TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

ErudiFi currently works with more than 50 universities and vocational schools in Indonesia and the Philippines. To provide more accessible financing options, ErudiFi partners with accredited universities and schools to offer subsidized installment plans, using tech to scale up while keeping costs down. million seed round.

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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’s clients range in size from SMEs to some of the region’s largest tech players, including Traveloka, Wise, Wish and Grab. This new round brings its total funding so far to $238 million.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

Dear Tech Workers,   Careers are defined by moments. I was then able to take that understanding and build out a federated security program at a large tech company, where I helped lead Log4j shell response efforts. Service was always a part of my life, and I searched for opportunities to apply my tech skills to make a difference.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

and expand its product in APAC, including the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia and Japan. To that end, Railsbank’s credit card as a service offering means that any company can offer a branded credit card using the fintech’s infrastructure and tech. It will also double down on existing markets such as the U.K./Europe.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 26, 2022

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. Founded in 2016, its target is to serve 50 million users by 2025.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

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.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 26, 2022

And if you buy the same Nike shoes in Indonesia, Thailand or the Philippines, the answer is going to be much closer to 25%, maybe upwards of 30%.”. Deliveree is currently available in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand. There are all these well-known players, like Waresix or even Kargo Tech. It’s about 8%.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

South Korean travel tech startup Yanolja has acquired a 70% stake in a listed South Korean e-commerce pioneer, Interpark , for about $250 million. . South Korea’s largest travel tech startup was founded by former motel manager SuJin Lee , CEO and founder of Yanolja, in 2005.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

It expanded into five markets before shutting down its operations in Taiwan and the Philippines in 2016. learned from China’s tech giants. Founded in 2014, HappyFresh was the first Instacart-style grocery delivery service to launch in Southeast Asia. It continues to operate in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Shipping companies are based around the world, but about 50% of seafarers come from Eastern Europe and the Philippines, so they typically rely on agencies to staff vessels. How tech can build more resilient supply chains. First, seafarers upload their CVs online, then Seafair runs a series of background checks and online assessments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I’ve been fortunate enough to be hired to provide three social media trainings to their nonprofit partners in Malaysia (photo above), Singapore, and the Philippines. Ultimately their goal is help nonprofits become better equipped at fulfilling their mission by building their technological capacity.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

The new capital will be used to expand Glints’ talent supply base in the Philippines and employer demand globally and hiring for its product and tech teams. Founder and CEO Oswald Yeo told TechCrunch the company is focusing on the Philippines because of “its large and fast-growing international workforce.

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AFP Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Tech aids Philippines disaster relief | ITWeb : By Joanne Carew, portals journalist. In the aftermath of the storm, which hit the Philippines last week, relief workers, survivors and international aid organisations are turning to technology to co-ordinate their efforts.'

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Alloy’s tech was being used by Shopify and BigCommerce customers, helping make e-commerce a fertile area for the company, its co-founders said. Alloy’s tech helps e-commerce players link services to help automate their shipping, marketing, analytics and other tasks.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Founded in 2014, the company operates its business across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Singapore’s logistics tech startup Parcel Perform raises $20 million. Ninja Van claims it delivers approximately 2 million parcels a day, with more than 1.5 It currently employs more than 61,000 staff.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Shippit is considering expansion into the Philippines and Indonesia, too, and expects its Southeast Asian business to grow 100% year-over-year for the next three years at minimum. How tech can build more resilient supply chains. ” co-founder and co-chief executive officer William On told TechCrunch.

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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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The Verge

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

An international group of climate activists and Amazon warehouse workers have launched an online campaign called “Make Amazon Pay, ” calling on the tech giant to provide better working conditions for its employees and to reduce its expanding carbon footprint. . | Image: Make Amazon Pay campaign.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Founded by fintech veterans last year, Brick develops APIs that make it easier for tech companies to add identity verification and access financial data from their users. The startup, which is now used by 250 developers and 35 tech companies, announced today it has raised new seed round. The amount of funding was undisclosed.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

It is available in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines, and recently established tech hubs in Bangalore and Ho Chi Minh City. . Founded in 2017 by Lim Wai Mun, Doctor Anywhere claims it now serves more than 1.5 million users.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The funding will be used to grow Docquity in its existing markets, like Indonesia and the Philippines, and enter new ones, including Japan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. It recently launched in Taiwan, where more than 2,000 doctors have signed up so far. The company claimed two-fold revenue growth in 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

While certain titans of tech argue over how different or not decentralized “web3” outfits will be compared to their unabashedly centralized predecessors, an ecosystem of companies is fast emerging with ties to each other, including backing from the same investors. Now, another building block is apparently needed.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

As of 2019, Singapore had over $19 billion in PE and VC assets under management, more than twice that of neighboring Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand combined.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

Its customers are spread across Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong and Australia, and typically ship about 25 to 5,000 orders a day. During their time at Zalora, Robertz and Dargel also worked with brands that had to set up their own e-commerce fulfillment capabilities and tech stack in order to support multiple sales channels.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

At present, it’s currently focused on Nigeria, Philippines, Haiti and Cambodia, with a renewal bent designed to reduce emissions as it brings more populations online. The Sydney-based company creates hardware and software solutions designed to bring solar-based power to developing markets.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

At this point, out of the 100 most active accounts on Murmur, less than a quarter would be considered tech companies, according to Dignan. Top customers include Adidas, Bitly and Philippine Space Agency. Should it sell to decentralized autonomous organizations? Universities? Early-stage startups? And neither do his investors.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

For context, that puts it a distant third behind Indonesia and the Philippines, according to a datasheet from the US Geological Survey (pdf).) Calling nickel the company’s “biggest concern for scaling,” he said that Tesla will be moving to iron cathode tech, but it’s hard to tell how long that process will take.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

This was the year that global investors not only started to pay close attention to the region’s tech ecosystems, but also began putting real money into them. Regardless of their exact number, SMEs, many of which use Excel spreadsheets or paper ledgers to handle their accounting, present a lucrative opportunity for tech startups.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

By the time, you’re actually delivering a rapid test in the field, it could be anything between $20 and $70, and if you’re in a country like the Philippines or Indonesia, that sort of price point is too high.” In the future, Achiko will continue to focus on health tech instead of financial products. ”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

to the Philippines, India, Latin America and others. Tech will fix it … by accommodating the bigots. But customer service and tech support is a huge industry and one primarily performed by people outside the countries where the customers are. To tell the truth, the idea of Sanas kind of bothered me at first.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

For example, it enables JKOPay in Taiwan and Maya in the Philippines to offer insurance marketplaces through their apps. He added that bolttech now has 1,500 team members around the world, including insurance and tech experts, and that helps them find innovative new ways to distribute insurance products.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

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. The company also plans to develop a tech platform to allow third-parties to use its proprietary scoring models in their own native infrastructure.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

Nonprofit tech experts team up to help others master ‘social tools for social change’. Beth Kanter, Amy Sample Ward, Katrin Verclas and John Haydon are among the familiar names in the nonprofit tech sector who are part of the effort. She is currently a Kiva fellow serving a three-month tour in a rural section of the Philippines.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

Other examples of social commerce areas focused on smaller cities and rural areas include “hyperlocal” startup Super and KitaBeli , both in Indonesia, and Resellee in the Philippines. Mio’s new funding will be used on its distribution center, and hiring for its tech and product teams.

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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. .

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Iowan helps provide high-tech eyes of disaster relief in Philippines | Des Moines Register Staff Blogs : Harwath is one of four Global DIRT members currently on the ground in the Philippines.

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