Venture capital

Innovative educational technology companies (edtechs) in Vietnam are increasingly on the radar of international private equity firms as education gets more digitised not only...

The global economic slowdown in recent months has not left Southeast Asia’s startups unaffected, with hundreds of workers fired from some of the largest...

Malaysia's AirAsia Group announced on January 28 that it had changed its corporate name to “Capital A” at the beginning of the year to...

Philippine fintech company Globe Fintech Innovations, which does business under the brand Mynt, on November 2 said it received more than $300 million in...

Thailand’s PTT Oil and Retail Business, or PTT OR, a unit of state-controlled oil and gas firm PTT, is increasingly venturing into the non-petroleum...

Cambodian e-marketplace Smile Shop, dubbed the leading business-to-consumer e-commerce platform in the country, is receiving a major boost from a new partnership with Chinese...

Online car sales portal Carro, founded and headquartered in Singapore and also operative in Indonesia, Malaysia and...

Singapore is nurturing its thriving fintech industry even during the harsh Covid-19 pandemic times and sees more...

Zennya provides on-demand healthcare services Philippine startup Zennya, which provides mobile healthcare and medical last-mile logistics services, said...

Startups in Singapore were able to raise funds totaling $5.5 billion last year even though the coronavirus...

Picture: Jevanto The coronavirus pandemic is taking its toll on Southeast Asia’s startup scene as demand for digital...

Startup World Cup, a global competition to select the best startups outside of Silicon Valley, is back...

Vietnam's startup sector is growing at a rapid pace despite the global economic slump, closing up to...

Singapore’s ambition to create an ecosystem to support startups is gaining ground as the city-state is meanwhile home...

Indonesian micro-retail tech startup Warung Pintar (“smart kiosk”) has secured new funding of $27.5 million in a Series B round participated by its existing...

Indonesia’s leading e-commerce portal Tokopedia said on December 12 it has raised $1.1 billion in funding from investors including Japanese tech holding SoftBank’s Vision...

One of the year’s largest fintech investments in Southeast Asia and the largest-ever in the Philippines has closed after Metro Manila-based Voyager Innovations announced...

Silicon Valley venture capital firm 500 Startups has raised $14.1 million for the new seed-stage fund of its Vietnamese unit, 40 per cent over...