Indonesian fintech Xendit is now a unicorn, with $150M in fresh funding led...
There’s a new entrant in Southeast Asia’s growing list of unicorns. Jakarta-based Xendit, best known for its digital payment infrastructure but also focused on other financial products, announced today...
View ArticleUpmesh wants to build a community-driven discovery app for Southeast Asian...
The founders of Upmesh were building a game on top of Twitch’s API when they realized something about another group of livestreamers. Even though selling through Facebook Live has been gaining...
View ArticleMaritime recruitment platform Seafair gets $5.7M led by General Catalyst
The people who work on shipping vessels are vital to world trade, but they still experience a lot of arcane hiring processes. Many lack transparency about important things like pay or even the working...
View ArticleBrick closes $8.5M seed to enable open finance across Southeast Asia
Financial apps are proliferating across Southeast Asia, making things like bookkeeping or securing an online loan easier. But this means fintechs need access to large amounts of data that they can use...
View ArticleCrowdfunding Site Medifund Relaunches As Non-Profit To Help Med Students In...
Medifund, a crowdfunding platform for medical students, has relaunched as a non-profit. The site, which is based in the Philippines but open to students around the world, was first covered by...
View ArticleAyannah Raises $1M To Serve The Philippines’ Rapidly Growing Remittance Market
Ayannah, a digital payments startup based in the Philippines, has raised $1 million in new funding from Japanese venture capital firms IMJ Investment Partners and Beenos, the investment vehicle of...
View ArticleCashCashPinoy Lands $2.25M To Build Out The E-Commerce Opportunity In The...
Raising funding for a startup is tough. Doing it in emerging markets is tougher still. Just ask Frédéric Lévy, a serial entrepreneur who just bagged a $2.25 million Series A round for CashCashPinoy,...
View ArticlePackworks makes operations easier for sari-sari stores in the Philippines
Sari-saris are small neighborhood stores in the Philippines that are often run on pen and paper ledgers. Inspired by a motorcycle journey, Packworks is on a mission to change that, with a mobile...
View ArticleShipmates makes order fulfillment less tedious for the Philippines’ online...
The Philippines’ e-commerce market now has a gross merchandise volume of $12 billion, a 132% increase from 2020, and is expected to reach $26 billion in GMV by 2025. This obviously is good news for...
View ArticleLocad lands Series A to expand its “logistics engine” across Southeast Asia...
When Constantin Robertz was working at Zalora, he was involved in moving warehouses six times as the e-commerce company outgrew its logistics infrastructure. This inspired him to co-found Locad, a...
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