SaaS startups
SoftBank Ventures backs Indonesia logistics startup
Continuing a year of bumper investments for tech startups in the business of moving goods from A to B in Indonesia, Waresix today announced it has secured $100 million in its…
Just 8 months after launch, small biz accounting app Bukukas gets $9m funding
Accounting app Bukukas has secured $9 million in pre-series A funding just eight months after launching, e27 reports this morning. The investment comes only three months after the…
In a rare acquisition, Singapore’s TradeGecko scooped up by Silicon Valley giant
Eight years after being set up in Singapore, TradeGecko has been acquired by Silicon Valley giant Intuit, both companies announced this morning. TradeGecko makes inventory…
Ex-Grab employees get series A funding for 4-month-old AI startup
A trio of former Grab employees who were instrumental in the ride-hail giant developing Grab Maps is now building up a new startup with unusual speed. Just four months after…
Meet the Harvard grad who left ‘big pharma’ for his own startup
Farouk Meralli has what is surely one of the oddest starting up anecdotes in the tech industry. “It’s a funny story,” he chuckles. Basically, it went like this. The…
Energy automation startup gets funding for global expansion
SensorFlow, one of a wave of young hardware firms out of Singapore, has secured fresh funding to expand from Southeast Asia to global markets. Its energy automation system…
