TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

With its subscription-based legal services platform, Lawpath wants to become the Asia Pacific’s LegalZoom (in fact, LegalZoom is one of its investors). million USD) to expand into new markets, including upcoming launches in New Zealand and Southeast Asia. The company announced today it has raised $7.5 million AUD (about $5.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

V2Food is one of many new contenders in the alternative protein space, founded in Australia but now setting its sights on Europe, Asia and beyond. The company has seen strong uptake in its home market, and the first goal is to be No. The company has seen strong uptake in its home market, and the first goal is to be No.

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TechCrunch

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

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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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

Tech layoffs have hit almost every region in the world , and Southeast Asia is no exception , with companies like Sea , Crypto.com and JD.ID Teams that have been hit hardest include operations, financial and human resource departments, plus some sales and marketing teams. among those affected.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

The strategic partnership will help South Korean e-commerce brands grow domestically and make inroads into more countries in Asia. Una, one of the largest e-commerce aggregators in Asia, has already established its presence across Asia, including Singapore, Australia, India, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan, since its launch in 2021. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

Asia relations. Mexico has been known as an up-and-coming tech hub and a gateway to the Latin American market. Asia-LatAm nexus. Asia-LatAm nexus. This makes sense because the market conditions in Mexico and other parts of LatAm resemble China, India and Southeast Asia more than the U.S. Asia-LatAm nexus.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

The startup has aspirations to become Outschool of Asia. “The education market in the English-speaking and North American regions is undoubtedly large, but we [at Glorang] understand that each country’s local D2C education market in Asia can be just as substantial,” Hwang said. billion in 2019.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Financial apps are proliferating across Southeast Asia, making things like bookkeeping or securing an online loan easier. Brick wants to simplify the process with a suite of APIs that connects financial apps to “hyper-local” sources of data, including banks, mobile wallets and telecoms.

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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Venture capital activity in Europe and Asia saw a strong return to form in Q3, data indicates. The two continents enjoyed more venture capital investment into their local startups than in some time, underscoring that strong VC results the United States saw in the third quarter were not a fluke, but part of a broader trend.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In Southeast Asia, for example, a growing list of startups is increasing access to mental healthcare and support. million USD in seed funding, which it says one of the largest seed rounds raised by a digital mental health startup in Southeast Asia so far. to expand across Asia. Morgan in Hong Kong.

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TechNode

APRIL 10, 2025

Breaking into Asias diverse and dynamic markets has never been more critical or more competitive. For companies eyeing international growth, access to the right networks, market insights, and strategic partnerships can make all the difference.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Danggeun Market, the publisher of South Korea’s hyperlocal community app Karrot, announced it has raised $162 million in a Series D round of funding with a valuation of $2.7 The latest funding officially makes Danggeun Market a unicorn, with $205 million total raised. Danggeun Market launched Karrot in Canada and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Now it’s set a goal of investing in 100 more startups with the launch of its second emerging market seed-stage fund, called Seedstars International Ventures II (SIV), with a first close of $20 million. We’re really looking to diversify holdings, leveraging learnings from one market to another,” said Sosrodjojo.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The company offers a complete spectrum of e-commerce support services for direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, from making a website, setting up a payment system, and managing marketing to handling shipping, warehousing, and logistics. The startup looks to challenge e-commerce players like Shopify in Southeast Asia. “I

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Influencer marketing is one of the fastest-growing and one of the most impactful media channels today. Marketers have now realized that their customers trust the recommendations of people they relate with. AIfluence is a two-year-old startup with an AI-driven influencer marketing approach to measuring these campaigns.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Mark Barron is the head of Taylor Wessing 's market-leading technology and life sciences inward investment team, and advises North American companies on how to translate their domestic success to new jurisdictions and cultures and to thrive as global businesses. Mark Barron. Contributor. The current circumstances have exaggerated this trend.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

that creates digital banks in emerging markets, confirmed to TechCrunch today that it has raised $7.4 Globally, hundreds have sprung forth the past few years to challenge incumbents in their respective markets. In November 2021, Fintech Farm launched in its first market, Azerbaijan. million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The funding was led by Asia private equity firm TGVest Capital. “We We plan to use the new funding to double down on expanding our footprint in key markets, including Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea and Asia,” founder and CEO Ming Chen told TechCrunch. “In million travelers. In Japan alone, we added 35,000 new activities.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Local payment methods account for 68% of online sales, and, depending on the region and merchant networks, merchants must integrate dozens of payment service providers. market, it might seem impossible for a payment orchestration startup to succeed in the fragmented markets of Latin America.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Jia, a blockchain-based fintech providing loans to micro and small businesses in emerging markets, has raised $4.3 The fintech plans to use the funding to double down on its operations in Kenya, and the Philippines, before exploring new markets in West Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Ascend Money will use the proceeds to grow its e-wallet application – TrueMoney Wallet – and expand its digital financial services ranging from digital lending and digital investment to cross border remittances in Southeast Asia. About 70% came from Thailand while 30% came from the international market, the co-President Thamavaranukupt said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Enterprise project management and team collaboration unicorn monday.com is digging deeper into the Asia-Pacific region with the opening of its new regional headquarters in Sydney. It also has local channel partners like Work Perfect and Upstream. The number of its customers in Australia and New Zealand grew 122% year-over-year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

As startup funding increases around the world, The Exchange has poked its head into markets as far-flung as Southeast Asia , Europe , Africa , Latin America and elsewhere. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Wherever we looked, we’ve found venture capital flowing in record quantities.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

In emerging markets like Africa , offline channels dominate retail sales, which are often driven by informal trade and cash transactions. This makes sourcing data on markets, consumer behavior and products a herculean task. Rutakangwa also says they are available in other markets like South Asia and Latin America.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In Western markets, freight forwarders are well into digitizing their operations, but the same doesn’t hold true in Southeast Asia, say the founders of Fr8Labs. The reasons for that include the lack of localized software and a more fragmented logistics industry where SMBs dominate.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

It highlights important events in the continent’s tech ecosystem until this point, compares its journey with other emerging markets and provides guidance into the opportunities within various sectors. The market size of Africa’s digital economy is massive and, if projections go as planned, should top $712 billion by 2050.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Europe and Asia, including Michael Novogratz’s, participated in the round. The founder says Ibadan was the ideal market to establish its headquarters because informal retailers in the region experience these challenges more than those in Lagos. The company is announcing a $10.5 FJ Labs and several family offices from the U.S.,

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TechNode

JUNE 24, 2024

Indonesias trade officials said Temus business model conflicts with local government regulations, which require a distributor or intermediary to be present in the product’s journey from factory to consumer.

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TechNode

AUGUST 29, 2023

PDD-owned Temu made a quiet debut in the Philippines this past weekend, its first Southeast Asia destination, bringing the budget shopping app into head-to-head competition with Chinese counterparts Lazada and TikTok Shop. Boston-headquartered Temu works with different third-party logistics providers for local delivery.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Dat Bike , a Vietnamese startup with ambitions to become the top electric motorbike company in Southeast Asia, has raised $2.6 kW) and 2 times the range (100 km versus 50 km) of most electric motorbikes in the market, at the same price point. Son Nguyen, founder and chief executive officer of Dat Bike.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Suddenly the malls are closed, so we’ve been able to sign some of the bigger retail outlet groups in the market as well.”. Digital payments in most Southeast Asian markets are extremely fragmented, with consumers using everything from digital wallets, buy-now-pay-later services and virtual accounts to traditional debit and credit cards.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The company launched in 2018 along with Gushcloud International, an influencer marketing firm. We have our own supply chain and we have the power to distribute brands across Asia via our social commerce and live distribution platforms. It also provides data points like pricing and demographics to create new brands and market them.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The Bangalore-based company announced today it has closed a $75 million Series C from LeapFrog and Khosla Ventures, with plans to grow its user base in India, Southeast Asia and North America. Since HealthifyMe began operating first in cost-sensitive markets, it started using AI early on to scale efficiently, Vashisht said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The cell-cultured chicken will eventually be produced under Eat Just’s new GOOD Meat brand through partnerships with local manufacturers and go on sale to restaurants before it is available to consumers. There are several factors driving demand for cultured meat and plant-based protein in Asian markets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

TechCrunch spends time each quarter covering the startup markets of the world. We look at aggregate numbers and dig in more closely to areas like Latin America , Asia , Europe , Africa and more. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The North American market is perhaps the most active startup region in the world.

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