YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

by Azhar Katib, founder of WebSell Solutions Ptd Ltd. For Singapore businesses wanting to grow, overseas expansion may even be a necessity considering the small size, population of this country. Any small and medium level enterprise that has its headquarters in Singapore is eligible for this Grant. How to claim the MRA Grant.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Information and communications technology industry players in Singapore claim that manpower costs due to recent changes to the country’s foreign manpower policy are likely to be the biggest challenge this year, according to the Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF).

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2021

by Andy Prakash, founder of Privacy Ninja. This environment is more apparent in nations such as Singapore where there is extensive internet connectivity and the citizens are digitally knowledgeable. The average cost of a cybersecurity attack in Singapore, according to McAfee findings, stands at approximately S$1.7

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Techventure 2011 – one of Asia’s topmost events for the venture capital community to engage with the latest technology entrepreneurs organized by Asiasons WFG and presented by National Research Foundation (NRF) and Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA) – will celebrate its 15th year on October 13 and 14.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2023

The last few months have been an unprecedented time for entrepreneurs and startup founders on the market. While the city is small in comparison to other major European destinations, many successful startup founders have ranked it among the likes of London or Paris.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

Awards celebrated 15 winners who are industry leaders in skills development in Singapore. At the School of Engineering and Technology for example, we have connections with the Institution of Engineering and Technology Singapore, Singapore Computer Society and Institution for Engineers Singapore.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2011

Social Media World Forum (SMWF) Asia is happening right now and the event space in Suntec City is buzzing with the chatter of the gathered social media glitterati, brand managers and communications professionals from Singapore and the region. Chang also said that there are various paid and free app distribution services that can be leveraged.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2012

The Founder Institute has just opened its 2012 Summer intake in Singapore. The Institute supports founders in a wide range of industries, including digital media, software, biotech, cleantech, e-commerce, advertising, consumer electronics, and the Internet. You can apply for the program here.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2013

Singapore’s taxi industry has been the subject of many recently introduced services looking to disrupt that sector. “Since the mobile app was first publicly launched in 2012, there has been an amazing response from commuters around Southeast Asia,” says GrabTaxi Founder and Group CEO, Anthony Tan.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2013

You’re unlikely to have heard of Singapore-based creative agency Imaginary Friends Studios – unless you’re in the fields of film, games or animation. Stanley Artgerm Lau: I am a co-founder and creative director of IFS. Kai: In my mind, Singapore is just a destination that has a truly global industry.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2013

Singapore-based accelerator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator ( JFDI Asia ) has revealed that over 300 digital startup teams have applied for its second accelerator program for this year, competing for just 12 places in this intake. Other nations made up less than 1% of applications each.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 8, 2011

Founder Institute has just announced its Fall intake in Singapore for this year! The program is specifically designed to be ‘founder-friendly’, and if you currently have a full-time job you don’t even have to quit it to attend the evening sessions. You can apply for the program here.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This year, Techventure has also taken on two new partner events - TechInnovation 2012 and Failcon Singapore. “The start-up sector in Singapore is laying the foundation for a sophisticated high-tech SME industry that can compete on the world stage and power the next stage of economic growth for Singapore.”

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

One of Asia’s biggest regional technology and startup blogs just got bigger – Tech in Asia ( Techinasia.com ) just announced its acquisition of fellow Singapore-based tech blog SGEntrepreneurs (SGE) for an undisclosed sum, entrenching itself as one of the leading English language blogs covering the technology scene in Asia.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Co-founder, CEO Aashish Mehta offered more insight into the company. TransferFi is currently based in Singapore. Could you give us some financial estimates on how much a city-state such as Singapore would save by forgoing wiring and installation? TFi is revolutionizing the way we access power. What is your competitive advantage?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2012

Almost 80-percent of students in Singapore are interested in entrepreneurship, if the results from a recent survey are to be believed. In Singapore, the survey was conducted through the three public universities and five polytechnics, surveying a total of 3,133 locally-based students. for Singapore compared with 42.6%

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2015

Twitter last week announced that it has opened its office in Singapore, officially designating it as its headquarters for the Asia Pacific region. Co-founder Jack Dorsey will replace Costolo on an interim basis.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2013

After a series of successful startup events in Singapore, and Jakarta and Bandung in Indonesia last year, Asia-based online technology news site TechinAsia will be kicking off Startup Asia Singapore ‘s second edition later in April this year.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 16, 2014

Singapore-based upstart broadband provider MyRepublic has made waves since they entered the competitive market back in 2012 ; its most recent industry disruption was its announcement last week for its plan to provide a 1 Gbps broadband service package at an extremely aggressive price of S49.99

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 15, 2013

Print media in Singapore is not quite spiraling towards doom like its counterparts elsewhere in the world, not with its state-backed media still clinging on to its dominance in the country’s media landscape. Denise: Print in Singapore is subject to the constraints of censorship.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 11, 2013

SPRING Singapore , the country’s agency responsible for helping Singapore enterprises, also has a charter that looks at helping bring disruptive technologies into the market through its Technology Enterprise Commercialization Scheme (TECS). In the News Funding grants Singapore SPRING Singapore startup grants technology'

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2013

The e-commerce space in Singapore has been ratcheted up by another notch as online shopping platform Shopify partners telecommunications provider SingTel to make available its services to businesses in the country. “(But) I’m confident our partnership with SingTel will boost the rate in Singapore,” he says.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2014

In the same year, Singapore did not improve its credit terms with export customers either. Research has found three reasons why foreign customers were late paying Singapore suppliers 1 : Financial problems. billion pa industry, and is starting to gain traction in Singapore. per cent were written off as uncollectable.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Being an industry-disrupting new company is always extremely challenging, and none more so if you’re looking at a highly-regulated one with just a small number of strong players like that of Singapore’s telecommunications industry. But the journey hasn’t been a totally smooth one, as its founders attest.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 17, 2015

The global 2015 BattleHack , organized by leading global payments providers PayPal and Braintree , will be coming to Singapore as part of a worldwide global hackathon competition that will see developers across the globe tasked with creating applications that solve specific challenges. Visit https://2015.battlehack.org/singapore

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

by Thomas Smale, founder of FE International. What if there was somewhere you could go where you can be surrounded by founders just like you? Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? Here are the top 10: 1.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2013

After a competition which saw participation by over 200 students from various institutions of higher learning in Singapore, two teams of students from Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) clinched championship titles in two categories of this year’s Microsoft Imagine Cup local finals. Petersburg, Russia, from 8 – 11 July, 2013.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Global social media analytics and optimization company Socialbakers has announced the opening of its new Asia-Pacific headquarters based in Singapore. In the News Asia Pacific digital marketing Singapore social analytics social media Socialbakers'

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2017

Marketing products into international markets is not a simple task”, says Julio Oliveto, founder of Livre, an innovative wheelchair-tricycle company in Brazil. I’d never thought an investment at the start would make such a difference”, said Jessica Krauter, co-founder of Buah. But going global can be an intimidating prospect for some.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2012

GET4X is a Singapore-based technology startup that looks at simplifying the process of how Singaporeans exchange their foreign currencies. GET4X basically offers an online site as well as an iOS mobile app that allows users to compare foreign exchange rates from various money changers in Singapore. Archaic, to say the least.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 18, 2013

Interested to know which are the most interesting startups in Singapore in recent time? Panelists include: Camille Schu, Co-founder, Luxola. Yiping Goh, Co-founder, AllDeals Asia. John Fearon, Founder, DropMySite. Hugh Mason, CEO, JFDI.Asia. What does it take to succeed in new ventures? This is a paid event.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

by Kristy Castleton, founder and MD of Rebel & Soul. Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has become the latest buzzword in Singapore. Indeed, AI is changing the game in design with its functionality, and by extension affects the events management industry in Singapore. Disrupting design. Without utility, design is useless.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 11, 2012

Earlier this year in February, the Startups in Asia conference in Singapore saw Singapore-based social collaborative learning platform Teamie emerging victorious from a pool of nineteen regional startups pitching in a ‘Startup Arena’ to win a US$10,000 prize.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2013

If so, check out “ Office Hours Revealed With Jeffrey Paine “ Jeffrey Paine is a founding partner of Golden Gate Ventures an early stage technology incubator based in Singapore with a $10 million fund to invest in the region. Since 2010 the Founder Institute in Singapore, which he led, has graduated over 60 companies in Asia.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2013

One of more interesting trends touched on during Crowdsourcing Week in Singapore last week , but was not explored in any great detail, was the how online work has been taking off in Asia as part of the changing work landscape in this part of the world. Freelance work driving startup growth in Singapore.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

2, while Sydney and Melbourne in Australia, Bangalore in India and Singapore gets ranked on the list. Silicon Valley in Singapore. However, the report stated that while Singapore has a relatively well-established funding environment, the risk tolerance of founders is the lowest within the top 20 ecosystems.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

Anecdotally, one founder complained to me that this has shorten his runway by 30%. Several discussions on social media have founders asking if they should hedge their FOREX risk. The plethora of established companies and unicorns in these spaces should continue to create the next generation of founders. Global tech correction.

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