Malaysia

Malaysia’s MN Holdings partners China’s DC-Science to set up high performance data center in Malaysia

Malaysian underground utilities and substation engineering specialist MN Holdings Berhad is partnering China’s Shanghai DC-Science Co Ltd to develop its first high performance data center in Malaysia. The project, has an overall estimated value of over $600 million.

Malaysia, Singapore announces cross-border QR code payment linkage

This cross-border QR code payment linkage is made possible through the strong collaboration of various industry players from both countries, including Payments Network Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (PayNet), Network for Electronic Transfers (Singapore) Pte. Ltd (NETS), the Association of Banks in Singapore, and participating financial institutions from both countries.

Gobi Partners onboards Care Concierge to the Khazanah-backed Gobi Dana Impak Ventures fund

Gobi Partners, an interconnected Pan-Asian venture capital (VC) firm, has onboarded its first portfolio, Care Concierge under its newly established Gobi Dana Impak Ventures (GDIV) fund.

Advisonomics partners Kakitangan.com to provide financial planning app in Malaysia

Malaysia-based financial planning firm Advisonomics has joined hands with cloud payroll and human resource software provider Kakitangan.com to work together in making the CashKu digital financial planning app accessible to more people.

Malaysia’s Blueshark launches initiative to accelerate electric motorcycles adoption and development

Malaysia-based electric vehicle (EV) tech mobility company Blueshark has announced a new program called Malaysia Electric Vehicle Empowerment (MyEVE) to accelerate the adoption and development of electric motorcycles in Malaysia.

Malaysia to launch initiative to put innovation into mainstream of digital economy – report

Rafizi said on Wednesday the initiative had been carried out with the cooperation between his ministry and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation since two months ago.

Capital Markets Malaysia launches Corporate Venture Capital Program to advance local ecosystem

Capital Markets Malaysia (CMM), an affiliate of the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC), has on Tuesday launched the nation’s first Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) Programm to advance the domestic venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) ecosystem by stimulating corporate investments by larger public listed companies (PLCs)

Malaysia’s Khazanah anticipates another challenging year ahead

Malaysian sovereign fund Khazanah Nasional Berhad (Khazanah) is anticiping another challenging year ahead of below trend global growth on the back of monetary policy shift to combat inflation, and persistent geopolitical tensions.

Petronas plans to expand corporate venture capital arm with up to $200M – report

Malaysia's government has been wanting to boost and support the local startup ecosystem with various initiatives and policies. On Thursday, Malaysia’s sovereign fund Khazanah Nasional Berhad announced the launch of the Future Malaysia Program to support the local start-up ecosystem of entrepreneurs, start-ups, venture capital, and corporate venture programs…

Khazanah launches Future Malaysia Program to spur the local start-up ecosystem

Malaysia's sovereign fund Khazanah Nasional Berhad has on Thursday announced the launch of the Future Malaysia Program to support the local start-up ecosystem of entrepreneurs, start-ups, venture capital, and corporate venture programmes through collaborations with domestic and international partners.