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SINGAPORE, 7 JULY 2014 – Today, Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI), Asia’s leading startup accelerator backed by Infocomm Investments (IIPL), the investment arm of Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), presented its first-in-2014 cohort of 12 new startup teams to a strong showing of 150 local and global investors active in Singapore. Collectively, they manage…

SINGAPORE, 10 June 2014—Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI) announced today that it is launching a 3 week technology incubator program called TINC Asia in partnership with Innovation Norway. The program will start with a 2 day briefing session in Oslo during August, followed by the main 3 week program in Singapore from 15 September to…

SINGAPORE, 2 June 2014—Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI) launches a 21 day program this week called JFDI Discovery to help business startup founders take a deep dive into their market in a quest to achieve ‘problem-customer fit’. The program will run every month and teaches participants to apply the formal methods used with success in…

The JFDI.Asia Frog family has grown! Here’s our staff at full strength now. Meng Wong Social Engineer Hugh Mason Chief Executive Frog Ong Chiah Li Partner Fannie Kue General Manager Nie San Lim Venue Manager Lucy Ng Administrator Victoria Au Inbound Inspiradorix Alena Arens Strategic Partnerships Manager Adrian Tan Lean Startup Coach Chi-Kai Huang Lean…

SEOUL, SINGAPORE, 22 May 2014—Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI) and the Banks Foundation for Young Entrepreneurs (Banks Foundation) today announced a strategic partnership to boost the skills of first-time entrepreneurs across language and cultural barriers and to help established startup companies from Korea and Singapore expand beyond their home markets across the Asia Pacific region….

SINGAPORE, 16 April, 2014 — JFDI.Asia, Asia’s #1 Startup Business Accelerator, announced today that it will launch the first in a series of practical demonstrations and discussions around the most disruptive technologies of our time jointly with Singapore startup Coinpip.com. The essence of each Date with Disruption event will be a practical demonstration and an…

SINGAPORE, 25 March 2014—Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI.Asia Pte Ltd) today revealed details of the 13 new Singapore-based startup teams joining its next 100-day accelerator program this month. Each will receive a SGD 25,000 (USD 19,650) cash investment plus a package of intense mentoring and valuable support services worth SGD 150,000 (118,000). The program which…

SINGAPORE, 18 March 2014—Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI.Asia Pte Ltd) today announced that it had secured firm capital commitments totalling SGD 2.7 million (USD 2.1 million) from an international consortium of investors. Anchored by Singapore’s Infocomm Investments Pte Ltd (IIPL), the investment round is supported by two funds, SpinUp Partners Ltd (Russia) and Fenox Venture…

SINGAPORE, 10 March 2014 – Infocomm Investments Pte Ltd (IIPL), the investment arm of Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), today announced a strategic partnership with leading startup accelerator, Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI), to run accelerator programmes for innovation driven tech product startups based in Singapore. This partnership seeks to build a strong pipeline…

CYBERJAYA, 13 February 2014 – Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) today announced a pilot program to help local ICT startups break through barriers to growth. The program, called MSC Malaysia Startup Accelerator Lite, will be delivered by local partners around Malaysia and facilitated by JFDI.Asia, Asia’s number 1 startup business accelerator program. MSC Malaysia Startup Accelerator…