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Winners at Emerging Enterprise Awards 2026. From left: Yuen Tat Yan, managing director of Hyperscale DCS; Desmond Ho, CEO of Alpha AI Technology; Nivedita Venkateish, CEO and founder of XEL Lifecare (AIRE); William Yeung, CEO and co-founder of MediConCen; Tyler Peh, CEO, chief marketing officer and co-founder of Woosa Sleep; Inthira Kalanjiam, CEO and founder of Lafre Global; Leong Yew Wei, CEO and founder of Matwerkz Technologies; Rendy Aditya Wachid, CEO and founder of Raesaka Amanah Widyakarya (Parongpong Raw Lab); Steven Ng, director of Geomax Rubber Innovative Products.

Nine companies from Singapore and the region bag top honours at 2026 Emerging Enterprise Awards

2026-10-26T14:00:00.000Z
The Emerging Enterprise Award celebrates young businesses across Asia that pair innovation with sustainable growth and the ability to scale.
EMERGING ENTERPRISE AWARD 2026

Building bridges in the spaces between

2026-10-07T23:00:00.000Z
The Emerging Enterprise Award celebrates young businesses across Asia that pair innovation with sustainable growth and the ability to scale.
EMERGING ENTERPRISE AWARD 2026

Building smarter systems for what comes next

2026-10-06T23:00:00.000Z
The Emerging Enterprise Award celebrates young businesses across Asia that pair innovation with sustainable growth and the ability to scale.
EMERGING ENTERPRISE AWARD 2026

Rethinking the familiar, one industry at a time

2026-10-05T23:00:00.000Z
The true test of sustainability is whether it remains a priority when conditions become challenging.
EMERGING ENTERPRISE SUSTAINABILITY AWARD JUDGES ROUNDTABLE

Turning sustainability into a competitive business advantage

2026-10-01T22:00:00.000Z
What often impresses judges is not a company’s ability to grow
during good times, but its ability to emerge stronger from difficult
ones.
EMERGING ENTERPRISE AWARD JUDGES ROUNDTABLE

How young businesses can build resilience and shine

2026-09-30T22:00:00.000Z
The honourees of this year’s NGT30 were announced on Sep 30. The programme is Asia’s first public-private initiative to recognise the region’s top growth-stage tech firms.

Asia’s top tech startups move beyond software towards physical AI

2026-09-30T05:34:39.000Z
From left: Roy Ang, CEO of Evo Commerce; Esther Erin, founder and chief marketing officer of Dodo Ventures; Dr Andrew Wu, co-founder and CEO of Mesh Bio. Their companies were among last year's winners.

Applications for Emerging Enterprise 2026 Awards now open until Jun 30

2026-05-18T12:26:11.000Z
(From left) Evo Commerce’s chief financial officer Tan Wen You, chief executive officer Roy Ang, chief operating officer Teoh Ming Hao and chief marketing officer Vanessa Tan; and Esther Erin and Ethan Wong, co-founders of Dodo Ventures.
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Hits at home, now breaking out: The cult Asian personal care brands going global

2026-05-12T21:50:00.000Z
Eddy Wee (left), founder and managing director of Green Environmental Engineering; and Dr Mohammad Sherafatmand, founder and chief executive officer of Hydroleap.
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Meet the clean-tech innovators helping heavy industry cut emissions, recycle water – without rebuilding from scratch

2026-05-12T21:50:00.000Z
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No annual award better honours the bold ambition of young businesses under ten years old than the Emerging Enterprise Award and the Emerging Enterprise Sustainability Award. Since 2008, the award has been empowering startups and young enterprises with both recognition and resources to take flight and achieve stellar growth.