China Building Financial institution Singapore partnered with NUS Enterprise for the primary time to help 22 startups on the Singapore Fintech Competition 2025, with funding offered via the CCB SG Imaginative and prescient Basis.
The collaboration was facilitated by Temasek Belief’s TT Basis Advisors, its philanthropy advisory arm, and Co-Axis, its digital affect market.
It additionally builds on CCB Singapore’s work with Gprnt, the Financial Authority of Singapore’s sustainability reporting platform.
CCB Singapore signed a Assertion of Intent with Gprnt in April 2024 to help SME decarbonisation and transition financing.
The startups have been chosen from NUS Enterprise’s ecosystem, together with BLOCK71 and the NUS Graduate Analysis Innovation Programme.
NUS Enterprise has supported greater than 3,000 startups and over 4,300 college students.
Firms featured at SFF 2025 included Ohceans, ConcreteAI, Polar Chilly, Ecovolt and MADCash, providing options in marine conservation, development effectivity, vitality optimisation and monetary inclusion.
Solar Nianbei, Common Supervisor of CCB Singapore, mentioned,
“We’re delighted to companion with NUS Enterprise, Co-Axis, and TT Basis Advisors to showcase 22 promising tech start-ups at SFF2025. This collaboration displays our dedication to connecting cross-sector sources, advancing tech innovation, and amplifying social affect.
Digital finance, fintech and inexperienced finance are essential components of our enterprise technique for each CCB Group and CCB Singapore, and we look ahead to forging extra collaborations with Singapore’s authorities businesses, our purchasers, and companions to drive significant fintech innovation inside the inexperienced ecosystem.”
Affiliate Professor Benjamin Tee, Vice President (Innovation and Enterprise), NUS Enterprise, mentioned,
“Partnering with China Building Financial institution, Co-Axis and TT Basis Advisors at this yr’s Singapore Fintech Competition offers our start-ups a worldwide stage to showcase their well timed improvements particularly for sustainability use instances.
The deep networks throughout demand and supply-side stakeholders they entry right here via our companions assist drive our ecosystem progress in direction of a thriving globally related start-up ecosystem.”
The initiative follows the institution of a donor-advised fund by CCB Singapore and TT Basis Advisors in June 2025 to help ESG and expertise innovation.
Co-Axis helped join each organisations to coordinate SFF2025 participation and develop funding alternatives for sustainability-focused startups.
CCB Singapore continues to develop its inexperienced finance actions and is an early member of Gprnt’s Inexperienced Circle programme.
