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Six Norwegian early-stage businesses returned victorious to Norway today from the Tech Incubator (TINC Asia) program operated by Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI) and Innovation Norway. An intense three weeks of mentoring and meetings ended with a string of achievements including two of the visiting businesses securing in-principle investment offers totaling SGD4m (USD3m), two Norwegian…

Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI) announced today that it is investing SGD350,000 (USD250,000) into seven new startup businesses joining its JFDI Accelerate program this week. Every startup already has products and prototypes ready for customers and all now seek seed funding and a pathway to growth through the accelerator program. JFDI has invested SGD50,000 into…

Six high-growth early-stage businesses from Norway arrived in Singapore today to start the Tech Incubator (TINC Asia) program operated by Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI) working in partnership with Innovation Norway. TINC Asia offers an intense 3-week mentoring experience that will help the teams align and connect their businesses with Asian markets for distribution and…

UBS announced this week that JFDI is joining an international network of partners seeking great early-stage FinTech businesses for the UBS Future of Finance Challenge, an open competition for entrepreneurs and technology startups around the world. UBS is looking for innovative and potentially disruptive technological ideas and solutions that will support the transformation of the banking industry….

JFDI and Medical Innovations Incubator GmbH (MII) today announced a collaboration to adapt the accelerator insights and management processes developed by JFDI in Singapore to MII’s new MedTech programs in Tübingen, Germany. The aim is to short-cut the learning curve for MII’s team as they set up startup bootcamps and an accelerator which are the…

JFDI.Asia announced today that the generous financial support from ISIF Asia will allow 60 additional startup business teams to join the JFDI Discover pre-accelerator program. Singapore, 3 August 2015— JFDI.Asia announced today that generous financial support from the Information Society Innovation Fund (ISIF) will allow 60 additional startup business teams to join the JFDI Discover…

It’s Demo Day for JFDI Accelerate 2015A! 9 of our newest startup teams pitchied today to the most active early-stage investors in Southeast Asia JFDI Accelerate 2015A teams Today we gave our 9 newest startup teams a platform to pitch to an invitation-only audience of South East Asia’s most active early-stage investors. The teams are…

Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI) today announced that applications are open for its next 100 day startup accelerator program to start in August. Teams accepted to enter the program will receive an immediate SGD50k (USD37k) commitment for a fixed 8.88% equity stake, double the investment that JFDI has previously offered, with the promise of an…

Singapore, 20 April 2015—Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI.Asia Pte Ltd) today revealed details of the 12 Singapore-based startup businesses joining its sixth 100-day accelerator program. The latest cohort are all Business-to-Consumer (B2C) companies whose customer insights will inform JFDI’s focus on the urban middle class of Asia. The new teams come from countries as diverse…