Tuesday, 30 June 2026 · SEA Deal Ticker

SEA Deal Ticker Tue, 30 Jun

Singapore's quiet engine: a merchant-OS turns profitable, a surgical robot heads west.

Singapore's Qashier raises $6.1M Series A+, profitable on $1B annual payment volume — TechNode Global · Permalink

The merchant-OS startup, now profitable across four markets, processes $1B in annualised payments for 20,000-plus merchants in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. Cocoon Capital led the equity-and-debt round.

Positive-sum angle: Cheap, profitable point-of-sale rails let small SEA merchants accept omnichannel payments and embedded finance without ceding margin to Western processors — every corner shop onboarded widens the region's formal-economy base.
Singapore's Biobot Surgical raises $15.5M led by ClavystBio to enter the US market — TechNode Global · Permalink

The surgical-robotics firm raised S$20M from Temasek-backed ClavystBio and ZIG Ventures to scale its Mona Lisa prostate-cancer platform, which has deployed 80-plus systems and treated over 30,000 patients across Europe and Asia.

Positive-sum angle: A homegrown medtech exporting precision prostate diagnostics from Singapore into the US inverts the usual flow — proof that SEA deep-tech can sell hardware into the world's most demanding clinical market.