Singapore

TikTok has launched Mini Dramas and Mini Games, new on-platform experiences allowing users to discover, watch, play, and purchase content without leaving the app.

Carro, Asia Pacific's leading online automotive marketplace, has acquired CarPlace, a leading Australian used car platform operated by Autoleague, one of Australia's largest automotive groups, giving Carro a physical presence in three of Australia's four largest markets.

monday.com, an AI work platform, has appointed Chris Jordan as Regional Vice President for Southeast Asia and Country Manager for Singapore, as the company establishes Singapore as its second Asia-Pacific headquarters after Sydney.

Acrab, a Singapore-headquartered technology company building agentic AI compute infrastructure, has received over $350 million in cumulative financing throughout its early development.

Anthropic's Claude has rapidly gained ground on OpenAI's ChatGPT among Singapore startups, with its customer base growing 258 percent year-on-year and total spend increasing 17 times, according to new data from Singapore-based financial platform Aspire.

Japan's Murata Electronics and Signapore-based Tribe, an open innovation platform, have launched KUMIHIMO Tech Camp Singapore 2026, an open innovation programme inviting MedTech startups across ASEAN and India to co-develop healthcare solutions addressing the region's most pressing medical challenges.

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.

Singapore-based enterprise AI startup Pints AI has raised $5.6 million in a pre-Series A round led by Tin Men Capital, with SBI Ven Capital co-leading and participation from SEEDS, NTUitive, SUTD Venture Fund, and Tenity,

Granite Asia, a pan-Asia investment platform with over $10 billion in assets under management, has marked the facility opening of its portfolio company Galatek Technologies in Penang (Malaysia).

Taiwan's QBit Semiconductor has acquired a 60 percent stake in Singapore-based SinChip Technology, as part of a push to expand its application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) design services into Edge AI, high-performance computing, optical communications, and automotive sectors.