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Handshake Finance Raises S$500K Pre-Seed to Build Escrow-as-a-Service for Singapore's High-Trust Service Industries

SINGAPORE - Media OutReach Newswire - 3 June 2026 - Handshake Finance, the Singapore-based fintech company building escrow-as-a-service infrastructure for high-trust service industries, has closed a S$500,000 pre-seed funding round. The capital will accelerate the company's expansion across its beachhead renovation and interior design market in Singapore, with longer-term ambitions to extend its platform across other service industries where payment trust remains a structural problem.

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