WeLab acquires Bank Jasa Jakarta to launch digital bank in Indonesia
Hong Kong-headquartered fintech platform WeLab has announced its acquisition of PT Bank Jasa Jakarta (BJJ), a 50-year-old commercial bank in…
Meet the 6 Indonesian healthtech startups of SEHAT Impact Accelerator
The first three winners of SEHAT Impact Accelerator Johnson & Johnson Foundation and Intellar today announced the six Indonesian health…
How voice AI is revolutionising the fintech scene
What do computational intelligence platforms, Wolfram Alpha, and Apple’s Siri have in common? They are prime examples of Web 3…
Hashed launches US$200M Fund II to back Web3 technologies
Hashed General Partner Baek Kyoum Kim Hashed Venture, a South Korea-based blockchain-centric venture capital firm, has raised US$200 million into…
Ecosystem Roundup: Xen Capital raises US$7.5M; Kinobi gets US$1M; Peoplefund raises US$64M
Xen Capital raises US$7.5M in Series A funding round This funding round was led by Headline Asia (formerly known as…
How biotech is changing the global agriculture game for investors
By 2050, the world’s population is set to increase by more than 35 per cent and reach nine billion. To…
Kinobi nets US$1M seed funding to support GenZ career development in Asia
Singapore-based college-to-career platform Kinobi today announced a US$1 million in seed financing led by an undisclosed corporate venture capital firm…
The future of food tech lies in building digitally autonomous restaurants
The pandemic interrupted businesses worldwide, with offline corporations, particularly restaurants, bearing the brunt of the worldwide lockdown. Despite the ease…
What Gabriel Cian wants you to know about starting up in France
We have discussed the Spanish, Romanian, and EU-wide ecosystems, and now it is time to cover France, everyone’s favourite country…
Why Vertex Ventures invested in Grab when it was still MyTeksi?
As Grab listed on NASDAQ through a US$40B SPAC deal with Altimeter Growth Corp., we strolled down memory lane and…