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Y Combinator-backed startup Tablevibe partners with Foodpanda, DoorDash, and other delivery platforms to offer a commission-free online ordering system to over one million restaurants in Southeast Asia, Australia, and North America. The Singapore-based venture is the world’s first business to tie up with leading delivery platforms across these regions.

We talked to Ula’s Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Alan Wong to learn more about the key barriers of adoption for digital tech in Indonesia outside of big metro areas, its plans and strategy after securing funding, among other issues.

Southeast Asia’s largest integrated car e-commerce platform Carsome announced Wednesday the expansion of its regional headquarters in Malaysia, which signifies the company’s efforts in growing a high-skilled workforce to solve customers’ pain points in the car ownership journey.

Techsauce Global Summit 2022 is Southeast Asia’s largest tech event. The innovative conference takes place on the 26th and 27th of August at ICONSIAM, Bangkok, Thailand. Now in its 8th year running, Techsauce Global Summit is connecting the biggest minds in tech, it will bring together over 15,000 attendees and 1,500 startups from across the globe.

East Ventures, a pioneering sector-agnostic venture capital firm that has supported over 200 companies in Southeast Asia, announced Monday the appointment of Avina Sugiarto as a Partner at the firm.

The state-owned investor has 13 offices in 9 countries around the world: Beijing, Hanoi, Mumbai, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Singapore in Asia; and London, Brussels, New York, San Francisco, Washington DC, Mexico City, and Sao Paulo outside Asia.

Southeast Asian super app Grab said Thursday it has officially launched Grab Intercity, giving users the ability to conveniently purchase affordable bus and ferry tickets between Malaysia and Singapore right on the Grab app.

In the exclusive interview, Cuaca also shared his views on the overall tech ecosystem in Indonesia, startups’ valuation and the firm’s exit strategy.

We talked to several venture capital (VC) firms in the region to learn more from their perspectives about gender gap in the tech ecosystem. We sought for their thoughts on gender lens investing and asked for their suggestions on how female tech entrepreneurs can improve further, addressing their challenges in the male-dominated tech startup ecosystem.