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Digital Engagement/Production Coordinator. “Social Media for Social Good and Nonprofit Tech for Good have been my primary resources for learning how to communicate Indian conservation issues on a global scale. Digital Marketing Director. Microsoft Citizenship Asia Pacific. ” Marianna Moneymaker.

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to send money to the region, much higher than the global average of 6.8%. However , there’s little noise about the corridors between Africa and other regions like Latin America or Asia. African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines. It is also the most expensive region to send money from.

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3) Animals Asia Shop :: shop.animalsasia.org. Proceeds benefit Animals Asia work to end bear bile farming and improving the welfare of animals in China and Vietnam. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Perfect gifts for the nonprofit techie!

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FEBRUARY 10, 2023

million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia. Existing investors Foundamental, January Capital, RTP Global and Saison Capital also returned for the round. It is also partnered with Standard Chartered, the British multinational bank, to offer digital escrow services.

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AUGUST 11, 2021

AppWorks , the Taipei-based venture capital firm focused on Taiwan and Southeast Asia, announced today it has closed its oversubscribed third fund, raising $150 million. As part of Fund III’s close, AppWorks is recruiting new investment associates and analysts, especially ones who will focus on sourcing deals throughout Southeast Asia.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Igloo , a Singapore-based insurtech focused on underserved communities in Southeast Asia, announced it has raised a Series B extension of $27 million, bringing the round’s total to $46 million. Igloo currently works with 20 global, regional and local insurers across Southeast Asia.

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MARCH 22, 2023

Now Thoughtfull , another digital mental health platform focused on Asia, has raised $4 million in a pre-Series A round led by Sheares Healthcare Group. Thoughtfull marks Sheares’ first investment in mental healthcare in Asia. Sheares is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek. Its app is available in 11 languages.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This begs the question: Who exactly is investing in Southeast Asia? Let’s explore the three key types of investors pouring money into and driving the growth of Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem. Southeast Asia has become an attractive market for U.S. and Chinese tech firms. Regional VC investment grew 5.2 times to $8.2

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

On Friday, Tiger Global said it is backing their startup, CreditBook , to help address those challenges. The over reliance on paper to maintain ledger and the always-running low cash flow is a challenge that merchants in many markets in South Asia and Southeast Asia share. Images Credits: CreditBook.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

There’s a new entrant in Southeast Asia’s growing list of unicorns. Jakarta-based Xendit , best known for its digital payment infrastructure but also focused on other financial products, announced today it has raised $150 million in Series C funding, bumping its valuation to $1 billion. We’re going to hire a whole team on the ground.”.

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JUNE 15, 2021

The firm’s comprehensive “Southeast Asia Exit Landscape Report 2.0,” is a followup to a previous report published in 2019. Despite the pandemic’s economic impact, tech proved to be resilient globally (for example, there were a number of initial public offers in the United States at record prices).

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OCTOBER 13, 2022

Focused on Southeast Asia, Ayoconnect ’s APIs make it faster for businesses to launch new financial services, instead of needing to build their own tech infrastructure. This brings its total raised to $43 million, including the oversubscribed first tranche of its Series B, which was led by Tiger Global and closed in January 2022.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

The round was led by Tiger Global with participation from returning investors Sequoia Capital India & Southeast Asia, and new investors DST Global Partners and Shopify (marking the e-commerce platform’s first venture investment in a startup operating in the Southeast Asia region).

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JUNE 8, 2022

A new report from Endeavor Nigeria reveals that Africa’s digital economy and tech ecosystem is set to experience exponential growth periods. The report is dubbed “The Inflection Point: Africa’s Digital Economy is Poised to Take Off.”. Africa’s digital opportunity. Here are a few interesting points from the newly-launched report.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Forto , a digital freight forwarder which has experienced a boom during the pandemic, has raised another $50 million in funding. Additional investment came from Iris Capital, with strong participation from current investors, including Rider Global, Northzone, Cherry Ventures and the Italian venture fund H14.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

H2O Hospitality will expand its business further by adding various types of accommodations in South Korea and Japan in 2021 and 2022 and plans to enter Singapore and Indonesia in 4Q in 2022 in line with its Southeast Asia penetration strategy, according to H2O Hospitality co-founder and CEO John Lee. There are currently about 16.4

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Practice ignition , an Australia-based client engagement and commerce platform for professional service businesses, has raised $50 million (65 million AUD) in a Series C round to accelerate its growth and expand globally. It brings the startup’s total raised to $75 million, said Guy Pearson, CEO and founder of Practice Ignition.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The onset of the pandemic has led to increased demand for digital banking options across customer income groups around the world. We’ve seen how digital banks like Zolve and Nubank have raised money in recent months to fill this need. TymeBank , a South African digital bank, announced today that it has secured an R1.6

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Financial apps are proliferating across Southeast Asia, making things like bookkeeping or securing an online loan easier. Brick currently operates primarily in Indonesia, but is planning to expand into Singapore and the Philippines before eventually covering all markets in Southeast Asia.

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JUNE 22, 2022

SleekFlow , an omnichannel social commerce platform that helps businesses build customer flow automation from messaging and live video to transactions, has closed $8 million Series A funding led by Tiger Global Management. The global social commerce market is projected to rise to $6.2 and other countries in Europe. trillion by 2030.

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MAY 5, 2022

The two-year-old VC fund invests in B2B and API-first fintechs across Africa, Latin America and South Asia at pre-seed and seed stages. while the rest are spread across Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia, markets where they deployed more than $6 million last year. It expects to achieve a second close by the end of June.

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APRIL 7, 2022

A startup called Peeba has built a B2B wholesale online platform that connects independent retailers across Asia with unique brands around the world. The Hong Kong-headquartered company wants to help Asia-based B2B retailers reduce inventory risk and offer higher operational efficiency with lower costs via its platform. .

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Based in Hong Kong, Coherent helps insurance providers go digital. The Series A round, led by Cathay Innovation with participation from Franklin Templeton, will be used to grow Coherent’s client base in Asia, including insurers who want to add more digital services to their usual sales processes because of the pandemic.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The company has picked up $150 million and says that since quietly opening for business in mid-2020 it has already acquired 20 startups in categories like home, leisure and lifestyle across Europe, the United States and Asia. he left almost exactly a year ago, after the fund had started to come under a lot of scrutiny ). “Our

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JULY 16, 2022

While companies around the world turned to software during the pandemic to ensure that they could keep operating , accelerating the digital transformation, there has been analogous work going on in the consumer world. Let’s talk about the fintech market from a global perspective and a U.S.-focused The global perspective.

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APRIL 24, 2023

Based in Singapore, ZEBOX Asia will also look at markets like Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan and Korea. Additionally, the city state’s strategic location at the crossroads of major shipping lines and air routes connects large parts of Asia to the rest of the world, making it a global logistics hub,” he added.

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JULY 14, 2021

Easy Eat AI offers an operating system for restaurants that lets them digitize all parts of their business, from inventory and customer orders to delivery, and gain AI-based data analytics to improve revenue. Many food and beverage businesses started digitizing orders and payments so they could offer deliveries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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as well as many other users across Latin America and Asia. Its deployed by governments and conservation organizations in 76 countries and 650 protected areas, including nearly every national park in Africa, about a dozen state fishing and wildlife departments in the U.S., Featured video courtesy of Conservation X Labs.

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APRIL 28, 2023

The recent, and now past, venture capital boom was a global affair. Southeast Asia is a frequently noted example of the phenomenon. That’s thin support for such a large, geographically diverse and increasingly digitally connected area. Latin American as well.

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MARCH 28, 2023

According to Nikkei Asia, the new companies will include the Cloud Intelligence Group, Taobao Tmall Commerce Group, Local Service Group, Cainiao Smart Logistics, Global Digital Commerce Group, and Digital Media and Entertainment Group. Read Entire Article

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

million in seed funding, money it plans to use for expansion across South Asia, Southeast Asia and the MENA region. . Venture capital firms that participated in the round include Nuwa Capital, Nordstar, Global Founders Capital, Yuj Ventures, Whiteboard Capital and VentureSouq. That’s where Silkhaus comes in.

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MARCH 2, 2021

Fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, digital transformation is happening all over the world. And Southeast Asia is no exception. Indonesia’s Xendit , a startup focused on building digital payments infrastructure for the region, has just raised $64.6 million in a Series B led by Silicon Valley heavyweight Accel.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Osome , a Singapore-headquartered business assistant app that digitizes accounting and compliance tasks, has raised $3 million. The new funding brings Osome’s total raised to $8 million from investors including Target Global. Osome’s digital business assistant. These include Sleek, Lanturn and Bluemeg.

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JUNE 10, 2021

Tiger Global is in talks to lead a $30 million round in Indian edtech startup Classplus, according to sources familiar with the matter. Classplus — which has built a Shopify-like platform for coaching centers to accept fees digitally from students and deliver classes and study material online — also raised $10.3

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JANUARY 10, 2022

The global pandemic threw a wrench in the plans of restaurants all over the world two years ago when diners stayed home, causing many eateries to shift their business to pickup or delivery. Tech in Mexico: A confluence of Latin America, the US and Asia. The new capital gives the company a total of $11.7 million in funding.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

It’s the nineteenth Indian startup to become a unicorn this year (up from 11 last year) as several high-profile global investors double down in the South Asian market. The new round — a Series E — was led by Tiger Global and valued the New Delhi-based startup at $2.85 Tiger Global in talks to back BharatPe at $2.5

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JANUARY 5, 2022

TPG invested in the startup through its TPG Capital Asia, its Asia-focused private equity platform. “Our clients are all looking to digitize their businesses and offer more personalized solutions to their customers,” he said. helps firms improve investment decisions, Eugenie.ai

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