Singapore

Respiree, a Singapore-based health tech company with artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, has announced the successful closing of a $11.6 million Series A financing round led by We Venture Capital and ClavystBio.

HeyMax, a loyalty and travel rewards platform based in Singapore, announced Wednesday that it has acquired krip, a Hong Kong-based fintech firm with integrated credit card benefits platform, to accelerate regional expansion.

Actis, a growth markets investor in sustainable infrastructure, has acquired a 100 percent stake in Barghest Building Performance (bbp), a Singapore-based energy-savings-as-a-service (ESaaS) provider for heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in Asia.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has appointed the first three asset managers under the Equity Market Development Program (EQDP) - Avanda Investment Management, Fullerton Fund Management and JP Morgan Asset Management.

Singapore-based lender DBS announced Tuesday that it is democratizing coaching for its workforce with the launch of iCoach, a generative AI-powered (Gen AI) platform developed in collaboration with Marshall Goldsmith, one of the world’s top executive coaches.

NUS Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore (NUS) — flagship comprehensive research university in Singapore, is committing S$150 million ($116 million) to launch the NUS VC Program to boost growth of deep tech start-ups.

Singapore-based insurtech bolttech and OMRON Healthcare Singapore, an innovative medical equipment for health monitoring and therapy, have announced the launch of their premium care subscription plan in the city state.

Maybank Investment Bank has foreseen Grab's gross merchandise value (GMV) and loan-book growth to accelerate in the second quarter.

Ant International and Citi announced last Friday that they are piloting the use of Ant International's Falcon Time-Series Transformer (TST) Model to deliver an enhanced foreign exchange (FX) risk management solution for their customers.

Bridge Alliance, the alliance for premier mobile network operators in Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Aeris Communications, Inc., a global cellular internet of things (IoT) platforms and solutions firm, have extended partnership to offer the world’s first fully integrated cellular IoT security solution to APAC enterprises.