Closer to customers abroad

Following the rising demand for institutional-grade digital asset custody and trading infrastructure by financial institutions in the APAC region, Lausanne based METACO, providing security-critical software and infrastructure to the digital asset ecosystem, has launched its Asia Pacific headquarters in Singapore. Now closer to its existing and new customers, the startup will allow banks and other institutions to enter the crypto economy safely through Harmonize. As a digital asset orchestration system, METACO Harmonize provides the unifying governance solution to manage this complexity and mitigate the risks for institutional digital asset managers in working with various partner solutions. Patrick Enjalbal, a former Director at Singapore-based financial technology consultancy, Luxoft, has been appointed as Managing Director APAC.

Oculis Hong kong
In addition to its Lausanne office, Oculis has opened a new office in Hong Kong. The late-stage biopharmaceutical company is focused on developing transformative ophthalmic treatments to improve the sight and lives of patients. The company has a robust and expansive development portfolio including late-stage novel topical (eye drop) treatments, which are non-invasive and represent an unprecedented technical advance for patients with retinal edema and front-of-the-eye diseases. Through this expansion, the company aims to broaden the company’s development and commercial capabilities in Greater China and Asia. Oculis already has well-established links to China, having received strong backing from Chinese Investors BVCF Management and Hyfinity Investment in its most recent oversubscribed $57 million Series C fundraising. Joanne Chang will lead the Hong Kong office as Chief Medical Officer and Head of Portfolio Management.

4Dvets expands to the UK
With LupoGait, 4Dvets is offering a mobile, progressive, and seminal gait analysis system for dogs. The diagnostics device delivers perfect measurement results in seven simple steps, generating objective, reproducible and graphically displayed values directly from the dog’s natural gait. It is suitable for accompanying the development and maintenance of a healthy skeletal system from puppy to senior age (prevention) as well as the early detection of problems in the musculoskeletal system. After Switzerland, the startup opened offices in the UK, where the on-site product distribution is managed by our experienced veterinarians Martina Neidhart and Dennis Verdon.

SkyCell in Puerto Rico
Logistics Zug based startup offering smart hybrid containers for the pharma industry has opened a new service center in Puerto Rico. Located near Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport, the facility consists of four different warehouse zones, each with designated temperature levels for different container models and storage demands. With the US mainland and nations across Latin America in near proximity, Puerto Rico is a key location to allow the startup’s clients closer to pharma clients to deliver quality medications to patients in need.

Beaconsmind serves the first client in UAE
Only 5 months after opening its Middle East outpost in Dubai, UAE, beaconsmind announces its first local client acquisition. The SaaS provider in Location-Based Marketing (LBM) for retail chains will implement its location-based marketing solution for the fashion retail group Maison-B-More. The group will use beaconsmind’s software Suite and Bluetooth Beacon hardware in stores. This client success, acquired in a record timeframe, highlights the legitimacy of beaconsmind’s international expansion blueprint, and points to more successes to come from its strong pre-opening program which will be replicated before the next openings in APAC and Americas.

Morphean opens three offices
Swiss high-tech company Morphean providing Security-as-a-Service and cloud analytics has opened additional premises in the UK as well as Denmark and the Netherlands to support its growth programme to meet the growing demand for hosted security services across Europe. In addition, newly appointed personnel bring expertise to sales, account management and finance roles including Philippe Gieseler, Chief Financial Officer; Paul Green, Head of Sales in the UK and Ireland; Noura Sakhsoukh, Sales Executive for Benelux; Lauren Irwin, Sales Executive in the UK; Peter Werner, Sales Executive in Germany; and Tim Bach Bjerg, Key Account Manager for the Nordics.

(Press release/RAN)