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Thailand’s Sunday partners Salesforce to scale proprietary AI-powered personalized insurance
Sunday, an InsurTech based in Thailand, is working with Salesforce, the global artificial intelligence (AI) customer relationship management (CRM) firm, to centralize operations, personalize engagement for over 330,000 customers, and scale their business using solutions including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Tableau and Slack.
July 9, 2025
NUS Enterprise appoints global innovation experts to advance innovation and research translation efforts
NUS Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore, has appointed Dr Patrick Ennis and Donna See as strategic advisors to support its next phase of growth in innovation and deep-tech commercialization.
July 9, 2025
South Korea’s re-commerce platform Bunjang further expands into Singapore
Bunjang, a South Korea's customer-to-customer (C2C) secondhand marketplace platform, has reaffirmed its commitment to Singapore as a strategic growth engine in its broader Asia strategy.
July 9, 2025
News,Singapore,Malaysia,FinTech
Curlec, ShopBack Pay join forces to support reward-driven checkout for Malaysian businesses and shoppers
Curlec by Razorpay, Malaysia’s FinTech payment gateway, has forged a strategic partnership with ShopBack, Singapore’s platform for shopping, rewards, and payments, to support reward-driven checkout for Malaysian businesses and shoppers.
July 9, 2025
Sirsak secures $600,000 Pre-Seed round to scale packaging waste recovery platform across Indonesia
Sirsak, an Indonesia-based business to business (B2B) packaging waste management startup, has raised $600,000 in pre-seed funding to expand its flagship Packaging Recovery Program (PRP) technology and accelerate packaging waste collection and recycling across Indonesia.
July 9, 2025
Malaysia’s Khazanah eyes AI deals With French, Italian sovereign funds – report
Managing director Amirul Feisal Wan Zahir said the discussions focused on how Malaysian, French and Italian companies could work together amid shifting global geopolitical dynamics.
July 9, 2025
News,Malaysia,Singapore,HealthTech
Singapore’s Rebee Health raises investment from 1337 Ventures to expand digital physiotherapy solutions
Singapore-based health tech firm Rebee Health has raised investment from Malaysia-based venture capital firm 1337 Ventures to expand digital physiotherapy solutions.
July 9, 2025
Sidec launches Selangor Twin Accelerator Program to power Next-Gen startups, SME’s in Malaysia
The Selangor Information Technology and Digital Economy Corporation (Sidec) has officially launched the 2025 edition of its Selangor twin accelerator program, a dual-track initiative aimed at scaling Malaysia’s most promising startups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across deep tech and consumer-focused industries.
July 9, 2025
News,Malaysia,Venture Capital,AI
MDEC allocates $6.84M strategic grants to advance AI and industrial digitalization
The Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) said Tuesday that it is introducing two new grants totaling MYR 2.9 million ($6.84 million), aimed at accelerating digital transformation in two of Malaysia’s most strategic sectors — artificial intelligence (AI) and manufacturing.
July 9, 2025
SuperSiC breaks ground on new semiconductor manufacturing facility in Penang, Malaysia
Supersic (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. (SuperSiC), a subsidiary of Zhejiang Jingsheng Mechanical & Electrical Co., Ltd. (JSG), has successfully held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new semiconductor manufacturing facility in Penang, Malaysia.
July 8, 2025