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The water at these schools comes almost entirely from rain

Fast Company Tech

At a remote elementary school in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, until recently, access to safe drinking water was a daily challenge. Urban Taipei obviously has different water infrastructure than rural Nepal or Vietnam. There’s global interest. In the dry season, from December to April, droughts made the challenge worse.

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

TechCrunch

CoderSchool, a Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam-based online coding school startup, announced today $2.6 In Vietnam, the demand for IT talent is dramatically increasing by 47% a year, while supply is only increasing by 8% year-on-year. Vietnam after-school learning startup Marathon raises $1.5M “Coding is the future.

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YC-backed Homebase is an alternative to traditional mortgages for home buyers in Vietnam

TechCrunch

The home ownership rate in Vietnam is about 90% , but many millennials are struggling to join that number. Part of Y Combinator’s latest batch, Homebase was founded in 2019 to give prospective buyers in Vietnam an alternative to traditional financing. Homebase co-founders Phillip An and Junyuan Tan.

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Aemi eases the challenges of social commerce in Vietnam

TechCrunch

This included working with global brands to grow their distribution in emerging markets. The people that we are catering towards are what would be classified by brands as long tail distribution,” said Vu, “but they make up the majority of volume on social commerce” in Vietnam. .

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Indonesian insurtech startup Fuse gets $25M Series B extension to expand further in Southeast Asia

TechCrunch

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 company has over 460 employees, with branch offices in Indonesia, Vietnam, and China. . “We

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South Korea’s agtech startup Greenlabs raises $140M Series C to accelerate global expansion

TechCrunch

The startup plans to use the Series C, which brings its total raised to $170 million to date, to expedite its global expansion, make acquisitions and increase its headcount, Charlie Sanghoon Shin, co-founder and CEO of Greenlabs, told TechCrunch. Greenlabs currently has 320 employees, Shin noted. .

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TechSoup Global and Microsoft at NGO Connection Day Vietnam

Tech Soup

This year, Microsoft Community Affairs hosted its first ever Vietnam event in Hanoi on Tuesday, with the theme of "Unleashing Technology to Improve Economic and Social Development.". As with other NGOs around the world, the challenges faced by the ones in Vietnam are very similar.

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