TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Indonesia-based financial platform for SMEs announced today it has raised $108 million in Series C funding led by MDI Ventures. As many as 20% of businesses shifted their sales channels offline to online during the pandemic, and 89% of businesses now use online channels to sell their products and services,” he said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The company now has 90 team members in seven offices across the Asia-Pacific: Singapore, Australia, India, China, Indonesia and Malaysia. After acquisitions, Una grows brands by adding new distribution channels or expanding them into new countries. E-commerce aggregator Rainforest raises $20M just months after its last funding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

The company helps farmers earn more for their crops by streamlining distribution channels so there are less middlemen between farms and the restaurants, grocery stores, vendors and other businesses that buy their products. Agritech startup TaniGroup raises $10M to help Indonesia’s farmers grow. Rakuten and Beyond Next invest $1.4M

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

The app also added additional payment channel integrations; Pintu Staking, which lets users stake their Pintu Token; and Pintu Earn, a product that enables them to earn an up to a 15% annual percentage yield (APY) on selected crypto assets which are paid hourly with no lock-up period.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

It is currently focused on Indonesia, with a presence in 40 cities. Instead of ads, TipTip provides direct monetization channels through tipping and direct purchases, and takes a cut from every sale on its platform. TipTip currently has 2,500 content creators and over 30,000 users.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

The startup says that in 2022, its platform channeled IDR 3.6 The company also announced it has appointed Dr. Peter Jacobs, a former executive director of Bank Indonesia, as its commissioner, and will continue to hire for senior positions. Open finance startup Ayoconnect’s APIs enable financial inclusion in Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Brankas says it is seeing 30% month-on-month growth in API usage and is now used by more than 40 banks and 100 enterprise customers and channel partners. It also plans to add more capabilities to its payments, data and banking-as-a-service API product menu in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The company, which was founded in 2013, also plans to strengthen its global operations across six countries — Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, and the Philippines. 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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Una Brands has differentiated itself as an Asia-focused e-commerce aggregator capable of operating brands across all channels, such as Amazon, Shopify, Shopee, Lazada and Tokopedia, compared to some of its peers, which focus on brands that sell on Amazon. The startup said in September it had annualized revenue of more than $50 million.)

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

As part of the deal, Payfazz, an agent-based financial services network in Indonesia, invested $30 million into payments infrastructure provider Xfers. In Indonesia, Payfazz has built a network of 250,000 financial agents to reach people in rural areas where many banks don’t operate branches. ” Singapore-based Xfers Lands $2.5M

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

The 400-person organization claims that more than 235,000 pharmacy professionals and 45,000 pharmacies use the app in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia. ”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

In the traditional retail channel, all inventory purchases have been done the same way for generations — through offline distributors and sales reps,” Musa told TechCrunch. This analog process requires a lot of manual labor and most often favors large distributors. Meanwhile, Miferia is still in its early stages.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

In Indonesia, arisans are traditionally rotating savings and credit associations (RSCA) that let groups of people, primarily women, save and borrow money together. Mapan is currently available in Java, Bali, Sumatera, Nusa Tenggara and Sulawesi, with plans to expand into the rest of Indonesia.

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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. million in orders across 150 brands in the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan and Australia.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It operates in the United States, South Korea, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia. Summer International brands are sold through a mix of digital and offline channels, including e-commerce platforms, social and live commerce platforms and big box stores.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Most of its users are in Vietnam, but Edupia is also expanding into other Southeast Asian markets like Indonesia, Thailand and Myanmar, and adding more subjects, including math and coding. Before founding Edupia, Hung spent 10 years as director of digital services at Viettel, the largest telco in Vietnam.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

million sari-sari stores in the Philippines, and they account for 60% of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sold in the country, making them a valuable distribution channel for wholesalers. According to GrowSari, there are more than 1.1 BukuWarung, a fintech for Indonesian MSMEs, scores $60M Series A led by Valar and Goodwater.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

WhatsApp has long transcended its roots as a simple messaging app for friends, and is now a core communication tool for businesses seeking a direct channel to their customers’ pockets — both literally, and metaphorically.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Users choose the delivery channels they want, such as bank to bank, wallet to wallet, bank to wallet and wallet to bank options to transfer funds as well as make merchant payments, with settlement done within 24 hours,” said CEO Eddie in a statement.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 11, 2014

The high Internet growth countries are now India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Mexico, and Philippines. The nonprofit Khan Academy YouTube channel got 430 million plus views last year, a 69% increase from last year. Here's what I found: Internet growth: 2.6 Global Internet adoption growth is actually slowing compared to previous years.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Jacky Lai, CEO of Peeba, who has worked in tech and supply chain management for over a decade, told TechCrunch he has heard from brands that they struggle to find new sales channels and partners, especially in Asia.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

How it adds value is by doing things that are difficult for small brands to execute, especially those run by just one or two people, like expanding into more distribution channels and countries.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

About a decade ago, Donghwan Kim helped his cousin, a ceramist, look for sales channels, like flea markets, to sell his ceramics. But they had a hard time locating a suitable platform, so after about a year, Kim decided to create a marketplace for handmade goods himself in South Korea called Backpackr.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

In November 2022, the Chinese fintech giant further strengthened these efforts with the launch of its Alipay+ D-store solution, enabling SMEs to build their all-in-one store across platforms and connect with different payment channels in just a few minutes using a suite of toolkits. Still, the demand is booming.

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 29, 2014

Latest global social, digital, mobile data for ya : his report presents all the key statistics, data and behavioural indicators for social, digital and mobile channels around the world.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Jason Brown: We are always looking for opportunities to partner with new entrants that have a differentiated and cost-effective customer acquisition channel, either through partnerships or product innovation. Tabby is a great example in MENA, Akulaku in Indonesia, and so is Paidy in Japan.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

FLIK works with e-commerce sites built with platforms like WooCommerce and Magento, plus social media channels like Instagram shops and chat applications. It can also be embedded into blog articles to turn them into mini e-commerce sites.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

I certainly get inspired by getting to touch and be a part of some of the vast wilderness left on the planet, so the job has allowed me the privilege, which not everyone has, of going to Indonesia, and going to the Amazon in Brazil, and certainly that is fuel that will fill my engine for a very long time. Thanks for listening.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

H2O Hospitality will expand its business further by adding various types of accommodations in South Korea and Japan in 2021 and 2022 and plans to enter Singapore and Indonesia in 4Q in 2022 in line with its Southeast Asia penetration strategy, according to H2O Hospitality co-founder and CEO John Lee.

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