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FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Tazapay was created to combine both card and real-time payment methods as a full-stack service for merchants who sell across borders, so they only need to use one payment platform. million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital 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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Then, the platform combines the data with field reports to provide a unified view of collared wildlife, rangers, enforcement assets and infrastructure within a protected area. EarthRanger platform interface. as well as many other users across Latin America and Asia. A lion detected with WPS technologies.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

However , there’s little noise about the corridors between Africa and other regions like Latin America or Asia. Wapi Pay , a Kenyan startup with offices in China and Singapore, is carrying out this play and has carved a market for itself by facilitating payments between both extreme remittance worlds of Africa and Asia.

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TechCrunch

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. Egyptian health and wellness platform Esaal raises $1.7M

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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. After leaving Lazada, he spent several years living in Indonesia, where he saw how the country could benefit from more digital financial inclusion.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Participants also include “four of Asia’s wealthiest families,” the startup said in its press release, whose operating businesses encompass banking and real estate across Southeast Asia and China. Endowus manages more than SGD $1 billion of pension assets on its platform.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2021

Some of Goama’s clients have used it for promotional campaigns, while others rely on the platform, which introduces new games every week, to add a full-fledged gaming function to their app. So far, the platform has a combined total of 2.5 Goama (also known as Go Games) lets developers quickly integrate social games into their apps.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

The company wants to focus on the Indonesian market, one of the largest markets in Southeast Asia, for the next 12 months, then expand to other Southeast Asian countries, such as Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines, Bang told TechCrunch. The startup looks to challenge e-commerce players like Shopify in Southeast Asia. “I

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MARCH 23, 2021

According to the World Bank, more than one billion people in South and East Asia lack access to a bank account. Jeff ’s loan brokerage platform was created to make it easier for financial service providers to integrate alternative data scoring, allowing them reach more potential borrowers. million seed round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Logisly , a Jakarta-based startup that describes itself as a “B2B tech-enabled logistics platform,” announced today it has raised $6 million in Series A funding to help streamline logistics in Indonesia. Its platform digitizes the process of ordering, managing and tracking trucks.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

million USD) Series A led by East Ventures for product development and to expand in Southeast Asia. Smarter Health’s platform isn’t meant to replace legacy software already in use by its clients. Smarter Health is here to make healthcare accessible, affordable and accountable by providing an AI-powered interoperable platform.”.

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JANUARY 29, 2023

Founded by two insurance industry veterans, Eazy Digital wants to give small insurance companies in Southeast Asia the same advantage as their larger competitors. Its SaaS platform lets insurers digitize many parts of their operations, enabling them to scale up more efficiently.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

But the virtual event space continues to attract investors, at least in Asia. Hong Kong-based events management platform EventX said today it has raised another $8 million for its Series B, lifting the total amount secured for this round to $18 million. As countries ease up on COVID restrictions, activities are going back in person.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Hong Kong-based viAct helps construction sites perform around-the-clock monitoring with an AI-based cloud platform that combines computer vision, edge devices and a mobile app. Founded in 2016, viAct currently serves more than 30 construction industry clients in Asia and Europe.

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MAY 15, 2023

Jenfi , a “growth-capital-as-a-service” platform, can provide online businesses with revenue-based financing in a little as a day. million in pre-Series B funding, led by Headline Asia. The company also plans to develop a tech platform to allow third-parties to use its proprietary scoring models in their own native infrastructure.

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JANUARY 15, 2023

This inspired him to co-found Locad , a logistics provider for omnichannel e-commerce companies that connects its network of third-party warehouses and shipping carriers with a cloud-based platform referred to its “logistics engine.”. 4 ways to use e-commerce data to optimize LTV pre- and post-holiday.

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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Validus , a Singapore-based lending platform for small and medium-sized enterprises, is acquiring CitiBusiness’ loan portfolio for an undisclosed amount to bolster its top-line revenue and customer base and expand its growing loan book. . Southeast Asian lending platform Validus raises $20 million for its Series B+ round.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Over the past two years, Asia’s retailers were forced to do virtual meetings instead of visiting in-person trade shows or conferences to source new brands and products due to the pandemic lockdowns. With the latest funding, Peeba plans to double its headcount and expand local offices to improve local language support across 11 Asia countries.

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JUNE 22, 2022

Social commerce — the process of buying and selling products or services directly through social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok — is becoming the most natural way for consumers to make purchases since people use social media and messaging apps almost every day. and other countries in Europe. trillion by 2030.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pakistan’s embedded finance platform Neem has raised $2.5 It offers a lending platform that its partners use to provide tailored lending products to consumers and MSMEs. It offers a lending platform that its partners use to provide tailored lending products to consumers and MSMEs. Pakistan’s Neem raises $2.5M

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Cobo , a Singapore-based crypto asset management platform, raised a $40 million Series B to accelerate the development of decentralized finance as a service (DFaaS). Cobo’s DFaaS infrastructure underpins its multisignature crypto wallet platform and crypto asset custodial services for retail and institutional investors, respectively.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

The process of digitizing the operations of mom and pop stores in Nigeria is serious business right now. Europe and Asia, including Michael Novogratz’s, participated in the round. Adewale Opaleye founded Alerzo in 2018 as a last-mile distribution platform that helps retailers stock inventory directly from manufacturers.

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AUGUST 17, 2023

The digital asset space is still trucking along, while there were some big headlines, the week was arguably a little less chaotic (for now). Subscribe to Chain Reaction on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your favorite pod platform to keep up with the latest episodes, and please leave us a review if you like what you hear!

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

million in pre-Series A funding to scale up its online coding school platform. CoderSchool will use the funding to accelerate its online teaching platform growth and technology infrastructure expansion for the company’s technical education programs that guarantee employment upon graduation.

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JULY 15, 2021

The platform is built on a trust network model where it deploys thousands of nano influencers and followers who have a natural affinity to a brand and exhibit a high emotional connection with the target audience. These markets include the rest of Africa, the Middle East and Asia. “We are at the cusp of a revolution. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Silkhaus , a Dubai-based platform for short-term rentals coming out of stealth, has raised $7.75 million in seed funding, money it plans to use for expansion across South Asia, Southeast Asia and the MENA region. . But while platforms like Airbnb have fantastically aggregated demand to meet supply in the U.S.

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MARCH 28, 2022

GrowSari , a Manila-based platform for digitizing small businesses in the Philippines, announced today it has added $77.5 KKR invests $45M into GrowSari, a B2B platform for Filipino MSMEs. Predicting the next wave of Southeast Asia tech giants. million to its Series C round.

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TechCrunch

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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AUGUST 2, 2022

But that’s not where the problem starts and ends: the explosion of digital content has also led to a wide number of digital counterfeiters as well. And now, the startup has raised $20 million in Series A funding to continue expanding its platform. Image Credits: MarqVision (opens in a new window) under a license.

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JUNE 21, 2021

Today GrowSari , a startup that is digitizing sari-sari stores with features like pricing tools, inventory management and working capital loans, announced it has raised a Series B from several notable investors that brings its total funding to $30 million. Its ultimate goal is to serve one million sari-sari stores.

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APRIL 19, 2021

The company develops blockchain platforms that can work with financial institutions’ existing infrastructure, and its core technology is also used in GreenSTACS for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments. Its core solution is a technology stack that is built around STACS blockchain.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Osome , a Singapore-headquartered business assistant app that digitizes accounting and compliance tasks, has raised $3 million. Osome’s platform uses machine learning-based tech to automate administrative, accounting, payroll and tax-related work. Osome’s digital business assistant.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

To solve the problems of traditional electronic media, a startup in Boston, Catalog , was founded in 2016 by MIT scientists including co-founder and CEO Hyunjun Park, developing an energy efficient, cost competitive, and more secure data storage and computation platform by using synthetic DNA.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

But in markets like Indonesia, many still use digital wallets or e-commerce platforms, creating alternative sources of user data that can help them secure working capital and other financial tools. It definitely doesn’t need to be a bank account, it could be in a digital wallet, e-commerce platform or other service providers.”

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Online learning platform Vedantu has raised $100 million in a new financing round and has become the latest Indian startup to become a unicorn following a year of strong growth. The round was led by Singapore-headquartered — and Temasek-backed — private equity firm ABC World Asia.

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