Singapore

Deputy Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Mohammad Yusof Apdal said he is confident that the establishment of the JS-SEZ will play an important role in helping the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Mosti) achieve its target of creating 5,000 startup companies by the end of 2025

South Korea’s private sector-led shared research lab S&S Lab (the operator of IRIS Lab) has announced its latest strategic partnership with Singapore innovation ecosystem enabler Farquhar VC (FVC), to foster and deepen relations among Korean and global novel food and biotech startups.

Singapore-based privacy tech company Silence Laboratories has on Thursday announced a $4.1 million pre-series A round. The funding round is led by Pi Ventures and Kira Studio, along with several prominent angel investors.

Nium, a real-time cross-border payments firm based in the United States and Singapore, announced Wednesday that it has become the first non-Japanese company to have secured a Type 1 Funds Transfer Service Provider (FTSP) license from the Japanese Financial Services Agency (JFSA).

Kumpulan Modal Perdana (KMP), a Malaysian government-owned tech-focused venture capital, announced Tuesday their successful investment in SmartRetail, a Singapore-based computer vision artificial intelligence (AI) profiling solutions and consumer engagement advertising technologies platform.

Tikehau Capital, the global alternative asset management group, has joined forces with Singapore-based brokeragefirm UOB-Kay Hian (UOBKH), to launch a new private credit strategy. Both sponsors will be contributing $50 million each in capital commitments to the strategy, demonstrating strong alignment of interest with investor clients.

Protégé Ventures (PV), Singapore-based student venture capital fund, has announced an undisclosed pre-seed investment in ZOLO, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered business to business (B2B) software company founded by two alumni from two Singapore universities.

GoFluid.io (Fluid), a Singapore-based fintech enabling flexible business to business (B2B) purchase financing, has raised $5.2 million in an equity round led by Insignia Ventures Partners. With $1.8 million raised in a seed round from Iterative and New Stack Ventures, the company brings its total funding to $7 million.

StashAway, a Singapore-based regional investment platform, has expanded its wealth management offering for high-net-worth individuals, StashAway Reserve, to Hong Kong, extending the success that StashAway Reserve has seen in Singapore.

ingapore-based Web 3 firm BuildBear Labs has announced a successful fundraising journey, securing approximately $1.9 million to propel the growth of our flagship platform. The round