TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Zipmex , a digital assets exchange headquartered in Singapore, announced today it has raised $6 million in funding led by Jump Capital. The startup, which plans to become a digital assets bank, says the round exceeded its initial target of $4 million. Along with earlier funding, it brings the total Zipmex has raised so far to $10.9

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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. “The

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Based in Hong Kong, Coherent helps insurance providers go digital. The Series A round, led by Cathay Innovation with participation from Franklin Templeton, will be used to grow Coherent’s client base in Asia, including insurers who want to add more digital services to their usual sales processes because of the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Indonesia-based insurtech startup Fuse announced today it has secured $25 million of Series B extension round as it plans to enter more countries including Thailand and Vietnam in Southeast Asia. The pandemic accelerated the digital transformation in the insurance industry, one of the most conservative sectors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

We digitize new brand discovery, automate the negotiation and client management process, and streamline logistics and shipping by pooling orders,” Cho said. Last week, Peeba announced its partnership with Hong Kong-based Choco Up to enable the Sell Frist, Pay Later payment option for retailers on Peeba’s platform. . “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Today, he claims, SwipeRx has transformed and digitized the pharmacy industry and become a one-stop platform for pharmacists to perform all their daily tasks, from education to purchasing to inventory financing in Southeast Asia. Image Credits: SwipeRx.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

I’m just back from spending a week in Bangkok, Thailand at the IFC-ASIA: Ecosystems for Good. I’m just back from spending a week in Bangkok, Thailand at the IFC-ASIA: Ecosystems for Good. Keep Calm and Write It Down – [link]. After Action Review Guide – [link]. … Read More

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Brankas wants to bring Southeast Asia’s banks and e-commerce into the digital era. 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. Other open finance API startups in Southeast Asia include Finantier and Finverse.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The November 2012 General Assembly took place in Bangkok, Thailand. The world has finally moved beyond just electronically creating books that are then distributed as ordinary print books to actually delivering digital ebooks. This shift is already happening in major markets: Amazon.com now sells more digital books than print books.

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TechNode

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The initial group of participating wallets includes Bank of China Hong Kongs BoC Pay, Octopus, PayMe by HSBC, and Tap & Go in Hong Kong; Bangkok Bank Mobile Banking and K PLUS in Thailand; NAVER Pay in South Korea; and ICBC Mobile Banking (ICBC Pay) in Malaysia.

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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. More than 10,000 corporates in over 10 countries, including the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

With this acquisition, we will not only be able to further digitally serve the financing need of these SMEs to grow but also offer them business accounts, spend management solutions, and payment services to manage their business,” Goel told TechCrunch. . In January, the company crossed a significant milestone of over $1 billion (SG$1.6

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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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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

A senior executive at Chinas Ant Group expected digitalization driven by innovative technologies to become a key factor during the post-pandemic recovery, especially the prosperity of SMEs, while also reducing financial exclusion and enhancing data security. However, technologies and support systems behind payment methods are not coordinated.

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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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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. So many entrepreneurs ask me about the graft in countries like China , Indonesia, and Thailand. Hire the right people – local and entrepreneurial.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

It operates in Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. This is a milestone in our journey to open up access for everyone to benefit from the digital economy. According to Crunchbase , the company has raised over $10 billion, including from SoftBank’s Vision Fund.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Part of Food Market Hub’s Series A will be used to expand into Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. The F&B sector does not use digitized procurement and inventory management solutions, which leads to inefficiency and significant added costs,” she said. “The

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Since its seed funding, Tinvio says its client base has increased four times to over 5,000 businesses in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and other Asian markets. Tinvio app was originally launched as a way to consolidate orders from different places, including email, SMS and WhatsApp, and let suppliers keep real-time digital ledgers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

million Series A to strengthen its system integration with OTAs on the demand side, build a booking management system for transportation operators on the supply side and accelerate digital transformation in the pre-booking transportation industry. SmartRyde announced today it has secured a $1.6

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

An example of Igloo’s insurance policies include ones for gig economy riders that it sells through its partnership with Foodpanda in Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines, and Lozi and Ahamove Vietnam. By bringing down the cost of managing claims, Igloo is able to offer lower premium to customers.

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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. . Image Credits: CloudEats.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

We saw an opportunity to use technology to help level the playing field in Thailand and Southeast Asia.”. The company says it has seen double-digit week-on-week user growth in 2022 among its clients in the manufacturing, logistics, hospitality and retail sectors.

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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. It will also enable Jenfi to refine its credit underwriting and risk assessment capabilities, including its proprietary risk assessment engine.

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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 is now licensed and registered in Singapore, Indonesia (where it is known as Modalku), Malaysia and Thailand.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Now Thoughtfull , another digital mental health platform focused on Asia, has raised $4 million in a pre-Series A round led by Sheares Healthcare Group. It also launched a similar partnership with FWD, another insurer, to provide access to affordable mental healthcare in Hong Kong and Thailand.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Tapas Media aims to turn digital comics into the next big entertainment franchise. Wuxiaworld also has partnerships with Chinese digital publishers that can create additional synergies. . . Kakao Entertainment opened offices in Thailand and Taiwan earlier this year. It also entered Indonesia in 2017 and Indian in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

Supermom currently has a presence in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand, and plans to expand into more markets. Then in 2019, Supermom’s team decided they wanted to scale across Southeast Asia, so they pivoted their focus from community events to digital marketing. The next five years were focused on Singapore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

So, it was really a great honor to co-teach a master class on digital strategy and two crowdfunding workshops. The Resource Alliance has been presenting the NGO Awards in Thailand, India and Vietnam for 10 years, but 2017 marked a substantial change in the award program’s focus and delivery.

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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. These guys are competing with each other to put the emerging middle class of Vietnam on the digital financial market for the first time ever and as a result, we get a very favorable rate,” he said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

While Indonesia isn’t the most crypto active in the region — total crypto value received was less than half of Thailand’s from July 2021 to June 2022, according to Chainalysis — the country is thought to hold huge potential for web3 adoption, thanks to a young and sizable (270 million) population as well as a vibrant Web 2.0

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

In 2021, however, it plans to use its Series C to speed up the pace of its expansion, launching in Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, mainland China, Australia and Turkey before entering markets in Europe and the United States, too. How will digital media survive the ad crash?

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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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TechNode

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Jiang Fan, currently CEO of Alibaba International Digital Commerce, has been named as the new CEO of the group and will report directly to Wu. 30, Alibaba expanded its Taobao Overseas platform to Japan, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Australia, in addition to its existing presence in Hong Kong. As of Sept.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

RSVP now for TechSoup's fourth annual Digital Storytelling Screening and Awards Party on Tuesday, May 28 at 7 p.m. Pacific time at PARISOMA — and join us in celebration of the many powerful digital story submissions that came to us from all over the world! Featured Appearances.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Fireblocks , an infrastructure provider for digital assets, has raised $310 million in a Series D round of funding that tripled the company’s valuation to $2.2 In particular, Fireblocks provides custody to institutional investors and has secured the transfer of over $1 trillion in digital assets over time. .

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