Day: May 12, 2021
Returning investor Telkomsel boosts Gojek investment by $300M to grow Indonesia’s digital lifestyle infrastructure
Gojek’s total funding now sits at $5.3 billion. Telkomsel has been working together as early as 2018 when they partnered to subsidize mobile data costs incurred by Gojek’s driver-partners. In November 2020, Telkomsel invested $150 million into the company to explore a “broad range of collaboration opportunities.”
The future of the world is predicated on humanity solving three challenges: food, energy, and waste [Q&A with Tan Szue Hann for Startup Weekend Singapore 2021]
Climate change causes changing harvest patterns that threaten the predictability of supply, while over-cultivation leads to the desertification of land. Food self-sufficiency, and farming in urban areas, could revolutionize our traditional modes of procuring food.
Acronis secures $250M increasing valuation to $2.5B to increase technical capabilities and datacenter presence
Acronis plans to boost the manpower in engineering, sales, and technical support teams. Currently, the company has 1,600 employees worldwide, with roughly 1,000 of them in technical roles. It plans to double the number of technical employees in Bulgaria, Israel, Singapore, Switzerland, and Arizona within the next 2 to 3 years.
JustKitchen’s cloud kitchen model uses data and logistics optimizations to ensure quality of hot food delivery [Q&A with Kent Wu]
On the technology front, we're putting a lot of resources into building the backbone and foundation of what's needed to operate a multinational dark kitchen across various geographies, languages, and ethnicities. Traditional F&B isn't an easy sector to expand effectively in, we're really pushing to leverage technology to enable our expansion.
