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Propseller , a Singapore-based real estate agency that combines a tech platform with in-house agents to close transactions more quickly, announced today it has raised $1.2 During the pandemic, tech-enabled services like online dashboards and virtual viewings have allowed Propseller’s agents to continue working with clients.
Osome , a Singapore-headquartered business assistant app that digitizes accounting and compliance tasks, has raised $3 million. The startup currently has about 4,500 SME clients across Singapore, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom, founder and chief executive officer Victor Lysenko told TechCrunch.
Glints , the Singapore-based career platform, announced today it has raised $22.5 The new capital will be used on Glints’ expansion in Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and Taiwan and hiring for its product and engineering teams. CakeResume, which wants to become Asia’s largest tech talent pool, raises $900,000 seed round.
Intellect , a Singapore-based startup that wants to lower barriers to mental health care in Asia, says it has reached more than one million users just six months after launching. Singapore-based Intellect wants to lower barriers to mental health support in Asia. Intellect offers two products.
One of them was Singapore-based Endowus , which raised two rounds in rapid succession: a Series A in June 2021 followed just seven months later by $25.6 Returning investors include notable firms like UBS Next, Singapore’s EDBI, Prosus Ventures (owned by Naspers), Lightspeed Venture Partners, Singtel Innov8 and Endowus employees.
Long established as a global financial center, Singapore also looks set to become the “Silicon Valley of Asia.” But having a diverse cluster of big tech companies helps the ecosystem by providing more resources, including mentorship and early funding opportunities, say Singapore-based investors.
Beam, which currently operates e-scooters and e-bikes in 35 cities across Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, aims to spread into markets like Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Turkey. . Advanced rider assistance systems: Tech spawned by the politics of micromobility.
Arcc, a coworking space in Singapore available for bookings on Deskimo. Its on-demand booking app is currently available in Singapore and Hong Kong, with plans to enter more markets after Demo Day. Tech companies are looking at more flexible work models when offices reopen.
Eat Just will start offering lab-grown chicken meat in Singapore after gaining regulatory approval from the Singapore Food Agency (SFA). While there are plenty of other companies working on lab-grown meats using various techniques, Eat Just describes the Singapore government’s review and regulatory approval as a “world first.”
Based in Singapore with offices throughout Asia and Australia, Reebelo wants to make buying pre-owned tech as desirable as a brand new device. It has offices in Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Taiwan. But the two said something like Recommerce didn’t exist yet in Singapore, where Rastouil grew up.
Volopay , a Singapore-based startup building a “financial control center” for businesses, announced today it has raised $2.1 Singapore-based Volopay wants to be the ‘Brex of Southeast Asia’ Most of Volopay’s clients are in the tech sector and have about 15 to 150 employees. million in seed funding.
Interested in tech, Quah Zheng Wei left his career as a chartered accountant to teach himself how to code. Quah said the key difference between Accredify and other players “is that most of the use cases you see in the market stop at the pilot, proof of concept situation.
The Singapore-based startup announced today it has raised a $12 million Series A to build out its B2B transactions platform. Since its seed funding, Tinvio says its client base has increased four times to over 5,000 businesses in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and other Asian markets. million seed round.
Pieter Walraven is the co-founder of Pie, a Singapore-based SaaS startup. For starters, with around 60 percent of the total global market volume in 2012, North America is still the largest and most mature economy for SaaS services. It also helps that the US has several healthy tech VC ecosystem and that there’s.
Today, the Singaporean-based startup announced it has raised $10 million, with the goal of expanding its wireless laser communications system in Indonesia, India, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and the United States. In the meantime, it’s planning to move beyond its markets in Asia and start expanding early market access in the U.S.,
ZEBOX , an international accelerator network founded by shipping conglomerate CMA CGM to introduce more tech innovation into the supply chain industry, announced today the launch of its APAC headquarters. Based in Singapore, ZEBOX Asia will also look at markets like Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan and Korea.
Singapore-based TreeDots , which says it is the first food surplus marketplace in Asia, wants to help. It improves on traditional cold-chain logistics by “being tech-driven and striving for higher utilization, heavier delivery density and best practices,” he added.
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. Founded in 2013, the Singapore-based startup says its annual revenue and gross profits grew 2.5x
ZenyumClear is currently available in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Macau, Vietnam, Thailand and Taiwan, with more markets planned. Sequoia India principal Pieter Kemps told TechCrunch, “There are 300M customers in Zenyum’s core markets—Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan—who have increased disposable income for beauty.
ImToken , the blockchain tech startup and crypto wallet developer, announced today it has raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Qiming Venture Partners. It currently has a team of 78 people, based in mainland China, the United States and Singapore, and expects to increase its headcount to 100 this year.
The round will be used to expand into more markets and develop new features for StaffAny’s platform, which currently operates in seven countries, including Singapore, where it is based, Malaysia, and Indonesia. SMB tech is a sector GGV invests in globally. It brings the startup’s total raised to $4.2
The company announced today it has raised a $100 million Series A that will be used to expand quickly in the United States and on its Singapore research and development center, which is currently under construction. and other big markets, like Brazil or China, first. in a relationship Menezes compares to Apple and Foxconn.
Headquartered in Singapore, proptech startup Propseller is on a mission to make real estate transactions more efficient and data-driven for sellers and buyers alike. Founded in 2018, Propseller will use its Series A to scale its business model, expand its offerings and enter overseas markets. co ,” said Jorge.
A lot has changed since Monk’s Hill Ventures released its first report on tech compensation in Southeast Asia five years ago, with base salaries and competition for top talent jumping dramatically. The report focused on Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam because they are three of the fastest-growing markets in Southeast Asia.
The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners (UTEC) , a deep-tech investment firm, announced the first close of its fifth fund, which is expected to total 30 billion JPY (or about $275 million USD) by June 2021. UTEC’s deep-tech investments around the world. What do we mean when we talk about deep tech?
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. Image Credits: Raena. Raena also benefited from its focus on skincare.
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.
Sleek , the corporate services platform that helps entrepreneurs launch and run new companies in Singapore and Hong Kong, has raised $4 million. The new funding was led by SEEDS Capital, the investment arm of government agency Enterprise Singapore. ” Singapore-based digital business assistant Osome raises $3 million. .
Retail analytics unicorn Trax expects that this openness to tech innovation will continue even after the pandemic. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Singapore, Trax also has offices in Brazil, the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Israel, Mexico, Japan, Hungary, France, Russia and Australia.
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. The startup has secured $4.2 million in seed funding led by Headline Ventures. Wholesale marketplace Abound raises $22.9M.
UnaBiz, which is based in Singapore, has now raised $60 million in total. UnaBiz acquired Sigfox’s tech in April after the French IoT startup filed for bankruptcy protection. Sigfox tech owner UnaBiz doubles its Series B funding to $50 million by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch.
The tech boom in Southeast Asia isn’t just seeding a wave of new entrepreneurs building the next generation of unicorns, it’s also ushering young talent into the roles of first-time managers. Currently, its content looks more general, serving the emerging manager in tech, not the first-time manager handling a fintech startup during a pivot.
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.
Wavemaker Partners doesn’t just want to invest in climate tech and sustainability startups. Today, the Singapore-based firm announced the launch of Wavemaker Impact , a venture builder that identifies potential business opportunities, finds seasoned entrepreneurs to turn those ideas into startups and acts like a co-founder as companies scale.
Food Market Hub co-founders Anthony See and Shayna Teh. Malaysia-based Food Market Hub is a cloud-based platform that connects food and beverage (F&B) outlets directly to suppliers, making it easier to communicate and manage orders. This brings Food Market Hub’s total funding to $4.7 million so far.
During that time, Chen says they realized that the marketing, sales and design process have stayed the same, despite new technology and tools being introduced to the market, and is often riddled with bottlenecks. Chen says most have large sales and marketing teams, but a shortage of designers.
Singapore-based Next Gen Foods will bring its plant-based chicken alternative to the United States after raising a $20 million seed extension. The first $10 million was already the largest seed funding ever raised by a plant-based food tech company, based on data from Pitchbook, and now the round totals $30 million.
The Singapore-based startup’s last funding round was $3 million announced in November. It now claims to be used by 6,000 companies in Singapore, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, giving it $9.5 Singapore-based digital business assistant Osome raises $3 million. Once a buzzword, digital transformation is reshaping markets.
Jamil Wyne is a co-author of the World Bank report “The Evolution and State of Singapore’s Start-up Ecosystem: Lessons for Emerging Market Economies.” Singapore is home to fewer than six million people, making it one of the smallest ASEAN countries, in terms of population. A glimpse into Singapore’s current startup ecosystem.
owned Japanese tech conglomerate Z Holdings. The new round brings Endowus’ total funding to $67 million SGD (about $49 million USD) and puts it in the company of other apps that have quickly raised follow-on funding as appetite for retail investing grows in several Southeast Asian markets. million US) to its war chest.
Betterdata , a Singapore-based startup that uses programmable synthetic data to keep real data secure, announced today it has raised $1.55 Betterdata’s funding will be used on its product launch and to enhance its programmable synthetic data tech stack, including support for single-table, multi-table and time-series datasets.
Coherent Connect is a social media marketing campaign manager; Coherent Explainer is a sales tool for breaking down quotes; and Coherent Flow allows agents to sell policies to customers remotely with features like video chat and electronic signatures. Coherent will focus on China and emerging markets in Asia.
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.
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. Localizing for each market can be quite complicated. Localizing for each market can be quite complicated. He added that Rippling and other top U.S.
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