A lot more than this will go into running a successful business, but these are all valid points that will be essential in achieving this goal
Stripe wants to integrate all financial services under one umbrella.
Carousell is looking to go public soon too
Antler's investment capacity has grown significantly.
China's crackdown on big technology companies continues
Beepmix also helps sellers automate tedious tasks such as taking orders manually, receiving payments, manage local deliveries, making payouts, and more.
The fund will focus on startup companies in the pre-series A to Series A stages.
PolicyStreet previously raised $1.8 million via equity crowdfunding last year
Bitcoin's value fell by 6% at the wake of China's announcement, falling to $41,800.
ShopeeFood is now in Malaysia, Vietnam, and Indonesia
Singapore's new pre-IPO fund aims to make it easier for late/growth stage companies to raise additional capital
Canva has raised $200 million in a new funding round.
Borzo has over 2.5 million customers, and is capable of fulfilling up to 3 million deliveries per month.
Xiaomi is also aggressively hiring and investing into automobiles development talent.
RISE will no longer be held in Malaysia in 2022.
J&T Express has grown significantly due to the rise of e-commerce.
Supahands CEO, Mark Koh, will join Omnilytics’s board and serve as CSO
Links in Instagram Stories was previously only available to users who had over 10,000 followers
Xiaomi's CyberDog's technology is also open-source, and is currently in the 'experimental stage'.
Bukalapak was founded back in 2010 to enable small and medium enterprises go online in Indonesia
Should the situation continue, an additional 1 million people's jobs could be affected.
Malaysia's Securities Commission stated that Binance was operating an "illegal digital asset exchange"
The new partnership will focus on digitalisation efforts in Indonesia.
PropertyGuru will go public via an SPAC merger with Bridgetown 2 Holdings
Xiaomi's rise comes after Huawei descended from the top spot over the recent months.
Twitter Fleets were in direct competition to Instagram and Snapchat "Stories".
Carsome will own 19.9% in iCar Asia, with plans to acquire the rest of the company later.
Richard Branson is also the founder of Virgin Galactic, the company that flew him to space.
iMedia has made 6 acquisitions in the past 12 months.
Starlink currently has close to 70,000 active users too.
Princeton Digital Group is tapping on Asia's growth and need for highly scalable data centers.
Eligible businesses will receive widespread marketing and promotions for their products / services.
Vendfun's hybrid kiosks are equipped with a 50-inch touch-screen panel for users to interact with as well as cashless payment capabilities.
A total of 322 investors participated in pitchIN's equity crowdfunding round.
Prior to this, Delyva's customers could only make bookings from their website.
Jeff Bezos will be flying to space on Blue Origin's debut private astronaut mission
DiDi turned a profit this quarter.
GoLog's equity crowdfunding (ECF) campaign to end in 28 days.
The business was significantly affected by the global pandemic.
Cohort 05 officially kicked off yesterday.
Stripe will be launching in The Philippines in the near future, which could also include GrabPay as a payment method too.
This amount is 1/3 of all funding raised during the period.
Tencent's management style and business model have proven to be very resilient.
Snap's revenues have grown significantly too, beating expectations.
He played a pivotal role in growing the company to what it is today.
GoTo Group is now one of Southeast Asia's largest technology conglomerates
Meituan has been following the footsteps of many other tech giants in China.
Walmart bought a majority stake in Flipkart in 2018.
Gojek's new round is aimed at supercharging both companies' collaborative efforts.
Increasing visibility of apps via the App Store
Apple had the highest jump in smartphone shipments in Q1 2021
The new startup accelerator will be broken into 3 phases
Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) into China rose by 4% despite the global pandemic
India's social media users are also very loyal to their home-grown apps
Dogecoin has a market cap of $53 billion as of today.
Trip.com reported a net revenue of $770 million in Q4 2020
A large part of Coinbase's revenues were attributed to fees from rising cryptocurrency prices.
DiDi is laying the groundwork to become China's largest vehicle ecosystem.
Startup funding in Singapore has been falling for the past few years.
The new fund launch is in line with Philippine's Innovative Startup Act
E-Nation will bring together a huge delegation of startup ecosystem players and more
Baidu is set to become one the largest IPOs in Hong Kong for 2021.
The Angel Investment Fund will invest in companies focused on Indonesia
Zhihu raised over $434 million in its last funding round
HungryNaki was founded in 2013 and operates in 5 cities in the country.
China is one of India's largest markets today
SERV has recently closed a $106k in funding via equity crowdfunding (ECF)
Kravve's ECF campaign started in January and has a total of 144 investors today
AirBnB is also investing heavily in the platform's experience to make booking/hosting stays simpler
Creators can also paywall content to 'super followers' on Twitter.
Ozan Electronic Money is spearheading the cashless society in Turkey.
There are over 6,700 different cryptocurrencies currently exchanged today
ErudiFi works with over 50 universities to provide flexible education financing for students
She started a competitive product to her previous company.
Helping people build powerful websites that convert sales more effectively
SoftBank shares have risen by over 200% since mid-March.
TechNode Global plans to cover more technology stories, deliver high-quality events, and build comprehensive cross-border business across the region
Expedock wants to simplify supply-chain document processing by using A.I.
TikTok is also seeking $13.95 million in compensation from Tencent
The company raised $5.4 billion in its IPO last Friday.
MDEC has formed partnerships with 11 ECF and P2P operators.
TTA has been working alongside the Taiwanese government to showcase more startups on a global stage
Elon Musk believes Starlink could capture a piece of the $1 trillion market for internet services, potentially disrupting telecom providers.
China's economy grew despite the global pandemic, with foreign investments peaking in the fourth quarter of 2020.
In a new video recording after vanishing for months, Jack Ma is seen to be speaking to a group of rural teachers.
The company was valued at $1.4 billion after raising funding from notable investors
DJI is hiring engineers to build technology that could be used for various autonomous vehicle parts.
GrabToko is an e-commerce startup from Indonesia that sold brand new smartphones at steep discounts.
SEA Group bought Bank Kesejahteraan Ekonomi Indonesia, a significant move into the digital banking space.
Grab has been investing heavily on expanding the financial services business, and may remain unprofitable until 2023 according to Moody's
GoBear was reportedly used by over 55 million people and had over 100 commercial partners ranging from banks and insurance providers.
A large number of food delivery consumers in China are people in their 20s - 30s.
A large part of India's startup funding was affected by the pandemic and tensions with China.
Cakap aims to make education accessible to people across Indonesia
Spaces Exchange 106 is located at a 106 storey newly built skyscraper called The Exchange 106.
China's domestic games industry generated $42.6 billion in revenues for the same period.
While at TechCrunch, Ned Desmond was heavily involved in organizing the popular Disrupt events around the world each year
Luckin Coffee admitted to fabricating more than $300 million in sales between April 2019 to January 2020
Affected users are using the #facebookdisabledme Twitter hashtag to raise awareness
The PENJANA programme by the Malaysian government will match up to RM600 million on a 1:1 basis with the VC funds, with an initial target of RM1.2 billion.
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