TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

GrowSari , a Manila-based platform for digitizing small businesses in the Philippines, announced today it has added $77.5 Other plans include adding more financial services and logistics solutions, with plans to have more than 50 fulfillment centers across the country. . million to its Series C round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Tala , an emerging markets digital lender that offers loans between $10 to $500 to consumers and small business owners, has raised $145 million in Series E funding. To add to that, over 2 billion of these people have limited access to financial services and working capital per World Bank statistics.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Voyager Innovations , the owner of Philippines’ payment and financial services app PayMaya and neobank Maya Bank, announced today it has raised $210 million, bringing its valuation to $1.4 PayMaya owner Voyager Innovation raises $167M from KKR, Tencent and IFC, to launch digital bank in the Philippines.

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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. The company also plans to launch value-added services. Indonesian payments infra startup Xendit raises $64.6M

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Jenfi , a “growth-capital-as-a-service” platform, can provide online businesses with revenue-based financing in a little as a day. 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.

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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. . The cloud kitchen market in Asia is projected to grow at 14.2% billion in 2021.

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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

MAY 14, 2023

The federal civilian service has an opportunity that would greatly benefit from the expertise of talented technologists like yourself. Service was always a part of my life, and I searched for opportunities to apply my tech skills to make a difference. Other moments are unexpected. I was laid off from my first job within three months.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Last month, for example, her team co-led an investment in Virtually Human Studio , the startup behind a digital horse racing service Zed Run, wherein users buy, sell and breed virtual horses whose value rises depending on their performance against other virtual horses. How did you first come across this digital horse racing business?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

GrowSari , the Manila-based startup that helps small shops grow and digitize, announced today that KKR will lead its Series C round with a $45 million investment. The funds will be used to enter new regions in the Philippines and expand its financial products. million “mom and pop” stores in the Philippines. .

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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 growth in e-payment suggests changing consumers’ spending habits as Southeast Asia moves toward a digital economy and a cashless society,” Thamavaranukupt said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Financial services, especially those for people who don’t have access to traditional bank accounts or lines of credit, are proliferating in Southeast Asia. For service providers, Jeff serves as a distribution channel, helping them find and retain customers. It also plans to enter the Philippines in the third quarter.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Being “underbanked” doesn’t mean that someone lacks access to financial services. But in markets like Indonesia, many still use digital wallets or e-commerce platforms, creating alternative sources of user data that can help them secure working capital and other financial tools.

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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. It expects to see the total addressable market jump from $52 billion to $180 billion by 2025.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It supports 10 digital assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Axie Infinity and USD-backed stablecoins USDC and USDT, and plans to expand to over 50 assets in the coming months. It plans to do the same for other crypto services like payments. The app currently has more than 75,000 users in over 60 countries.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

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. India’s Khatabook raises $60 million to help merchants digitize bookkeeping and accept payments online.

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Mehta said that the penetration rate of insurance in much of Southeast Asia is low, less than $100 USD per capita across Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. Igloo also provides products that Mehta says directly or indirectly benefits women, through a partnership with Philinsure in the Philippines.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Kenyan fintech Kwara was launched in 2019 to help credit unions (savings and credit cooperatives societies, SACCOs) in the East African country shift to digital platforms by providing them with its proprietary Back-end-as-a-service (BaaS) software.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

million in seed funding, and is now live in four markets (Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam) with connections to 30 banks. Brankas wants to bring Southeast Asia’s banks and e-commerce into the digital era. Based in Hong Kong, Finverse ’s ambitious goal is to enable open banking throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2023

Following the Kuscco partnership, Kwara said it has gained connections to a pool of over 4,000 saccos for its banking-as-a-service offering. And so, we are just going to be really investing in products and services that deepen our relationship here,” Kwara co-founder and CEO, Cynthia Wandia told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In October, Upmesh was used by almost 300 live commerce merchants in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines, with an annualized gross merchandise value of $40 million. . Live commerce is transforming eCommerce and shaping the buying behavior of the digital consumer in Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

Its customers are spread across Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong and Australia, and typically ship about 25 to 5,000 orders a day. So far, Locad has provided order fulfillment for 200 brands, including Havaians, Levi’s Reckitt Benckisder and Emma Sleep. 4 ways to use e-commerce data to optimize LTV pre- and post-holiday.

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TechNode

AUGUST 14, 2024

Lazada operates in Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, with its Thai business the first to achieve profitability in 2022. Temu, the budget-oriented retailing platform owned by PDD, entered the Thai market in August, one year after its expansion to Malaysia and the Philippines.

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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. Approximately 200 D2C brands have already started using Plugo’s beta service in Indonesia.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Interpark offers online travel booking services and international shipping to more than 230 countries and targets Korean, English, Chinese, and Japanese-speaking customers. Interpark’s services cover shopping, restaurant reservations, travel tickets, attractions, and live performances, a spokesperson at Yanolja told TechCrunch. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

We’re thinking of how do you make the experience of buying a home or investing a one-stop shop where you can do everything digitally.”. Homebase works with agents and developers as a value-add service that helps them close more deals. It is also exploring other Southeast Asian countries like Thailand and the Philippines.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

It’s the easiest option when I’m trying to be succinct, but Southeast Asia consists of 11 countries, and obviously there are huge differences between, say, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, the Philippines and Indonesia. A close look at Singapore’s thriving startup ecosystem.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

First, around product development, the team is eager to build next-generation digital renewable energy. With a similarity to the offline grid, Infinity connects to all the loads in a residence or business place and controls them digitally while providing data and analytics in the process. Brazil, Pakistan, and the Philippines.

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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. Both Payfazz and Xfers are Y Combinator alums, and want to make financial services accessible to more Southeast Asians, even if they don’t have a bank account.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Infrastructure developers like Solana, Avalanche and Polygon are trying to make blockchain services more scalable. With the new financial infusion, Oasys plans to strengthen partnerships with game developers, digital asset exchanges and others in the gaming and crypto industry. Oasys, merely five months old, shares the same goal.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

According to them, blockchain can allow the unbanked to have faster access to services such as lending, borrowing and buying insurance. Aided by the new capital, Masa claims to have recorded double-digit growth each month since the start of the year. The round, which has no lead investor, comes from traditional and web3-focused VCs.

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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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Therefore , digitizing has been mostly around delivery rather than building new infrastructure and payment processing models for African individuals and businesses to make cross-border payments. Financial institutions are left with traditional systems and correspondence models to offer service to their customers.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 30, 2013

A company cannot hire out of a hub city like Singapore and expect those individuals to cover Indonesia, India, Thailand, and the Philippines. Recruiters don’t understand this, so try to be hands on with your own network and utilize services like LinkedIn when finding your first few key employees. Nothing gets done otherwise.

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