TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

YouTrip, a Singapore-based fintech that offers multicurrency wallet for consumers and business accounts with corporate cards for SMEs, has its eyes on growth throughout Southeast Asia after landing a Series B led by Lightspeed. The round was $50 million, and brings YouTrip’s total raised to $100 million since it launched in 2018.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Ninja Van , a Singapore-based logistics startup, has closed a $578 million Series E round to support its operations infrastructure and technology systems growth. Founded in 2014, the company operates its business across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Both companies are based in Singapore and operate in Southeast Asian markets. ShopBack, a cashback startup in Asia Pacific, raises $45M from Rakuten and others. Other acquisitions ShopBack has made to build out its business include personal finance community Seedly and Ebates Korea.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Singapore-based industrial robotics firm Sesto this week announced a $5.7 million raise, featuring TRIVE, WTI GmbH and SEEDS Capital (Enterprise Singapore’s VC wing). The round follows a similarly sized $4 million Series A, back in 2018.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

The Singapore-based startup announced today it has raised a $12 million Series A to build out its B2B transactions platform. All of Tinvio’s existing investors—Sequoia Capital India’s Surge, Global Founders Capital and Partech Ventures—also returned for its Series A, which brings Tinvio’s total raised to $18.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Singapore-based Nektar.ai , a productivity platform for sales teams, has raised $2.15 Demand Sage raises $3M to make sales and marketing data more accessible. Nektar co-founders Abhijeet Vijayvergiya and Aravind Ravi Sulekha. million in seed funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Aspire , the Singapore-based neobank that wants to become the financial operating system for SMEs, has raised an oversubscribed $100 million Series C round. TechCrunch last covered Aspire when it raised its Series B in 2021. TechCrunch last covered Aspire when it raised its Series B in 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Based in Singapore with offices throughout Asia and Australia, Reebelo wants to make buying pre-owned tech as desirable as a brand new device. It has offices in Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Taiwan. But the two said something like Recommerce didn’t exist yet in Singapore, where Rastouil grew up.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Singapore-headquartered esports startup Ampverse has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Falcon Capital. The company says this is the largest Series A raised by an esports organization in Southeast Asia, based on data from PitchBook and other third-party platforms.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Based in Singapore, Nimbly develops software that automates more of that process. The startup announced today it has raised $4.6 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.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Fazz , the Southeast Asian digital financial services group created by the merger of PayFazz and Xfers , announced today that it has raised a total of $100 million in Series C funding. Fazz will use the round to continue building out its business accounts, which include payment, savings and credit features.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

Zenyum , a startup that wants to make cosmetic dentistry more affordable, announced today it has raised a $40 million Series B. This brings Zenyum’s total raised so far to $56 million, including a $13.6 ” Beam raises $80M as the dental insurer looks to keep up rapid historic growth.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

By digitalizing the insurance work for insurers and intermediaries, its platform enables them to save time, focus on their clients and scale their business. . The company has raised a $1 million seed round to enhance its platform and scale in Asia. India’s insurance platform Turtlemint raises $30 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Co-founded by Quah in 2019 to securely verify documents, Singapore-based Accredify announced today that it has raised $7 million in Series A funding co-led by iGlobe Partners and SIG Venture Capital with participation from returning investors Pavilion Capital and Qualgro.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Finantier , a Singapore-based open finance startup, wants to streamline that data with a single API that gives financial services access to user data, with their consent. Currently in beta mode with more than 20 clients, Finantier is busy getting ready to officially launch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The Singapore-based company announced today it has raised $6 million in seed funding, led by B Capital Group. Singapore-based sales productivity platform Nektar raises $2.15 The company says this is one of the largest seed rounds ever for a SaaS company based in Asia. million seed round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Singapore-based TreeDots , which says it is the first food surplus marketplace in Asia, wants to help. TreeDots announced today that it has raised an $11 million Series A led by Amasia and East Ventures, with participation from investors including Active Fund, Seeds Capital, author Nir Eyal and actress Fiona Xie.

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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. In total, Alerzo has raised more than $20 million since its launch. “Growing up in Ibadan, I watched my mother operate two informal retail stores to raise my three siblings and me. The company is announcing a $10.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Singapore-based startup announced today it has raised an oversubscribed Series A of $8 million SGD (about $6 million USD) led by Qualgro, with participation from AC Ventures. Supermom currently has a presence in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand, and plans to expand into more markets. TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Singapore-based Aspire , which wants to become the financial services “one-stop shop” for SMEs, announced that its business accounts have reached $1 billion in annualized transaction volume one year after launching. We can go in and say we offer all-in-one financial tools for growing businesses,” he said. Aspire raises $32.5M

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60M in funding. The final piece of my four-part guide to expanding a business into Asia is tailored more towards local startups and a big issue that affects many of them: raising funding from investors. Sequoia , Accel , NEA , etc.).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Based in Singapore, ZEBOX Asia will also look at markets like Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan and Korea. ZEBOX CEO Gwen Salley told TechCrunch that along with access to mentoring, experts, business opportunities and funding, its incubator program gives startups opportunities to test their solutions and work with large corporations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Volopay , a Singapore-based fintech startup, raised a $29 million Series A in debt and equity financing as it seeks to further expand its footprint in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and North Africa. . To date, Volopay has raised approximately $31.4 Singapore-based Volopay wants to be the ‘Brex of Southeast Asia’

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Carousell did not specify which business units or regional offices would be affected by the layoffs. The Singapore-headquartered company operates in Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. . Southeast Asia-based mobile listings startup Carousell raises $85M.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Two companies in the data business are teaming up, with Near announcing that it has acquired French startup Teemo. Near raises $100M for an AI that merges online and offline behavior to build consumer profiles. Formerly known as Databerries , Teemo has raised a total of $17.9 “Teemo is very pro-privacy,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

The Singapore-based startup has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding led by Plug and Play APAC and Seed Capital, with participation from Earth Venture Capital and angel investor Alice Foo. Singapore-based AlterPacks turns food waste into food containers by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch.

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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. This brings Glints’ total raised so far to $80 million. Founded in 2013, the Singapore-based startup says its annual revenue and gross profits grew 2.5x

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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 Singapore-based startup announced today it has raised $6.6 This lets Jenfi continuously monitor its borrowers’ business activity, including revenue growth and marketing return on investment.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Investment apps in Southeast Asia are attracting a lot of funding, and now some are raising fast follow-on rounds, too. For example, Indonesian robo-advisor app Bibit raised $65 million in May just four months after a $30 million growth round. This brings Syfe’s total raised so far to $52.4 Syfe founder Dhruv Arora.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The company announced today it has raised a $100 million Series A that will be used to expand quickly in the United States and on its Singapore research and development center, which is currently under construction. Next Gen Foods says this is the largest Series A ever raised by a plant-based meat company, based on data from Pitchbook.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Singapore-based Deskimo , the on-demand app that lets people find co-working spaces and pay by the minute, announced today it has raised a $3 million seed round. It is also soft launching in Jakarta, bringing its total markets to three, along with Singapore and Hong Kong.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Singapore and Chile. It is currently raising venture backing largely from strategic corporate investors. Competitors include Turnkey Group, Nasdaq OneReport, Enablon (which has raised $15 million) and World-favour.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Many Southeast Asian digital businesses run into obstacles when seeking early-stage growth financing. That’s where Singapore-based Jenfi comes in, providing revenue-based financing of up to $500,000 with flexible repayment plans that co-founder and chief executive officer Jeffrey Liu refers to as “growth capital as a product.” .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Headquartered in Singapore, proptech startup Propseller is on a mission to make real estate transactions more efficient and data-driven for sellers and buyers alike. Today Propseller announced it has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India. . co ,” said Jorge.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Singapore-based Next Gen Foods will bring its plant-based chicken alternative to the United States after raising a $20 million seed extension. The first $10 million was already the largest seed funding ever raised by a plant-based food tech company, based on data from Pitchbook, and now the round totals $30 million.

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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. Railsbank raises $10M Series A for its open banking and compliance platform. Singapore, Vilnius (Lithuania), Munich (Germany), Newcastle (U.K.), and Europe and helps protect the reputation of the fintech industry.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

After several launches, however, the Singapore-based startup noticed an interesting trend: customers were ordering batches of products from Raena every week and reselling them on social media and e-commerce platforms like Shopee and Tokopedia. Raena raises $1.82 Its last funding announcement was a $1.82

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