Published August 4, 2021, 3:50 PM
Huawei Spark
Huawei announced its plan to invest US$100 million in startup support at the inaugural HUAWEI CLOUD Spark Founders Summit, which took place simultaneously in Singapore and Hong Kong. Huawei said the investment would go towards its Spark Program in Asia Pacific region including the Philippines, which aims to build a sustainable startup ecosystem over the next three years.
Huawei has been helping Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Thailand build their startup hubs. At the summit, Huawei also announced the Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam, as four additional startup hubs – in with the overarching aim of recruiting a total of 1,000 startups into the Spark accelerator program and shaping 100 of them into scaleups.
Huawei to invest US$100 million in Asia Pacific startup ecosystem over 3 years Aug 03, 2021
[Singapore/Hong Kong, August 3, 2021] Huawei announced its plan to invest US$100 million in startup support at the inaugural HUAWEI CLOUD Spark Founders Summit, which took place simultaneously in Singapore and Hong Kong. Huawei said the investment would go towards its Spark Program in the Asia Pacific region, which aims to build a sustainable startup ecosystem for the region over the next three years. Huawei has been helping Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Thailand build their startup hubs. At the summit, Huawei also announced that this program would focus its efforts on developing four additional startup hubs – in Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam – with the overarching aim of recruiting a total of 1,000 startups into the Spark accelerator program and shaping 100 of them into scaleups.
Singapore’s Accredify hooks up with IBM in digital health play
Singapore’s Accredify hooks up with IBM in digital health play
The deal with IBM is a precursor to the extension of the company s Digital Health Passport solution beyond Singapore and into the broader Asia Pacific region Credit: Dreamstime
Singapore-headquartered document lifecycle management software vendor Accredify has struck a deal with IBM to integrate the latter’s Digital Health Pass into the Accredify Digital Health Passport offering.
Accredify’s Digital Health Passport was created in partnership with SGInnovate at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic when Singapore’s migrant workers started to become infected. The Digital Health Passport solution was used to assist in the issuance of verifiable COVID-19 discharge memos to the affected workers in July 2020.