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URECA introduced on Monday a proprietary technology and platform that is set to democratise the access to carbon credits globally.

Advance Intelligence Group, a Singapore-based unicorn tech start-up, announced on Monday its acquisition of Jewel Paymentech, a financial risk technology company specialising in merchant due diligence and fraud and risk management solutions for the financial services and payments industry.

ShopBack, Asia-Pacific’s leading shopping and rewards platform, has launched ShopBack PayLater, a Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) payment option. As the entry point to rewarding shopping for over 30 million shoppers across the Asia-Pacific, the Group aspires to now be the preferred checkout option for shoppers with PayLater.

Johnson & Johnson Vision, a global leader in eye health and part of Johnson & Johnson MedTech, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) to jointly establish an Eye Health Digital Innovation Consortium.

The state-owned investor has 13 offices in 9 countries around the world: Beijing, Hanoi, Mumbai, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Singapore in Asia; and London, Brussels, New York, San Francisco, Washington DC, Mexico City, and Sao Paulo outside Asia.

Singapore-based Wealthcare® and savings app Hugosave announced on Wednesday the successful completion of its $4 million pre-Series A funding round, bringing the total amount of funds raised to $10.5 million.

SpaceChain announced on Tuesday the completion of the testing of the space node it created for Velas Network AG, which is hosted on an LEO satellite and independent of terrestrial networks.

Cake DeFi, the fastest-growing Singapore-based Decentralised Finance (DeFi) platform announced on Tuesday key appointments to its leadership bench from the traditional finance and technology sectors.

Intellect, a Singapore-headquartered mental health startup, announced Tuesday it has raised an additional $10 million in a Series A extension, led by Tiger Global, bringing Intellect to a Series A total of $20 million. This round was led by Tiger Global and joined by new investors including K3 Ventures, JAFCO Asia, Singtel Innov8, and PERSOL Holdings, with…

The Good Food Institute Asia Pacific (GFI APAC) has launched a new “one-stop shop” database in collaboration with FoodInnovate ⁠—a joint initiative launched by Enterprise Singapore (EnterpriseSG) together with the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Economic Development Board (EDB), IPI Singapore, JTC Corporation (JTC), and the Singapore…