The common wisdom suggests that having at least 18 months of runway provides a sense of security for startups to continue shipping at full speed.
https://www.techinasia.com/visual-story/southeast-asian-startups-raised-funds-18-months
We explore the potential upsides of customer experience firm Toku’s latest acquisition and look at a GameFi startup founded by Mintable’s ex-COO.
https://www.techinasia.com/merger-startup-eyes-50-revenue-boost
According to the company, the amount is up from the US$194 million it held as of April 30, 2023.
https://www.techinasia.com/animoca-brands-publish-unaudited-financial-reports-turbulent-2023
Which investors are writing the most checks to Israel-based startups?
https://www.techinasia.com/active-investors-israels-startups
Keep track of all the startup investment activities in Asia through our weekly funding list.
https://www.techinasia.com/visual-story/weekly-startup-funding
We've compiled a list of investors that are pouring money into Southeast Asia’s software-as-a-service startups.
If ByteDance exits the US, its overall business will be minimally impacted, as TikTok accounts for a small part of its total revenue, Reuters noted.
https://www.techinasia.com/tiktok-may-leave-us-instead-of-selling-report
Indian regulator SEBI said that FirstCry hasn't disclosed all crucial business metrics that could influence potential investors, Reuters reported.
https://www.techinasia.com/firstcrys-ipo-delayed-due-undisclosed-metrics
Geniebook’s Neo Zhizhong believes that his startup can become the bridge to international opportunities for students in Vietnam.
https://www.techinasia.com/vietnams-land-opportunity-edtech-startup
Called Celangan, the feature offers an interest rate of 10% per annum at launch.
https://www.techinasia.com/grab-backed-superbank-introduces-auto-savings-product-in-indonesia
Singapore companies are building robots that clean, deliver food, and guard buildings. The journey is tougher than it looks.
https://www.techinasia.com/robot-service-singapore-companies-ride-global-wave-build-nextgen-robots
The edtech company's status in Indonesia is unclear, though it had abruptly suspended operations both there and in the Philippines last year.
https://www.techinasia.com/refocus-sued-for-over-1-6m-by-ex-students-in-indonesia
The judicial commissioner said it wasn’t appropriate to use a winding-up application as a quick fix for the dispute between founders.
Which investors are writing the most checks to Korea-based startups?
The foodtech decacorn joins the likes of Ola, FirstCry, and MobiKwik in India's IPO pipeline.
https://www.techinasia.com/swiggy-aims-raise-125b-planned-ipo
Run:ai develops software run on the Kubernetes system to help businesses manage their computing needs more effectively.
https://www.techinasia.com/nvidia-shells-out-700m-to-scoop-up-israeli-ai-startup
We've compiled a list of investors that are pouring money into Southeast Asia’s health startups.
The expansion comes a month after the Singapore-headquartered cashback and rewards platform cut 24% of its workforce.
The move comes a year after the payments firm launched in Canada, China, and Israel and after it acquired a fintech firm in Mexico.
https://www.techinasia.com/airwallex-expands-payment-services-to-the-us
The next big thing of the country’s tech scene could very well be at the Antler Portfolio Showcase.
https://www.techinasia.com/dibs-vietnams-upandcoming-startups
The US$5 million funding from Credit Saison's SIMPL comes after the Philippine BNPL startup doubled its revenue in 2023 while staying profitable.
https://www.techinasia.com/billeases-credit-facility-hits-40m-with-new-saison-investment
Is it a national loyalty program meant to benefit all Singaporeans? Or is it a multimillion-dollar experiment by Temasek on an emerging tech?
https://www.techinasia.com/demystifying-yuu-temasekbacked-consumer-loyalty-program
VC funding can be a leading indicator of where in the tech industry we’re going to see more spending and jobs.
That company said SenseNova 5.0, the latest version of its LLM, can exceed the capabilities of OpenAI's ChatGPT-4.
https://www.techinasia.com/sensetime-pauses-trading-stock-rises-30-model-launch
The sentence, given after Changpeng Zhao pled guilty to money laundering violations, exceeds US federal guidelines, Reuters noted.
https://www.techinasia.com/binance-founder-jailed-36-months-prosecturos
Ankiti Bose, who was fired from Zilingo in 2022, claims that co-founder Dhruv Kapoor and ex-COO Aadi Vaidya had misled her and investors.
https://www.techinasia.com/zilingos-ankiti-bose-files-criminal-complaint-cofounder-coo-report
We delve into how Pakistan’s startup ecosystem has adapted to a dearth of VC funding and how Atome Financial almost doubled its operating income.
Uncharted's founder is Jiawen Ngeow, who left NFT marketplace Mintable in 2023 following a legal battle with its CEO.
https://www.techinasia.com/shima-capital-takes-lead-17-million-seed-funding-uncharted
Which investors are writing the most checks to Vietnam-based startups?
https://www.techinasia.com/active-investors-vietnams-startups
Fundraising is difficult. To make things easier, we have compiled a detailed list of the most recent VC funds for our subscribers.
https://www.techinasia.com/visual-story/list-vc-funds-money-deploy
ByteDance has a year to sell its US operations or face a ban, according to the bill, though founder Zhang Yiming previously said it did not intend to sell.
https://www.techinasia.com/tiktok-stares-potential-ban-foreign-aid-bill-passage
In The Top Up this week, we map out Indonesia’s key fintech players and look at plans to expand cross-border payment linkages within ASEAN.
https://www.techinasia.com/funding-falls-indonesian-fintech-players-stand
You’ll want to get mixed up with this crowd at this exclusive gathering.
With the deal, Thunes would expand its offerings to new merchants, like those in Tilia's niche of online games, virtual worlds, and creator economies.
https://www.techinasia.com/thunes-moves-gaming-payments-tilia-deal
Join Tech in Asia’s very first Saigon Summit along with more than 700 other regional tech scene enthusiasts to make connections and create opportunities to catalyze the sector’s growth.
Check out the recent anonymous reviews for these VC firms.
https://www.techinasia.com/visual-story/glasswall-vc-investors-founders-reviews