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Businesses were also concerned about the availability of suitable manpower, as well as the need to transform and pivot towards new growth areas.
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80% of companies flag rising costs as top concern amid global uncertainty: SCCCI survey

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Clockwise from top left: The founders of ImmunoQs, AI Seer and DancingMind. All three startups are based at JTC Corp’s LaunchPad @ one-north.
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With tech for fact-checking to cancer care, Singapore startups aim beyond home 

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Singapore is positioning itself as the trusted hub for deploying high-impact, real-world AI solutions.
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From launch pad to global stage: How entrepreneurship will shape Singapore’s next economic chapter

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Dominik Braun, CEO of Antomation, is seeking to patent his company’s extendable roller system that can stow and retrieve luggage in airliners.
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This Singapore startup wants to solve airplane baggage ‘Tetris’ with a snake-like, AI-powered system

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The Al Faisaliah Tower in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Some businesses have begun to slow their roll in the Middle East as the war drags on.
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Singapore’s SMEs are staying nimble to sustain business in the Middle East

2026-07-23T04:00:00.000Z
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OCBC’s Eric Ong says SMEs are now more adaptable and resilient, having learnt to build up more buffers and diversify their supply chains.
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Singapore SMEs increasingly ‘immune to uncertainty’ after years of volatility: OCBC executive

2026-07-15T08:00:41.000Z
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Co-founders Eric Chan (left) and Benjamin Lee made a decision to focus on Sarnies' expansion into Thailand, which now accounts for 80% of the group's revenue.
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From a cafe in Telok Ayer to 12 F&B outlets in Bangkok, Sarnies banks on Thailand for growth

2026-07-15T03:00:00.000Z
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Automating coordination is the beginning, not the destination. What a business owner does with that newly freed capacity is what separates an heir from a refounder.
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Be a refounder, not an heir to the family business

2026-07-08T21:00:00.000Z
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Founder and CEO Trixie Khong at By Invite Only’s newly opened flagship store in Raffles City.
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Jewellery brand By Invite Only sets its sights beyond Singapore after 17 years at home

2026-07-08T03:00:00.000Z
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Ranking on Google and being quoted by an AI answer engine turn out to be two different achievements. The second one runs on rules almost nobody has been told.
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Singapore’s SMEs are winning at Google, losing at AI

2026-08-07T04:00:00.000Z
Singapore SMEsArtificial Intelligence
Transport Minister Jeffrey Siow says the Singaporean economic model – which supports SMEs while attracting MNCs – “has delivered for generation after generation of Singaporeans”.
Economy & Policy

Local, global firms both needed for Singapore’s economic success, ministers say

2026-08-05T14:19:25.000Z
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SBF’s head Mark Lee says that if the organisation wants to continue to do good work, it needs to be a “business-building institution” and not just a representative body.
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‘Come to us first’, new SBF chairman Mark Lee tells businesses seeking help

2026-08-05T05:24:09.000Z
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Dominik Braun, CEO of Antomation, is seeking to patent his company’s extendable roller system that can stow and retrieve luggage in airliners.
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This Singapore startup wants to solve airplane baggage ‘Tetris’ with a snake-like, AI-powered system

2026-07-29T04:00:00.000Z
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