{"id":13795,"date":"2021-04-05T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/04\/05\/uk-singapore-bond-strengthens-with-launch-of-tech-nation-international-growth-programme\/"},"modified":"2021-04-05T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T03:30:00","slug":"uk-singapore-bond-strengthens-with-launch-of-tech-nation-international-growth-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/04\/05\/uk-singapore-bond-strengthens-with-launch-of-tech-nation-international-growth-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"UK-Singapore Bond Strengthens with launch of Tech Nation International Growth Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>The inaugural Tech Nation International Growth programme is part&#13;<br \/>\nof the UK Government Digital Trade Network<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>12 UK companies forms the first cohort to set up shop in Singapore<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; 5 April 2021 &#8211; 12 UK&#13;<br \/>\ntech scale-ups formally undertake the <i>Tech Nation International Growth&#13;<br \/>\nProgramme <\/i>in Singapore today. The programme, led by Tech Nation, the UK&#13;<br \/>\ntech scale-up experts, is part of the Digital Trade Network, a newly commissioned initiative by the UK Government, to&#13;<br \/>\nassist innovative British&#13;<br \/>\ntech companies access trade and investment opportunities and forge new&#13;<br \/>\ninternational partnerships across Asia Pacific, including Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>This&#13;<br \/>\ninitiative comes as the UK looks to deepen its relationship following the&#13;<br \/>\nUK-Singapore free trade deal signed last year, which has opened more&#13;<br \/>\nopportunities to boost trade and investment between the two countries, the UK&#13;<br \/>\nhas also committed to scoping a\u00a0UK-Singapore\u00a0Digital Economy&#13;<br \/>\nAgreement (DEA), with the aim of launching negotiations in 2021. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Tech Nation is working in collaboration with&#13;<br \/>\nPlug and Play, who will create an in-market entrepreneur network in Singapore&#13;<br \/>\nto help these scale-ups make the leap, as well as the UK Department for&#13;<br \/>\nInternational Trade in Singapore to deliver this international&#13;<br \/>\nprogramme.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The first cohort of&#13;<br \/>\ncompanies from the UK looking to explore new opportunities here includes:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seed&#13;<br \/>\nLegals<\/li>\n<li>Wazoku<\/li>\n<li>Wondrwall<\/li>\n<li>Assuria<\/li>\n<li>Cambridge&#13;<br \/>\nIntelligence<\/li>\n<li>Topolytics<\/li>\n<li>Dataswift<\/li>\n<li>Firefly<\/li>\n<li>Dynamify<\/li>\n<li>Flexciton<\/li>\n<li>BankBI<\/li>\n<li>Everledger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Please refer to&#13;<br \/>\nAnnex A for company profiles.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Talking about the launch of&#13;<br \/>\nthis programme, Gerard Grech, CEO of Tech Nation said: &#8220;Singapore is an&#13;<br \/>\nextremely important partner for the UK tech sector, and a country that shares&#13;<br \/>\nour success in this field. We can&#8217;t wait to see the success that our&#13;<br \/>\nInternational Growth Programme in Singapore, as part of the Digital Trade&#13;<br \/>\nNetwork, brings to both countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>As found in Tech Nation&#8217;s &#8216;Unlocking Global&#13;<br \/>\nTech&#8217; report, for UK companies, Singapore was one of the fastest rising&#13;<br \/>\nglobal opportunities for trade, climbing 5 places in the rankings for global&#13;<br \/>\ntech opportunity between 2019 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>These 12&#13;<br \/>\ndigital tech companies have been selected from Tech Nation&#8217;s network of 800 UK&#13;<br \/>\ntech scale-ups who have been through our growth programmes over the past seven&#13;<br \/>\nyears. The International Growth Programme in Singapore is just a first step for&#13;<br \/>\nTech Nation as we help more UK digital tech companies identify opportunities to&#13;<br \/>\nenter and grow into Southeast Asia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\ntech sector, driven by fast growing tech scale-ups, is already growing six&#13;<br \/>\ntimes faster than the rest of the UK economy combined \u2013 the UK tech start-up&#13;<br \/>\nand scale-up ecosystem is valued at almost $600bn and the UK has produced 80&#13;<br \/>\nunicorns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Thinking&#13;<br \/>\nglobally is now vital for UK tech and Tech Nation. 80% of our latest Upscale&#13;<br \/>\ncohort cited international expansion as their number one challenge, so this&#13;<br \/>\nInternational Programme in Singapore is key to the next stage of growth for UK&#13;<br \/>\ntech.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Sam Myers,&#13;<br \/>\nHer Majesty&#8217;s Trade Commissioner for Asia Pacific at the UK Government&#13;<br \/>\nDepartment for International Trade said: &#8220;The launch of the first Tech Nation&#13;<br \/>\nInternational Growth Programme for UK tech scale-ups in Asia Pacific highlights&#13;<br \/>\nthe importance of Singapore and the wider region for the UK&#8217;s future. This is&#13;<br \/>\nyet another way Singapore and the UK can continue to collaborate in the digital&#13;<br \/>\neconomy. Collective action with our partners will be vitally important to&#13;<br \/>\naddress global challenges and harness the benefits of the digital age.&#8221;<i\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>This week&#13;<br \/>\nalso sees the selection of the first cohorts of the Digital Trade Network&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nInternational Growth Programme in Australia, Japan and South Korea. Due to&#13;<br \/>\noverwhelming interest from UK tech companies in Asia Pacific, Tech Nation is&#13;<br \/>\nalso providing a series of webinars, bootcamps and interactive workshops over&#13;<br \/>\nthe next few months to support UK tech scale-ups looking to grow their&#13;<br \/>\nbusinesses into this region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Tech Nation will continue to work closely with the UK&#13;<br \/>\ngovernment to help more UK tech companies enter new markets like Singapore,&#13;<br \/>\nwhile also providing links for Singapore&#8217;s businesses into tech clusters across&#13;<br \/>\nthe UK.<\/p>\n<p><b>Annex A<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Seed Legals<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>At SeedLegals, we make&#13;<br \/>\nit super easy for startups to raise investment and manage company equity \u2014 all&#13;<br \/>\nat a fraction of the cost of traditional service providers. No paper. No law&#13;<br \/>\nfirms. No accountants. Everything&#8217;s done digitally on our platform. We launched&#13;<br \/>\nin 2016 as the world&#8217;s first (and remain the world&#8217;s only) automated legal&#13;<br \/>\nservice for funding rounds and today we are the largest closer of funding&#13;<br \/>\nrounds in the UK. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/seedlegals.com\/\">https:\/\/seedlegals.com\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Wazoku<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>We are an innovative SaaS business&#13;<br \/>\nhelping to change the world one idea at time. We are the global home for all&#13;<br \/>\nideas, giving a voice and role to everyone in the innovation process. Read more&#13;<br \/>\nat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wazoku.com\/\">https:\/\/www.wazoku.com\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Wondrwall<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Wondrwall is technology&#13;<br \/>\ncompany dedicated to changing the way we live and how we use energy. Combining&#13;<br \/>\nintelligent AI powered home automation, clean energy production and super&#13;<br \/>\nefficient heating systems, our solution helps the worlds homes, save money,&#13;<br \/>\ntime and the environment. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wondrwall.co.uk\/\">https:\/\/wondrwall.co.uk\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Assuria<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Assuria provides trusted cyber&#13;<br \/>\nsecurity software solutions and managed security services that power Security&#13;<br \/>\nOperations Centres, IT Protective Monitoring services and IT Assurance services&#13;<br \/>\nin more than 20 countries worldwide. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/assuria.com\/\">https:\/\/assuria.com\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Cambridge Intelligence<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Cambridge Intelligence build data&#13;<br \/>\nvisualization tools that make the world a safer place. From law enforcement to&#13;<br \/>\ncyber security and fraud detection, we work with organizations around the&#13;<br \/>\nglobe. Every day, thousands of analysts rely on our software to &#8216;join the dots&#8217;&#13;<br \/>\nin data and uncover hidden threats. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/cambridge-intelligence.com\/\">https:\/\/cambridge-intelligence.com\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Topolytics<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Topolytics, based in&#13;<br \/>\nEdinburgh, is a data analytics business that is making the world&#8217;s waste&#13;<br \/>\nvisible, verifiable and valuable. The company&#8217;s analytics platform WasteMap\u00ae&#13;<br \/>\ningests detailed data on commercial, industrial and post-consumer waste from&#13;<br \/>\nmany sources to generate actionable insights for waste producers, the waste&#13;<br \/>\nindustry, investors and regulators. WasteMap\u00ae applies machine learning and&#13;<br \/>\ngeospatial analytics to overcome the inaccuracies and data vacuums that&#13;<br \/>\ncurrently hinder greater resource recovery globally. Topolytics is acknowledged&#13;<br \/>\nby Cleantech Group, IDC, Frost &amp; Sullivan, SAP and Google Cloud as a&#13;<br \/>\nleading AI and analytics player in the \u20ac2Bn &#8216;waste tech&#8217; sector. WasteMap\u00ae is&#13;<br \/>\nat the centre of the UK Government&#8217;s prototype system that will digitally track&#13;<br \/>\nall the UK&#8217;s waste. The company is building an international ecosystem of&#13;<br \/>\ncustomers and data partners. Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topolytics.com\/\">http:\/\/www.topolytics.com\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Dataswift<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Infrastructure for&#13;<br \/>\npersonal data access, storage, and portability. Dataswift liberates the value&#13;<br \/>\nof personal data. Untethering it from central silos and distributing it to&#13;<br \/>\nindividual Personal Data Accounts. Fully owned, fully accessible, fully&#13;<br \/>\npermissible. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataswift.io\/\">https:\/\/www.dataswift.io\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Firefly<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Firefly is the platform&#13;<br \/>\nfor parent engagement and learning continuity. Every day, we connect schools&#13;<br \/>\nand homes, extending school life beyond the classroom. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflylearning.com\/\">https:\/\/fireflylearning.com\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Dynamify<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Dynamify is an omnichannel food&#13;<br \/>\nordering platform, white-labelled by the world&#8217;s largest contract caterers who&#13;<br \/>\ndeploy the plug and play technology in their own branding within&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;off-the-high-street&#8221; restaurants (workplaces, universities and schools,&#13;<br \/>\nhospitals, venues, and airport lounges). Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/dynamify.com\/\">https:\/\/dynamify.com\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Flexciton<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Flexciton is an award-winning company&#13;<br \/>\nthat uses cutting edge technology to optimize the planning and scheduling&#13;<br \/>\ndecisions for the world&#8217;s most complex manufacturing plants &#8211; semiconductor&#13;<br \/>\nwafer fabs. Flexciton&#8217;s mission is to apply cutting-edge technology to industrial&#13;<br \/>\ndata to make industrial efficiency improvements that would be impossible for a&#13;<br \/>\nhuman to do on their own. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flexciton.com\/\">https:\/\/www.flexciton.com\/<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>BankBI<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>BankBI&#13;<br \/>\nis a cloud based out of the box financial performance management application&#13;<br \/>\ndelivered via a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model. Available on&#13;<br \/>\nany device, anytime and anywhere, BankBI offers senior management in banks,&#13;<br \/>\ncredit unions and the microfinance industry the chance to measure, monitor and&#13;<br \/>\nmanage their business in real time using industry standard ratios and&#13;<br \/>\ndashboards. Based around the integration of a minimum data set, BankBI delivers&#13;<br \/>\nrapid time to value and a guaranteed successful project outcome often not&#13;<br \/>\nachievable from traditional business intelligence and data warehousing&#13;<br \/>\nprojects. Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankbi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.bankbi.com\/<\/a> <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u200b<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Everledger<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Everledger is the digital&#13;<br \/>\ntransparency company. We develop technology to create a secure and permanent&#13;<br \/>\ndigital record of an asset&#8217;s origin, characteristics and ownership on the&#13;<br \/>\nblockchain. This transparency helps industries respond to growing expectations&#13;<br \/>\nfor sustainable, verifiable sourcing. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.everledger.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.everledger.io\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>About Plug&#13;<br \/>\nand Play<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Plug and Play&#13;<br \/>\nis a global innovation platform. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we have built accelerator programs, corporate innovation services and an in-house VC to make&#13;<br \/>\ntechnological\u00a0advancement progress faster than ever before. Since inception in 2006, our&#13;<br \/>\nprograms have expanded worldwide to include a presence in over 30 locations&#13;<br \/>\nwith over 450 official corporate partners. Companies in our community have&#13;<br \/>\nraised over $97 billion in funding, with successful portfolio exits including&#13;<br \/>\nDanger, Dropbox, N26, Rappi and PayPal. For more information, visit\u00a0https:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plugandplaytechcenter.com\/asia-pacific\/\">\/\/www.plugandplaytechcenter.com\/asia-pacific\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-04-05\/71764\/uk-singapore-bond-strengthens-with-launch-of-tech-nation-international-growth-programme\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inaugural Tech Nation International Growth programme is part&#13; of the UK Government Digital Trade Network 12 UK companies forms the first cohort to set up shop in Singapore SINGAPORE &#8211; Media OutReach &#8211; 5 April 2021 &#8211; 12 UK&#13; tech scale-ups formally undertake the Tech Nation International Growth&#13; Programme in Singapore today. The programme, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}