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Every new AI chip arrives with a bigger compute number. Fewer arrive with an honest admission that those chips increasingly sit idle, waiting for data to trickle in over copper wires that were never designed for this kind of workload. Singapore’s Staera Semiconductor is betting its future on that gap. The deeptech startup, formerly known […] The post Copper is choking AI. Staera secures US$4.6M to swap it for light appeared first on e27.

For years, the first question in almost every software conversation I had with a Singapore SME owner was the same: “Is it PSG pre-approved?” It was a sensible question. The Productivity Solutions Grant paid a large share of the cost of listed packages, so the list did a lot of the buying. If the vendor […] The post 3 ways the EDGE Grant changes how a sensible SME buys software appeared first on e27.

Startup Island TAIWAN, the national startup brand of Taiwan, backed by the National Development Council (NDC), led 33 Taiwanese deep-tech startups to the Taiwan Pavilion at SWITCH 2026 in Singapore from October 27 to 29, in partnership with Startup Terrace, Hsinchu Science Park Bureau, the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) and Taiwan Digi Gold Card. Exhibiting […] The post Startup Island TAIWAN leads 33 deep-tech startups to SWITCH 2026, advancing their expansion into Singapore appeared first on e27.

Fingular, the Kuala Lumpur-headquartered fintech group behind the AhaPay buy now, pay later (BNPL) service, has secured a US$20 million credit facility from Silverstreak Group, a Singapore-based private credit investor. The money will expand Fingular’s near-prime consumer and SME financing, taking total funding for its Malaysian lending business past US$50 million. Near-prime borrowers sit just […] The post Fingular secures US$20M debt line to bet on Malaysia’s near-prime borrowers appeared first on e27.

Every few months, Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem gets a headline that sounds like a resurrection. This October brought two. Tracxn reported that tech funding in the region rose 176 per cent to US$13.5 billion in the first nine months of 2026. Dealroom and Founders Forum went further, saying funding had tripled and that Singapore had […] The post Meta sells voteless shares, SpaceX leases its chips. Johor should be paying attention appeared first on e27.

A running joke in Singapore’s startup circles holds that a founder’s net worth exists only in two places: the cap table and the LinkedIn bio. For most of Southeast Asia’s entrepreneurs, the joke still lands. IPO windows open and slam shut, trade sales are thin on the ground, and secondary sales have become the region’s […] The post Founders are buying gold, not Lamborghinis, after the exit appeared first on e27.

Thirty-seven per cent. Eleven per cent. Those two numbers, tucked deep inside Jobstreet by SEEK’s Singapore Workplace Culture Study 2026, may say more about the region’s productivity problem than any headline about AI or inflation. The first is the share of employees who try to manage workplace pressure by quietly drawing their own boundaries: muting […] The post Employers are buying AI tools. Their managers are being left behind appeared first on e27.

Most Singapore office workers know the ritual. A message lands at 10.47pm. It is not urgent. You answer it within 90 seconds anyway, not because the work demands it, but because you want someone to notice that you answered it within 90 seconds. It turns out that performance is playing to a near-empty theatre. The […] The post AI and inflation are driving Singapore’s workplace anxiety. Employers are spending on the wrong fix appeared first on e27.

英特尔和博通的CEO警告称，对算力基础设施的需求仍将持续超过供应，但资金获取能力可能成为制约人工智能（AI）热潮的一大因素。博通CEO陈福阳（Hock Tan）周一（10月12日）在新加坡的一场活动上表示，在整个行业竞相建设基础设施、为日益复杂的AI模型提供算力支持之际，融资可能成为AI扩张面临的更大障碍，其影响甚至可能超过半导体、存储芯片或电力的短缺。同台亮相的英特尔CEO陈立武（Lip-Bu Tan）也表达了对融资问题的担忧，他指出资本成本不断上升，同时市场也在质疑那些大举投资AI的企业最终能否获得足够的回报。（财联社）

英特尔与博通两家企业的首席执行官发出警告，资金获取能力或将成为人工智能发展的一大主要约束。博通CEO陈福阳称，全行业都在加紧建设基础设施，支撑复杂度越来越高的AI大模型。相较于半导体、存储芯片或是电力短缺，融资问题可能会成为AI扩张更大的阻碍。“我认为最大的制约因素或许是资本。” 陈福阳周一于新加坡星展亚洲未来前瞻峰会上发言表示。英特尔CEO陈立武也对融资风险表达了相同的担忧。他指出，资本成本持续走高，同时市场也心存疑问：大举投入AI的企业，最终能否创造足够回报。（新浪财经）

This week, two numbers came out of the same region within days of each other, and almost nobody put them side by side. On September 3, Singapore’s central bank committed SG$220 million over three years to fintech and AI infrastructure under a fourth-generation innovation scheme. Around the same time, a Tracxn landscape report showed Southeast […] The post Everyone can build with AI now. Almost nobody can see what’s coming appeared first on e27.

Singapore’s early bet on artificial intelligence could give its economy a modest but meaningful lift as population ageing starts to bite. But the real test will not be how many companies say they use AI. It will be whether they can rebuild work around it. The ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) said in its annual […] The post Singapore’s AI dividend will depend on what happens after the pilot phase appeared first on e27.

MoneyHero Limited is facing a public push from its largest unaffiliated shareholder to consider a sale, as the Singapore-based personal finance platform contends with leadership uncertainty, stalled revenue growth and a sharp fall in its Nasdaq-listed shares. Jonathan Honig, who says he beneficially owns about 9 per cent of MoneyHero’s outstanding Class A ordinary shares, […] The post MoneyHero shareholder urges board to explore sale after stock slump appeared first on e27.

A founder pitched me earlier this year on his semiconductor company. The deck was clean. The market was real. The technology was genuinely differentiated. The Singapore entity was properly incorporated, the cap table looked orderly, and the revenue was growing. Then I asked him three questions. Where does your intellectual property legally sit? Who owns […] The post The cross-border due diligence questions most founders cannot answer appeared first on e27.

When foreign technology companies first speak to me about Singapore, the conversation usually starts with one of three things: customers, talent or tax. Government funding often comes much later. That surprises me because Singapore has a sizeable ecosystem of grants, tax incentives and investment support available to companies building substantive operations here. But there is […] The post What I have learned watching foreign tech companies build in Singapore appeared first on e27.

For years, stablecoins have carried a simple promise: move money globally with the speed of the internet, without the cost and delays of traditional banking rails. The harder question has always been whether they can move from crypto-native circles into regulated, everyday payments. Singapore-based dtcpay is betting that the answer lies not in bypassing the […] The post SBI joins dtcpay’s US$25M round to bridge Japan, SEA stablecoin corridors appeared first on e27.

OpenAI has appointed Sanjay Deshmukh as its first Vice President of Asia Pacific sales, a hire that signals the ChatGPT maker is moving beyond product launches and into the harder work of building an enterprise sales machine across one of its fastest-growing markets. Based in Singapore, Deshmukh will lead OpenAI’s commercial efforts across the region […] The post OpenAI hires former Elastic and Snowflake exec Sanjay Deshmukh to lead Asia Pacific sales appeared first on e27.