IT総合 Southeast Asia funding at its lowest level in six years
Every year, Temasek teams up with Bain & Company on the e-Conomy SEA report. It covers Southeast Asia’s digital eco...
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IT総合 IT総合 Korean Investment Partners is the latest Korean VC firm to launch a Southeast Asia fund
More South Korean investors are putting money into Southeast Korea startups, creating an “investment corridor” between t...
IT総合 Singapore-based fintech YouTrip picks up $50M led by Lightspeed
YouTrip, a Singapore-based fintech that offers multi-currency wallet for consumers and business accounts with corporate ...
IT総合 Blackbird backs Heidi Health’s AI platform for overworked doctors
Many doctors are overwhelmed by paperwork, leaving them stretched thin, with less time to see patients. Based in Melbour...
IT総合 Triple-A gets funding from Peak XV to help more businesses use crypto
Created by the founder of Thunes, global digital currency payments institution Triple-A wants to close the gap between t...
IT総合 Temasek’s Xero backs Cosmos Innovation’s next-generation solar cell technology
Perovskite silicon tandem solar cell technology is a mouthful, but it’s basically perovskite crystals layered on top of ...
IT総合 Tofu automates content creation for massive omnichannel B2B marketing campaigns
Creating the many types of content needed for large-scale B2B campaigns often result in marketers juggling dozens of too...
IT総合 Leucine makes drug manufacturing compliance less onerous
The compliance process at pharmaceutical manufacturers is a complicated and prone to errors because many still use paper...
IT総合 After warning, the EU opens investigation into X over alleged disinformation
The European Union announced today it is opening an investigation into X for allegedly spreading illegal content and dis...
IT総合 10 Minute School aims to democratize education for Bangladeshi students
Access to education in Bangladesh is filled with inequalities, say the founders of edtech 10 Minute School. Many rural a...
IT総合 Phasio helps local manufacturers manage their customer relationships
For small- to medium-sized local manufacturers, cultivating their network of customers is key to scaling up. But maintai...
IT総合 SuperOps.ai streamlines the work of managed service providers
To ease the burden of maintaining their IT infrastructure, many companies, especially SMBs, turn to third-party IT provi...
IT総合 ALIAVIA Ventures fights gender funding inequalities in the U.S. and Australia
Founded by two tech veterans, ALIAVIA wants to close the funding gap for female founders. It invests in female-led start...
IT総合 Singapore’s tech subscription service Circular wants to keep devices out of the landfill
Circular, backed by Y Combinator, is a service that offers consumers in Singapore and Australia subscriptions to high-en...
IT総合 Greener for Business launches to help Australian SMBs move to net zero
Greener, the Australian cleantech startup that creates custom action plans to help its customers become more environment...
IT総合 Plaid’s Zack Perret on Visa, valuations and privacy
When Plaid won TechCrunch Disrupt 2013’s Hackathon, it wasn’t even Plaid yet. The team was building a web app that let u...
IT総合 How Reed Jobs’ venture firm tackles cancer
Reed Jobs’ new venture firm can change the lives of the estimated 18.1 million diagnosed cancer patients worldwide. Yose...
IT総合 Monoclonal antibody treatments have many challenges — Narval is fixing them
Monoclonal antibodies are the building blocks of some of the most important medical treatments in the world. But they ha...
IT総合 Remote launches new HR platform for companies with a “global-first” approach
While working at GitLab, Job van der Voort and Marcelo Lebre hired remote workers in about 70 countries. The process was...
IT総合 English learning platform ELSA lands $22.5M Series C
ELSA, the English language learning platform, announced today it has raised $22.5 million in Series C funding. It also l...
IT総合 Ascento’s robots aid overstretched security guards
Like in many industries, there’s an acute shortage of security guards. This means guards still on the job have to pull e...
IT総合 Taiwan-based lifestyle app FunNow merges with Eatigo to broaden its Southeast Asia reach
FunNow, the Taiwan-based app that lets users book activities on-demand in five Asian countries, is growing its reach in ...
IT総合 Atomicwork connects workers and their companies
Sometimes the work of having a job takes time away from work. Tasks like asking for leave, filing tech requests and chec...
IT総合 myZoi wants to make remittances less costly for migrant workers
Money sent home by migrant workers not only helps their families, but also enables entire economies to develop. But tran...
IT総合 Accel-backed Agave lets construction software talk to one another
A lot of the most popular construction software was developed 20 to 40 years ago and many systems don’t talk to each oth...
IT総合 Voxel uses computer vision to increase workplace safety
The International Labour Organization estimates that there are 340 million workplace incidents every year. Voxel was cre...
IT総合 TeamSense helps manufacturers keep in touch with deskless workers
Deskless workers make up about 70% to 80% of the global workforce. Since they spend most of their time away from a compu...
IT総合 Lightspeed backs Markato, a marketplace that helps independent brands break into Asia
During the pandemic, almost all retailers in Asia established an e-commerce presence and adopted digital payments. But o...
IT総合 MFast get backing from Wavemaker Partners to increase financial services access in Vietnam
The majority of Vietnam’s population live in rural areas and often lack access to financial services because banks and o...
IT総合 Moxie raises $15.7M to make opening medspas easier
Treatments like botox are becoming more ubiquitous, spurring growth in the number of medspas, or centers that offer boto...