Building routes to Asia: Techscaler Singapore returns for a third edition

For most Scottish founders, growth eventually means looking beyond the domestic market. The biggest opportunities in Healthtech and Life Sciences sit in markets that are hard to reach without being there in person and access to them tends to come from relationships and credibility built over time, not from a strong product alone.

That's the gap CodeBase set out to address when it began running Techscaler on behalf of the Scottish Government. Since the first international trip to San Francisco in 2024, the programme has taken Scottish founders into the US, Singapore, Japan, China and the UAE. This Autumn (24 October – 7 November 2026), that work continues with the third edition of Techscaler Singapore, sending six companies from the Medtech, Healthtech, Biotech and Life Sciences sectors into one of Asia's fastest-growing markets.

The 2026 cohort

Six companies are making the trip this year, each solving a different problem across health and life sciences:

Samuel Jellard - Mycovolt Technologies, developing smart systems that read plants' electrical signals across whole fields, giving farmers real-time crop health data.

Tony Thorne - EKORA, a modular cardiology platform bringing patient records and department management into one system.

Aaron Nathan - Ion Matters HealthTech Solutions, building AI tools for the people healthcare typically overlooks, including KareMate AI for unpaid carers.

Anna-Slodka Turner - Mayfield Technologies, an AI-assisted platform for logging symptoms of chronic health conditions.

Yaheya Shafti - Radana, designing contactless blood pressure and heart rate monitors that reduce clinical waste.

Aphrodite Yao - Aethernova, turning interdisciplinary research into practical tools for autistic people and the wider neurodiverse community.

Why Singapore and why now

Singapore functions as the entry point to Southeast Asia. For companies in Medtech, Healthtech, Biotech and Life Sciences, the region represents genuine demand, not just an emerging opportunity, and Singapore's government and regulatory environment is one of the most transparent and navigable in Asia for companies looking to test that demand directly.

The programme is timed to run alongside SWITCH, Singapore's Week of Innovation and Technology, which brings together thousands of investors, corporates and policymakers from over 100 markets in one place. It's the kind of density of access that would be difficult for founders to come by independently. 

Part of a bigger picture

Singapore is one stop in a growing international footprint. Techscaler's fifth Silicon Valley cohort departs next month, and the first Hong Kong programme departs later this year. Each is designed as a structured route that founders can use to build relationships, test markets and come back with a clearer sense of where their business fits globally.