In early 2018, Yujun Chean and Prateek Jogani were selling car insurance with a cashback twist. Their Singapore startup, Vouch Insurtech, had just raised SGD1 million (then US$755,000) in seed funding...

Singapore’s war on scams has mostly been fought far from the victim: in police operations centres, bank back offices and, more recently, in rulebooks telling platforms what they must block. Now the ci...

When the Ministry of Trade and Industry raised Singapore’s 2026 growth forecast in August, most of the founders I talk to read it the way the headlines invited them to, as good news for everyone. The ...

Picture a Singapore account manager answering a Slack message at 10.47 pm, ninety seconds after it lands. Her manager did not ask for a reply tonight. Nobody will remember tomorrow that she gave one. ...

Bitcoin rose 0.89 per cent to US$83,264.98 over the past 24 hours, a gain that looks modest when set beside the 1.12 per cent increase in the total crypto market cap. This relationship matters. The la...

What would you do with a 100Gbps home internet?...

Bangkok-based financial health platform Salary Hero has raised US$7.6 million in a Series A round of investment led by Cento Ventures, with Malaysia’s Kairous Capital and M Venture Partners participat...

Longevity is having a moment. In the US, people pay up to US$2,499 for a full-body MRI and hundreds of dollars a month for peptide protocols, mostly out of pocket. In the Philippines, the picture is v...

This caps a dramatic rebound for the firm that months ago was among the S&P 500 Index’s worst performers...

There is a particular kind of Southeast Asian optimism that treats Singapore like a geopolitical airlock. Walk in from Beijing or Shenzhen, shut the door behind you, register a Pte Ltd, and the pressu...