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Singapore is a model for innovation and another great example of a relatively small country that massively over-performs. The country has become a location of choice for the incorporation of startups operating in Asia due to its financial stability, pro-business approach, and tax policies. Because Singapore has a small market and population, its ecosystem’s growth depends on scaling overseas. This aspect gives the ecosystem a unique regional perspective from the start. Attesting to this is the nation’s success in producing billion dollar valuations. The dominance of companies like Grab is a great example of how Singapore is becoming the headquarters of activities for leading regional startups. ==read-more==
 The Singapore ecosystem boasts a growing number of accelerators and support networks. For instance, [Enterprise Singapore](https://www.enterprisesg.gov.sg/) has accelerator programs that allow early stage startups to access financial aid and business loans, while initiatives such as [Startup SG](https://www.startupsg.gov.sg/) focus on promoting Singapore’s startup ecosystem. The country also has a strong digital infrastructure and plenty of investment sources. On top of this, the country’s universities are involved in the startup scene, not only by training a highly qualified workforce for the R&D sector, but also in connecting programs to startups and encouraging entrepreneurship on campuses. 
 Singapore’s public sector is highly supportive of the startup ecosystem, but the country should be careful not to turn this support into a dependency. Moreover, attracting talent and maintaining competitiveness on a global scale should also be focal points for Singapore which is rapidly replacing Hong Kong as the favorite Gateway to Asia. Some challenges are still evident: high real estate prices make it harder to attract non established foreign talent, and there is a general risk averseness in the local population. 
Initiatives such as the [Entrepreneur Pass](https://www.mom.gov.sg/passes-and-permits/entrepass) (EntrePass) could become instrumental in keeping up with the high demand for a qualified workforce. Considering the country's stability and infrastructure, it is only natural for Singapore to make the next big leap from its leading role in Asia to become a truly global startup ecosystem.

Singapore

Tribe Accelerator

The FinLab

JTC LaunchPad

Spacemob

WorkCentral

Startup SG

Enterprise Singapore

Glints

Sea (Garena)

LingoAce

Explore the Startup Ecosystem of Singapore City and compare its rankings to thousands of locations across 12 industries

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Group ONE Holdings (ONE) is a global sports media platform with a broadcast to 150+ countries around the world.


Matrixport is Asia&rsquo; fastest growing one-stop digital asset financial services platform. With $10 billion in assets under management and custody, it provides one-stop crypto financial services with over $5 billion in average monthly trading volumes.

Matrixport

HyalRoute provides shared communication fiber network and offers access to international connectivity capabilities and value-added services.


HyalRoute

Carro is an automotive marketplace that offers a full-stack service for all aspects of car ownership. By offering a trustworthy and transparent experience, Carro challenges the traditional way of buying and selling cars through a proprietary pricing algorithm.

Carro

Bolttech is an InsurTech company developing an AI-based point of sale insurance platform for protection and insurance.

Bolttech

Advance Intelligence Group is an Al-driven technology company.

Advance Intelligence Group

Nium is a fintech startup that provides digital international money transfer services to individuals and businesses.

Nium

PatSnap is an IP Intelligence Platform providing a patent search and analysis tool that allows users to understand and utilize global patent information, from which they can obtain valuable insights to drive their technological innovation.

PatSnap

We provide a more accurate, consistent and reliable way to understand how consumer goods are performing in the marketplace, in real time.

Trax

Emeritus is an edtech company that partners with U.S. and European universities to provide online courses to working professionals globally

Emeritus

Moglix isan Asia-based B2B commerce company intensively inclined towards B2B procurement of industrial supplies, in particular, MRO, Safety, Electrical &amp; Lighting, Cleaning &amp; Laundry Supplies, Office Supplies, Tools and many more industry essentials. 

Moglix

Carousell is a classifieds marketplace that allows people to buy and sell preloved items.


Carousell

Coda Payments helps digital content providers monetize their products and services in more than forty markets.

Coda Payments

With a focus on e-commerce, we provide businesses with innovative technology-based solutions to optimise their logistics and achieve their business needs.

Ninja Van

Sea, formerly Garena, a leading internet platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan.

Razer is the world leader in high-performance gaming hardware, software and systems. We live by our motto: For Gamers. By Gamers.

Razer

The world's no.1 entrepreneur education platform

GeniusU

The World's No 1 Entrepreneur Education Group

Genius Group 

PropertyGuru Group is an online property company that operates rental and sale listing sites.

PropertyGuru Group

BIGO is a fast-growing Singapore technology company specialising in AI technology.


BIGO

Glints is Southeast Asia’s largest talent platform for career development and recruitment. Founded in 2013 in Singapore, Glints has empowered more than 1.5 million professionals and 30,000 organizations to realize their human potential.

Sea is the leading consumer internet company in Southeast Asia and Taiwan. Our mission is to better the lives of the consumers and small businesses of our region with technology.

LingoAce is an overseas Chinese online education platform.

ONE Championship is a sports media company.

ONE Championship

RedDoorz is transforming affordable accommodation in South East Asia through Tech

RedDoorz

ShopBack is a digital loyalty and discovery platform e-commerce company offering a smarter way to shop.

ShopBack

BandLab is a free, all-in-one (iOS, Android and web), cloud-based social platform that simplifies the process of making music. Its global community of musicians and fans work to create and collaborate on music, which can be shared across the global community.

BandLab

Airalo is an eSIM store for travelers to access eSIMs at a local and affordable rate.

Airalo

Circles.Life is a digital telecommunications and lifestyle services provider, with presence in Singapore, Australia, India and Taiwan.

Circles.Life

Deskera is a cloud-based business software provider of Integrated Business Applications as a Service (BAaaS).

Deskera

Bitget is a cryptocurrency derivatices trading platform, who supports spot trading and futures trading, with comprehensive features

bitget.com

MyRepublic is a telecom company that provides internet access and broadband-based services to consumers and businesses in Singapore.

MyRepublic

Deepening financial inclusion by providing digital access to high quality, wealth generating assets for the mass market in South East Asia.

Zipmex

Singapore Life is reshaping finance to unlock the potential of money for everyone.

Singapore Life

Atome is a leading ''buy now, pay later'' brand that splits consumers' bills into three equal, zero interest payments over time.

Atome

Multiplier is a leading global employment platform that makes it easy for companies to employ teams internationally. Its proprietary technology simplifies the employment process by managing the complexities of local compliance, labour contracts, payroll, benefits, and taxes.

Multiplier

The largest D2C tech-enabled womenswear brand in Asia with the mission to be the most thoughtful brand for the Modern Asian Woman.

Love, Bonito

TONIK is a digital bank that provides retail financial products, including savings deposits, loans, current accounts, payments, and cards.

TONIK

Osome provides accounting, bookkeeping, company registration, and other admin services, all available in their cloud platform on desktops or via an app.

Osome

Founded with a passion for new mobility Beam is focused on expanding transportation options in Asia beginning with escooters. As Asian cities continue to grow Beam will allow urban residents to take ownership of their transportation options.  

A Beam trip allows you to move efficiently, reduce your environmental footprint and go from here to there. How you want and when you want.

Beam

Secretlab is a Singaporean gaming chair manufacturing company that was founded in 2014

Secretlab

Provides a conducive operating environment for innovative seed stage media-related startups to be nurtured into high growth high tech coys.

The Mediapreneur incubator programme

Aspire is an all-in-one finance operating system for growing businesses in SouthEast Asia. Its portfolio of services now includes business accounts for cross-border businesses, corporate cards, and automated invoice processing, all of which are connected to financial management software.

Aspire

At Oddle, we want to power each and every F&B establishment with technology and fuel their growth. We connect the dots by connecting food makers & food lovers.


Oddle

Near, the world&rsquo;s largest source of intelligence on People, Places, and Products, is the global leader in Data Intelligence.

Near

Atlan is a data democratization company that helps data teams collaborate frictionlessly.

Singapore City Startup Ecosystem Comparative Analysis

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