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Edupia raises Series A to close the education gap in Vietnam

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

There’s a large education gap in Vietnam between urban centers, which have access to more resources, and the smaller cities and rural areas where 80% of students live. This brings Edupia’s total funding to $16 million. Before founding Edupia, Hung spent 10 years as director of digital services at Viettel, the largest telco in Vietnam.

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Vietnam-based CoderSchool gets $2.6M pre-Series A to scale online course platform

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

CoderSchool, a Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam-based online coding school startup, announced today $2.6 million in pre-Series A funding to scale up its online coding school platform. In Vietnam, the demand for IT talent is dramatically increasing by 47% a year, while supply is only increasing by 8% year-on-year. pre-seed round.

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English learning app ELSA lands $15 million Series B for international growth and its B2B platform

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JANUARY 31, 2021

Based in San Francisco and Ho Chi Minh City, ELSA announced today it has raised a $15 million Series B, led by VI (Vietnam Investments) Group and SIG. Other participants included returning investors Google’s AI-focused fund Gradient Ventures, SOSV and Monk’s Hill Ventures, along with Endeavor Catalyst and Globant Ventures.

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Kilo, a Vietnamese B2B e-commerce platform for MSMEs, bags $5M pre-Series A

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NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Kilo , a Vietnam-based B2B e-commerce platform that connects wholesalers with micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), wants to digitize the local retail value chain via technology. “In The startup retained thousands of MSMEs in 24 provinces across Vietnam, Ryan Wilber, Kilo’s head of product and engineering said.

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Education startup MindX raises $3.3M to prepare Vietnamese students for tech careers

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Many kids want to study coding, but school curriculums are limited, said Tung Nguyen, the co-founder of MindX , an online/offline education platform that focuses on preparing students for tech careers. MindX also received debt funding from Beacon Fund, an investment firm that focuses on companies founded by women.

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Dat Bike is the creator of Vietnam’s first domestic electric motorbike

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APRIL 27, 2022

Dat Bike is on a journey to reduce the amount of gasoline used in Vietnam. The latest funding brings Dat Bike’s total to $10 million raised since it was founded in 2019 by Son Nguyen. Dat Bike is recognized by the Vietnam Ministry of Transportation as the first domestically-made electric bike.

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Fairbanc provides BNPL for micro-merchants in Indonesia

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JULY 21, 2022

million in pre-Series A funding led by Vertex Ventures. Fairbanc will use its new funding on expanding in Indonesia, and exploring new markets like Vietnam and the Philippines in partnership with Unilever. Fairbanc announced today it has raised $4.8 It says it has already onboarded over 350,000 merchants in less than 12 months.

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Southeast Asia “omnichannel” health startup Doctor Anywhere gets $88M SGD

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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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Thailand’s fintech startup Ascend Money lands $150M at a $1.5B valuation

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The company, which was founded in 2013, also plans to strengthen its global operations across six countries — Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, and the Philippines. In Thailand, Ascend Money has about 70% of market share based on its own research, Thamavaranukupt said.

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Southeast Asian credit fintech Kredivo scores $270M Series D

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MARCH 22, 2023

The funding landscape in Southeast Asia is still wintery, but one fintech managed to land a major round. Kredivo Holdings , which offers credit services to underbanked consumers in Indonesia and Vietnam, has raised $270 million in what it says was an oversubscribed Series D.

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Jakarta-based SME financial platform KoinWorks scoops up $108M Series C

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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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Indonesian consumer research startup Populix gets $1.2M in pre-Series A funding

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APRIL 28, 2021

But it’s something that’s not available in developing countries like Indonesia,” where many companies still conduct research offline despite its very high smartphone engagement rates.

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Upmesh wants to build a community-driven discovery app for Southeast Asian live commerce

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

Upmesh will use part of its new funding to double down on the Philippines and Malaysia for at least another six months, but it also wants to enter Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. “The way the software is structured has to be very customized to the individual markets,” Wong said. If we look at an interesting comparison to the U.S.,

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Indonesia’s IDEAL takes the pain out of applying for mortgages

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JULY 27, 2022

million in pre-seed funding led by AC Venture and Alpha JWC, with participation from Living Lab Ventures and Ciputra Group. The funding will be used of product development, hiring and expanding its products. The startup announced today it has raised $3.8

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Payfazz invests $30M in Xfers as the two Southeast Asian fintechs form Fazz Financial Group

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MARCH 3, 2021

Payfazz, which announced a $53 million Series B in July from investors including Tiger Global and Y Combinator, also offers loans and payment services for offline retailers. Customers deposit cash with agents, and that balance can used to pay phone, electricity and other bills.

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Apple patches nasty security bugs, HBO Max suddenly removes content, and a16z backs Neumann’s next thing

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AUGUST 20, 2022

Haje, with his rare overlapping perspective as a reporter AND pitch coach AND former director at a VC fund, breaks it all down as only he can. The Vietnam-based group of developers behind the stalkerware network went to great lengths to keep their identities hidden (but not well enough). Not at all.

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Plentina, a ‘buy now, pay later’ startup focused on emerging markets, raises another $2.2M

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NOVEMBER 14, 2021

This brings the fintech’s total funding since it was founded in 2019, including a seed round announced in April , to $5.7 The latest funding was led by TMV, with participation from Global Founders Capital and returning investors AV Ventures, Techstars and Unpopular Ventures.

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Edupia raises Series A to close the education gap in Vietnam

Vietnam-based CoderSchool gets $2.6M pre-Series A to scale online course platform

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English learning app ELSA lands $15 million Series B for international growth and its B2B platform

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Kilo, a Vietnamese B2B e-commerce platform for MSMEs, bags $5M pre-Series A

Education startup MindX raises $3.3M to prepare Vietnamese students for tech careers

Dat Bike is the creator of Vietnam’s first domestic electric motorbike

Fairbanc provides BNPL for micro-merchants in Indonesia

Southeast Asia “omnichannel” health startup Doctor Anywhere gets $88M SGD

Thailand’s fintech startup Ascend Money lands $150M at a $1.5B valuation

Southeast Asian credit fintech Kredivo scores $270M Series D

Jakarta-based SME financial platform KoinWorks scoops up $108M Series C

Indonesian consumer research startup Populix gets $1.2M in pre-Series A funding

Upmesh wants to build a community-driven discovery app for Southeast Asian live commerce

Indonesia’s IDEAL takes the pain out of applying for mortgages

Payfazz invests $30M in Xfers as the two Southeast Asian fintechs form Fazz Financial Group

Apple patches nasty security bugs, HBO Max suddenly removes content, and a16z backs Neumann’s next thing

Plentina, a ‘buy now, pay later’ startup focused on emerging markets, raises another $2.2M

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