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Rakuten and Beyond Next invest $1.4M seed funding in farm-to-table startup Secai Marche

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The company is headquartered in Japan, with operations in Malaysia, and plans to expand into Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. Before launching the startup, Sugiyama spent four years working in Southeast Asia, including managing restaurants and cafes in Malaysia. This week, it announced 150 million JPY (about $1.4

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Railsbank, the Banking-as-a-Service, raises $37M in growth funding

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and expand its product in APAC, including the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia and Japan. More recently — and unsurprisingly given recent fintech trends — Railsbank is also talking itself up as an embedded finance partner. This will include the launch of “credit cards as a service” in the U.S.

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Despite layoffs, there’s still a talent crunch in Southeast Asia

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Tech layoffs have hit almost every region in the world , and Southeast Asia is no exception , with companies like Sea , Crypto.com and JD.ID I think what we have seen is that there has been a lot of capital being pumped into the tech industry over the past two to three years in a major bull run. among those affected.

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Singapore-based career development platform Glints recruits $50M in new funding

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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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Australia-based Employment Hero raises $45M AUD for its global expansion

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Businesses, and the tech platforms that support their operations, had to adapt quickly to the pandemic. 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.

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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

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In conversations about freelancing and online marketplaces for remote contract workers of the tech industry, the name of oDesk floats up pretty often. Among other fastest-growing client countries one can also find Latvia, Pakistan, Romania, Lithuania, and Malaysia. million jobs. Top image credit: kazoka / Shutterstock.

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Singapore-based Raena gets $9M Series A for its pivot to skincare and beauty-focused social commerce

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After several launches, however, the Singapore-based startup noticed an interesting trend: customers were ordering batches of products from Raena every week and reselling them on social media and e-commerce platforms like Shopee and Tokopedia. Raena was founded in 2019 to create personal care brands with top social media influencers.