The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

is a venture capitalist investing in Silicon Valley and Singapore. This four-step plan will help you move from idea to full-fledged business, without the need for massive startup capital. Some examples include: Organize a local market research campaign (best for services that involve connecting businesses with customers).

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Singapore-based Nektar.ai , a productivity platform for sales teams, has raised $2.15 Vijayvergiya told TechCrunch this helps sales teams by reducing time spent on administrative tasks and enabling them to feed data from various software into analytics tools and automated to-do lists. million in seed funding.

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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. Since its seed funding, Tinvio says its client base has increased four times to over 5,000 businesses in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and other Asian markets. 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 was founded in 2017 as a surplus food marketplace for F&B businesses, before it expanded its business to include social commerce, too. About one-third of food produced in the world is never eaten.

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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. . Singapore-based Volopay wants to be the ‘Brex of Southeast Asia’ To date, Volopay has raised approximately $31.4

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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. This covers a wide range of sectors, including IT companies, professional services, goods businesses and startups.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Now that I’ve mapped out key first steps that need to be taken and important cultural nuances to be aware of when expanding your business into Asia , many CEOs ask me if they can actually locate their engineering and product teams here and expect the same level of quality they get in the Valley. My simple answer is: absolutely.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Glints’ team. Glints’ platform currently has three million professionals in five markets (Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan), and 50,000 companies that are seeking workers, including AIA, IKEA, GetGo, KKday and Gameloft. Despite layoffs, there’s still a talent crunch in Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Fazz will use the round to continue building out its business accounts, which include payment, savings and credit features. It plans to double its transaction volumes over the next 12 months, and expand its teams in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Taiwan from 800 employees to 1,400.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

The round will be used to expand into more markets and develop new features for StaffAny’s platform, which currently operates in seven countries, including Singapore, where it is based, Malaysia, and Indonesia. It brings the startup’s total raised to $4.2 SMB tech is a sector GGV invests in globally.

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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 founder and CEO Anil Mathews told me that his company processes data around the online and offline behavior of 1.6 billion consumers each month: “We marry these two worlds and fill in the gap.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

In a press statement, Sasidharan said, “Zenyum’s differentiated business model gives it a strong competitive advantage, and we are excited to partner with the founder management team to help them realize their growth ambitions.” This brings Zenyum’s total raised so far to $56 million, including a $13.6

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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. Founded in 2018, Propseller will use its Series A to scale its business model, expand its offerings and enter overseas markets. Propseller’s team.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Raena’s team, from left to right: chief operating officer Guo Xing Lim, chief executive officer Sreejita Deb and chief commercial officer Widelia Liu. Sellers usually need to order minimum quantities, which makes it harder for people to start their own businesses, Raena co-founder Sreejita Deb told TechCrunch. Raena raises $1.82

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 24, 2023

“ Discover Yourself Both views are important for leaders who want to create positive cultures and strong teams. However, the benefits of exploring your inner dynamics extend far beyond business. describes her team of advisors like this. “I They can support you through risky decisions, business downturns, and even job loss.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

LMS365: Creating a course Image Credits : LMS365 From the end-user perspective, all this means that new-hires can be onboarded directly through Microsoft Teams, or receive ongoing training in all manner of disciplines from customer service to managing mental health. A little more than half of LMS365 users are based in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

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. . The acquisition will be completed in April 2022. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Salespeople have sales needs, they communicate with the marketing team and then once the marketing team has a direction they brief a designer, then the designer goes back to the marketer, and then the marketer goes back to the designer,” she said. Chen says most have large sales and marketing teams, but a shortage of designers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

The team behind HealthXCapital , which invested in and helped health tech startups scale up, has joined Singapore-based Jungle Ventures. That’s where he sees an opportunity for digital healthcare and new business models to increase access to healthcare. HealthXCapital’s portfolio includes RED.Health, Homage , Medfin and THB.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

To get more data for its latest Southeast Asia Tech Talent Compensation report, which covers startup hiring in Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam, Monk’s Hill Ventures teamed up with Glints , one of its portfolio companies. This means compensation packages are being driven up and startups face a talent crunch, especially in Singapore.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2020

If you’re starting a company because your goal is to make as much money as possible, if it turns out to be hard it’s going to be really difficult to convince yourself and your team and investors to stick with the idea. This VC introduced Palantir’s first business hire to its earliest engineer, then his business took off.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Betterdata , a Singapore-based startup that uses programmable synthetic data to keep real data secure, announced today it has raised $1.55 Betterdata also plans to hire more people, including sales and marketing employees, and expand beyond Singapore to more of the Asia-Pacific region over the next one to two years.

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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. Early investors include the Baobab Network, an Africa-focused accelerator based in London, and Signal Hill, a Singapore-based fund manager that participated in its $5.5 The company is announcing a $10.5 million seed round last year.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Based in Singapore, Tablevibe wants to help restaurants reduce their reliance on third-party delivery apps and help them get more direct orders and returning customers. The idea for Tablevibe came after Rutten, its chief executive officer, visited a restaurant in Singapore that used paper feedback forms. “We

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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. for its research and development, sales, supply chain and finance and marketing teams. . Next Gen also announced changes to its leadership team.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Now Singapore-based Syfe is announcing that it has closed a $30 million Series B, only nine months after its Series A. We really scaled up the team and started launching new products and options for our users.” Singapore-based Syfe, a robo-advisor with a human touch, raises $18.6 million led by Valar Ventures.

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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. For example, in Singapore, HitPay currently works with about 10 to 15 payment methods.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2021

It currently has operations in in five markets: Singapore, Malayasia, the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong, and is preparing to launch in Thailand. The new funding will be used on expanding StashAway’s product and engineering teams to continue feature and product development. In Singapore alone, it is around $1.1

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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 company cannot hire out of a hub city like Singapore and expect those individuals to cover Indonesia, India, Thailand, and the Philippines.

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The Verge

AUGUST 11, 2020

In an interview, he said the company’s fleet of vehicles that are operating in Las Vegas, Singapore, and Seoul will soon be rebranded with the “Motional” brand. While its name may be new, Iagnemma contends that the Motional team has been hard at work on getting cars to drive themselves for a long time. But Iagnemma sees it differently.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Singapore-based Thunes , a fintech focused on making cross-border money transfers easier, announced today it has raised a $60 million growth round led by Insight Partners. It is regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

The software enables HR teams to digitize employee records, automate administrative tasks like employee onboarding and time-off management, and integrate employee data from different systems. But most HR teams Chan and Ip spoke to wanted an all-in-one solution. Many were still using spreadsheets or basic payroll software.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

The company, which started in Singapore but now has operations around the world, said it is now valued at $1.6 Overall, we can help any kind of business—whether they are insurers, brokers, agents or non-insurance businesses like telcos, e-commerce, retailers, fintech—to embed insurance at the point of need for their customers,” Schimek said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

In particular, fintech startups—BNPL, credit and lending, and inventory-holding businesses—are vulnerable, like i n other parts of the world. Teams that have been hit hardest include operations, financial and human resource departments, plus some sales and marketing teams. among those affected. It’s a correction in general.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

And NewCampus, a Singapore-based startup co-founded by Will Fan and Fei Yao , announced today that it has raised millions of dollars to help coming of age companies train their maturing workforce to help them grow into those new, larger roles. The startup has closed a seed financing round of $2.5

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