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The US market serves as both the backbone and the driving force behind global technological advancements.

What lies beyond familiar frontiers? Investigate emerging tech—like quantum computing and AI—transforming traditional sectors.

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What revolutionizes mealtimes? Investigate alternative proteins, supply chain tracking, and delivery services fueling the future of food.

Food Tech

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Eat Just received the green light from the Singapore Food Agency to sell cultured meat to the masses.

Eat Just re-envisioning the future of plant-based chicken and eggs

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How does finance become frictionless? Examine digital banking, payment innovation, and lending platforms redefining financial access.

Q&amp;A

Oi Yee Choo integrates financial lessons in her daily conversations with her daughters to prepare them for a financially secure future.

Tuning In | Oi Yee Choo, CCO of iStox, teaches her young daughters about financial and career planning

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Emily Fang

Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem is a melting pot of startups and businesses of all sizes, all vying for rapid growth.

How do trustless ledgers transform industries? Investigate decentralized databases, smart contracts, and infrastructure powering secure transactions.

Blockchain

Financial centers like Singapore are in a race to attract new digital money businesses.

Coinbase's IPO is making headlines, but the real crypto action is in Asia

Coinbase&#8217;s IPO is making headlines, but the real crypto action is in Asia

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Georg Ackermann

Grab, a Southeast Asian superapp, provides ride-hailing, food delivery, and mobile payments, connecting millions to on-demand services.

Grab

When do companies invite public investment? Understand listing criteria, underwriter roles, and regulatory steps defining initial offerings.

How do platforms deliver on immediacy? Analyze ride-hailing, instant deliveries, and gig models meeting consumer needs fast.

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What redefines personal transport? Investigate pricing models, user experience, and new entrants reshaping door-to-door mobility.

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Accumulated losses reach USD 10 billion; Singapore company raises Myanmar risk.

Grab CEO takes 60% of voting rights: 5 take-aways from IPO plan

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Once the final close is completed, Openspace will have USD 625 million in committed capital across four investment vehicles.

VC Openspace Ventures expects first close of new fund at USD 100 million

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Why do firms join forces? Investigate synergy goals, valuation methods, and negotiations driving corporate consolidation.

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Grab announced today that it will undergo a SPAC merger with Altimeter Growth Corporation (NASDAQ: AGC) that will place a USD 39.6 billion valuation on the Southeast Asian company.

Grab steers into New York for world's largest SPAC merger

Grab steers into New York for world&#8217;s largest SPAC merger

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What extends a car’s lifecycle beyond the showroom? Investigate spare parts, performance upgrades, and services fueling the secondary automotive market.

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How is the way we move evolving? Explore developments in autonomous transportation, electric vehicles, and more efficient urban transit.

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Singaporean classifieds marketplace Carousell has entered into the online used car marketplace with the launch of its auto sector, which is already accounting for a third of the group’s revenue.The news comes at a time when all eyes are on Carousell, which is on the verge of becoming Southeast Asia's next unicorn after bagging a USD 80 million investment from a consortium led by South Korean tech giant Naver last September. Carousell’s co-founder and CEO Quek Siu Rui told CNBC in an interview last October that the firm is increasing its focus on becoming profitable “in the next three to four years."

Carousell jumps on the automotive e-commerce bandwagon while navigating path to profitability

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Stephanie Li

The Singapore Deep-Tech Alliance, a program powered by Xnode, A*STAR, and NHIC, is looking to develop and grow Singaporean deep tech startups.

Fostering deep tech ventures to achieve environmental sustainability | Q&A with XNode Singapore

Fostering deep tech ventures to achieve environmental sustainability | Q&#038;A with XNode Singapore

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Khamila Mulia

Singapore-based accelerator venture capital firm Accelerating Asia announced the fourth cohort of its flagship 100-day program for pre-Series A startups. The 11 new portfolio companies hail from Singapore, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and cover ten industries.The firm's co-founder and general partner Amra Naidoo said that for this batch, the firm received a record number of applications from 500 startups from 30 countries. "With just 2% of startups selected, the chosen 11 will be part of our largest cohort and are eligible to receive up to SGD 200,000 (USD 149,000) in investment from our VC fund," she said in a statement.

Singapore's Accelerating Asia announces fourth cohort ahead of widened regional reach

Singapore&#8217;s Accelerating Asia announces fourth cohort ahead of widened regional reach

How does automation advance industry? Analyze robotic arms, drones, and AI-driven tools reshaping manufacturing and services.

China

Spirit AI is playing to win in China’s embodied AI race.

Entrepreneurship is like “playing a game,” says Spirit AI co-founder Gao Yang

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How do ideas shape industries? Learn how content, design, and digital artistry influence branding, marketing, and cultural impact.

Creative

What entertains a connected world? Track shifts in film, music, and media consumption, as platforms and audiences redefine cultural experiences.

Entertainment

What sets the world’s soundtrack? Follow streaming royalties, label strategies, and genre shifts guiding the global music industry’s rhythm.

Music

With fans showing up in all weather and at any price, the concert economy is taking center stage in China.

Three hours onstage, and an economy moves: Inside China’s concert boom

Commercialization and global expansion are now central to the humanoid robotics race.

Taking the pulse of China’s humanoid robot push at WRC 2025

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Shi Yi

KrASIA tracks China’s tech and business stories—alongside key developments across the broader Asia Pacific region.