the news site from which it was originally drawn. Items cover subjects including, for example, Singapore’s startups in the news, or features of Singapore’s startup ecosystem – partnerships, product launches, funding news, entrepreneur programs, Singapore tech news and so on.
- Singapore: A brief look at the 8 startups selected for the first cohort of Iterative accelerator
- Singapore’s Beam micromobility firm raises $26M with shared e-scooters, aiming to expand footprint in Korea, Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand and Taiwan
- Singapore: Nanyang Technological University and Facebook partner for 9-month pilot program for new courses, aiming to develop local data centre talent
- Singapore: A snapshot of Singapore’s tech startup news from May 2020
- Singapore Fintech Festival 2020 set for November 9-13, subject to COVID-19 outbreak developments
- Singapore: An intro to Travelhorse, luggage storage platform connecting travellers with local shops and businesses which part-pivoted to F&B delivery in response to COVID-19
- Singapore: Intelllex raises $2.1M to expand legal knowledge platform with focus on larger law firms, following taking part in Thomson Reuters and Barclays incubators
- Singapore: Moovaz relocation startup acquires The Finder, Singapore’s longest-running expat magazine, aiming for end-to-end logistic and lifestyle services
- Singapore: LingoAce online Mandarin Chinese learning platform secures $7M Series A, setting sights on AI, augmented reality and virtual reality solutions
- Singapore: Fincy fintech startup secures $11M with services including currency exchange via multi-currency wallet, contactless mobile payments and in-app social networks
- Singapore Blockchain Week Virtual Summit set for July 21-23 – here’s the agenda
- Singapore: Airbus partnered by Maritime and Port Authority, Infocomm Media Development Authority and M1 for standalone coastal 5G network trials
- Singapore: Beenext raises $160M across 2 new funds to focus on early-stage tech startups primarily in India and Japan
- Singapore: Popsical raises $6.9M with home karaoke system combining compact device with mobile app, 14 languages and 200K song library
- Singapore: An intro to Digital Commerce Intelligence, AI-driven startup focusing on data-driven competitive intelligence for e-commerce firms
- Singapore-based blockchain startup Ontology to collaborate with Bitcoin Suisse cryptocurrency financial services platform, with ONTO wallet supporting CryptoFranc stablecoin
- Singapore: Reebelo raises $1.25M seed funding with online marketplace for refurbished electronics, with sights set on Asia-Pacific expansion
- Enterprise Singapore and Singapore Standards Council launch Technical Reference 76, first Singapore-focused standard providing guidelines for e-commerce transactions
- Singapore: Huawei announces new initiatives including 5G-powered AI lab, virtual AI academy with over 140 free courses, and training for AI developers
- Singapore and Republic of Korea start negotiations on new Korea-Singapore Digital Partnership Agreement to deal with cross-border data, digital identities, fintech and more
- Singapore: Nokia and Ericsson edge out Huawei in building Singapore’s main 5G networks, tho Huawei may be involved in broader ecosystem in a reduced capacity
- Singapore: TurtleTree Labs raises $3.2M seed round with cell-based milk development
- Singapore’s Building Cities Beyond Blockchain launch BCB Innovation Grant, aiming to award $15M to BCB ecosystem developers and targeting up to 1K projects in Asia
- Enterprise Singapore’s SEEDS Capital investment arm appoints 6 co-investors to boost maritime technology startups with S$50M funding
- Gaze artificial intelligence startup raises $830K seed funding with visual recognition API platform, enabling integration of visual recognition tech into any software stack
- An intro to Singapore-based TurtleTree Labs, creating cultured, animal-free milk and dairy products
- Myanmar: Frontiir internet service provider gains $26M investment led by Singapore’s Ascent Capital, aiming to expand broadband to 1/4 of 54M population
- Vertex Ventures’ $305M 4th fund backed by XA Network, investment network of senior execs in leading tech companies, with sights on Series A and B in SE Asia and India
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