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Singtel

5 CÈ pieces since 1 May 2026: 2 deals, 3 essays. Newest first. All companies →

  1. Deal

    A Japanese bank buys into the paperwork layer: SMBC and Singtel Innov8 back fileAI

    SMBC Asia Rising Fund and Singtel Innov8 invested an undisclosed sum in the Singapore document-automation firm, which has processed more than one billion files and raised about $20 million to date.

  2. Deal

    AI spend moves to the edge: Singapore's Whale adds $40M, taking its Series C to $100M

    CMB International and SMBC Asia Rising Fund led the extension, with Singtel Innov8, Hyundai Motor Group and Krungsri Finnovate joining. Whale manages 600,000 edge AI nodes for 1,600 enterprise customers across 45 countries.

  3. Essay

    Two apps, one landlord (the merger might even help you, briefly)

    Grab’s roughly US$7 billion move on GoTo is being read as a stock story and an antitrust story. For the merchant on the platform, it is a story about who owns the channel.

  4. Essay

    Malaysia is becoming a jurisdiction. The question is which kind.

    Microsoft's $2.2 billion AI commitment to Malaysia is past the half-time mark. The certifications are the visible part of the deal. The data centres are the load-bearing part. Only one wins the strategic ledger.

  5. Essay

    Mistral's biggest SEA deployment skips the consumer market entirely.

    Singtel and Mistral announced their AI-compute partnership at DC Tuas this week. The deployment targets Singapore's banks, government, healthcare, and telco workloads. The geography is the deal.