TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Oyo is ready to explore the public markets. The eight-year-old Indian budget hotel giant has filed the paperwork (PDF) with the local market regulator for an initial public offering, in which it is seeking to raise about $1.16 to name a few markets. Oyo has also streamlined its relationship with hotels in recent quarters.

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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. . Norwegian investor Kistefos , Markel Digital Investment and an angel investor participated in the latest round. trillion general insurance industry. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

The Hong Kong-headquartered startup will use the fresh capital for its market penetration into Southeast Asia, specifically Singapore and Malaysia, as well as the U.K. The global social commerce market is projected to rise to $6.2 Slack now has a team of 60 members in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and the U.K.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Today the Hong Kong and Malaysia-headquartered startup announced it has raised $23 million in Series B funding to scale its team and product. WATI founders Bianca Ho and Ken Yeung began working together in 2016, building Clare.AI, an omnichannel AI digital assistant for large Asia enterprises. WATI’s last round of funding was an $8.3

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

In addition, Toni works on several digital-economy-related initiatives that support the scaling of digital businesses, stimulate startup ecosystems and accelerate the digital transformation of key industries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Middle East. Jamil Wyne. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

The amount of the investment is not being disclosed, but Aldagram said it will use the funds to sharpen its focus on India, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia and other countries in the region. The global construction management software market is expected to reach $23.9 billion in 2031, up from $9.3

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Despite dealing with the pandemic’s impact in all of its markets, including Hong Kong and Malaysia, the company began to see business improve during the second quarter of this year. During the pandemic, FunNow faced different challenges in each of its markets. During the outbreaks, FunNow’s team adapted the app’s services.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The app also has an AI-based nutritionist called Ria that is trained for cuisines in different markets through a combination of user-tracked data, guidance from local nutritionists and databases from sources like the United States Department of Agriculture. When it enters a new market, the company localizes its services using a playbook.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Its fourth fund is focused on Malaysia and run by a separate team). Its team has grown to 35 people, with most based in Indonesia, but ACV also recently established Singapore and Malaysia offices. Last year, Indonesia’s digital GDP was $70 billion and that’s expected to grow to over $350 billion in the next five to six years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

IHH Healthcare will work with Intellect to develop and customize digital mental health programs for its patients, corporate clients and staff. Founded in 2019, Intellect’s markets now include Malaysia, Singapore, India and Hong Kong. Founded in 2019, Intellect’s markets now include Malaysia, Singapore, India and Hong Kong.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Jakarta-based Xendit , best known for its digital payment infrastructure but also focused on other financial products, announced today it has raised $150 million in Series C funding, bumping its valuation to $1 billion. Suddenly the malls are closed, so we’ve been able to sign some of the bigger retail outlet groups in the market as well.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, digital transformation is happening all over the world. Indonesia’s Xendit , a startup focused on building digital payments infrastructure for the region, has just raised $64.6 It aims for fast and easy integrations so that businesses can more easily accept payments digitally.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

million USD in seed funding, which it says one of the largest seed rounds raised by a digital mental health startup in Southeast Asia so far. ThoughtFull’s main operating markets are Singapore and Malaysia, but it now has users in 43 countries. One of them, ThoughtFull , announced today it has raised $1.1 to expand across Asia.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

It operates in Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. It expects to see the total addressable market jump from $52 billion to $180 billion by 2025. This is a milestone in our journey to open up access for everyone to benefit from the digital economy.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

For brands, it gives them a way to conduct market research and collect first-party data, which is important as marketers prepare for a post-cookie world. Supermom currently has a presence in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand, and plans to expand into more markets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

The new funding will be used to grow its customer base in Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia, and expand into new markets in Southeast Asia, like Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. This lets Jenfi continuously monitor its borrowers’ business activity, including revenue growth and marketing return on investment.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Today, the company claims 1,000 businesses have used Take App from across 35 different markets, though the vast majority are based in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia. We focus on traditional businesses with a digital gap.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Launched in South Korea five years ago, content discovery platform Dable now serves a total of six markets in Asia. Now it plans to speed up the pace of its expansion, with six new markets in the region planned for this year, before entering European countries and the United States. How will digital media survive the ad crash?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

The global thirst for an up-charged pair of Yeezy’s or limited edition Jordan’s combined with a growth in a digital ecosystem is creating new opportunities, particularly in the sneaker resale market, for companies like Kicks Crew , a Los Angeles- and Hong Kong-based sneaker and apparel platform. Canada, Australia and Asia.

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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. . Citigroup also has agreed to sell its Southeast Asia retail operations in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam to Singapore-based United Overseas Bank for about $3.7billion in January. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Before launching IDEAL, Surjaudaja was former head of operations strategy at digital payment service OVO. Surjaudaja said that traditional retail banks offer a relatively poor digital experience for their consumer lending products, making them less accessible. IDEAL’s digital platform seeks to solve these challenges.

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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. TreeDots also helps them digitize their operations through its app and onboard to TreeLogs.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

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. year-over-year, continuing its trend of annual revenue growing at a triple-digit percentage.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

More than 80% of households in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam own two-wheeled vehicles, but the majority are fueled by gas. kW) and 2 times the range (100 km versus 50 km) of most electric motorbikes in the market, at the same price point. In 2018, he moved back to Vietnam and launched Dat Bike.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Based in Hong Kong, Pickupp also operates in Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan, and claims it can save clients an average of about 28% in logistic costs. Sensing a market opportunity, Pang began using her software engineering background to think of a solution. Pickupp is able to do this with an asset-light business model.

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TechNode

AUGUST 14, 2024

Details: Lazada will continue to increase investment in the Southeast Asian market under a sustainable operating model, Dong said on the meeting, according to the attendee. Lazada operates in Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, with its Thai business the first to achieve profitability in 2022.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The company offers a complete spectrum of e-commerce support services for direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, from making a website, setting up a payment system, and managing marketing to handling shipping, warehousing, and logistics. In other words, Plugo enables D2C merchants to focus on their products and supports other processes.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Tiger Global’s latest investment in India is Vecmocon , a startup building solutions to bring safety and reliability alongside intelligence and health monitoring to light electric vehicles (EVs), addressing concerns that are curtailing the sales of electric scooters in the South Asian market. Some have even caught fire in the recent past.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Lin said AppWorks has a strong incoming pipeline because many startups in its ecosystem, including ones run by accelerator alumni and its mentor network of about 100 seasoned entrepreneurs, have reached product-market fit, are scalable and need to raise funding to accelerate growth.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

South Asia, for instance, has the lowest average remittance costs across all regions at 4.95% (these percentages are reported on a standard $200 transfer); therefore, it makes sense to tap into the opportunities the market presents. Most of the focus on remittance has been the flow of money into Africa for sustenance.

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TechNode

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

CEO Eddie Wu, in an internal memo, said the move aims to enhance the companys ability to serve consumers worldwide and support small- and medium-sized enterprises in expanding across global markets, as reported in Chinese media outlet 36Kr. In September, Taobao introduced an English version of its platform in Malaysia and Singapore.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2023

The story was among the most read on the site that day, further evidence that people are really interested in technology that relates to the property rental market, specifically when it comes to investing. On Friday, I published an article on Doorstead ’s $21.5 million Series B raise. million residents of Muslim faith in the U.S.

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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 , an international accelerator network founded by shipping conglomerate CMA CGM to introduce more tech innovation into the supply chain industry, announced today the launch of its APAC headquarters.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The funding will be used to grow Docquity in its existing markets, like Indonesia and the Philippines, and enter new ones, including Japan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. How digital health startups are navigating the post-Roe legal landscape.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Four hundred million people in the region already use the internet, but by year’s end, one estimate suggests that 80% of the population over the age of 15 in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam will be digital consumers. Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets.

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MARCH 3, 2021

“This is also coupled with the fact that last year, the COVID-19 pandemic has driven a significant increase in demand for digital payments and financial services across Indonesian rural areas, creating a huge growth opportunity for us,” Liu added. Payfazz uses payment infrastructure developed by Xfers to accept digital payments.

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