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OCTOBER 12, 2020

GoGet , a Malaysian on-demand work platform, announced today that it has raised a $2 million Series A led by Monk’s Hill Ventures. While Malaysia has other on-demand work platforms, including Supahands and Kaodim, each has its own niche. The Series A will be used to expand GoGet in Malaysia.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

San Diego-based startup LifeVoxel has raised $5 million in a seed round to bolster data intelligence of its AI diagnostic visualization platform for faster and precise prognosis. The platform stores diagnostic imagery, enabling physicians to analyze them, on-demand, from any device including mobile phones.

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JULY 21, 2021

Aruna announced today it has raised $35 million in Series A funding led by Prosus Ventures and East Ventures Growth Fund, with participation from SIG and returning investors including AC Ventures, MDI and Vertex Ventures. Indonesian agritech platform TaniHub Group harvests a $65.5M Series B round. The sector creates about $4.1

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Small businesses are the backbone of Southeast Asia’s economy, but many struggle to secure working capital loans because they don’t have traditional credit records or collateral, say the founders of Funding Societies. TechCrunch first covered Funding Societies when it raised its Series A in 2016. million loan transactions.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Speedoc , a health tech platform that brings hospital care to homes, has raised $28 million in pre-Series B funding. Speedoc is available in a total of nine cities, including eight in Malaysia. Southeast Asia health tech platform Speedoc raises $28M by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch.

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APRIL 19, 2021

million USD in pre-Series A funding. The company develops blockchain platforms that can work with financial institutions’ existing infrastructure, and its core technology is also used in GreenSTACS for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments. European VC funds are building community around ESG initiatives.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2021

ShopBack , the Rakuten-backed e-commerce loyalty platform, announced today it will acquire buy now, pay later startup Hoolah. The merger means new features will be added to ShopBack’s platform, evolving it from a loyalty app for e-commerce purchases to enabling transactions with BNPL options.

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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. The round was co-led by DCM Ventures, Lavender Hill Capital and returning investor PERSOL Holdings. This brings Glints’ total raised so far to $80 million. Glints’ team.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

Klikit wants to save Southeast Asian food businesses from “ tablet hell ” by aggregating order information from all apps into one platform. Based in Singapore, the startup just exited stealth mode with $2 million in pre-seed funding. The startup’s new funding was used during stealth mode to hire 30 people in six countries.

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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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JULY 14, 2021

Easy Eat AI , a Singapore-based startup that wants to “transform restaurants into technology companies,” announced today it has raised $5 million in funding. Founded in 2019 by Mohd Wassem, Rhythm Gupta and Abdul Khalid, Easy Eat AI currently has operations in Malaysia, and plans to expand into other Southeast Asian markets.

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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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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Shippit , a Sydney, Australia-based e-commerce logistics platform, will expand in Southeast Asia after closing a $30 million AUD (about $22.2 The company launched in Singapore in May, followed by Malaysia in August. million USD) Series B led by Tiger Global, with participation from Jason Lenga.

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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. This new round brings its total funding so far to $238 million. Accel led Xendit’s $64.6 in Accel-led Series B.

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JULY 19, 2021

Online learning continues to see a huge boost of attention and use in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and today a startup building tools specifically for enterprises to deliver on their internal education remits is announcing a big round of funding that points to the startup’s own growth and ambitions.

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APRIL 27, 2023

The microfinancing platform connects investors with small businesses using mudarabah, a shariah-compliant profit-sharing agreement. Indonesia and Malaysia, in the heart of Southeast Asia, are among the countries with the largest Muslim populations in the world. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3% out of its 33.6

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JANUARY 3, 2022

Other investors included Orbit Malaysia, Citrine Capital, HMI Group and Emtek. The company currently operates in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, and plans to enter into new countries with its new funding. Smarter Health’s platform isn’t meant to replace legacy software already in use by its clients.

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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. Taboola and Outbrain call off their $850M merger.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Human resources platform Employment Hero announced today it has raised $181 million AUD (or about $129 million USD), putting it at unicorn valuation in Australian dollars of $1.25 billion (or about $890 million USD). The company itself has a team of more than 500 full-time employees based around the world.

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JULY 12, 2021

Today Carsome Group , one of the region’s largest online used car marketplaces, said it plans to acquire listings platform iCar Asia in a transaction worth more than $200 million. of iCar Asia from Malaysia internet conglomerate Catcha Group. Carsome has agreed to acquire 19.9%

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The new funding will be used to develop Homage’s technology, continue integrating with aged and disability care payer and provider infrastructure and speed-up its regional expansion through partnerships with hospitals and care providers. Homage currently operates in Singapore, Malaysia and Australia.

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JULY 20, 2021

Four months after announcing its last round, Employment Hero has closed another $140 million AUD (about $103 million USD) in funding. Employment Hero is an automated human resources, payroll and benefits platform for SMEs. Over the past 12 months, the company says $14 billion in gross wages was processed through the platform.

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JULY 20, 2021

Weight-loss platform Noom bulks up on $540 million in new funding. It has about 1,500 trainers and coaches on the platform, with plans to add 1,000 more to support its expansion. About 25% of HealthifyMe’s revenue comes from outside of India, including Singapore and Malaysia.

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MARCH 23, 2023

The funding environment for startups across the globe has been challenging for the past year, but some sectors are still attracting checks as if it was 2021. In Asia, one such sector appears to be the luxury fashion resale market, particularly for platforms that are seeing an uptick in users and sales. million from 2.2

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MAY 2, 2021

This brings Bibit’s total funding to $110 million, including a Series A announced in May 2019. Bibit was launched in 2019 by Stockbit, a stock investing platform and community, and is part of a crop of Indonesian investment apps focused on new investors. For mutual funds in particular, Bibit said investors grew 78% year-over-year to 3.2

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DECEMBER 26, 2022

Earlier this year, Akulaku raised $100 million in funding from Siam Commercial Bank as part of another strategic investment. Akulaku, which operates in the Philippines and Malaysia in addition to Indoensia, offers a virtual credit card and installment shopping platform, as well as an investment platform and neobank.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It also included returning investors CDIB Capital, Darwin Ventures, Accuvest, Sanput Travel Group and CSV Venture Fund, which is jointly managed by NEC Capital Solutions and Venture Labo Investment. Its Series B brings FunNow’s total funding, including its 2018 Series A , to about $22.5

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MAY 30, 2022

million in Series A funding led by Tiger Global, with participation from returning investors Global Founders Capital and HOF Capital. It is currently used by over 10,000 merchants in Singapore and Malaysia, with plans to expand into more Southeast Asian markets, including Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

Upmesh was created to automate the checkout process and ultimately wants to create a platform similar to Whatnot where people can discover new live commerce sellers across different social media platforms. Upmesh currently works with Facebook Live, but will add other platforms, too, with the goal of becoming platform-agnostic.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

Singaporean insurtech company Surer , which automates the workflow and processes via a cloud-based platform, helps insurance intermediaries get rapid access to insurance quotations and insurers to distribute their products more efficiently. The company has raised a $1 million seed round to enhance its platform and scale in Asia.

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JANUARY 10, 2022

London-based Kodland , which started out back in 2018 offering in-person courses for children to learn digital skills like computer programming before switching focus to online learning from early 2020, has closed a $9 million Series A funding round to scale into more markets. It notes its platform does also offer one-to-one teaching.

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MAY 5, 2021

One of the biggest funding trends of the past year is companies that consolidate small e-commerce brands. But the e-commerce landscape is more fragmented in the Asia-Pacific region, where sellers use platforms like Tokopedia, Lazada, Shopee, Rakuten or Ebay depending on where they are. That is where Una Brands comes in.

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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. As with that earlier Series A, Aldagram is not disclosing details of its valuation. It currently employs 60 people.

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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’s last round of funding was an $8.3 Interactions can be automated through low-code workflows and chatbots, and connected to e-commerce platforms and CRMs.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

million USD) in Series C funding. The company’s Series C, which it claims is one of the largest private rounds raised by a Southeast Asian healthtech company, brings its total funding to more than $140 million SGD. . The funding will be used to deepen Doctor Anywhere’s presence in its current markets and expand into new ones.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

The company already completed two acquisitions last month – South Korean online parking platform Modu Company and electric bike rental platform Elecle. SOCAR acquired VCNC, a Korean mobile messaging app platform, in 2018 to operate a van-hailing service Tada. Kakao Mobility picks up additional $55M funding at over $4.2B

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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. An action plan for founders fundraising in fintech’s choppy waters.

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