Corporate Innovation
[Global Investment Summit] The next decade: finding the next champions of the Global South
The panel "Finding the Next World Champion from the Global South" featured Harmender Singh, SVP (Group Business Development & Innovation Advisory) at Cradle Fund and Minjun Liang, Founding Partner at ATM Capital.
Vietnam, Singapore lead region in construction technology utillization
Vietnam leads the region with 52 percent of local employees utilizing weekly construction-specific technology, ahead of Australia at 48 percent and Singapore at 47 percent, according to Autodesk's State of Digital Adoption in the Construction Industry 2026 report.
Finance platform Choco Up raises $15M to expand growth financing for Singapore SMEs
Choco Up, Asia's leading growth financing platform, has raised a $15 million credit facility from private credit investment company AlteriQ Global to expand access to growth capital for Singapore's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with the first drawdown already completed.
API-first architecture can help to banking modernization in Southeast Asia, says Mambu MD [interview]
API-first, SaaS platforms are the right foundation for payments modernization, fraud prevention, and cross-border scaling in Southeast Asia, David Becker, Managing Director for Asia Pacific at Mambu, said to TNGlobal.
Singapore SMEs most cautious about international expansion among global peers
Leaders of Singapore's small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) are the least optimistic about international expansion among all markets surveyed globally, scoring 7.2 out of 10 compared to a global average of 8.2, according to the third edition of Kreston Global's Interpreneur Report.
Cata raises $5.3M seed funding to expand digital platform for F&B, retail
Cata, a white-label SaaS platform for enterprise-grade branded apps, has raised $5.3 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round less than a year after its launch,
Japan’s office software provider Cybozu to invest $6.4M in Malaysia expansion
Japan-based Cybozu, a collaborative office software company known for its Kintone platform, has committed an initial $6.4 million investment to expand its operations in Malaysia.
China’s Alibaba unveils Wukong AI platform for enterprise workflows
China's Alibaba Group has introduced Wukong, an AI-focused enterprise platform designed to enable multiple AI agents to coordinate and perform complex tasks within a unified interface, supported by enterprise-grade security infrastructure.
Red Hat honours CIMB Bank Malaysia for pioneering Open Source initiatives
Embodying this year’s theme, “Unlock what’s next”, the Red Hat APAC Innovation Awards celebrates customers who have harnessed the power of open source technologies to drive transformation and innovation.
Telkomsel’s Jockie Heruseon on the relevance of the digital economy in supporting sunstainable innovation [ORIGIN Innovation Awards Q&A]
Telkomsel Corporate Accelerator (Tinc) is our flagship startup accelerator program as a footprint for the telco industry in supporting other verticals with Telkomsel capability & assets, such as agriculture, fintech, SaaS, and many more.
