Aspire Unveils New Singapore HQ, Aims to Double Fintech Workforce by 2025

Aspire, an all-in-one finance platform for companies, has opened its new headquarters in Singapore, aiming to boost its position in fintech analysis and improvement (R&D) inside the area. The agency additionally shared its plans to double its fintech-specialised workforce within the city-state to 300 by 2025.

The corporate had additionally arrange a brand new monetary know-how excellence hub in Singapore that can drive its deal with product improvement and strategic investments in key areas corresponding to Synthetic Intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity.

In keeping with this, Aspire had collaborated with PwC Singapore to publish a whitepaper on the alternatives and sensible implications of AI for finance groups. Aspire mentioned that it plans on integrating its learnings into its choices.

The corporate, established in 2018, has raised over US$300 million in funding and attained profitability in 2023. Its buyer base spans over 15,000 companies throughout Asia.

Andrea Baronchelli

“Singapore has been the epicenter of our regional operations, due to its worldwide connectivity, expert tech workforce, and strong authorities help for fintech innovation.

 

We’re absolutely dedicated to the native fintech ecosystem and plan to speculate extra to proceed to faucet on the nation’s robust infrastructure and foundations. The subsequent technology of Asian companies wants an built-in, borderless, fashionable finance resolution.”

mentioned Andrea Baronchelli, CEO and Co-Founder, Aspire.

Peter Ong

Peter Ong, Chairman of Enterprise Singapore mentioned,

“I’m heartened to see Aspire proceed pushing the boundaries of fintech to drive the expansion and transformation of extra companies. Aspire’s plans to develop its crew in Singapore is a optimistic step ahead that can assist to spark extra innovation in our startup ecosystem.

 

Enterprise Singapore is dedicated to working with our companions to deepen help for startups corresponding to Aspire, and assist them scale regionally and overseas.”

Featured picture: (Left to proper) Joel Leong, CMO and Co-founder,Aspire; Andrea Baronchelli, CEO and Co-founder, Aspire; Peter Ong, Chairman, Enterprise Singapore; Alvin Ip, CFO, Aspire; Olivier Dauw, COO, Aspire