Singapore as a global platform for corporate venturing

Corporate venturing (CV) is rapidly becoming a core strategic capability for companies navigating uncertainty and accelerating innovation. As technological change reshapes value creation, Singapore has emerged as one of the world's most compelling platforms for CV — rising from 16th to 4th in global startup ecosystem rankings between 2020 and 2025.

To understand how Singapore enables corporate venturing at scale, Arthur D. Little — in partnership with EDB — explores the ecosystem conditions, sector strengths, and structured programmes driving startup-corporate collaboration in Singapore and across the region.

Key insights

• Singapore's innovation ecosystem is built for corporate-startup collaboration. Partner discovery and formation is efficient as there are a strong base of MNCs across diverse industries and a growing pool of regional and global startups. Discover how Singapore’s RIE 2030 framework — backed by S$37 billion in funding — supports research commercialisation, including transforming lab research discoveries into market-ready startups that work directly with corporations.
• Three high-growth sectors anchor Singapore's CV environment. Advanced manufacturing and semiconductors, AI and the digital economy, and healthcare and biomedical sciences are each capital-intensive, technologically complex, and highly regulated — making corporate-startup collaboration critical for scale, validation, and commercialisation. Find out how Singapore's capabilities across these sectors makes its CV environment both robust and relevant.
• CV is a core strategic capability for companies seeking growth, competitiveness, and resilience amid uncertainty. By combining external innovation with strategic control, CV creates value through access to specialised capabilities, speed through real-world validation, and precision in capital deployment. Discover how EDB's Corporate Venture Launchpad helps companies move from pilots to sustained business impact.