TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Socar , South Korea’s largest car-sharing startup, tumbled in its Seoul stock market debut Monday even after pricing shares below the bottom end of a marketed range. Socar’s debut comes amid a sluggish period in the IPO market in South Korea that has prompted a series of Korean companies to delay their listing plans.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Though Easy Eat AI lets restaurants integrate with third-party food ordering apps, it also has its own delivery infrastructure, including on-demand riders, that costs just 4% per order, compared to the 20%-30% that many of the largest food delivery platforms charge. Payments and reward programs can also be accessed through the platform.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Jenfi , a “growth-capital-as-a-service” platform, can provide online businesses with revenue-based financing in a little as a day. 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.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Railsbank , the London-headquartered Banking-as-a-Service platform, has raised $37 million in new growth funding. and expand its product in APAC, including the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia and Japan. It will also double down on existing markets such as the U.K./Europe.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Klikit wants to save Southeast Asian food businesses from “ tablet hell ” by aggregating order information from all apps into one platform. Since launching seven months ago, klikit’s SaaS platform, klikit Cloud, has been used to service more than $2.8 Many kitchens handle this by juggling several devices at a time, one for each app.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

These include preventing overfishing, protecting coastal ecosystems and giving small-scale fisheries access to more resources and markets. Indonesian agritech platform TaniHub Group harvests a $65.5M The first one was market access and getting fair prices for seafood. Series B round. The sector creates about $4.1

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

The company is headquartered in Japan, with operations in Malaysia, and plans to expand into Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. million USD) in pre-Series A funding from Rakuten Ventures and Beyond Next Ventures to build a B2B logistics platform for farmers that sell to restaurants, hotels and other F&B (food and beverage) businesses.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Validus , a Singapore-based lending platform for small and medium-sized enterprises, is acquiring CitiBusiness’ loan portfolio for an undisclosed amount to bolster its top-line revenue and customer base and expand its growing loan book. . Southeast Asian lending platform Validus raises $20 million for its Series B+ round.

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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. . The e-commerce market of South Korea is expected to increase up to $250 billion by 2025.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Launched in South Korea five years ago, content discovery platform Dable now serves a total of six markets in Asia. Now it plans to speed up the pace of its expansion, with six new markets in the region planned for this year, before entering European countries and the United States.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

A startup called Peeba has built a B2B wholesale online platform that connects independent retailers across Asia with unique brands around the world. The Hong Kong-headquartered company wants to help Asia-based B2B retailers reduce inventory risk and offer higher operational efficiency with lower costs via its platform. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Human resources platform Employment Hero announced today it has raised $181 million AUD (or about $129 million USD), putting it at unicorn valuation in Australian dollars of $1.25 billion (or about $890 million USD). Bernie will stay on as KeyPay’s managing director, while Duran will remain its chief technology officer.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

The microfinancing platform connects investors with small businesses using mudarabah, a shariah-compliant profit-sharing agreement. But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3%

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Glints , one of Southeast Asia’s largest talent development and recruitment platforms, announced today it has raised $50 million in an oversubscribed Series D. The round was co-led by DCM Ventures, Lavender Hill Capital and returning investor PERSOL Holdings. This brings Glints’ total raised so far to $80 million. Glints’ team.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Carousell , a Singaporean consumer-to-consumer (C2C) service platform operating across Southeast Asia, is letting go of about 110 employees, or 10% of its total headcount, in an effort to reduce costs amid a challenging market condition for the tech industry. . Southeast Asia-based mobile listings startup Carousell raises $85M.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Oyo is ready to explore the public markets. 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 to name a few markets. Oyo has also streamlined its relationship with hotels in recent quarters.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Barnes added that the funding will be used to expand further in existing markets. Singapore and Malaysia, so it wants to go deeper into Europe more broadly and into more of Asia Pacific, he said. GO1, an enterprise learning platform, picks up $40M from Microsoft, Salesforce and more. ” is how Barnes described it to me.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2022

This is part of a strategic investment, with startup and MUFG planning to expand into new markets and product together in 2023. Akulaku, which operates in the Philippines and Malaysia in addition to Indoensia, offers a virtual credit card and installment shopping platform, as well as an investment platform and neobank.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The funding will be used to expand in the Asia-Pacific region, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia, and to add new features in response to demand from hospitals and healthcare organizations during COVID-19. All 59 startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 2.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The company offers a complete spectrum of e-commerce support services for direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, from making a website, setting up a payment system, and managing marketing to handling shipping, warehousing, and logistics. In other words, Plugo enables D2C merchants to focus on their products and supports other processes.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Singaporean insurtech company Surer , which automates the workflow and processes via a cloud-based platform, helps insurance intermediaries get rapid access to insurance quotations and insurers to distribute their products more efficiently. The company has raised a $1 million seed round to enhance its platform and scale in Asia.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

But the e-commerce landscape is more fragmented in the Asia-Pacific region, where sellers use platforms like Tokopedia, Lazada, Shopee, Rakuten or Ebay depending on where they are. Una currently has teams in Singapore, Malaysia and Australia and plans to expand in Southeast Asia before entering Taiwan, Japan and South Korea.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Intellect , the Singapore-based mental health platform that now serves over three million users in 20 countries, is getting ready for a new phase of growth after striking a strategic partnership with IHH Healthcare, Asia’s largest private healthcare group. IHH Healthcare is Intellect’s first strategic investor.

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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. During the pandemic, FunNow faced different challenges in each of its markets. During the outbreaks, FunNow’s team adapted the app’s services.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Weight-loss platform Noom bulks up on $540 million in new funding. 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.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The three guests individually presented insights into their local markets and the varied challenges involved in developing the digital economy. Empowering women to build their own businesses in Malaysia Fintech, short for financial technology, refers to the use of technology and innovation to provide financial services and solutions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

In Asia, one such sector appears to be the luxury fashion resale market, particularly for platforms that are seeing an uptick in users and sales. Kream , a reselling platform that lets people buy, sell and trade luxury goods like handbags, clothing and accessories, has raised a $168 million (220.6

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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

JULY 20, 2021

Employment Hero is an automated human resources, payroll and benefits platform for SMEs. Founded in Sydney in 2014, the company is now expanding into Southeast Asian and Western European markets. Over the past 12 months, the company says $14 billion in gross wages was processed through the platform.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

Supermom , a parenting platform with 20 million users in six Southeast Asian countries, offers parents price comparisons, communities and the chance to earn money by completing surveys. For brands, it gives them a way to conduct market research and collect first-party data, which is important as marketers prepare for a post-cookie world.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Today the Hong Kong and Malaysia-headquartered startup announced it has raised $23 million in Series B funding to scale its team and product. In many emerging markets, and mature markets like Europe, WhatsApp is the preferred communication channel between customers and businesses. WATI founders Ken Yeung and Bianca Ho.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

The amount of the investment is not being disclosed, but Aldagram said it will use the funds to sharpen its focus on India, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia and other countries in the region. The global construction management software market is expected to reach $23.9 It currently employs 60 people. billion in 2031, up from $9.3

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Ben Thompson, co-founder and chief executive officer of human resources platform Employment Hero. Businesses, and the tech platforms that support their operations, had to adapt quickly to the pandemic. The capital will be used for expansion and growth in markets including New Zealand, Southeast Asia and the United Kingdom.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2022

Even in markets where credit card penetration is high, shopping cart abandonment is still a major source of concern for online vendors. It supports more than 50 different payment methods, including all the major ones in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia (including Atome, GrabPay, Boost and GoPay).

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The Huawei Mate 60 Pro has generated significant buzz on both domestic and international social platforms in September as it is powered by the self-developed Kirin 9000S chip, featuring cutting-edge 7nm process technology.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

TechCrunch caught up with Benjamin Croc , the company’s co-founder and CEO, who is located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (the city pictured in the image at the top of this post). In our conversation, TechCrunch was curious about how prevalent SaaS as a model is in Malaysia and the other countries the startups wants to sell into.

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