Vietnam

Saigon Asset Management invests in Vietnamese FinTech firm Anfin

Anfin Company Limited announced Thursday the signing of an investment and strategic partnership agreement with Saigon Asset Management (SAM), which will see SAM becoming an equity investor into Anfin as well as a strategic partner. Following this agreement, both firms will collaborate to leverage SAM’s diverse portfolio of investment funds to expand assets…

Society Pass acquires Vietnam online grocery delivery service Handycart

Society Pass Incorporated (SoPa) has acquired Dream Space Trading Company Limited, the operator of Handycart. The newly acquired company will be integrated into SoPa's food and beverage delivery vertical with SoPa's existing merchant software platform #HOTTAB,

Visa and VNPAY enter strategic partnership to drive digital payments in Vietnam

Visa has entered a strategic partnership with VNPAY to enhance the digital payments experience in Vietnam. Together, they will make cashless payment more accessible in Vietnam through expanding and strengthening the fintech company's affiliate network of accepting merchants, as well as rolling out new services including Visa’s Tap to Phone acceptance…

Vietnam’s Society Pass completes acquisition of Philippines online grocery delivery service Pushkart.ph

Society Pass Incorporated (SoPa) has acquired Pushkart.ph, an online grocery delivery service in Philippines. The move kicks-off SoPa’s expansion into the Philippines market. Leveraging on SoPa’s capital, Pushkart.ph will focus on dramatically increasing on-demand grocery shopping services to more consumers and more retailers initially to Metro Manila and…

Vietnamese blockchain gaming firm Summoners Arena raises $3M seed fund led by Pantera Capital

Summoners Arena announced Friday the completion of a $3 million round of seed financing. The round was led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Onechain Technology, GuildFi, Merit Circle, Cosmic Guild, Coin98 Ventures, Istari Ventures, Spartan Group, Impossible Finance, Kyber Ventures, and Kyros Ventures as well as several…

Vietnamese healthtech firm Medici raises pre-Series A funding co-led by Wavemaker Partners, Jungle Ventures

Medici has raised an undisclosed amount in its pre-Series A round co-led by Wavemaker Partners and Jungle Venture, with participation from its existing investor Insignia Ventures Partners. The company will use the fresh funds to scale up its insuretech footprint, expand its healthcare offering, and hire across different roles in the organization,

The public needs to understand science and believe in it, says VinFuture Prize Council’s Professor Văn-Chí Đặng [Q&A]

Young people are the promise for the future. Science and technology will help us solve many of our problems. And then I think the third one would be we need to educate the public. The public needs to understand what we're doing and be able to believe in science. 

Vietnamese investing app Infina closes $6M in seed funding from Sequoia India’s Surge, Y Combinator, Saison Capital and more

Infina has closed $6 million in seed funding from investors such as Sequoia Capital India’s Surge, Y Combinator, Saison Capital, Starling Ventures, Alpha JWC, and AppWorks. Additional investors who have backed Robinhood, Coinbase, and similar models in other markets also participated in the funding.

VinFuture Sci-Tech Week: How artificial intelligence is the key to unlock the future of humanity

As part of VinFuture Sci-Tech Week, the VinFuture seminar featured discussions that envisioned the future of AI with Vietnam’s potential contributions to AI research and development.

VinFuture Prize Chair Professor Sir Richard Henry Friend on opportunities in science and discovery [Q&A]

"I think that world is still there to be discovered. As we make progress with our technologies, we will discover more. All the exciting examples turn out to have an unexpectedness about them. It wasn't a linear process towards the end. And that's how science should be."