Clifford Chance launches Singapore legal tech incubator

The program, known as Create+65, is part of an Asia Pacific innovation agenda launched by the law firm earlier this year in partnership with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). Create+65 will also be supported by the Singapore Academy of Law's Future Law Innovation Program (FLIP), with a view to bringing together venture capitalists, start-ups, product owners and developers, universities, and private institutions.

Create+65 will provide entrepreneurs at the conceptual and early development stages with access to Clifford Chance insights on legal services, feedback, and mentoring. It will also invest directly in start-ups, facilitate connections with funding vehicles, provide a collaborative workspace, and help some entrepreneurs roll out new technologies across Clifford Chance's global network. Last week, Clifford Chance invested a Dutch legal platform developer called Reynen Court. 

"We are very excited to be working with FLIP and start-ups to promote the latest thinking, methodologies and technology across the industry and challenge enshrined industry norms," Kai Schneider, a partner at Clifford Chance, said in a statement. "Create+65 builds on our ongoing commitment to contribute to an ecosystem of collaboration and innovation as we anticipate the increasing pace of change."

Schneider described Singapore as aspiring to be at the forefront of technology and innovation in the legal sector. When the country's Infocomm Media Development Authority launched FLIP earlier this year, it was said to be the first accelerator of its kind in Southeast Asia. The two-year program will include a workshop known as the Legal Innovation Lab to be located adjacent to the Supreme Court, as well as an online collaboration platform.

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