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NOVEMBER 27, 2022

TipTip wants to help them build up followers in their communities using an offline/online strategy, and monetize by selling content instead of relying on advertising algorithms. It is currently focused on Indonesia, with a presence in 40 cities. But many of them don’t have the social media clout to attract advertisers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Indonesian startup CoLearn started as a chain of physical tutoring centers and was in the process of shifting to a hybrid offline-online model when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. This marks the first time both have made an investment in Indonesia. One of the Jakarta-based company’s goals is to improve educational standards in Indonesia.

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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. Ascend Money provides a financial platform of opportunity for those financially excluded as well as SMEs around the region.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Based in Jakarta, IDEAL simplifies the process with a platform that lets users compare mortgage products and apply for them from multiple banks at the same time. Surjaudaja told TechCrunch that IDEAL was started “with the thinking that consumer lending in Indonesia is broken.”. IDEAL’s digital platform seeks to solve these challenges.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.” Maqsad announced today its $2.1

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

Today Carsome Group , one of the region’s largest online used car marketplaces, said it plans to acquire listings platform iCar Asia in a transaction worth more than $200 million. Carsome said its investment in PT Universal will allow it to double its automotive transaction volumes in Indonesia. Carsome has agreed to acquire 19.9%

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Edupia , an online learning platform, is bridging that divide with its live classes and private tutoring. Tran Duc Hung, who founded the company in 2018 as an English self-learning platform, said Edupia is on track to exceed its $100 million revenue target in the next three years.

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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. As its team began to understand the needs of SMEs more, it started to develop the other tools on the platform.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

During that month, the platform also recorded $17.4 of Indonesia’s $1.04 BukuKas was founded by chief executive officer Krishnan Menon and chief operating officer Lorenzo Peracchione, who met eight years ago while working at Lazada Indonesia. trillion GDP.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

“The same kind of experience a customer has today on a marketplace like Lazada—the convenience, all digital, fast delivery—we saw was lacking in insurance, which is still operating with offline, face-to-face agents like 20 to 30 years ago,” he said. Fuse, meanwhile, insurance specialists an online platform to run their businesses.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

The issue was quite common among used car dealers in Indonesia, according to Laras, and that was how he came up with the idea of Broom. The company recently soft-launched its first offline showroom where its dealer partners can showcase their inventory to more end customers. of new automotive sales in Southeast Asia. billion by 2027.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Working in this way, retailers often give up too much margin, on average 20% to 30%, including markups, which makes offline options prohibitive to everyone but the largest brands. In addition, shipping is expensive, so many retailers pick up their own inventory from the distributor. Meanwhile, Miferia is still in its early stages.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

If you follow #beautytok, #beautytube or any beauty content on social media platforms, you know that popular product trends are hard to keep up with. It operates in the United States, South Korea, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia. The company launched in 2018 along with Gushcloud International, an influencer marketing firm.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

BukuKas was founded by Menon and chief operating officer Lorenzo Peracchione, who met while working at Lazada Indonesia. Since its launch as as a digital bookkeeping app in December 2019, BukuKas has added new features, including online payments and an e-commerce platform. of Indonesia’s gross domestic product.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

In Indonesia, arisans are traditionally rotating savings and credit associations (RSCA) that let groups of people, primarily women, save and borrow money together. Mapan is currently available in Java, Bali, Sumatera, Nusa Tenggara and Sulawesi, with plans to expand into the rest of Indonesia. and a McKinsey consultant.

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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. Fazz Financial Group also appointed as its chief financial officer Robert Polana, who previously held the same role at booking platform Tiket.com.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Indonesia is one of the fastest-growing consumer markets in the world, but consumer data is still hard to find for many businesses, especially smaller ones. 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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

“We are the second most visited shopping website in the entire country, with over two and a half million monthly active users coming on the platform, doing research using our product recommendation engine, and then getting to know about different products,” he said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

After graduating, McIntosh’s professional life became decidedly more high tech—she was senior product manager for data and machine learning platforms at Streetlight Data and then Lacuna Technologies. They need time to focus on their product and think about how they can have an offline stores or maybe how to do franchises,” said McIntosh.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Upmesh was created to automate the checkout process and ultimately wants to create a platform similar to Whatnot where people can discover new live commerce sellers across different social media platforms. Upmesh currently works with Facebook Live, but will add other platforms, too, with the goal of becoming platform-agnostic.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Yanolja said it has been using its most recent investment to invest in its global travel platform (GTP) and strengthen its automated solutions through artificial intelligence, with the aim of building tech to provide more personalized solutions for users. . Indonesia, the Philippines, India, and Africa as of September year on year. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

Many prefer to buy from large marketplaces, says FLIK co-founder Ahmad Gadi, because those platforms offer promotions and cashback deals. For brands, it means more control over consumer data and less platform fees. Gadi told TechCrunch that FLIK’s team is experienced in the payments and merchant business, both offline and online. “We

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JANUARY 9, 2023

But they had a hard time locating a suitable platform, so after about a year, Kim decided to create a marketplace for handmade goods himself in South Korea called Backpackr. The startup intends to sell products made in South Korea overseas and bring handmade products made in Southeast Asia to South Korea via its platform.

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

The round also included participation from Wavemaker Partners and Ankur Nagpal, founder and chief executive officer of online course platform Teachable. Shikho launched about a year before the COVID-19 pandemic began, but that didn’t change its approach to product development because it was always meant to be an online learning platform. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 3, 2022

He also dealt with deliveries that could not be tracked and arrived late and offline payment and invoicing processes that were long and frustrating. Putra said it often took days for him to source a single item, including time spent checking with multiple vendors for pricing and availability.

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MAY 24, 2024

It comprises multiple countries like Indonesia with 600 million people, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, each with very different markets. We wanted to create a platform that could assess a cars condition and match it to demand across the entire country.

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