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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.
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Homage , the caregiving-focused startup, has raised a $30 million Series C led by Sheares Healthcare Group, which is wholly-owned by investment firm Temasek. Homage currently operates in Singapore, Malaysia and Australia. It brings Homage’s total raised to more than $45 million.
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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 Propseller’s last funding announcement was in December 2018, when it raised SGD $1 million (about $737,000) in seed funding. million in seed funding.
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.
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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.
Ninja Van , a Singapore-based logistics startup, has closed a $578 million Series E round to support its operations infrastructure and technology systems growth. Founded in 2014, the company operates its business across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines. It currently employs more than 61,000 staff.
Both companies are based in Singapore and operate in Southeast Asian markets. ShopBack, a cashback startup in Asia Pacific, raises $45M from Rakuten and others. The company says it has been used by more than 250,000 shoppers and is available on 2,000 merchants in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.
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.
The Singapore-based startup announced today it has raised a $12 million Series A to build out its B2B transactions platform. All of Tinvio’s existing investors—Sequoia Capital India’s Surge, Global Founders Capital and Partech Ventures—also returned for its Series A, which brings Tinvio’s total raised to $18.5
Singapore-based fintech Hashstacs Pte Ltd (STACS) announced today it has raised $3.6 STACS participated in Tribe last year, along with Project Ubin, the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s blockchain-based multi-currency payments network initiative. million USD in pre-Series A funding.
YouTrip, a Singapore-based fintech that offers multicurrency wallet for consumers and business accounts with corporate cards for SMEs, has its eyes on growth throughout Southeast Asia after landing a Series B led by Lightspeed. The round was $50 million, and brings YouTrip’s total raised to $100 million since it launched in 2018.
Aspire , the Singapore-based neobank that wants to become the financial operating system for SMEs, has raised an oversubscribed $100 million Series C round. TechCrunch last covered Aspire when it raised its Series B in 2021.
Ordinary Folk , a Singapore-based telehealth startup dedicated to men and women’s health issues, has raised $5 million in pre-seed funding from Monk’s Hill Ventures. The funding will be used for hiring and expand into Hong Kong while scaling in Singapore.
Singapore-headquartered esports startup Ampverse has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Falcon Capital. The company says this is the largest Series A raised by an esports organization in Southeast Asia, based on data from PitchBook and other third-party platforms.
Zenyum , a startup that wants to make cosmetic dentistry more affordable, announced today it has raised a $40 million Series B. This brings Zenyum’s total raised so far to $56 million, including a $13.6 ” Beam raises $80M as the dental insurer looks to keep up rapid historic growth.
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Co-founded by Quah in 2019 to securely verify documents, Singapore-based Accredify announced today that it has raised $7 million in Series A funding co-led by iGlobe Partners and SIG Venture Capital with participation from returning investors Pavilion Capital and Qualgro.
The Singapore-based company announced today it has raised $6 million in seed funding, led by B Capital Group. Singapore-based sales productivity platform Nektar raises $2.15 The company says this is one of the largest seed rounds ever for a SaaS company based in Asia. million seed round.
Vow ’s first product brand, Morsel, which was created from its cultured meat technology, will go into Singapore restaurants by the end of this year. Singapore was the first nation to approve cultured meat products for sale , with Eat Just being one of the first companies to sell its lab-grown chicken there. million in Series A funding.
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Doyobi , a Singapore-based professional development platform, wants to give educators new, more engaging ways of teaching STEM subjects. The startup announced today it has raised $2.8 Singapore-based Geniebook’s personalized learning platform raises $16.6M million in pre-Series A funding led by Monk’s Hill Ventures.
Singapore-based TreeDots , which says it is the first food surplus marketplace in Asia, wants to help. TreeDots announced today that it has raised an $11 million Series A led by Amasia and East Ventures, with participation from investors including Active Fund, Seeds Capital, author Nir Eyal and actress Fiona Xie.
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. This brings Transcelestial’s total raised since it was founded in 2016 to $24 million.
Payments company Checkout.com is raising once again. But Checkout.com kept growing and growing until it raised one of the biggest Series A rounds ever for a European company — $230 million at a $2 billion valuation. While Checkout.com didn’t actually need to raise to stay alive, Pousaz says VC firms are a form of validation.
Based in Singapore, ZEBOX Asia will also look at markets like Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan and Korea. BasicBlock , which took part in ZEBOX America and has i raised more than $78 million in funding, automates invoices and develops financial products for the freight industry. Both of these took part in ZEBOX France.
Volopay , a Singapore-based fintech startup, raised a $29 million Series A in debt and equity financing as it seeks to further expand its footprint in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and North Africa. . To date, Volopay has raised approximately $31.4 Singapore-based Volopay wants to be the ‘Brex of Southeast Asia’
Beam , a Singaporean shared micromobility operator, announced today that it has raised $93 million in a Series B round to accelerate growth into new countries in Asia. Singapore’s micromobility startup Beam raises $26 million. This article has been updated to reflect new information from Beam.
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Intellect , the Singapore-based mental health startup focused primarily on Asia-Pacific markets, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A. The round, which Intellect claims is the largest Series A ever raised by a mental health startup in Asia, was led by HOF Capital.
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StaffAny , a management platform for SMEs with shift workers, has raised a $3.4 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. It brings the startup’s total raised to $4.2
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Singapore-based Deskimo , the on-demand app that lets people find co-working spaces and pay by the minute, announced today it has raised a $3 million seed round. It is also soft launching in Jakarta, bringing its total markets to three, along with Singapore and Hong Kong.
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