Every day, several startups are established in Singapore.
Many fail because they didn’t take note of what other businesses that have succeeded in rising above have learned.
This list of 243 well-known and rapidly expanding Singaporean businesses that attracted investors was just released.
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1) Carro

Carro is an online marketplace for secondhand cars that offers a range of car-buying services.
Information about the launch:
Region: Central State
Location: Singapore
commenced in 2015
Founders: Kelvin Chng, Aditya Lesmana, and Aaron Tan; Industries: Marketplace, Direct Sales, Automotive, and E-Commerce Platforms
Employee count: 251–500
Financed with $589,516,000
Eight funding rounds
There are 26 investors (SoftBank, B Capital Group, Insignia Ventures Partners, EDBI, and Endeavour Catalyst).
2) Nium

The global payments network Nium is transforming the ways in which people and businesses may send, use, and receive money around the world.
Information about the launch:
Region: Central State
Location: Singapore
commenced in 2015
Founders: Prajit Nanu and Michael Bermingham
Sectors: Payments, FinTech, Finance, and Financial Services
Employee count: 251–500
Financed: Eighty Million Dollars
Six funding rounds
Sixteen investors (including Visa, Temasek Holdings, MDI Ventures, Vertex Ventures, and ripple)
3) PropertyGuru Group

PropertyGuru Group is an online real estate company that oversees listings for both rentals and sales.
Information about the launch:
Region: Central State
Location: Singapore
Started in: 2006
Entrepreneurs: Steve Melhuish and Jani Rautiainen Industries: Real estate, rental property, online portals, mobile applications, and e-commerce
Employee count: 501–1000
Financed by SGD $740,000,000
Six funding rounds
Nine investors: Square Peg Capital, Eudaimonia Capital, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Emtek Group, and TPG.
4) Moglix

Moglix is an online store selling commercial and industrial products.
Information about the launch:
Region: Central State
Location: Singapore
commenced in 2015
Founders: Garg, Rahul
Sectors: B2B, Marketplace, E-Commerce, Mobile
Employee count: 501–1000
Financed by $222,208,452
Seven funding rounds
18 investors: Accel, Sequoia Capital India, Bessemer Venture Partners, Tiger Global Management, International Finance Corporation
5) OSOME

Online accounting services are offered to small and medium-sized businesses by OSOME, a digital business assistant.
Information about the launch:
Region: Central State
Location: Singapore
commenced in 2017
Founders: Victor Lysenko and Konstantin Lange
Sectors: FinTech, Small and Medium Enterprises, E-Commerce, Accounting, Software
Employee count: 251–500
$24,500,000 in funding
Four funding rounds
Nine investors (Peng T. Ong, ACE & Company, Phystech Ventures, AltaIR Capital, Target Global)
6) Altonomy

Altonomy specialises on asset management, trading, and consulting for bitcoin and other digital assets.
Information about the launch:
Region: Central State
Location: Singapore
commenced in 2018
Founders: Ricky Li and Bo Dong; Industries: FinTech, Financial Services, and Cryptocurrency
Employee count: 11–50
Financed: $7,000,000
Funding cycles: one
Two investors (Polychain, seven blocks)
7) MatchMove Pay

Financial technology company MatchMove Pay focuses on business payments.
Information about the launch:
Region: Central State
Location: Singapore
started in 2009
Founders: Shailesh Naik and Hsueh Huah Leow
Sectors: Information Technology, FinTech, Cloud Computing, E-Commerce, and Payments
Employee count: 101–250
Financed with $183,376,000
11 funding rounds
NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Vickers Venture Partners, Credit Saison, NTT Venture Capital, and Nityo Infotech Services are the nine investors.
8) Zenyum

Zenyum is a smiling cosmetics firm that creates experiences and goods to make people smile throughout Asia by providing them with access to professional dental care wherever they are at any time.
Information about the launch:
Region: Central State
Location: Singapore
commenced in 2018
Founders: Julian Artopé and Frederik Krass
Dental, health care, and medical industries
Employee count: 11–50
Financed at $55,100,000
Three funding rounds
Eleven investors (including Partech, Sequoia Capital India, RTP Global, Tekton Ventures, and Surge)
9) Thunes

With Thunes’ extensive international cross-border payment network, you can transfer money in 60 different currencies to more than 100 countries.
Information about the launch:
Region: Central State
Location: Singapore
commenced in: 2016
Sectors: FinTech, Mobile Payments, Financial Services, Payments
Employee count: 101–250
$130,000 in funding
Three funding rounds
Five investors: Future Shape, Helios Investment Partners, GGV Capital, Insight Partners, and Checkout.com
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10) Trax

Retail technology provider Trax provides data science solutions, market evaluation services, and in-store execution tools.
Information about the launch:
Region: Central State
Location: Singapore
commenced in 2010
Dror Feldheim and Joel Bar-El were the founders. The industries they worked in were analytics, AI, computer vision, e-commerce, image recognition, and retail technology.
Employee count: 1001–5000
Financed with $1,026,900,000
Financing cycles: ten
Ten investors: Warburg Pincus, Investec, BlackRock, SoftBank Vision Fund, and Sony Innovation Fund





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