by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Singapore Company Stories, Tech Unicorns & Platform Giants
⚡ TL;DRSingapore hosts a dense cluster of financial technology companies that reached billion-dollar valuations, spanning cross-border payments, digital goods payments, buy-now-pay-later lending, insurance technology and business banking. Most serve regional or...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Singapore Company Stories, Tech Unicorns & Platform Giants
⚡ TL;DRRazer was founded in 2005 to make gaming peripherals for serious players, built a global brand around a distinctive design language and community, listed in Hong Kong in 2017, and was taken private in 2022 by its founder with private equity backing after...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Singapore Company Stories, Tech Unicorns & Platform Giants
⚡ TL;DRGrab started in 2012 as a Malaysian taxi-booking app, moved its headquarters to Singapore, absorbed Uber’s Southeast Asian business in 2018, and listed through the largest SPAC merger ever completed. It now operates mobility, deliveries and...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Singapore Company Stories, Tech Unicorns & Platform Giants
⚡ TL;DRSea Limited began in 2009 as Garena, a game distributor, and became Southeast Asia’s largest internet company by adding Shopee in e-commerce and a digital financial services arm. Its share price rose spectacularly, collapsed almost as fast in 2022,...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Aviation, Shipping & Logistics, Singapore Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRSingapore is the world’s largest bunkering port, one of the largest ship registries, and the base for thousands of maritime companies covering finance, insurance, broking, arbitration and technical management. The maritime cluster contributes a...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 2, 2026 | Aviation, Shipping & Logistics, Singapore Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRNeptune Orient Lines was Singapore’s national shipping line, founded in 1968 and later owner of the American container carrier APL. After years of losses in a brutally cyclical industry, Temasek sold it to France’s CMA CGM in 2016, one of the...
