TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

Sari-sari stores are neighborhood stores in the Philippines that usually sell daily necessities and sometimes serve as community hubs, too. The $30 million total it has raised include its seed funding and Series A, which according to a July 2020 profile in Esquire Philippines was $14 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

Founded in 2014, Great Deals is an e-commerce enabler that helps brands like Abbot, L’Oréal and Unilever build their online retail operations in the Philippines. Philippines payment processing startup PayMongo lands $12 million Series A led by Stripe. Navegar, which led Great Deals’ Series A , also returned for this round.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

E-wallets are rapidly gaining popularity in the Philippines, overtaking credit cards, which have a penetration rate of under 10%. Plentina launched in the Philippines in October 2020 and has been downloaded more than 30,000 times. Loans have a flat 5% service fee, with no interest. The company announced today it has closed a $2.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

GrowSari , a Manila-based platform for digitizing small businesses in the Philippines, announced today it has added $77.5 Other plans include adding more financial services and logistics solutions, with plans to have more than 50 fulfillment centers across the country. . million to its Series C round. GrowSari’s app.

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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. This will include the launch of “credit cards as a service” in the U.S. and expand its product in APAC, including the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia and Japan.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

After starting out with a number of integrations for Twilio, HubSpot and other services, the team, toward the end of their time in Y Combinator, noticed places in the e-commerce world into which their product fit neatly. The shift to focus on e-commerce from a broader toolset came from customer pull, the co-founders said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

To add to that, over 2 billion of these people have limited access to financial services and working capital per World Bank statistics. In 2014, Tala first launched its mobile application to offer credit and collateral-free loans to consumers in Kenya but has since expanded to the Philippines, Mexico and, more recently , India.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Launched in the Philippines, social commerce startup Resellee wants to recreate the success of Pinduoduo, one of China’s fastest-growing e-commerce companies, in Southeast Asia. Social commerce is well-positioned to take off in the Philippines for several reasons, he added.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Following last month's news that Musk had suggested charging X users a small fee to combat the service's bot problem, Fortune was first to report that the company will begin charging those in New Zealand and the Philippines $1 per year for the ability to tweet, reply, quote, and bookmark. Read Entire Article

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Voyager Innovations , the owner of Philippines’ payment and financial services app PayMaya and neobank Maya Bank, announced today it has raised $210 million, bringing its valuation to $1.4 PayMaya owner Voyager Innovation raises $167M from KKR, Tencent and IFC, to launch digital bank in the Philippines.

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

At the end of last year, Xendit expanded into the Philippines, and says it is now one of the biggest payment players in the country. The company also plans to launch value-added services. In the Philippines, on the other hand, “the real problem was accepting money,” so Xendit developed direct debit with Grab. “I

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

In the customer service industry, your accent dictates many aspects of your job. to the Philippines, India, Latin America and others. But customer service and tech support is a huge industry and one primarily performed by people outside the countries where the customers are.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

The federal civilian service has an opportunity that would greatly benefit from the expertise of talented technologists like yourself. Service was always a part of my life, and I searched for opportunities to apply my tech skills to make a difference. Other moments are unexpected. I was laid off from my first job within three months.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

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. . The cloud kitchen market in Asia is projected to grow at 14.2% billion by 2030 , up from $15.2

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) often struggle to deal with several siloed functions, such as company secretary, bookkeeping, banking, tax, payroll, employment services, insurance and more. and the Philippines. Corporate services “superapp” Osome lands $16M Series A. based SMEs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

"    She invited me to contribute one sentence for a social media fundraising project she's leading to support female entrepreneurs in the Philippines.   She is hoping to raise $10,000 for a group of female entrepreneurs in the Philippines. Some of the contributors so far: Anita Pahor , Women???s

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

If you’re in India, the Philippines, Russia or Vietnam, Amazon Prime and Gorillas are probably not that much use to you. Comparable to DoorDash Drive or Lalamove (Malaysia), Dostavista is a “crowdsourced” same-day delivery service. Dostavista, the ‘crowdsourced’ same-day delivery service, raises $15M Series B.

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Nucleus

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The volumes of data captured in the Looking Forward study are vast and this year, for the first time, results will be shared with the industry via an online dashboard, providing more rapid access to study results as well as self-service exploration and discovery at the individual level using built-in Nucleus functionality.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 25, 2008

we get to hear the story of a cell phone banking service that gives the poor effective banking services in Kenya when the country's banks have declined to serve them. The Philippines has had cell phone banking for years. The common thread is prepaid cell service. In M-Pesa is our hippo!

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Our deepest sympathy goes out to all those affected by the typhoon in the Philippines. Catholic Relief Services. We appreciate the important work that nonprofits are doing to provide aid and ensure a swift recovery. If you are a Blackbaud customer and are in need of assistance, please call 1.800.468.8996. ChildFund International.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Philippines-based nonprofit Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation was selected winner of the.ORG of the Year award, recognizing the organization’s work to provide access to education for children in remote and poverty-stricken areas by providing boats to reach their schools. Yellow Boat of Hope is also the winner of the 2024.ORG

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The company, which bills itself as “the Stripe of Southeast Asia,” also plans to add value-added services in addition to payments, like working capital loans. Xendit now has over 3,000 customers, including Samsung Indonesia, GrabPay, Ninja Van Philippines, Qoala, Unicef Indonesia, Cashalo and Shopback.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The funds will be used to enter new regions in the Philippines and expand its financial products. GrowSari, a B2B platform for small stores in the Philippines, adds investors like Temasek’s Pavilion Capital and Tencent. million “mom and pop” stores in the Philippines. .

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Resurgent HappyFresh raises $20M for its online grocery service in Southeast Asia. Founded in 2014, HappyFresh was the first Instacart-style grocery delivery service to launch in Southeast Asia. It expanded into five markets before shutting down its operations in Taiwan and the Philippines in 2016.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Upmesh announced today it has closed a seed round of $3 million, led by Leo Capital, with participation from Beenext, iSeed, Goto Financial head of merchant financial services Jonathan Barki, BukuWarung founders Abhinay Peddisetty and Chinmay Chauhan, and Zopim founders Royston Tay and Kwok Yangbin.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Financial services, especially those for people who don’t have access to traditional bank accounts or lines of credit, are proliferating in Southeast Asia. For service providers, Jeff serves as a distribution channel, helping them find and retain customers. It also plans to enter the Philippines in the third quarter.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2021

The startup’s goal is to close the gap between first-mile and last-mile delivery services, enabling e-commerce companies to offer lower shipping rates and faster deliveries while freeing up more time for other parts of their operations, such as marketing and sales conversions. It now also has offices in Australia, Hong Kong and India.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Founded in 2013 for on-demand deliveries within the same city, Lalamove has since grown its business to include freight services, enterprise logistics, moving and vehicle rental. The company entered the United States for the first time in October, and currently claims about 480,000 monthly active drivers and 7.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Its website promises businesses that “with a single integration,” they can accept payments in Indonesia and the Philippines. The global shift toward more digital transactions over the past year led to increased demand for Xendit’s infrastructure and services, according to Wijaya. billion in payment value annually.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The proliferation of delivery services give customers many options, but means chaos for busy restaurants that need to manage orders across multiple apps and channels. Since launching seven months ago, klikit’s SaaS platform, klikit Cloud, has been used to service more than $2.8

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

DesignCrowd , the Australia-headquartered crowdsourcing service for designers, has big plans: it wants to grow its business from $10 million to $100 million as quickly as possible – and its first step is to conquer the US. With this goal in mind, it is taking on 99Designs — which has been based in San Francisco since 2010.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

Where available, users can access them by tapping the “lyrics” card at the bottom of the service’s “Now Playing” screen. The service has actually worked with Musixmatch previously, before breaking ties with the company in 2016. The new feature uses lyrics provided by Musixmatch, and will be shown in the song’s language.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Relief organizations and first-responders are mobilizing to provide aid to those affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. The Philippine Red Cross is on the ground providing relief to those in affected areas. Help Habitat for Humanity re-build the Philippines after Haiyan destroyed over 3,438 houses (as of November 10).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Founded in 2013, the Bay Area-based company provides centimeter-accurate 3D scanning services, primarily for construction sites and mining operations. The service has already been rolled out in a number of different locations around the world — with north of 10,000 sites, according to founder and CEO Christian Sanz.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Mehta said that the penetration rate of insurance in much of Southeast Asia is low, less than $100 USD per capita across Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. Igloo also provides products that Mehta says directly or indirectly benefits women, through a partnership with Philinsure in the Philippines.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

Based in Singapore, the company has evolved from a ride-hailing app to a Southeast Asian super app that offers several consumer services, including food delivery, financial services, such as an e-wallet so that you can send and receive money.

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