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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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MAY 20, 2021

Vietnam has one of the fastest-growing e-commerce markets in Southeast Asia, but many major platforms still focus on large cities. The startup, which currently focuses on fresh groceries and plans to expand into more categories, announced today it has raised $1 million in seed funding. Indian social commerce Meesho valued at $2.1

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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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AUGUST 3, 2021

Loship , the Vietnamese on-demand e-commerce platform that started as a reviews app, announced today it has raised $12 million in pre-Series C funding, bringing its valuation to $100 million. Its previous funding was a bridge round from MetaPlanet Holdings, announced in February 2021.

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TechCrunch

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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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

In Southeast Asia, startups in this space that have raised funding over the past few months include Ajaib , Bibit and Stashaway —and that’s just a (very) partial list. 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

As remote work continues to solidify its place as a critical aspect of how businesses exist these days, a startup that has built a platform to help companies source and bring on one specific category of remote employees — engineers — is taking on some more funding to meet demand. Salaries have skyrocketed,” he said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Hong Kong-based viAct helps construction sites perform around-the-clock monitoring with an AI-based cloud platform that combines computer vision, edge devices and a mobile app. The funding included participation from Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund, Artesian Ventures and ParticleX.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Railsbank , the London-headquartered Banking-as-a-Service platform, has raised $37 million in new growth funding. Railsbank is a utility for the complete financial services backend: platform, connectivity, operations, scheme memberships (e.g. Railsbank raises $10M Series A for its open banking and compliance platform.

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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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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Atlanta-based Kobiton , a mobile testing platform that allows developers and QA teams to test their apps on real devices, both on their own desks and through the company’s cloud-based service, today announced that it has acquired Mobile Labs , another Atlanta-based mobile testing service. Kobiton CEO Kevin Lee. Image: Kobiton .

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Social commerce sellers can be as small as one person selling products to their followers on social media platforms like Instagram or Facebook. The startup has raised $2 million in funding from Alpha JWC Ventures and January Capital, with participation from Venturra Discovery, FEBE Ventures and angel investors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2021

His work evolved into environmental intelligence platform Komunidad , which collects data from government and private sources, and turns it into customizable analytics to help clients react quickly to potential disasters. Its new investment will be used to build a scalable platform. Weather platform ClimaCell is now Tomorrow.io

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Singapore-based Nektar.ai , a productivity platform for sales teams, has raised $2.15 million in seed funding. Its seed round was led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Insignia Venture Partners, Arka Venture Labs, Better Capital and Vietnam Investments Group.

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TechCrunch

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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JANUARY 17, 2022

Mio , the Vietnamese social commerce platform, has raised an $8 million Series A, less than a year after announcing its seed round. The funding was led by Jungle Ventures, with participation from Patamar Capital and Oliver Jung. TechCrunch first covered Mio at the time of its $1 million seed funding in May 2021.

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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 startup has closed three funding rounds of Series B within the past six months, bringing the company’s total raised to over $70 million.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

billion won) for its latest, sixth fund, bringing the firm’s total assets under management to approximately $22 million (28 billion won). The early-stage VC had already set up five social impact funds and backed 81 startups since 2020, after Han acquired the firm in December 2019. Sopoong has closed on around $8 million (10.3

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Now it’s set a goal of investing in 100 more startups with the launch of its second emerging market seed-stage fund, called Seedstars International Ventures II (SIV), with a first close of $20 million. One difference between SIV II and the first fund is that it can writer bigger checks. We align ourselves with a lot of the ESGs.”.

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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. Investors also get charged based on the AUM of their funds and the number of portfolios. Image Credits: QuotaBook.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

South Korean startup Tridge wants to address the issue via its online trade platform that matches global food agriculture buyers and sellers. The platform helps from research to ordering and enables buyers to source their food and agriculture items at reasonable prices in more than 150 countries. million since its inception in 2015.

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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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DECEMBER 2, 2021

This extension was led by automotive startup VinFast, a member of Vietnam’s Vingroup conglomerate, which itself is reportedly looking to raised $1 billion for VinFast. This round brings the company’s total funding to $27 million.

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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. 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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TechCrunch

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. Plentina also added new loan terms.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

To get more data for its latest Southeast Asia Tech Talent Compensation report, which covers startup hiring in Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam, Monk’s Hill Ventures teamed up with Glints , one of its portfolio companies. Glints is a recruitment platform that claims 4 million users each month and is used by 30,000 organizations.

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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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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. Then a new COVID-19 outbreak hit Vietnam. million in seed funding, with participation from investors including FEBE Ventures, Class 5 and Kevin P. The company announced today that it has raised $1.5

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

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

Abrar Bajwa and Mohsin Zaka bonded during long working hours as the platform dealt with COVID-19’s impact. There are currently about 300 small- to medium-sized sellers buying inventory through the platform and it moves multiple truckloads of produce per day. to connect farmers and F&B businesses in Vietnam.

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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. This brings Food Market Hub’s total funding to $4.7 Orders can be placed through the platform or by email and WhatsApp. million so far.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Before starting Rino, Nguyen was part of the founding team and chief operating officer of Baemin Vietnam, one of the country’s largest food delivery apps. Before that, he served as Grab Vietnam’s head of GrabBike and GrabExpress. Four years ago, food delivery in Vietnam was slow. Rino’s grocery delivery app.

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JULY 5, 2022

In Vietnam, a startup called Azota wants to help with an online software platform that not only helps educators develop and proctor tests, but also automatically grades them using information from Vietnamese teaching materials. Creating and grading tests is one of the most time-consuming tasks teachers need to deal with.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The newest round was led by the InsuResilience Investment Fund II, which was launched by the German development bank KfW for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and is managed by impact investor BlueOrchard. Another, more recent one, is is Weather Index Insurance product in Vietnam.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

A Vietnam company called “Axie Infinity” has been driving the current conversation. A month later, “Axie Infinity” itself announced funding from the firm. Our average individual check size is north of $400,000, so many of the individuals wrote large personal checks into the fund. If Riot Games a backer?

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JUNE 22, 2021

The new funding was led by Alkeon Capital, an American investment firm, and included participation from new investors like Korea Development Bank, and returning backers Altos Ventures and Greyhound Capital. It will also use the funding to continue its expansion in overseas markets, including Vietnam, where Toss launched last year.

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