TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

GrowSari , a Manila-based platform for digitizing small businesses in the Philippines, announced today it has added $77.5 The new capital will be used for expansion into new store formats, building a logistics and fulfillment network and hiring for GrowSari’s operations, technology and data science teams. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Alloy was looking to build prosumer automation tooling and now it had material backing. The founders also cited a desire to stay in stealth as part of their reasoning for skipping the investor confab, telling TechCrunch that they wanted to stay quiet and build until they “really [had] something.” Why $4 million?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Launched in the Philippines, social commerce startup Resellee wants to recreate the success of Pinduoduo, one of China’s fastest-growing e-commerce companies, in Southeast Asia. Social commerce is well-positioned to take off in the Philippines for several reasons, he added.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The founders of Upmesh were building a game on top of Twitch’s API when they realized something about another group of livestreamers. Upmesh was launched nine months ago by Wong Zi Yang, Soh Jan, Nhat Vu and Shawn Teow, and is now used by almost 300 live commerce merchants in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 16, 2021

Apricot is a new subsea cable from Google and Facebook that will connect Singapore, Japan, Guam, the Philippines, Taiwan and Indonesia.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Wunderite builds and sells software designed to help insurance agencies more rapidly process insurance applications, and automate some of their processes. Finkelstein thinks that such companies can build workflow tooling, grow themselves into being the data hub of their industry customers, leveraging that perch into an even larger enterprise.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

million in seed funding, and is now live in four markets (Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam) with connections to 30 banks. It did not offer as much data coverage as Yodlee, but “what it did do is a very narrowly-focused set of data very well, and very easy to build. The startup recently came out of stealth mode with $1.8

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

To tap into that market, Brick is building APIs for alternative financial data sources, like mobile wallets, telcos, utility providers, e-commerce platforms, social security and tax offices. Mono, a startup that wants to build Plaid for Africa, gets backing from Y Combinator.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 30, 2013

This is the second part of a four-part series that will provide insight into starting, building, and funding a company across Asia. A company cannot hire out of a hub city like Singapore and expect those individuals to cover Indonesia, India, Thailand, and the Philippines. See part one here. Nothing gets done otherwise.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The funding will be used to enter other Southeast Asian markets, including Indonesia and the Philippines, and introduce new products, like free credit score and insurance offers, digital discount coupons and mobile wallet cashbacks. “Building a credit score is a never-ending process, and we are at the very early stages of it.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A Manila-headquartered startup called CloudEats , which operates cloud kitchens across the Philippines and Vietnam, just raised a $7 million Series A extension led by Nordstar to accelerate the digitization of food service in Southeast Asia. . The cloud kitchen market in Asia is projected to grow at 14.2% billion by 2030 , up from $15.2

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

At the end of last year, Xendit expanded into the Philippines, and says it is now one of the biggest payment players in the country. Though it is best known as a payment infrastructure provider, referring to itself as “a Stripe alternative build for Indonesia and Southeast Asia” on its website , Xendit is also working on other services. “In

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Transcelestial is on a mission to make the internet more accessible by building a network of shoebox-sized devices that send lasers to one another, creating a fiber-like network. Undersea cables, for example, are expensive to build and only link two points. and anywhere on earth.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

“The world we’re building for is where people’s data are owned themselves. ” Playford said Masa is building on Celo and Ethereum, and the platform, which is launching out of beta, has 36,000 people signed up already.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Philippines-based nonprofit Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation was selected winner of the.ORG of the Year award, recognizing the organization’s work to provide access to education for children in remote and poverty-stricken areas by providing boats to reach their schools. Yellow Boat of Hope is also the winner of the 2024.ORG

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

and expand its product in APAC, including the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia and Japan. The pitch is that Railsbank’s APIs are the building blocks for customers “to build pretty much any financial use case they can imagine. This will include the launch of “credit cards as a service” in the U.S.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 31, 2021

Established in 1997 as a victim-centered organization that protects children from violence and abuse, our purpose at International Justice Mission (IJM) is to work collaboratively with our partners and local authorities to strengthen justice systems and build communities where all people can be safe and protected.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

If you’re not familiar with the company, Checkout.com wants to build a one-stop shop for all things related to payments, such as accepting transactions, processing them and detecting fraud. And the company is working on adding India and the Philippines. Checkout.com is regulated in the U.K.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Ultimately their goal is help nonprofits become better equipped at fulfilling their mission by building their technological capacity. I’ve been fortunate enough to be hired to provide three social media trainings to their nonprofit partners in Malaysia (photo above), Singapore, and the Philippines.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Kwara is now moving a step further to build the next-generation neobank that will give credit-union members access to instant loans and third-party services such as insurance, as the start-up moves to offer end-to-end solutions to its clients. Kwara is building a neobank for credit unions.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

Xendit now has over 3,000 customers, including Samsung Indonesia, GrabPay, Ninja Van Philippines, Qoala, Unicef Indonesia, Cashalo and Shopback. Xendit has made several strategic investments in companies that serve startups and SMEs, including private bank Bank Sahabat Sampoerna in Indonesia and payment gateway Dragonpay in the Philippines.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Shipping companies are based around the world, but about 50% of seafarers come from Eastern Europe and the Philippines, so they typically rely on agencies to staff vessels. Seafair’s new funding will be used to build more technology for seafarer vetting and expand in markets including Germany, Nordic countries and the United States.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Indonesia’s Xendit , a startup focused on building digital payments infrastructure for the region, has just raised $64.6 Its website promises businesses that “with a single integration,” they can accept payments in Indonesia and the Philippines. And Southeast Asia is no exception. billion in payment value annually.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Aldagram , a startup out of Japan developing project management software for construction companies, has picked up a new strategic backer to help it build out its footprint across Asia and the Middle East. It has been partnering with Aldagram since 2022. More than 10,000 corporates in over 10 countries, including the U.K.,

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Relief organizations and first-responders are mobilizing to provide aid to those affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. The Philippine Red Cross is on the ground providing relief to those in affected areas. Help Habitat for Humanity re-build the Philippines after Haiyan destroyed over 3,438 houses (as of November 10).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Gameball says brands use its tools to build long-term relationships with customers and ensure retention through personalized loyalty programs that are informed by data. Khairy, Assy and Alfar, started building Gameball as a Shopify app, before moving on to build an API solution for businesses outside Shopify.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

You might spend years and years building up your arsenal of skins or in-game assets, and then a game will change the rules, take [some of your winnings] away from you or do any number of things that can leave players feeling very disappointed and kind of ripped off. Indeed, a16z is announcing today that it just led a $4.6

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Brick currently operates primarily in Indonesia, but is planning to expand into Singapore and the Philippines before eventually covering all markets in Southeast Asia. Inside Plaid’s plans to build a new, global finance network. The funding fill be used to double down on Brick’s presence in Indonesia and regional expansion.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

million in orders across 150 brands in the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan and Australia. Users currently include Bistro Group (the Philippine franchisee of TGI Fridays, Hard Rock Cafe and Buffalo Wild Winds, Flash Coffee and ghost kitchen startups MadEats and Just Kitchen.

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The Next Web

MAY 5, 2013

So while startups are trying to both build a car and get the engine started, corporations are trying to make their cars run faster. By one definition, it means programmer – someone who builds features that encourage a company’s product to experience viral growth. Most of the time, corporations have all this figured out.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

It is currently used by over 10,000 merchants in Singapore and Malaysia, with plans to expand into more Southeast Asian markets, including Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. SMEs have very specific requirements, so we wanted to build a one-stop no-code platform,” said Haripurkar.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Stunts — some in person and some online — are planned to take place in the Philippines, Bangladesh, India, Germany, Poland, Spain, Luxembourg, France, Greece, the United Kingdom, the United States, and more. Organizers have projected the “Make Amazon Pay” slogan on Amazon buildings in London, Berlin, and Hyderabad.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Founded in 2014, the company operates its business across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Ninja Van raises $30M to build a regional logistics network in Southeast Asia. Ninja Van claims it delivers approximately 2 million parcels a day, with more than 1.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Food delivery apps offer convenience for customers, but a host of headaches for restaurants, like commissions as high as 40% and very few tools to build customer loyalty. It also serves cloud kitchens, like CloudEats in the Philippines. “As For its delivery survey, most users are smaller restaurants that have one location.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Pylon currently operates in Egypt and the Philippines. Pylon builds solutions for these water and electricity distribution companies to make them efficient and stanch the bleeding — the company calculates hundreds of billions of losses (in dollars) across emerging markets per year. government. Pylon grew its revenues by 3.5x

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Shippit is considering expansion into the Philippines and Indonesia, too, and expects its Southeast Asian business to grow 100% year-over-year for the next three years at minimum. How tech can build more resilient supply chains. ” co-founder and co-chief executive officer William On told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Now, another building block is apparently needed. Enter BreederDAO , a months-old, Philippines-based “specialist manufacturer” of digital assets for use in blockchain-based games and virtual worlds, including “Axie Infinity.” BreederDAO is led by Filipino co-founders Renz Chong, Jeth Ang and Nicolo Odulio.

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