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Product Search Engine Telunjuk Secures Funding from Japan’s Venture Republic...
วันนี้, Indonesian price comparison site Telunjuk announced that it has received seed funding from Japan-based Venture Republic. The Telunjuk team says that Venture Republic’s experience in the...
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Supporting Vietnam’s tech startup growth from the ground up
TOPICA Edtech Group is a 300-person company looking to help stimulate the tech startup ecosystem in Vietnam. During my last visit to Ho Chi Minh City for the Vietnam Satellite, I managed to meet up...
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Chinese Foodie App AiMeiWei Cooks Up $2 Million in Funding
Call us gluttons, but we love food and foodie apps. And there’s certainly no shortage of either those things in China. One such app is AiMeiWei. Literally meaning “love delicious food” in Chinese,...
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Fundable ideas: A case study of successful Malaysian startups
Nazrin Hassan, CEO of Cradle Fund, shares successes from the Malaysian technology startup scene and what others should look out for. As a Malaysian based in Singapore, it’s always good to catch up on...
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Travel Search Engine Wego Gets Boost with $17 Million Series C Funding
From the left: Wego co-founders Craig Hewett and Ross Veitch Singapore-based travel search engine Wego is revealing this evening that the company has wrapped up a series C funding round of $17 million...
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Rocket Internet’s Controversial EasyTaxi Gets $15 Million in Funding, Preps...
Rocket Internet’s taxi booking service EasyTaxi has secured $15 million in funding for its global expansion. EasyTaxi operates in nine countries worldwide at the moment, with two of those being in...
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Travel search engine Wego raises US$17M in Series C round
Wego, a travel search engine, has just announced that they have completed a US$17 million Series C round led by Crescent Point, with contributions from Victoria Capital and Tiger Global. Wego never...
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Singapore’s MediaCorp Gives Startups Some Love With New Investment Fund and...
In an interesting move into the entrepreneurial space, Singapore’s MediaCorp – perhaps best known for TV station Channel NewsAsia – is launching a startup fund and incubator program. Called ‘The...
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Doing Vine Before It Was Cool: Singapore Startup Snyppit Receives Seed...
Instagram now lets users capture 15 seconds of video; Vine a more succinct six seconds. But Singapore’s Snyppit gives you a few blinks of the eye longer to express yourself compared to Vine, allowing...
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Singaporean Startup Daylight Studios Gets $660,000 in Funding to Boost...
Singapore’s Red Dot Ventures is getting its game on for the fund’s third investment of the year. The recipient this time is Daylight Studios, the mobile gaming studio that you might recall from our...
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ด้วย $1.1 Million in New Funding, Microlending Platform Milaap Aims to Touch...
Microlending and fundraising platform Milaap has secured a $1.1 million funding round led by Jungle Ventures. With the new money in pocket, Milaap will further develop its platform, do more marketing,...
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Pakistani Startup Artsly Launches with $175,000 in Backing From Kima Ventures
Adam Dawood is the founding partner of DYL Ventures, a Pakistan-centric venture capital and consultancy firm. You can find him on Twitter as @adamdawood. Sibling entrepreneurs Muhammad Huzaifa and...
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Digital agency clickTRUE secures 7-figure funding for SEA expansion
Online consulting firm clickTRUE closed a seven-digit venture capital investment from Rockstead Capital Group and ESW Manage for its Southeast Asia expansion. Digital agency clickTRUE today announced...
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Indian Coupons and CashBack Site Cashkaro Pockets $750,000 in Funding
India’s Cashkaro has secured a first investment deal worth $750,000 from London-based angel investors. Just last month, when I reviewed the site and interviewed the founders, I explained that the...
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New Japanese Game Maker Alim Debuts With Funding, Launches Mobile RPG “Brave...
Dr. Serkan Toto is a gaming expert and independent consultant based in Tokyo. You can follow him on Twitter และ his blog. This article is republished with his permission. New mobile gaming startups are...
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Despite Regulatory Hassles, India’s Healthkart Gets Huge Funding to Expand...
India’s HealthKart sells everything from vitamins to vital medicines via its online portal, but it’s such a heavily regulated and controversial industry that e-payment platforms don’t support online...
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Rocket Internet’s Australian Fashion E-Store Pockets $26 Million in Funding
We often see อินเทอร์เน็ตจรวด, the German startup dynamo, in action in Southeast Asia, but it’s worth remembering that it has ventures in Australia as well. One of Rocket’s five startups down under is...
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THE ICONIC receives US$25.8M in funding, traffic may be plateauing
Rocket Internet-backed THE ICONIC, an e-commerce site, has just received an additional funding round of US$25.8 million today. Rocket Internet-backed THE ICONIC has just announced an additional A$28...
View Article[สิงคโปร์] JFDI.Asia Bootcamp (August 29—December 6)
JFDI.Asia Bootcamp (August 29—December 6): Application Open To apply for JFDI Bootcamp: ที่ http://bit.ly/jfdiacce27 JFDI.Asia operates the longest-running, most successful seed accelerator program in...
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91Waijiao Connects Chinese With Foreign English Teachers, Gets $4 Million...
Education site 91Waijiao is a learning platform that connects Chinese of all ages with foreign English teachers. It’s a neat idea to disrupt China’s ‘English as a foreign language’ (EFL) market, which...
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