October, November & December 2020
Singapore technology news
The Singapore Q4 2020 technology news round-up, below, provides a one-page index of Singapore’s tech news headlines reported online in October, November and December of 2020.
Singapore technology news items featured were drawn from Startup News Asia’s monthly coverage of Singapore’s tech news, which itself is drawn from our daily technology news updates.
Singapore technology news headlines below are, just like Startup News Asia’s monthly collections, hyperlinked to the articles behind each Singapore tech news headline – but without middle-man platforms getting in the way, and without misappropriating ownership or authorship of the articles. This provides Singapore technology observers and enthusiasts with instant access to the platforms and journalists behind each item, and a broad, quick-reference quarterly format.
October 2020 | November 2020 | December 2020
December 2020
- Intellect mental health startup gains seed funding with app based on cognitive behavioral therapy and a mental health platform for employers
- Singapore Week of Innovation & Technology runs from December 7-11, and set to feature over 200 sessions and more than 600 speakers
- F10, supported by Swiss stock exchange operator and R3, partners PwC Singapore for accreditation program for fintechs on its incubator and acceleration program
- Singapore’s CardUp fintech startup partners Visa for Hong Kong launch, allowing users to make payments with credit cards where recipients don’t accept card payments
- Singapore Blockchain Innovation Programme launched by gov’t agencies group with $8.9M to develop, commercialize and encourage blockchain tech adoption
- SEEDS Capital, investment arm of Enterprise Singapore, to open call for new private sector partners to co-invest in startups under Startup SG Equity scheme
- 4 of 14 applications for digital banking licenses were accepted – and 3 of those 4 are internet companies, not financial giants
- An overview of Singapore Tourism Accelerator programme, and an intro to SmartGuide, one of the programme’s selected startups
- Blockchain for Trade & Connectivity Network launched by University of Social Sciences and Enterprise Singapore to test blockchain solutions for supply chains and trade
- Singapore Startup Resource List: 525+ Accelerators, Incubators, Investors and more, from Founder Institute
- NextBillion AI firm takes top prize at Slingshot competition, pulling in $250K in grants
- Appboxo raises $1.1M seed funding with mini-app approach allowing any developer to expand their app towards super-app functionality
- Cheers convenience store deploys cashierless, cashless store, driven by AI system, facial recognition and Visa-linked mobile app
- Singapore’s DBS bank launches currency and crypto exchange, allowing traders to exchange 4 currencies for 4 cryptocurrencies
- Finantier open finance startup gains backing with API providing financial services with access to consent-given user data
- An intro to EyRis, fast-growing medtech startup using AI to detect 3 types of eye disease
November 2020
- A look at Hoolah, initially offering ‘buy now, pay later’ solutions for e-commerce platforms and now also providing a physical, in-store option
- An overview of the recent Singapore International Cyber Week, in part looking at cyber risks to the ASEAN digital economy, expected to grow to $200BN by 2025
- Fidelity Digital Asset enters the Asian cryptocurrency market via partnership with Singapore’s Stack Funds, gaining local and regional investor knowledge
- WeBuy social commerce platform raises $6M Series A with group buying business model focusing on social media channels
- Accelerating Asia VC fund and accelerator plans new fund launch in Q1 2021, in the range of $20-50M
- IT Leader Awards nomination closing date now extended to November 14th, around the theme of ‘Tech Heroes From Crisis’
- SEA Point accelerator for corporate-startup collaboration preps for 2021 launch, coordinated by Singapore’s KK Fund and IGPI Singapore
- SMU Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship unveils 27 startups selected for Business Innovations Generator incubation program
- LingoAce raises $6M Series A+ with Chinese language learning platform, with syllabus in line with China and Singapore’s education ministries
- Singapore Tech Forum set for November 17-20, bringing together figures from tech, business and government
- Women in Cyber: Interview with Dr Chong Yoke Sin, President of Singapore Computer Society and former CEO of the Integrated Health Information Systems
- Singapore FinTech Festival x Singapore Week of Innovation & TeCHnology set for December 7-11, featuring round-the-clock online and in-person events
- Singapore’s Shopee sets new record with 200M items sold on Singles’ Day via 20M hours of livestreams
- New pass for foreign tech industry experts set to open for applications in January in bid to maintain city-state’s competitiveness
- An intro to the 27 startups selected for incubation by Singapore Management University’s Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Magorium takes win at WASTE 20/20 competition with tech converting plastic into high quality asphalt premix for road construction
- Video: A snapshot of 16 of Singapore’s tech, startup and funding-related news headlines, QR coded to enable reading direct from your screen
- StashFin neobanking startup lands partnership with Visa to launch co-branded prepaid credit cards, expanding its digital banking footprint
- Singapore’s X-ZELL takes overall win at MedTech Innovator 2020 Asia Pacific Final with early cancer detection from blood samples of just 10mL
- Cash-IN-Asia gains S$5M with B2B financing platform for Asia-Pacific MSMEs, with AI and data analytics providing 3-minute application and onboarding
- Pulsifi gains $1.8M with HR platform combining organizational psychology and data science to deliver SaaS solutions
October 2020
- A month-end collection of tech, startup and funding headlines, drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily feeds
- RootAnt banking-as-a-service startup secures $1.46M, sights set in part on multi-tier financing to support businesses within supply chain ecosystems
- Shiok Meats raises $12.6M Series A with cell-based shrimp as an alternative to animal protein
- Ampverse esports firm gains pre-Series A funding with sights on M&A, dedicated content creation studio and more
- Lanturn raises $3M seed round with tech-enabled corporate services and automated administration platform
- A brief look at the 4 finalists selected for the inaugural DBS Foundation Social Impact Prize
- PwC Singapore launches 5-day Scale Programme to help foreign startups enter SE Asia
- Cybersecurity Labelling Scheme launched by Cyber Security Agency of Singapore focusing on consumer smart devices in effort to improve IoT security
- An intro to Lucy, fintech currently testing pilot initiative in Singapore, focusing on underserved and underbanked female business owners in SEA
- Safer Cyberspace Masterplan 2020 launched to boost cybersecurity for individual users, communities, enterprises and organisations
- Algorand Asia accelerator unveils 10 blockchain startups selected for batch 1
- IT Leader Awards 2021 nominations close October 31st, across 3 categories under the theme ‘Tech Heroes From Crisis’
- TurtleTree Labs wins Entrepreneurship World Cup with cell-based milk, with added benefit of a 98% carbon footprint reduction
- A look at 9 agri-tech and foodtech startups set to pitch at the Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit, set for November 18-20
- Mastercard partners Singapore-based MatchMove and France’s Idemia augmented identity firm to pilot fingerprint-based biometric payments card in Asia
- Singapore’s DBS Bank launches feature enabling businesses to track cross-border payment collections in real-time, rolled out to over 240K corporate and SME clients
- A brief intro to 4 of the startups set to present at the 2020 Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit from November 18-20
- An intro to the 5 startups selected for the finals of MedTech Innovator’s 2020 Asia Pacific Grand Prize
- DBS bank and financial services corp reportedly building digital assets trading platform, ‘…solutions to tap the vast potential of private markets and digital currencies’
- SingTel likely to commit $440M to joint venture with Grab to start digital bank in Singapore
- The Digital Feed Episode 2 – The Basics of Blockchain, from UNDP Singapore Global Centre
- Japan’s Dream Drive takes top prize at travel-focused WiT Startup Pitch event in Singapore with ‘luxury hotel on wheels’ camper van concept
- Singapore’s LuneX Ventures blockchain and cryptocurrency fund opens opportunity for Malaysia’s blockchain startups to apply for growth funding
- Accenture selects 10 startups for FinTech Innovation Lab AsiaPacific mentorship program, including firms from Hong Kong, India, Singapore and Australia
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