TechNode

JUNE 24, 2024

Indonesias trade officials said Temus business model conflicts with local government regulations, which require a distributor or intermediary to be present in the product’s journey from factory to consumer.

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TechNode

JULY 15, 2024

TikTok is exploring the local life services sector in Southeast Asia as it tries to replicate sister app Douyins path in China. According to a recent job posting on the companys official careers website, its venture into services aims to make the daily life experience richer, more unique and more innovative. 36Kr, in Chinese ]

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The Next Web

AUGUST 30, 2013

For example, should they hire in-market consultants, an expatriate based in a hub city, or partner with a local player? Hire the right people – local and entrepreneurial. A company cannot hire out of a hub city like Singapore and expect those individuals to cover Indonesia, India, Thailand, and the Philippines.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Based in Singapore, it is currently active there and in Indonesia, and plans to roll out in other Southeast Asian markets after localizing for employment regulations. In terms of competition, Chan said he sees two categories: local payroll software and imported software from overseas. Each country also has different workflows.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The other one is expanding out to fintech companies—for example, there’s been a big uptick in Indonesia, especially accounting platforms. For example, Wijaya said disbursements, including marketplace refunds, were difficult in Indonesia, so Xendit focused on fixing that. “One big segment are SMEs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Agritech startup TaniGroup raises $10M to help Indonesia’s farmers grow. This year, it plans to focus on expanding within Indonesia because the F&B (food and beverage) market there is worth $137 billion and the Indonesian agriculture sector is still highly fragmented, Pamitra said. Rakuten and Beyond Next invest $1.4M

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

It will be used to increase the number of Hangry’s outlets in Indonesia, including launching its first dine-in restaurants, over the next two years before it enters other countries. This is only the beginning and we can already foresee their growth to be a top local F&B brand in the country.”.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Many teachers and parents in Indonesia rely on WhatsApp to keep in touch, creating “multiple groups that often become messy and highly ineffective, and result in confusion or lost threads,” says Rizky Aniez, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Gredu. InfraDigital helps Indonesian schools digitize tuition and enrollment.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Approximately 200 D2C brands have already started using Plugo’s beta service in Indonesia. The Singapore-based startup with offices in Indonesia and South Korea intends to launch its service officially in Indonesia in the first quarter of next year. Bang founded Plugo two months ago with five founding members.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Surjaudaja told TechCrunch that IDEAL was started “with the thinking that consumer lending in Indonesia is broken.”. With that in mind, Indonesia has one of the lowest credit to GDP ratios in the region, signifying that there is a lot of economic value potential that can be unlocked.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Brick wants to simplify the process with a suite of APIs that connects financial apps to “hyper-local” sources of data, including banks, mobile wallets and telecoms. Other customers include investment firms, banks and some of Indonesia’s largest conglomerates, including Sinarmas Group and Astra Financial.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

What’s the point in using “global” tools (social media) for local organizing? From @amoration: I find we’re always both global & local, so many of us travel frequently that virtual organizing tools are essential even for “local&# endeavors. Social media used to engage local supporters to act globally.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

.” The round led by Insignia Venture Partners, with participation from CCV (Central Capital Ventura, the investment arm of Bank Central Asia, the largest privately-owned bank in Indonesia), and Armand Ventures. Verihubs is currently focused on Indonesia, with plans to expand into other Southeast Asia markets eventually.

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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. In Indonesia, Payfazz has built a network of 250,000 financial agents to reach people in rural areas where many banks don’t operate branches.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The eight-year-old Indian budget hotel giant has filed the paperwork (PDF) with the local market regulator for an initial public offering, in which it is seeking to raise about $1.16 The startup said in the filing today that four markets — India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Europe — account for about 90% of its overall revenue.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Glints’ platform currently has three million professionals in five markets (Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan), and 50,000 companies that are seeking workers, including AIA, IKEA, GetGo, KKday and Gameloft. Additionally, we’re seeing local employers interested in hiring both tech talent locally and also remote hiring as well.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Another opportunity presented itself in the form of Indonesia’s 1,500 BPRs. They have strong local connectivity, but their recent performance has been lukewarm, unable to catch up with digitalization,” said Lieviant. to digitize Indonesia’s rural banks by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Founded in 2014, the company operates its business across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. It currently employs more than 61,000 staff. “We strongly believe in the potential of e-commerce in Southeast Asia, in particular the power of technology-enabled logistics to fuel e-commerce growth.

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TechCrunch

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. 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

MARCH 7, 2022

Una, one of the largest e-commerce aggregators in Asia, has already established its presence across Asia, including Singapore, Australia, India, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Taiwan, since its launch in 2021. . We bring to the partnership local e-commerce expertise, as well as the understanding and empathy of local brand owners’ mindsets.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

Another change is designed to help people find videos if there isn’t any content about what they’re looking for in their local language. This experiment is only available on mobile in India and Indonesia, but the company says it will “consider expanding” the feature to additional countries.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

It is currently focused on Indonesia, with a presence in 40 cities. The people TipTip was created for, like local chefs, musicians and painters, still have few followers and need to build their audiences. TipTip currently has 2,500 content creators and over 30,000 users.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

Simon Black, PPRO’s CEO, said in an interview that two particular areas of focus in the coming year will be more activity in Asian countries like Singapore and Indonesia, as well as Latin America, where the company acquired a local player, allpago , back in 2019.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

The new funding will be used to grow its customer base in Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia, and expand into new markets in Southeast Asia, like Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. Its customers include Gushcloud, Ralali, Hello Health, Lamer Fashion, Buy2sell and Mystifly.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

WhatsApp is piloting a new business directory in São Paulo, Brazil that lets users find local shops and services with a presence on the app, the service’s head Will Cathcart has announced. I'm excited we’re starting to pilot a local business directory within @WhatsApp. link] — Will Cathcart (@wcathcart) September 15, 2021.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Its website promises businesses that “with a single integration,” they can accept payments in Indonesia and the Philippines. According to Lo , “he happened to have some family in Indonesia, and it was also about the time when Asia was becoming more interesting for YC.” billion in payment value annually.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

According to the World Bank, Indonesia produces 4.8 For example, it help Softex Indonesia collect used diapers from consumers with proper handling standard-operating-procedures from pelestari, who operate as gig workers. Without a clear ask, your pitch deck is useless.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Steven Wongsoredjo, the co-founder and CEO of Super, says that Indonesia’s Tier 2, Tier 3 and rural area’s gross domestic product is three to five times lower than Jakarta, yet the cost of consumer goods there is higher by 20% to 200% thanks to supply chain issues. dollars worth of goods to communities each month.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Founded in 2019, the startup is operational in Vietnam and has applied for a license to launch in Indonesia. Jeff raises $1M to build alternative credit scoring and other fintech products for Southeast Asia. It also plans to enter the Philippines in the third quarter.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

In Indonesia, daily necessities often cost more in smaller cities and rural areas. Other social commerce companies in Indonesia include KitaBeli, ChiliBeli and Woobiz. Super’s founding team on Mount Bromo in East Java. Super uses social commerce and a streamlined logistics chain to lower the cost of goods.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Rare, which is based in Arlington, Virginia, uses Miradi in all its worldwide campaigns to promote biodiversity and has translated the Miradi software into Bahasa Indonesia, Mandarin and Spanish. Elaina says that Miradi helped her determine what knowledge was needed by local residents to adopt behaviors that promote clean water.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

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. But in each country we launch in, that will look very different, so we will look at local payment methods in every country.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Employment Hero began entering new markets in October 2020, launching localized versions of the platform in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Malaysia and Singapore. After that, it plans to localize Employment Hero for Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Vietnam.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

A lot of new hiring will happen remotely, with companies turning to Vietnam and Indonesia, which have both seen less layoffs, for top tech talent. ” In Malaysia, regional companies still hire cross-border, but local companies have shifted back to local hiring.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Igloo currently works with 20 global, regional and local insurers across Southeast Asia. Mehta said that the penetration rate of insurance in much of Southeast Asia is low, less than $100 USD per capita across Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

We’ve reported on some of those wholesale marketplaces recently, including ZAX , which connects sellers to buyers in Brazil, Morado for Colombia’s beauty industry, Novi , for sustainable goods, JABU in Africa and GudangADA , doing something similar in Indonesia. Latin America’s slowing VC market hides local strength.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Founded in February 2020, CrediBook is part of a wave of startups focused on digitizing small- to medium-sized businesses in Indonesia. The capital will be used for product launches and expansion into more Indonesian cities. ” Payfazz gets $53 million to give more Indonesians access to financial services.

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