By Sara Khalid, Greennex Global Editor | October 2026
Every US climate founder eventually asks the same question: where do we go after the home market? During Climate Week NYC 2026, Singapore made its case for being the answer.
The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and Enterprise Singapore, in collaboration with Greennex Global, hosted the Singapore Climate Gateway, an afternoon that brought US climate-tech startups, investors, and corporate partners into the same room as the people building the US-Singapore climate corridor.
Why Singapore, Why Now
Singapore is not waiting for the carbon economy to arrive. It has a national carbon tax in place, is active in Article 6 and Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes frameworks, and is home to Climate Impact X, one of the region’s leading carbon exchanges. For a US company looking at Southeast Asia and beyond, that means capital, corporate demand, and policy infrastructure in a single location, a combination few other markets can match.
Two Agencies, One Open Door
The two agencies that can support the full journey of a company entering Singapore and Asia are:
Singapore EDB is the government agency responsible for strengthening Singapore’s position as a global business center, with a particular focus on attracting investment in high-value sectors such as clean energy and advanced manufacturing. For a US climate company, EDB is the natural first conversation about establishing a presence in Singapore. Chloe Chong, Director at Singapore EDB North America, opened the program with an overview of Singapore’s green tech roadmap and the policy tools being built to make climate ambition commercially real. Her session made clear that Singapore’s climate commitments are designed as market infrastructure: rules, pricing, and platforms that give companies something concrete to build a business on.
Enterprise Singapore is the government agency championing enterprise development, helping Singapore companies build capabilities, innovate and go global. It drives Singapore companies’ expansion while connecting international businesses to trusted partners in Singapore. Darren Lee, Regional Director, East US & Canada at Enterprise Singapore’s New York office, followed with the practical side: how US founders can tap on Singapore companies both as partners and customers for deployment across Singapore and Southeast Asian markets. Additionally, US founders can accelerate their entry and expansion into region through ecosystem partners like StageOne and initiatives such as the Open Innovation Challenge.
Taken together, the two presentations gave founders a clear picture of what Singapore offers: one agency to help them land, another to help them grow, and a policy environment built to reward commercially ready climate solutions.
Panel: From Innovation to Impact
With the policy and market picture in place, the panel turned to how it works in practice. The discussion centered on two questions: how climate technology moves from development to deployment across the US and Singapore, and how global carbon markets are financing and scaling high-integrity solutions. It brought together investors, ecosystem builders, and founders from both sides of the corridor.
Matt Purdy of Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Georgina Campbell Flatter, CEO of Greentown Labs, spoke to what makes climate technology fundable and how founders are carried from early stage to global deployment. Xiaoyang Shi, CEO of Arbon, and Seonghoon Woo, CEO of Amogy, shared the founder’s view of taking carbon capture and ammonia-to-power technologies into Asian markets, while Kailash Nichani, CFO of Singapore-headquartered Hydroleap, offered the reverse journey of a Singapore water-tech company scaling in the US.
What tied these perspectives together is that the corridor runs in both directions. US companies bring technology that Asian markets need, and Singapore and its neighbors bring the industrial demand, capital, and partners that help that technology reach scale. Amogy’s recent partnerships in South Korea and Japan show that movement already under way, and Hydroleap’s push into US data center water management shows it coming back the other way. Collaboration between the US, Singapore, and the wider region is how these solutions get deployed, and Singapore is positioned as the place where those partnerships begin.
What Comes Next
The Singapore Climate Gateway was designed to turn Singapore’s offer into introductions and next steps, giving US founders structured access to the Asian markets that need their technology. For startups with commercially ready climate and deep tech solutions and an eye on Asia, the door is open.
Startups: Apply to pitch at a Greennex Climate Gateway event.
Investors and corporate partners: Contact us at info@greennexglobal.com
Greennex Global is a cross-border venture platform connecting commercially validated U.S. climate and deep tech companies with international corporate operators, institutional investors, and government partners across more than 15 countries.
