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Upmesh wants to build a community-driven discovery app for Southeast Asian live commerce

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Upmesh was launched nine months ago by Wong Zi Yang, Soh Jan, Nhat Vu and Shawn Teow, and is now used by almost 300 live commerce merchants in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines. If we look at an interesting comparison to the U.S., The startup says it processes annualized gross merchandise value of $40 million.

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Singapore-based Supermom helps parenting brands navigate a post-cookie world

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Supermom , a parenting platform with 20 million users in six Southeast Asian countries, offers parents price comparisons, communities and the chance to earn money by completing surveys. Supermom currently has a presence in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand, and plans to expand into more markets.

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AppWorks closes third fund with $150M for Taiwan and Southeast Asia startups

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By comparison, the top quartile of global VC and private equity funds launched around the same time have a TVPI of 2.4x, according to data from Cambridge Associates. Lin said that many of AppWorks accelerator graduates over the past three to five years are from Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and, increasingly, Indonesia and the Philippines.

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Monk’s Hill Ventures and Glints on how Southeast Asian startups can cope with the region’s talent crunch

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If you stay only in Singapore, Malaysia or even Vietnam, you will not be a large enough business and make the impact you want to make. In comparison, at the same funding stages, CTO’s median salary increased from $3,300 to $7,550 respectively. It also lays the groundwork for regional expansion.

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Go1 raises $200M at a $1B+ valuation to boost its curated enterprise learning platform

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Singapore and Malaysia, so it wants to go deeper into Europe more broadly and into more of Asia Pacific, he said. Barnes added that the funding will be used to expand further in existing markets. Based out of Brisbane, Australia, Go1 has offices in London, the U.S.,

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Why were doomscrolling about plane crashes even though air travel is relatively safe

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If you look at Google Trends for searches about aviation accidents and incidents, we're searching for them nearly 50 times more often now than we were at any point since Google started collecting data — including when the infamous lost Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that took over our breaking news banners in 2014.

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5 takeaways on trust in NGOs to manage new innovations and technologies 

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Respondents in 12 countries trust in NGOs ‘to do what is right’ More than 60% of respondents said they trusted NGOs “to do what is right” in 12 out of 28 countries: India, Kenya, Nigeria, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa.