Media Releases

• Temasek Foundation launches the Asian Young Leaders for Climate and the Environment (AYLCE) programme for young leaders across Asia to trailblaze sustainable change with US$1,000 in seed funding per project and mentorship support.
• American Express launches its newly revitalised American Express Leadership Academy in Asia

Challenge launched at Cities: Possibilities convened leaders and decision-makers across government, financial institutions and the venture capital sector to discuss what needs to be done to achieve an ambitious outcome critical to avoiding the most extreme impacts of climate change

• 5th Sustainability Open Innovation Challenge (SOIC) by Enterprise Singapore to catalyse co-innovation between industry players and promising startups and small-and-medium enterprises in the sustainability space
  
• New partnerships with Temasek Trust ecosystem entities – the Centre for Impact Investing and Practices (CIIP), Philanthropy Asia Alliance (PAA), and Temasek Foundation – to drive co-innovation between corporates and SMEs, and accelerate growth of high-impact startups to address urgent sustainable development challenges
  
• Launch of call for applications by promising impact innovators for Amplifier programme by CIIP and PAA at SWITCH

Winning projects to be guided by the newly established Centre for Healthcare Innovation Evaluation Framework (CHIEF) designed to accelerate adoption of innovations

• East Ventures and Temasek Foundation, through Climate Impact Innovations Challenge (CIIC) 2023, have granted a total of IDR 10 billion of grant funding to four winners of CIIC 2023.
• The four winners were selected out of 12 finalists who competed in CIIC 2023 Grand Finale, which was held on 2 September 2023 as the sideline event of ASEAN Business and Investment Summit 2023, in conjunction with ASEAN Indonesia 2023.
• The winners include AfterOil, BANIQL, Qarbotech, and Waste4Change who won a total of IDR 10 billion prize pool. Additional investment from Rumah Group and Telkomsel Mitra Inovasi were given to selected finalists.

Celebrating diversity amongst 130 youth sport leaders across Southeast Asia countries

• The new $100 million endowment is named in honour of the late Richard Magnus, a dedicated leader and public servant of Singapore
• It seeks to pilot innovative and scalable care models that can address health and psycho-social needs of mothers and children, which will ultimately benefit society-at-large