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JUNE 21, 2024

Luckin Coffee plans to bring its beverage brand to the Malaysian market with a local partner as the Chinese coffee chain expands beyond Singapore, its first foreign location. As of March 31 this year, Luckin Coffee, founded in 2017, has 18,590 stores globally, of which 32 are in Singapore and the rest in China. [

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The Next Web

AUGUST 30, 2013

My first post in this series described how businesses should start when considering expansion into Asia, which is home to some of the largest and fastest growing markets in the world. For example, should they hire in-market consultants, an expatriate based in a hub city, or partner with a local player?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Peeba says the lack of B2B-focused online wholesale solutions and tech infrastructure hampered Asia’s antiquated B2B retail, wholesale market in business growth and new market entries during the pandemic. Lai said its localization effort isn’t just focused on supporting multiple languages.

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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.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Rahul Varshneya is the co-founder of Arkenea , a company committed to helping entrepreneurs and businesses build, market and monetize their mobile apps. Many ventures exist which essentially do the same thing, but with localization. For example, SnapDeal is a Groupon clone in India with localized content and features.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Shares of Delhivery hit an all-time low of 317 Indian rupees ($3.88) Wednesday, cutting its market cap to $2.8 At the current share price, Delhivery’s market cap has shrunk to $2.8 It counts SoftBank Vision Fund, Tiger Global, Carlyle Group, Steadview Capital, Singapore’s GIC and the UK’s Baillie Gifford among its backers.

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2013

Find your local #nptech tribe by joining a NetSquared Local group. New York, NY: Tumblr: The Marketing Powerhouse Your Nonprofit May Be Overlooking. Singapore: UP Singapore ‘Smart Cities Hackathon’ - 19th–21st July 2013. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

But what are the locals excited about on the ground? However, one said: “The ecosystem still lacks local funding for the late Series A and beyond rounds.”. I think local tech investors are taking more risks and becoming global scene players. Moreover, the local investor community is quite dynamic. Rokas Tamoši?

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The final piece of my four-part guide to expanding a business into Asia is tailored more towards local startups and a big issue that affects many of them: raising funding from investors. If your business is based in Asia, despite a potentially tougher hill to climb, you’re still much more likely to be successful raising funds locally.

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

Mental health startup Intellect ’s ambitious goal is to be available across the Asia-Pacific, but ensure localized, culturally-competent care in each of the many markets it serves. For example, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia and New Zealand are all core markets. Intellect’s platform has two components.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

African capital markets exist in silos, as various exchanges within the continent are often inaccessible to investors outside their home countries. Per reports , major regional exchanges in Africa have raised over $80 billion in equity capital markets and $240 billion in debt capital markets.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

is a venture capitalist investing in Silicon Valley and Singapore. It may surprise you to learn that the technology itself takes a back seat to market demand. Some examples include: Organize a local market research campaign (best for services that involve connecting businesses with customers). Eddy Lee, Ph.D,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

In terms of localizing monday.com for the Australian market, Swan said it is prioritizing sectors that are especially relevant in the country, including retail, marketing, project and portfolio management, FSI and manufacturing. It also has local channel partners like Work Perfect and Upstream.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Early investors include the Baobab Network, an Africa-focused accelerator based in London, and Signal Hill, a Singapore-based fund manager that participated in its $5.5 The founder says Ibadan was the ideal market to establish its headquarters because informal retailers in the region experience these challenges more than those in Lagos.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Founded in Singapore and based in Los Angeles and South Korea, Summer International announced today it has raised a $5 million seed round from investors including GDP Ventures, Teja Ventures, Gushcloud International and Singaporean angel investors Koh Boon Hwee and Shirley Crystal Tan.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The app also has an AI-based nutritionist called Ria that is trained for cuisines in different markets through a combination of user-tracked data, guidance from local nutritionists and databases from sources like the United States Department of Agriculture. We begin by building a food database with local foods. Today in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Now Singapore-based Syfe is announcing that it has closed a $30 million Series B, only nine months after its Series A. Singapore-based Syfe, a robo-advisor with a human touch, raises $18.6 It has plans to announce a second market soon. Most of my career has been within Hong Kong, Singapore and parts of India.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

The Singapore-based startup announced today it has raised $6.6 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. million in pre-Series B funding, led by Headline Asia.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 22, 2013

Asia has proven to be an instrumental market for businesses to break into, and as the CEO of a successful Singapore-based startup, I get asked a lot of questions from fellow CEOs and entrepreneurs about doing business here and how to grow their companies across Asia. Prioritize the markets. Laser focus.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The rise in open banking and payment services like India’s UPI and Singapore’s PayNow means lower costs for businesses, as well as new payment options for hundreds of millions of customers in emerging markets who don’t own credit cards. million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia.

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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

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

Founded in Sydney in 2014, the company is now expanding into Southeast Asian and Western European markets. Employment Hero began entering new markets in October 2020, launching localized versions of the platform in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Malaysia and Singapore.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Pivot Market (Miami, Florida) — Pivot Market is a B2B marketplace where consumer brands gain immediate distribution in physical stores. Nalagenetics (Singapore City, Singapore) — Nalagenetics designs and develops preemptive genetic tests for developing markets.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

The Singapore-based edtech platform announced today that it has raised $7.5 The funding will be used to start scaling Creative Galileo across Southeast Asia, hiring for local teams in Indonesia and Vietnam, its next markets. Creative Galileo keeps children hooked by adding in their favorite cartoon characters.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

We plan to use the new funding to double down on expanding our footprint in key markets, including Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea and Asia,” founder and CEO Ming Chen told TechCrunch. “In During the pandemic, KKday’s main growth driver was domestic travel in markets like Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

While JustKitchen launched operations last year in Taiwan, it is incorporated in Canada, with plans to expand into Hong Kong, Singapore, the Philippines and the United States. We felt there really was a need to get going as quickly as we could and really get out into the market.”. and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Germany.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

There still exists a tech talent crunch, even in Singapore, where most layoffs and hiring freezes have happened because it’s regional headquarters for many international businesses and a startup hub. Teams that have been hit hardest include operations, financial and human resource departments, plus some sales and marketing teams.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

The capital will be used for expansion and growth in markets including New Zealand, Southeast Asia and the United Kingdom. Employment Hero doubled the number of its full-time employees to 200 last year, and launched versions in New Zealand, the UK, Malaysia and Singapore. Virtual HQs race to win over a remote-work-fatigued market.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

PPRO (pronounced “P-pro”, as in payments professionals) plans to use the funding to continue expanding in newer markets. In both cases, the opportunity comes in the form of high growth stemming from more transactions moving online, as well as the chaos that is the fragmented payments market. Unit raises $18.6M

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Despite dealing with the pandemic’s impact in all of its markets, including Hong Kong and Malaysia, the company began to see business improve during the second quarter of this year. Taiwan startup FunNow gets $5M Series A to help locals in Asian cities find last-minute things to do. Image Credits: FunNow. “We

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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. The Philippines was chosen as one of Brick’s next markets because of “the development in open banking,” Tan said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2021

The company, now Singapore-based but shifting to the Bay Area, touted the investment as making it “the first B2B payments unicorn from Southeast Asia.”. In June, Nium acquired virtual card issuance company Ixaris , and in July acquired Wirecard Forex India to expose it to India’s market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

Based in Singapore, Xfers will serve as the B2B and Southeast Asia arm of Fazz Financial Group, while Payfazz, which already uses Xfers’ payments infrastructure, will continue expanding in Indonesia. In 2020, Xfers obtained a Major Payment Institution license for e-money issuance from the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Paytm has raised $1.104 billion in India’s largest-ever anchor round as part of its initial public offering, which is also shaping up to be the nation’s largest, as the poster child of the Indian startup ecosystem moves closer to listing in the public markets. to $28.85). In Q2, the startup’s losses surged to $50.9

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Many local entrepreneurs complain about the local talent here in Singapore , but honestly what did they expect? Don’t focus on any one market, but instead on the over 4 billion people across all of Asia. Cast a wide net. When you begin recruiting folks, look far and wide — well beyond your country and even region.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The Singapore-based startup announced it has raised $18 million in Series A financing co-led by Accel and Quona Capital, with participation from Elevation Capital and Jump Capital. Founded in 2021 by Arindam Roy, Rajath KM and Kartik Mishra, Pillow is focused on emerging markets like Africa and Southeast Asia.

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