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. . Southeast Asian lending platform Validus raises $20 million for its Series B+ round.

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JUNE 27, 2021

Now Infina , which calls itself the “Robinhood of Vietnam,” is announcing an oversubscribed $2 million seed round. of people in Vietnam have invested in stocks. But according to the Vietnams Securities Depository , about 500,000 trading accounts were opened during the first five months of 2021, a 20% increase from all of 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

A few months ago, brothers Hai Nam Bui and Hai Long Bui were developing a bookkeeping app for small retailers in Vietnam. 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.

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JANUARY 10, 2022

With COVID-19 prompting many to digitize, startups that focus on SMEs have been raising large rounds of funding to scale up quickly. The Indonesia-based financial platform for SMEs announced today it has raised $108 million in Series C funding led by MDI Ventures. KoinWorks is the latest.

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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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AUGUST 29, 2022

Glints , one of Southeast Asia’s largest talent development and recruitment platforms, announced today it has raised $50 million in an oversubscribed Series D. year-over-year, continuing its trend of annual revenue growing at a triple-digit percentage. This brings Glints’ total raised so far to $80 million. Glints’ team.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

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. The startup, which launched its app in Vietnam last year, announced today it has raised $1 million, led by the Estonian Business Angels Network (EstBAN).

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

A startup called Peeba has built a B2B wholesale online platform that connects independent retailers across Asia with unique brands around the world. The Hong Kong-headquartered company wants to help Asia-based B2B retailers reduce inventory risk and offer higher operational efficiency with lower costs via its platform. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

SwipeRx , a platform for pharma professionals, said Tuesday it has secured a $27 million Series B round led by Indonesia’s MDI Ventures, with participation from the Gates Foundation, Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures, Susquehanna International Group and existing backers. Image Credits: SwipeRx.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

QuotaBook , a Seoul-based equity management platform, has raised $11 million in funding led by Elefund, with participation from Access Ventures, Hana Securities and South Korean fintech company Viva Republica. Some of its previous backers, including Draper Associates and Capstone Partners, joined the round. Image Credits: QuotaBook.

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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. Dable (the name is a combination of “data” and “able”) currently serves more than 2,500 media outlets in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia. How will digital media survive the ad crash?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Malaysia-based Food Market Hub is a cloud-based platform that connects food and beverage (F&B) outlets directly to suppliers, making it easier to communicate and manage orders. Orders can be placed through the platform or by email and WhatsApp. Orders can be placed through the platform or by email and WhatsApp.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Ascend Money will use the proceeds to grow its e-wallet application – TrueMoney Wallet – and expand its digital financial services ranging from digital lending and digital investment to cross border remittances in Southeast Asia. Apart from e-wallet, we are an agent-based payment and remittance service provider.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It now offers 15 products, including policies for gig workers, gamers, cars and farmers in Vietnam, and says it has facilitated more than 300 million policies and increased gross written premiums by 30 times since 2019. Another, more recent one, is is Weather Index Insurance product in Vietnam.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Pillow aspires to be an all-in-one platform that helps even newbie users save, spend and invest in crypto currency. 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.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Its new strategic investor may be adding another few to that list: Panasonic’s construction business is particularly active in India, Turkey and Vietnam. Spain, Kenya, Uganda, Dubai, India, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Australia, have been using KANNA since its initial product launch 2020, the company said.

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

The company wants to focus on the Indonesian market, one of the largest markets in Southeast Asia, for the next 12 months, then expand to other Southeast Asian countries, such as Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines, Bang told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The fintech, which claims to be the region’s largest SME digital financing platform, uses alternative forms of credit-scoring and has disbursed more than $2 billion in financing to MSMEs since it launched in 2015. It recently began operating in Vietnam and will use part of its Series C+ to enter the Philippines. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Coding education platform co-founders Tung Nguyen and Ha Nguyen. Vietnam’s digital economy is one of the fastest growing in the world, but the country is facing a growing shortage of IT workers. For example, I was born in a poor working family, in a remote province in Vietnam.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Fazz , the Southeast Asian digital financial services group created by the merger of PayFazz and Xfers , announced today that it has raised a total of $100 million in Series C funding. This includes $75 million in equity and a $25 million debt facility. The company says that it saw $10 billion in annualized transaction volumes last year.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

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. It’s already eyeing Vietnam and the Philippines and has established partnerships in Brussels.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

Fairbanc will use its new funding on expanding in Indonesia, and exploring new markets like Vietnam and the Philippines in partnership with Unilever. Fairbanc also received previous investment from East Ventures, 500 Global and Michael Smapoerna. BNPL in 2022: 4 fintech investors discuss regulation, trends and how to stand out.

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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. In July, it announced a strategic investment in legacy online payments platform Dragonpay. in Accel-led Series B.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

They can’t list those designs publicly on their website or sell through popular business-to-business platforms such as Alibaba and IndiaMart, as doing so would risk giving away the proprietary property to rivals. SourceWiz has built a platform to digitize the way exporters operate. This is where SourceWiz comes in.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

A Seoul-based proptech startup called Rsquare built a data-driven platform to digitize the process, enabling tenants to compare multiple properties and find an office. Rsquare, which opened an office in Vietnam in June, is set to enter Singapore this month and Indonesia in 2022, Lee added. It has 354 employees as of October.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Greenlabs, founded in 2017 by Scott Sungwoo Choi, Shin and Luke Donghyun Ahn, wants to digitize the entire value chain of agriculture space from crop production to distribution with a mission to address the global food supply problem in a sustainable way. Indonesian agritech platform TaniHub Group harvests a $65.5M Series B round.

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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 ” Xendit was originally launched as a P2P payments platform before evolving into its current model.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

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. TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Toward that end, Toss plans to use the proceeds of its newest fundraise to invest in its products, including digital lending and online payment service for individuals and local merchants. . Viva Republica continues to push ahead with its acquisitions. Toss Payments’ monthly trading volume surpassed $ 2.7 billion in November.)

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Based in Jakarta, IDEAL simplifies the process with a platform that lets users compare mortgage products and apply for them from multiple banks at the same time. Before launching IDEAL, Surjaudaja was former head of operations strategy at digital payment service OVO. IDEAL’s digital platform seeks to solve these challenges.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

million Series A led by Hambro Perks, with participation from Sequoia India & Southeast Asia’s Surge, Arsenal Growth, Kaplan, Ascend Vietnam Ventures and STIC Investments. The edtech startup announced today it has raised a $14.3 It also partners with governments and university pathway programs. 4 views on unpaid venture internships.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Unsurprisingly, several countries in the region, like Singapore and Vietnam, have some of the world’s highest crypto adoption rates. Now a startup called SerMorpheus is hoping to connect brands and consumers through digital assets. A digital asset in the form of non-fungible tokens can be used to authenticate ownership.

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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. Some other startups that target SMEs include earned wage access and payroll management platform GajiGesa and Wagely.

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MAY 11, 2021

The company also unveiled Bill Pay, its latest feature that lets businesses manage and pay invoices by emailing them to Aspire’s AI-based digital assistant. The company has customers from across Southeast Asia, and is particularly focused on Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The Series B brings Beam’s valuation up into the triple digits, says CEO and co-founder of Beam Alan Jiang who declined to provide exact numbers. .

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MARCH 29, 2022

The startups are building platforms where people can trade money while betting on whether or not an outcome will happen, from a movie launch to who the next president will be. Tradezi is a months-old, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam-based startup that calls itself the “Robinhood for Southeast Asia.” Clupp and Momento.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Founded in 2019 by brothers Paul Ndichu and Eddie Ndichu , Wapi Pay provides a payments gateway for African businesses to receive and send money from Asia via mobile money platforms and bank accounts. Most of the focus on remittance has been the flow of money into Africa for sustenance.

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