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Venture capital

Singapore

Challenging economic conditions raise the bar for nascent biotech startups as funding dries up

The impact of Trump’s pharma tariffs on drugmakers is evident, but the upstream implications for start-ups developing novel drugs are less clear.
Singapore

Singapore draws international biotech VCs as Asia-Pacific life sciences sector takes off

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is among several high-profile Silicon Valley executives who accompanied US President Donald Trump on a state visit to the UK this week.
Telcos, Media & Tech

Nvidia to invest in UK firms including Wayve, Revolut

China has accounted for over 75% of regional venture capital and private equity funding since 2019, and now contributes 26.7% of all drugs in the global development pipeline – up from 23.6% the year before, says Bain & Company.
Global Enterprise

China’s biotech boom: Collaboration, not competition, for Singapore

Data from Tracxn showed that East Ventures, 500 Global and Singapore-based VC firm Wavemaker Partners on the other hand were the overall all-time top investors in theSouth-east Asian tech ecosystem for 9M 2025.
Startups & Tech

Singapore tech firms bag majority of S-E Asia funding for 9M 2025, at US$2.3 billion: report 

Robotics, AI and cloud are still some of the sectors in China drawing investments from ventuire capitalists, market players say.
Companies & Markets
HOCK LOCK SIEW

Will China’s venture capital market become investable again?

China manufactures about 80% of the world’s solar panels.
Energy & Commodities

China road trip exposes list of uninvestable assets in the West

The fund's focus will be on the blue economy space in the ocean sector May Liew, CEO, Octave Capital.
Companies & Markets

Octave Capital launches US$75 million ocean-focused impact fund with Katapult Ocean

NUS Enterprise's i3 building is a centre for deep tech innovation, entrepreneurship and collaboration.
Singapore

NUS Enterprise expands venture capital programme, collaborates with Stanford

Alphabet has joined other tech giants Apple and Microsoft in hitting a US$3 trillion valuation.
Global Enterprise

Alphabet enters US$3 trillion market cap club as Big Tech’s AI momentum builds

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