Entrepreneurs

Free AI training and ChatGPT subscriptions for Grab platform workers, merchants to build business ideas

Around 50 female drivers and delivery riders attending the first workshop organised by Grab and OpenAI, as part of a two-year programme that seeks to impart practical AI skills to gig workers and merchants.

Me & My Money

She built wealth through property, then chose to fund a social enterprise

Singapore Fashion Runway CEO Eileen Yap considers the social enterprise, which she founded in 2015, her most valuable asset today.

Femtech start-ups

Stem cells from menstrual blood: Femtech co-founder inspired by girlfriend’s periods

Kyle Lao (left) and Immanuela Indradjaja co-founded MenSC Labs, which utilises stem cells from menstrual blood for regenerative women’s health.

Periods to perimenopause: Femtech start-ups double in Singapore

MenSC Labs (left) and Bosom are among recent homegrown femtech startups in Singapore.

Tastemakers

How a 27-year-old grew a nine-outlet Hokkien mee chain in three years

Mitchell Ong of Shiok Hokkien Mee at his newest outlet in Serangoon Central.

New SUSS initiative to boost student start-ups and social ventures tackling social challenges

Minister for Health and Coordinating Minister for Social Policies Ong Ye Kung trying out virtual bowling at SUSS’ Geronpreneurship Innovation Festival, on Aug 26 at the Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Trend of foreigners leaving Japan may ‘accelerate’ under tighter visa rules

Rules to obtain permanent residency in Japan have also tightened recently.

Grungy to gorgeous: Millennial hotelier rewrites Selegie story with Varel Singapore

Chinese-Indonesian developer Vinson Keefe of the new Varel Singapore hotel comes from a Surabaya business family.

This Singaporean ex-trader built a viral handbag brand in the US. Now she’s ready to bring it home

Joanna Lau’s (left) handbag label Jemma enjoyed some social media virality two years back, when a video from a New Jersey-based micro-influencer reviewing its Emma 39 bag reached 10 million views.

Less than a year old, Aallss is the rising Singaporean handbag brand to watch

Singaporean Alison Lim left her eight-year career in tech to start minimalist handbag label AALLSS.

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