TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Farmers and food businesses, like restaurants, deal with the same issue: a fragmented supply chain. Secai Marche wants to streamline agricultural logistics, making fulfillment more cost-efficient and enabling food businesses to bundle products from different farmers into the same order. billion JPY (about $8.5 billion) in 2030.

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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. . In January, the company crossed a significant milestone of over $1 billion (SG$1.6

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TechCrunch

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. The new funding will be used to grow its customer base in Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia, and expand into new markets in Southeast Asia, like Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

The global thirst for an up-charged pair of Yeezy’s or limited edition Jordan’s combined with a growth in a digital ecosystem is creating new opportunities, particularly in the sneaker resale market, for companies like Kicks Crew , a Los Angeles- and Hong Kong-based sneaker and apparel platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The proliferation of delivery services give customers many options, but means chaos for busy restaurants that need to manage orders across multiple apps and channels. Klikit wants to save Southeast Asian food businesses from “ tablet hell ” by aggregating order information from all apps into one platform.

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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

JULY 21, 2021

Indonesian agritech platform TaniHub Group harvests a $65.5M Buyers make purchase orders through the platform, which are then distributed to fishery communities that Aruna organizes to focus on particular types of seafood. This helps them predict demand, guarantee return business and prevent overfishing. Series B round.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Go1 , which provides curated online learning materials and tools to businesses using “playlists” that tap content from multiple publishers and silos, has closed a round of $200 million, a Series D that the Australian company’s CEO and co-founder Andrew Barnes confirmed values the startup at over $1 billion.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Carousell , a Singaporean consumer-to-consumer (C2C) service platform operating across Southeast Asia, is letting go of about 110 employees, or 10% of its total headcount, in an effort to reduce costs amid a challenging market condition for the tech industry. . Southeast Asia-based mobile listings startup Carousell raises $85M.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Launched in South Korea five years ago, content discovery platform Dable now serves a total of six markets in Asia. Dable (the name is a combination of “data” and “able”) currently serves more than 2,500 media outlets in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia. Taboola and Outbrain call off their $850M merger.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Railsbank , the London-headquartered Banking-as-a-Service platform, has raised $37 million in new growth funding. and expand its product in APAC, including the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia and Japan. Railsbank raises $10M Series A for its open banking and compliance platform.

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JANUARY 3, 2022

Other investors included Orbit Malaysia, Citrine Capital, HMI Group and Emtek. The company currently operates in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, and plans to enter into new countries with its new funding. Smarter Health’s platform isn’t meant to replace legacy software already in use by its clients. million SGD (about $3.8

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Glints , one of Southeast Asia’s largest talent development and recruitment platforms, announced today it has raised $50 million in an oversubscribed Series D. The round was co-led by DCM Ventures, Lavender Hill Capital and returning investor PERSOL Holdings. This brings Glints’ total raised so far to $80 million. Glints’ team.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

The microfinancing platform connects investors with small businesses using mudarabah, a shariah-compliant profit-sharing agreement. Indonesia and Malaysia, in the heart of Southeast Asia, are among the countries with the largest Muslim populations in the world. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3% out of its 33.6

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Founded in 2018 by Daniel Hazman and Jonathan Keith, Nimbly is currently used by more than one hundred organizations in seven countries, including Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and the United States. AI-based customer engagement platform iKala raises $17 million to expand in Southeast Asia.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

At one point, the startup reported that its business was down by up to 60% as several nations enforced lockdowns as they scrambled to contain the spread of the virus. The startup said in the filing today that four markets — India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Europe — account for about 90% of its overall revenue.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

WhatsApp is used by more than two billion around the world, and is an important tool for many small businesses. But as they scale up, even WhatsApp for Business might not be able to keep up with their needs. Built on WhatsApp for Business’ API, WATI has customer sales and engagement tools created for the messaging app.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

HitPay has almost everything SMEs need to run their businesses. 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. HitPay’s no-code platform allows SMEs to unify their online and offline payment stacks.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Akulaku, which operates in the Philippines and Malaysia in addition to Indoensia, offers a virtual credit card and installment shopping platform, as well as an investment platform and neobank. Its other backers include Ant Group (Akulaku launched a BNPL partnership earlier this year with Alipay+).

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Homage currently operates in Singapore, Malaysia and Australia. One of the reasons Homage’s platform is able to scale up is its matching engine , which helps clients, like older adults and people living with chronic conditions, find providers who are best suited to their needs (the final matches are made by Homage’s team).

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Panasonic, the consumer electronics giant that also develops solar panels, air conditioning units and many other products for its sizable buildings and construction business , is taking an investment in Aldagram. It has been partnering with Aldagram since 2022. It currently employs 60 people.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Empowering women to build their own businesses in Malaysia Fintech, short for financial technology, refers to the use of technology and innovation to provide financial services and solutions. They cannot get loans since they are high risks for traditional banks, but we can help them build their small business, she said.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

Park also said SOCAR would replace a fleet of its vehicles with zero-emission, including electric or hydrogen-powered cars, by 2030 and strengthen its autonomous cars business. . The company already completed two acquisitions last month – South Korean online parking platform Modu Company and electric bike rental platform Elecle.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Employment Hero is an automated human resources, payroll and benefits platform for SMEs. Its previous funding announcement was a $45 million AUD Series D announced in March , led by online job platform SEEK, at the company’s previous valuation of about $250 million AUD.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

But the e-commerce landscape is more fragmented in the Asia-Pacific region, where sellers use platforms like Tokopedia, Lazada, Shopee, Rakuten or Ebay depending on where they are. Una currently has teams in Singapore, Malaysia and Australia and plans to expand in Southeast Asia before entering Taiwan, Japan and South Korea.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Upmesh was created to automate the checkout process and ultimately wants to create a platform similar to Whatnot where people can discover new live commerce sellers across different social media platforms. Upmesh currently works with Facebook Live, but will add other platforms, too, with the goal of becoming platform-agnostic.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Ben Thompson, co-founder and chief executive officer of human resources platform Employment Hero. Businesses, and the tech platforms that support their operations, had to adapt quickly to the pandemic. Employment Hero is designed for small-to-medium sized businesses, and combines human resources, payroll and benefits features.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

In Asia, one such sector appears to be the luxury fashion resale market, particularly for platforms that are seeing an uptick in users and sales. Kream , a reselling platform that lets people buy, sell and trade luxury goods like handbags, clothing and accessories, has raised a $168 million (220.6

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Singaporean insurtech company Surer , which automates the workflow and processes via a cloud-based platform, helps insurance intermediaries get rapid access to insurance quotations and insurers to distribute their products more efficiently. The company has raised a $1 million seed round to enhance its platform and scale in Asia.

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MARCH 14, 2023

Intellect , the Singapore-based mental health platform that now serves over three million users in 20 countries, is getting ready for a new phase of growth after striking a strategic partnership with IHH Healthcare, Asia’s largest private healthcare group. IHH Healthcare is Intellect’s first strategic investor.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Carsome , which bills itself as Southeast Asia’s largest e-commerce platform for used cars, announced it has closed a $30 million Series D. Founded five years ago in Malaysia, Carsome’s platform serves both C2C and B2C segments, and ensures quality by conducting inspections before vehicles are listed on its platform.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

“The stock market is expected to be tough for the time being, but the mobility industry will grow rapidly that we can’t miss this critical time; we will focus on accelerating mergers and acquisitions and investments in new businesses and technology.”. million users and 1.4 million monthly active users this year. million users and 1.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

TechCrunch caught up with Benjamin Croc , the company’s co-founder and CEO, who is located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (the city pictured in the image at the top of this post). In our conversation, TechCrunch was curious about how prevalent SaaS as a model is in Malaysia and the other countries the startups wants to sell into.

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JULY 20, 2021

Weight-loss platform Noom bulks up on $540 million in new funding. It has about 1,500 trainers and coaches on the platform, with plans to add 1,000 more to support its expansion. About 25% of HealthifyMe’s revenue comes from outside of India, including Singapore and Malaysia.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Despite dealing with the pandemic’s impact in all of its markets, including Hong Kong and Malaysia, the company began to see business improve during the second quarter of this year. Co-founder and chief executive officer TK Chen told TechCrunch that FunNow originally planned to start raising its Series B in 2020, before COVID hit.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

Xendit , a payments infrastructure platform for Southeast Asia, has raised $300 million in fresh funding. Part of the funding will be used to expand into new markets, like Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. Many small businesses, however, do not have the time or resources to do that. This friction means lost business for companies.

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