Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam. It also matches philanthropists with volunteer opportunities and funding recommendations.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Financial services, especially those for people who don’t have access to traditional bank accounts or lines of credit, are proliferating in Southeast Asia. For service providers, Jeff serves as a distribution channel, helping them find and retain customers. It also plans to enter the Philippines in the third quarter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The startup, which will launch this month in Ho Chi Minh City, announced today it has raised a $3 million pre-seed round from Global Founders Capital (GFC), Sequoia Capital India, Venturra Discovery and Saison Capital. Before that, he served as Grab Vietnam’s head of GrabBike and GrabExpress. Rino’s grocery delivery app.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Riiid has said it will continue to fuel its global expansion with the funding. . This acquisition is the first step in an inorganic strategy to ultimately apply Riiid’s AI technology to the global market and help more learners around the world.” . Riiid has been actively penetrating the global market since 2020 after it opened the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

If you’re in India, the Philippines, Russia or Vietnam, Amazon Prime and Gorillas are probably not that much use to you. Comparable to DoorDash Drive or Lalamove (Malaysia), Dostavista is a “crowdsourced” same-day delivery service. Also participating were VNV Global, RDIF, Flashpoint Venture Capital and others.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Its Series D will be used to support growth in those markets, and enter new Southeast Asian countries, including Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. During the pandemic, the company launched a new service called Global Teams for remote work. 6 VCs share their bets on the future of work.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The latest funding was led by TMV, with participation from Global Founders Capital and returning investors AV Ventures, Techstars and Unpopular Ventures. The new capital will be used to speed-track Plentina’s growth in the Philippines, expand its product and start exploring launches in other countries, including Vietnam.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Founded in 2017, Loship offered one-hour deliveries for a large range of products and services, including food, ride-hailing, medicine and B2B supplies. Mio, a social commerce startup focused on smaller cities and rural areas in Vietnam, raises $1M seed. to connect farmers and F&B businesses in Vietnam. Kamereo gets $4.6M

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Noissue , a New Zealand-based global packaging platform, wants to make sustainable packaging accessible to businesses of all sizes. intends to use the funds to grow its global team, invest in the technology that powers its platform and localize its supply chain, according to Josh Bowden, CEO and co-founder of noissue. Canada, the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

. “They have a ton of experience in investing in global IT services, companies like Cognizant and GlobalLogic,” said co-founder and CEO Jonathan Siddharth of its lead investor in an interview the other day. Once software ate the IT services industry, what would Accenture look like?” Wei Guo, Ellen Ma?),

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Supply chain disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine is driving increased costs of goods and services, affecting not only the industrial sector (e.g., South Korean startup Tridge wants to address the issue via its online trade platform that matches global food agriculture buyers and sellers.

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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 e-wallet service also serves as a payment channel for B2B, ranging from big brands to local SME owners as well as street market entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Igloo currently works with 20 global, regional and local insurers across Southeast Asia. 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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It also recently expanded into Nigeria, Ghana and Vietnam, among other markets. It plans to do the same for other crypto services like payments. In some countries where Pillow has partnered with local, compliant on-ramp service providers, users can also buy crypto with their local fiat currency.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Rsquare will spend the proceeds on advancing its AI-based proptech platform, accelerating its commercial building transaction and fulfillment centers brokerage service and increasing headcount to 400 employees by next year, Lee said. The pandemic has been hard on the commercial real estate market globally.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Indeed, unlike global fintech companies , including Klarna , Stripe , and Checkout.com , which have seen their valuations cut fairly dramatically in 2022, Viva Republica boosted its valuation again. . Most recently, Toss launched a buy now pay later (BNPL) service in March, which it says has amassed more than 1 million registered users.

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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. . The acquisition will be completed in April 2022. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Cross-border remittances — when people living and working abroad send money back home to friends and family — continues to be a huge part of how those living in developing countries, off the global financial grid, can be helped. on 2020, as parts of the global economy started to claw back growth after a tough 2020 due to Covid-19.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Australia-based Employment Hero raises $45M AUD for its global expansion. “We Thompson said Employment Hero will continue focusing on Malaysia and Singapore until the end of this year, while looking at ways to cross-promote SEEK’s products and services in Asia. How to do remote work right, from the teams that know it best.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Glorang will use the Series A to expand its service to Japan and Malaysia by the fourth quarter of this year and Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam in the following years, Hwang said. Vietnam after-school learning startup Marathon raises $1.5M It also plans to increase its headcount. . billion in 2027 , from $17.6 billion in 2019.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As exporters compete on the global stage, they are craving for tools that will digitize their workflows and help them trade faster and better. In recent years, several firms — including Amazon — have attempted to make inroads to help Indian businesses sell to customers globally. This is where SourceWiz comes in.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Being “underbanked” doesn’t mean that someone lacks access to financial services. Finantier , a Singapore-based open finance startup, wants to streamline that data with a single API that gives financial services access to user data, with their consent.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The new round brings its total raised to $538 million and was led by Coatue and Insight Partners, with participation from Accel, Tiger Global, Kleiner Perkins, EV Growth, Amasia, Intudo and Goat Capital. Part of the funding will be used to expand into new markets, like Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

to send money to the region, much higher than the global average of 6.8%. Financial institutions are left with traditional systems and correspondence models to offer service to their customers. African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines. African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The company describes itself as building out financial services and digital payments infrastructure “in which the next generation of Southeast Asian SaaS companies can be built on top of,” or put more simply, it aspires to be the Stripe of Southeast Asia. The pandemic also led to Xendit branching out.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

This was the year that global investors not only started to pay close attention to the region’s tech ecosystems, but also began putting real money into them. As a global financial center, one could argue that Singapore’s startup ecosystem is in a category of its own when compared to its neighbors.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

million in seed funding, and is now live in four markets (Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam) with connections to 30 banks. Lesaffre said that Finverse’s early adopters are mostly fintech startups, including a mix of SME lending providers and buy now, pay later services.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

“During a challenging period for the global economy, this new funding round is a ringing endorsement of our mission and a clear vote of confidence in the strength of our technology and the strategic agility of our organization.”

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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. Pintu racked up $113 million in financing in June to offer crypto trading services to Indonesians. industry, one crypto investor pointed out previously. As such, SerMorpheus recently closed a $2.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

As part of the deal, Payfazz, an agent-based financial services network in Indonesia, invested $30 million into payments infrastructure provider Xfers. Both Payfazz and Xfers are Y Combinator alums, and want to make financial services accessible to more Southeast Asians, even if they don’t have a bank account.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2010

TechSoup's partner NGO, the Hong Kong Council of Social Services , attended as well, giving local attendees a personal insight on how TechSoup's global network enables capacity and community building around the world.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The Mumbai-based startup works with commercial banks to power their digital loan services. Citi is not just interested in tapping more into India’s tech ecosystem, but to leverage it for its own global growth, too. “As a global bank, we look forward to Lentra scaling their products and platform internationally.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In the first real test of the potentially transformative power of its food-preserving technology, Santa Barbara, California-based Apeel Sciences is bringing its innovative food treatment and supply chain management services to distribution centers in select markets in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Bfree , a Nigerian credit management fintech, has embarked on global expansion after raising $1.7 In preparation for its next stage of growth, Bfree has secured the services of leading industry professionals, including CTO Konrad Pawlus, formerly of SALESmanago, and Yohan Theatre, who previously worked at investment management firm PIMCO.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

The country ranked fourth on Chainalysis’ Global Crypto Adoption Index , behind only Vietnam, India and Pakistan, and about $8 billion of cryptocurrency passes through the country annually. (Previously, crypto existed in a gray area where people could transact but companies and exchanges doing so attracted law enforcement attention.).

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The pandemic has majorly affected the global supply chain, with 60% of U.S. Fashinza makes money by charging suppliers a “usage-based” fee on every order and by providing value-added services like logistics, fintech, and business-to-business payments to both brands and manufacturers. the United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam.

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