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E-commerce aggregator Una Brands raises $15M Series A five months after its launch

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Una Brands , the e-commerce aggregator focused on Asia-Pacific brands, announced today it has raised $15 million for its Series A. The startup has not disclosed the ratio of debt and equity (like many other e-commerce aggregators, Una uses debt funding to buy brands because it is non-dilutive).

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SME lender Funding Societies raises $144M led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, plus $150M in debt lines

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Today, Funding Societies announced it has raised $144 million in an oversubscribed Series C+ equity round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with participation from new investors like VNG Corporation, Rapyd Ventures, EDBI, Indies Capital, K3 Ventures and Ascend Vietnam. . The platform disburses online loans ranging in size from $500 to $1.5

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HomeBase raises $30M to help more people in Southeast Asia become property owners

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Homebase , a Ho Chi Minh City-based proptech startup that helps people buy homes, announced today it has raised $30 million in equity and debt (the ratio was undisclosed). co, one of the largest property portals in Singapore and Indonesia. YC-backed Homebase is an alternative to traditional mortgages for home buyers in Vietnam.

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Indonesia’s IDEAL takes the pain out of applying for mortgages

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The startup announced today it has raised $3.8 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. “We

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Pakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible

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.” Having grown up in Karachi, childhood friends Ahmed and Aziz are aware of the challenges about the Pakistani education system, which is notably worse for those not living in large urban areas (the nation’s student-teacher ratio is 44:1). Indonesian edtech CoLearn gets $10M Series A led by Alpha Wave Incubation and GSV Ventures.

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Deliveree is smoothing Southeast Asia’s bumpy logistics landscape

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The company announced today that it has raised a $70 million Series C led by Gobi Partners and SPIL Ventures, with participation from returning investor Inspire Ventures. This brings the company’s total raised so far to $109 million since it was founded in 2015. The answer is very well-documented. It’s about 8%.

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AC Ventures reaches first close of a $250M fund for Southeast Asian startups

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AC Ventures (ACV) , a venture firm focused on early-stage startups in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia, has reached the first close of its fifth investment fund (Fund V). The fund is targeting $250 million and has raised 65% of that capital so far, mostly from limited partners who invested in ACV’s previous funds.

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