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TechNode Global’s Top 10 most-read contributor’s articles
It’s the time of the year again as we take a look back at what happened in 2022 in the tech and startup scene, before ushering into the new year. In 2022, TechNode Global has…
TechNode Global’s Top 10 most-read news articles in 2022
It’s the time of the year again as we take a look back at what had happened in 2022 in the tech and startup scene, before ushering into 2023. The year 2022 has generally looked…
Southeast Asia’s Top 10 tech news in 2021
In 2021, many parts of the world (perhaps excluding China and North Korea) including Southeast Asia are still very much affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, no thanks to the more…
Beyond The Billion partner funds invested over $600M in close to 800 female-founded startups in 2 years
Beyond The Billion, whose first pledge campaign (The Billion Dollar Fund for Women launched in 2018) mobilized a global consortium of venture capital funds (VC) and limited…
🪓☠️ Covid-19: Southeast Asia tech layoffs and shutdowns
Here’s a list, regularly updated, of tech startup layoffs and shutdowns amid the Covid–19 pandemic. It’s not an exhaustive list, and it doesn’t reflect other troubling trends such…
Celebrity shoutout apps are ready for the limelight
If you want Snoop Dogg to bless your buddy’s birthday or Manny Pacquiao to congratulate your brother on his promotion, there’s an app for that: Cameo. The US-based startup is now…
Jack Ma’s fintech giant Ant: a brief history of its Southeast Asia empire building
Now we know that Ant Financial—or Ant Group, as we apparently must call it from now on—is ready for dual IPOs pretty soon, it’s a good time to remember that the Alibaba spinoff…
Alternative meat startups are making slow progress across Southeast Asia
For all the hype about meat substitute startups over the years, there’s been remarkably little evidence of any disruption to the meat industry in supermarkets and kitchens across…
4 factors that make Vietnam Southeast Asia’s next big growth story
Several batches ago, we started to see a steady influx of Vietnamese founders applying to our AppWorks Accelerator. It was a rather curious phenomenon because at the time we had…
