Deep tech

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?

For both companies and their investors, the opportunity is specific and time-bound

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

The two themes are emerging as key growth drivers amid a broader fundraising downturn in South-east Asia

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

Such ventures are not about moving from ‘zero to one’, but about scaling breakthroughs to impact millions, he says

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

Hub is supported by S$110 million from UOB and Wee Foundation as well as government contributions

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

It will be operational from the second half of 2026

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

Flint wants to get its cellulose-based batteries into every device that requires them, says co-founder

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

This is the first such programme in the Republic focused on addressing urban solutions and sustainability-related issues

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’

Semiconductors among RIE Flagships’ target areas

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

When structured correctly, corporate-startup collaboration can accelerate time to market, de-risk emerging technologies and create value for both parties

Seeds Capital plans to catalyse at least S$300 million of investments into Singapore-based deep-tech startups.

Technology

Seeds Capital sets aside S$150 million for co-investments into deep-tech startups

Co-investors include Temasek-backed Xora and ST Engineering Ventures

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