DeepSeek raises US$15 billion in challenge to leading US labs

2026-10-22T03:34:42.000Z
Genie Health co-founder and CEO Hari Krishnan says health information needs to be democratised and made accessible.

PropertyGuru ex-CEO’s AI health startup Genie Health raises US$3 million in seed funding

2026-10-21T02:00:00.000Z
Lawrence Calcano, CEO of iCapital, says AI now writes 75% of the firm’s code, spanning code generation, testing and quality assurance.

Fintech platform iCapital plans more Singapore hires even as AI takes on 75% of coding work

2026-10-16T01:00:00.000Z
Acquirers closed 12 deals in the first nine months of 2026, including Grab’s US$1.5 billion acquisition of Atome.

South-east Asia fintech funding trebles to US$2.3 billion in 9M 2026 even as deal volume sinks

2026-10-15T07:49:25.000Z
Clockwise from top left: Vertex Ventures’ Benedict Tan; Drylab’s chief science officer Nhi Nguyen; Drylab’s CTO Huy Phan; Drylab’s CEO John Phan; and Vertex Ventures’ Genping Liu.

AI agent platform Drylab AI raises US$3 million seed round from Vertex Ventures and PatSnap

2026-10-13T01:00:00.000Z
In September, Anthropic decided against acquiring Decart AI. 

Amazon is in talks to buy US$7 billion AI startup Decart, WSJ reports

2026-10-11T21:51:58.000Z
The model is also said to fare comparably on advanced reasoning benchmarks to the flagship open model of China’s Z.AI, GLM-5.2.

Nvidia-backed startup Reflection unveils open-weight AI model said to rival China offerings

2026-10-06T05:09:30.000Z
Joe Lu, HeyMax CEO and co-founder, says HeyMax First is the outcome of the aspiration to fly comfortably, cheaper and faster.

HeyMax wants to challenge the miles game with ‘fly now, earn later’ model

2026-10-02T07:05:09.000Z
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
The bulk of the growth in Syfe’s assets under management has been from existing users, says Dhruv Arora, CEO and founder of the wealth platform.

Syfe crosses S$20 billion AUM mark, tracks growth from investment and trading segments

2026-09-22T00:00:00.000Z