Carousell integrates Laku6 team, AI-first diagnostics technology to drive mobile recommerce expansion across Greater Southeast Asia
Carousell Group, the Singapore-based multi-category platform for secondhand, has integrated the Laku6 team's expertise and proprietary artificial intelligence (AI)-first…
Gobi Partners onboards Malaysian startups Durioo+, Lapasar, Paywatch and pitchIN to the Gobi Superseed II Fund
Gobi Partners, the Pan-Asian venture capital (VC) firm with $1.5 billion in assets under management, has onboarded four more promising Malaysian startups to its Gobi Superseed II…
SUSI Partners sets up Southeast Asian renewables platform
Swiss clean energy fund manager SUSI Partners, through its Asia Energy Transition Fund (SAETF), has launched a platform for the development of utility-scale renewable energy…
Taiwan’s WeMo raises $15M from AppWorks to accelerate Southeast Asia expansion
WeMo Corp, a Taiwan-based urban mobility technologies firm, has on Wednesday announced the completion of a US$15 million Series A+ round of financing led by AppWorks, with…
US’s Strike partners Pouch.ph to expand lightning-fast money transfers to the Philippines
Strike, the United States-based digital payments platform built on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, has on Tuesday announced the expansion of its “Send Globally” product to the…
Indonesian cybersecurity firm Peris.ai secures funding led by East Ventures
Peris.ai, an Indonesian-based cybersecurity as a service startup, has on Wednesday announced the new funding led by East Ventures, a sector-agnostic venture capital firm in…
Ayoconnect partners Mastercard to build innovative solutions in bank-account based payments and open finance in Indonesia
Ayoconnect, an Indonesia-based open finance API platform, has on Tuesday announced a strategic partnership with Mastercard to modernize bank account-based payments and co-create…
Malaysia’s Wellous appoints Lee Koon Tan as group president
Wellous Group Limited, a Malaysia-based international nutrition company, has on Tuesday announced key leadership appointments to help further the company’s global expansion and…
MUFG sets up $100M fund with Danamon in Indonesia
MUFG Innovation Partners Co., Ltd. (MUIP) and MUFG Bank, subsidiaries of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG), have on Tuesday announced that they have established a $100…
Grab appoints Philipp Kandal as Chief Product Officer
Grab Holdings Limited, the Southeast Asia’s leading superapp, has on Monday announced that it has promoted Philipp Kandal to Chief Product Officer, effective February 1, 2023.…
Indonesia’s EdenFarm raises $13.5M funding led by TMI, AppWorks, AC Ventures
EdenFarm, a food service-focused startup based in Indonesia, has secured $13.5 million in its latest Pre-Series B bridge round led by Telkomsel venture arm Telkomsel Mitra Inovasi…
