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Tony Fernandes plans US listings for AirAsia airline & super app – report
Capital A, previously known as AirAsia Group, has been aggressively building its digital businesses and super app over the last two years as most of its planes were grounded due to travel restrictions to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. The group has hoped to build its super app, modeling regional tech giants such as Grab’s and Gojek’s super apps which offer…
Indonesian integrated fishery firm Aruna aims to make Indonesia center of the world’s maritime economy by 2045. Here’s how:
In the interview, Co-Founder and Chief Sustainability Officer Sus Utari Octavianty also shared details on Aruna’s plan, strategy and challenges it faced.
Indonesia e-commerce logistic solutions startup Biteship secures Seed funding co-led by East Ventures and Beenext
Biteship, an Indonesia-based e-commerce logistic solution startup with a focus on empowering small-medium enterprises (SMEs) and enterprises, announced on Friday that it has secured an undisclosed amount of seed funding co-led by East Ventures and Beenext.
Singapore alternative funding startup Jenfi launches in Indonesia
Jenfi, a Singapore-based fintech startup, said Thursday it is expanding its business to Indonesia. The expansion follows its recent series A funding in 2021 and also includes Vietnam.
Malaysia’s Khazanah launches sustainability framework & targets
The Sustainability Framework introduced by Khazanah is designed to be holistic, captured under the three main pillars of ESG, and focuses on issues which most impact the organization and its portfolio from a business materiality point of view.
In the Post-Covid world, pen and paper and the great resignation emerge as key hurdles for SMEs to ramp up their operations
With the reopening of borders and sectors across Southeast Asia, retail food and beverage (F&B) is ramping up again. However, many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) looking to ride this wave of pent-up demand find themselves bogged down with familiar foes: pen and paper.
Culinary startup Mangkokku raises $7M Series A funding from Alpha JWC Ventures & EMTEK
Indonesia-based culinary startup Mangkokku announced today its recently closed Series A funding of $7 million co-led by Alpha JWC Ventures and EMTEK, with participation from Cakra Ventures.
Request Finance raises $5.5M from Animoca Brands, Balderton, XAnge and Web3 Founders to simplify enterprise Crypto payments
Request Finance, the Web3 enterprise crypto payments startup, has closed a $5.5 million seed round with institutional backers including Animoca Brands, Europe early-stage venture capital investor Balderton Capital, and XAnge.
China’s regulator denies conducting work on Jack Ma’s Ant IPO revival; Ant says no plan to initiate IPO
The CSRC, however, also said that it "supports qualified platform companies to list within China and overseas".
