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Singapore

EDB Global Founder Programme raises over US$2 billion in VC funding

2026-07-08T03:12:07.000Z
Singapore has built what amounts to a full-stack frontier technology position, with hardware, capital, governance and talent in a single jurisdiction.
Opinion & Features

Who captures the value in Singapore’s S$37 billion frontier tech bet?

2026-06-24T06:48:05.000Z
Singapore continues to dominate regional venture funding activity among the Asean-6 economies, accounting for 72.5% of total deal value in 2025.
Companies & Markets

Singapore venture funding hits S$5.9 billion as investors double down on AI, deep tech despite fewer deals: EY-Parthenon

2026-05-28T11:55:59.000Z
Building a deep tech ecosystem will require more deliberate bets, said Professor Benjamin Tee, vice president NUS enterprise
Startups

Singapore’s deep-tech push requires ‘calculated bets’, stronger ecosystem: NUS Enterprise’s Benjamin Tee

2026-03-29T23:00:00.000Z
The facilities at the hub will allow founders to develop their ventures without incurring high costs and strengthen the country’s deep-tech entrepreneur pipeline, says NTU.
Singapore

NTU launches UOB Innovation Hub to grow startups, with plans to incubate over 90 venture teams

2026-03-25T10:00:45.000Z
The bank will spearhead the initiatives through employee volunteerism and partnerships.
Lifestyle
TAKING HEART

UOB establishes foundation to scale CSR initiatives for education, children, arts

2026-03-25T07:42:27.000Z
For paper batteries, production does not depend on the supply chains for the scarce resources used to make conventional batteries.
Singapore

This Singapore deep-tech startup believes its paper batteries are an important part of the global clean energy transition

2026-02-27T11:24:59.000Z
From left: Prof Lim Sun Sun, vice-president, partnerships and engagement, SMU; Prof Alan Chan, provost, SMU; Minister for National Development Chee Hong Tat; Beth Henderson, lead of startup programmes, The Gear by Kajima; Khoo Teng Lip, head, ST Engineering Ventures; and Jonathan Cheng, chief technology officer, Building and Construction Authority, at the launch of the Urban SustaInnovator programme.
Technology

SMU launches global deep-tech accelerator, welcomes 60 new-gen startups to Singapore

2025-09-30T04:30:09.000Z
Venture capital investments in early-stage deep tech have more than trebled to S$1.6 billion in 2023, from S$478 million in 2020.
Singapore

Singapore’s RIE2030 to launch large-scale R&D programmes for key sectors, ‘strategic priorities’

2025-09-16T09:30:00.000Z
Startup partnerships are a strategic mechanism to unlock value that corporations' internal systems alone cannot deliver.
Opinion & Features

Startup partnerships can help corporations unlock deep tech innovation

2025-07-08T23:00:00.000Z
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