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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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Vietnam-based CoderSchool gets $2.6M pre-Series A to scale online course platform

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CoderSchool, a Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam-based online coding school startup, announced today $2.6 CoderSchool raised a seed round led by TRIVE Ventures in 2018. . In Vietnam, the demand for IT talent is dramatically increasing by 47% a year, while supply is only increasing by 8% year-on-year. “Coding is the future.

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Mio, a social commerce startup focused on smaller cities and rural areas in Vietnam, raises $1M seed

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Vietnam has one of the fastest-growing e-commerce markets in Southeast Asia, but many major platforms still focus on large cities. The startup, which currently focuses on fresh groceries and plans to expand into more categories, announced today it has raised $1 million in seed funding. Indian social commerce Meesho valued at $2.1

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Vietnam-focused investment app Infina boosts its seed round to $6M

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Retail investment apps in Southeast Asia attracted a lot of funding last year , and the trend looks set to continue with Vietnam-focused Infina announcing that it has added $4 million to its seed funding. Infina was part of Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 cohort and aspires to become the “Robinhood of Vietnam.” It launched in January 2021.

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

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The company announced today it has raised more than $1 million in seed funding, which it claims is one of the largest seed rounds ever for a Vietnamese health tech startup. Lopez said advance doctor bookings aren’t the norm in Vietnam. Praava Health raises $10.6M to increase access to quality healthcare in Bangladesh.

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Focused on smaller cities, Vietnamese social commerce startup Mio raises $8M Series A

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Mio , the Vietnamese social commerce platform, has raised an $8 million Series A, less than a year after announcing its seed round. Founded in 2020, Mio is a group buying platform that focuses on selling fresh produce and groceries in Tier 2 and 3 cities in Vietnam. The Series A brings Mio’s total raised to $9.1

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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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