TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Railsbank , the London-headquartered Banking-as-a-Service platform, has raised $37 million in new growth funding. This will include the launch of “credit cards as a service” in the U.S. Railsbank is a utility for the complete financial services backend: platform, connectivity, operations, scheme memberships (e.g.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

Now Infina , which calls itself the “Robinhood of Vietnam,” is announcing an oversubscribed $2 million seed round. of people in Vietnam have invested in stocks. But according to the Vietnams Securities Depository , about 500,000 trading accounts were opened during the first five months of 2021, a 20% increase from all of 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Kilo , a Vietnam-based B2B e-commerce platform that connects wholesalers with micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), wants to digitize the local retail value chain via technology. “In Kilo was founded in 2020 by Narayan, former CMO of Groupon, vice president of Coupang and chief business officer of TIKI Corporation.

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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.

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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. . We are taking the best practices along with key learnings to our next market launch.” .

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 21, 2025

Introduced in 2020, the visa allows non-EU nationals to live in Estonia for up to 12 months while working remotely for a foreign employer or running their own location-independent business. If youre earning your income from abroad, Vietnam doesnt tax itmaking it an especially attractive spot for freelancers, founders, and remote teams.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Indonesia-based insurtech startup Fuse announced today it has secured $25 million of Series B extension round as it plans to enter more countries including Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia. Fuse uses mobile applications to offer an agent-focused service, B2A (Business to Agent/ Broker).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

A few months ago, brothers Hai Nam Bui and Hai Long Bui were developing a bookkeeping app for small retailers in Vietnam. Called SoBanHang (or “sales book”), it would help businesses that usually rely on paper ledgers digitize their operations, similar to Khatabook in India and BukuKas and BukuWarung in Indonesia.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

For many, this makes it is difficult to secure loans and other services because they don’t have traditional financial records like a credit score. 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.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

Viva Republica, the Seoul-based fintech company behind Toss , a super app with more than 40 financial services, announced today it has raised $410 million at a post-money valuation of $7.4 It will also use the funding to continue its expansion in overseas markets, including Vietnam, where Toss launched last year. million users.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Founded in 2017, Loship offered one-hour deliveries for a large range of products and services, including food, ride-hailing, medicine and B2B supplies. Loship’s new funding will be used to expand into new cities and grow verticals like B2B deliveries for small food and beverage businesses and retail stores. Kamereo gets $4.6M

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The company’s business model is similar to Divvy Homes and ZeroDown in the United States and, in fact, Divvy Homes co-founder and former CEO Brian Ma and Zerodown chief operating officer Troy Steckenrider III are investors in Homebase. YC-backed Homebase is an alternative to traditional mortgages for home buyers in Vietnam.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The exceptional capacity of Langoo in its local business with Riiid Tutor was the main reason for this acquisition,” said co-founder and CEO of Riiid YJ Jang. Riiid plans to shore up marketing, sales and B2B business development in Japan by setting up a Japanese unit via the acquisition. Canada, Brazil, and Vietnam. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Founded in 2013 for on-demand deliveries within the same city, Lalamove has since grown its business to include freight services, enterprise logistics, moving and vehicle rental. The company entered the United States for the first time in October, and currently claims about 480,000 monthly active drivers and 7.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

It is a portfolio of loans to hundreds of small businesses in Singapore, which is the target market Validus serves, Goel added. . Last year, it acquired KlearCard, Singapore’s business payments and expense management platform. . In January, the company crossed a significant milestone of over $1 billion (SG$1.6

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2021

The new capital will be used on Glints’ expansion in Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and Taiwan and hiring for its product and engineering teams. Glints says its cross-border remote work hub, TalentHub, doubled its business in 2020 as the pandemic also made employers more open to hiring remotely.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Ascend Money , the Thailand-based fintech startup behind TrueMoney, an e-wallet service, announced today it has raised a $150 million Series C round at a valuation of $1.5 The e-wallet service also serves as a payment channel for B2B, ranging from big brands to local SME owners as well as street market entrepreneurs.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Vietnam War and Big Data: A Case Study in Machine Learning Robert S. It was his work as Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War, though, that connects him to what we now call data science and big data analytics. At a high-level, winning the Vietnam War What is the key uncertainty he hoped to solve? Fair question.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Brankas’ platform offers a roster of more than 10 “banking-as-a-service” embedded APIs, including ones for opening online bank accounts, credit scoring, identity verification, e-commerce transactions and gig economy payments. Founded in 2016, Brankas goal is to “democratize access to financial and identity data.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Supply chain disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine is driving increased costs of goods and services, affecting not only the industrial sector (e.g., Brazil, Turkey, India, Vietnam, Australia, Tanzania, the Netherlands, and Canada,” Hoshik Shin, founder and CEO of Tridge, told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It also recently expanded into Nigeria, Ghana and Vietnam, among other markets. Around this time, the two met Mishra, who was head of business for Indian delivery startup Dunzo, and started talking about how to solve the onboarding problem at scale. It plans to do the same for other crypto services like payments.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

Based in Singapore, the company has evolved from a ride-hailing app to a Southeast Asian super app that offers several consumer services, including food delivery, financial services, such as an e-wallet so that you can send and receive money. This is even more critical as our region recovers from COVID-19.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Hwang said that its business model is similar to Outschool, the San Francisco-based after-school marketplace for children. Glorang will use the Series A to expand its service to Japan and Malaysia by the fourth quarter of this year and Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam in the following years, Hwang said. pre-seed round.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Being “underbanked” doesn’t mean that someone lacks access to financial services. 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. Building Southeast Asia’s financial infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

Part of the funding will be used to expand into new markets, like Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. The company, which bills itself as “the Stripe of Southeast Asia,” also plans to add value-added services in addition to payments, like working capital loans. This friction means lost business for companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Rsquare will spend the proceeds on advancing its AI-based proptech platform, accelerating its commercial building transaction and fulfillment centers brokerage service and increasing headcount to 400 employees by next year, Lee said. It has 354 employees as of October.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The funding, which brings TreeDots’ total raised to $15 million, will be used to grow its operations in Malaysia, where it expanded last year, enter other markets and continue optimizing its logistics and supply chain business, called TreeLogs. The startup says its gross merchandise volume (GMV) has grown more than 4x year-over-year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

They can’t list those designs publicly on their website or sell through popular business-to-business platforms such as Alibaba and IndiaMart, as doing so would risk giving away the proprietary property to rivals. The way their business works is that buyers offer feedback and provide specifications for exactly what they want.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

The startup offers services including “Farm Morning,” an app that aggregates reliable data using AI, giving more than 500,000 farmers insight into crop lifecycle, and “Sinsun Market,” a B2B fresh produce marketplace for over 10,000 enterprise buyers, the company said. It also built smart farming software and hardware for farmers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Toward that end, Toss plans to use the proceeds of its newest fundraise to invest in its products, including digital lending and online payment service for individuals and local merchants. . Most recently, Toss launched a buy now pay later (BNPL) service in March, which it says has amassed more than 1 million registered users.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Xendit works with businesses of all sizes, processing more than 65 million transactions with $6.5 Its website promises businesses that “with a single integration,” they can accept payments in Indonesia and the Philippines. It aims for fast and easy integrations so that businesses can more easily accept payments digitally.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Founded in 2019, Komunidad has clients in the Philippines, India, Cambodia and Vietnam, and serves multiple sectors, including utilities, agriculture, mining, education, local governments and business outsourcing centers. The reports were meant to help businesses respond more quickly to natural disasters.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

As remote work continues to solidify its place as a critical aspect of how businesses exist these days, a startup that has built a platform to help companies source and bring on one specific category of remote employees — engineers — is taking on some more funding to meet demand. All of that is done in the cloud.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

KoinWorks is headquartered in Jakarta, with holding in Singapore and tech offices in Yogyakarta, India and Vietnam. Demand increased as more businesses went online during the COVID-19 pandemic and the startup says its user base tripled to 1.5 He says banks serving traditional SMEs have at least double KoinWorks’ NPL. “As

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The Next Web

AUGUST 30, 2013

My first post in this series described how businesses should start when considering expansion into Asia, which is home to some of the largest and fastest growing markets in the world. A business cannot even realistically cover a subset of those countries from Singapore. See part one here. Be ‘local’ but don’t overdo it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Kredivo Holdings , which offers credit services to underbanked consumers in Indonesia and Vietnam, has raised $270 million in what it says was an oversubscribed Series D. The company’s products include online and offline buy now, pay later, personal loans, credit cards and banking services through Krom.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

More than three-fourths of Southeast Asia’s population is unbanked or underbanked , meaning that don’t have a bank account or access to traditional lending services. Brick works closely with Bank Indonesia and Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority and is participating in Bank Rakyat Indonesia’s Sembrani Wira accelerator program.

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