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Edupia raises Series A to close the education gap in Vietnam

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There’s a large education gap in Vietnam between urban centers, which have access to more resources, and the smaller cities and rural areas where 80% of students live. Before founding Edupia, Hung spent 10 years as director of digital services at Viettel, the largest telco in Vietnam.

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YC-backed Homebase is an alternative to traditional mortgages for home buyers in Vietnam

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The home ownership rate in Vietnam is about 90% , but many millennials are struggling to join that number. Part of Y Combinator’s latest batch, Homebase was founded in 2019 to give prospective buyers in Vietnam an alternative to traditional financing. An said some of Homebase’s customers use the service because they are unbanked.

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Vietnam-based healthcare booking app Docosan gets $1M seed funding led by AppWorks

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Lopez said advance doctor bookings aren’t the norm in Vietnam. The company, which took part in Harvard’s Launch Lab X, plans to launch telehealth and pharmacy services as well. Lopez said another benefit is reducing the number of marketing and administrative tasks doctors have to do, allowing them to spend more time with patients.

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

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Railsbank , the London-headquartered Banking-as-a-Service platform, has raised $37 million in new growth funding. This will include the launch of “credit cards as a service” in the U.S. It will also double down on existing markets such as the U.K./Europe. It has offices in 11 locations: Santa Monica (U.S.),

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Jenfi raises more funding for its “growth capital as a service” platform

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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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Vietnamese investment app Infina lands $2M seed round

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Now Infina , which calls itself the “Robinhood of Vietnam,” is announcing an oversubscribed $2 million seed round. of people in Vietnam have invested in stocks. But according to the Vietnams Securities Depository , about 500,000 trading accounts were opened during the first five months of 2021, a 20% increase from all of 2020.

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Cloud kitchen startup CloudEats raises more capital to ramp up Southeast Asian expansion 

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A Manila-headquartered startup called CloudEats , which operates cloud kitchens across the Philippines and Vietnam, just raised a $7 million Series A extension led by Nordstar to accelerate the digitization of food service in Southeast Asia. . We are taking the best practices along with key learnings to our next market launch.” .

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