December 2, 2021
Tigerhall Raises $7M to Turn CEO Insights into Personalized Upskilling for Teams

Tigerhall aims to solve massive upskilling inefficiencies that have zero to low ROI today with its mobile SaaS platform for social learning; focusing on user personalization, micro-podcasts and micro-mentorship.

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November 10, 2021
Hypefast Emerges from Stealth Mode as the Largest House of E-Commerce Native Brands in Southeast Asia

With over 25 brands in its portfolio and achieving full profitability

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October 5, 2021
How Did Ninja Van Build a Culture of Creativity and Innovation

As a Ninja Van co-founder, I would like to share why creativity is essential to boost innovation at work—and how to keep it alive.

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September 27, 2021
Ninja Van Raises USD578M in Series E Funding

Ninja Van, a leading tech-enabled logistics company operating in Southeast Asia, today announced that it has successfully secured USD578 million in a Series E funding round.

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September 22, 2021
How Gig Platforms in Malaysia are Empowering Thousands of SMEs to Recover from the Pandemic

With the pandemic, the survival of SMEs and ultimately the employment of most Malaysians have been put under even more pressure.

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September 9, 2021
Our Investment in Rainforest: Building Asia-Pacific’s Modern House of Brands

Selling products online has never been easier. With the emergence of online marketplaces, aspiring entrepreneurs around the world no longer have to create their own websites, but can instead build their entire business around established platforms.

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September 8, 2021
Rainforest Raises US$20 Million Pre-Series A to Acquire E-Commerce Brands in Asia Led by MHV

Funds will be used to drive Rainforest’s aggressive growth strategy, including expanding its portfolio of e-commerce brands in the home goods, mother & kids, personal care and pet categories by three times and growing its leadership team

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September 1, 2021
Startups Take Note: R+K>1 is Your Formula for Success

Does your early-stage business rely on user growth to achieve the scale required to reach profitability? Then you need to understand Rτ+Kτ >1. It's a deceptively simple formula that can ultimately determine an early-stage company's success.

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August 18, 2021
Our Investment in Jenfi: Transforming Financing for Digital-First Businesses in Southeast Asia

Not every startup needs venture capital. It may be odd to hear a VC investor say this, but the truth is the conventional ‘debt or equity’ option is not always suited for what a company actually needs, especially if it means sacrificing equity.

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August 17, 2021
Jenfi raises US$6.3M Series A to bring alternative revenue-based financing to digital-native businesses & startups led by MHV

Jenfi is the first-ever alternative revenue-based financing in Southeast Asia, catering to business owners and entrepreneurs by providing up to $500,000 of non-dilutive growth capital.

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July 29, 2021
INKR Raises US$3.1M Pre-Series A to Scale AI-Driven Digital Comics Platform to Address $10bn Global Market Opportunity Led by MHV

INKR is a first-of-its-kind platform with over 800+ manga, manhua, webtoon, to graphic novels to readers for a nominal subscription fee or pay-per-chapter model

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July 29, 2021
Our Investment in INKR: Comics for the World; Any Title, Any Language

Imagine your Spotify subscription with only the Billboard 100 songs - that is essentially the state and universe of the digital comic industry today.

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April 6, 2021
Glints Raises US$22.5 Million to Scale Tech-Enabled Talent Ecosystem to Solve the Regional Talent Crunch

Glints, Southeast Asia’s largest talent platform for career development and recruitment, raised US$22.5 Million in an oversubscribed round led by Tokyo-listed PERSOL Holdings.

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March 24, 2021
Startup Spotlight: ELSA, An Interview with EMPEA

EMPEA interviewed ELSA co-founder and CEO Vu Van about how her experience studying at Stanford inspired her to launch a better way for people to learn the English language, why Google approached her to invest, and why ELSA has its sights set on Latin America as its next market of expansion.

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March 23, 2021
Startup Spotlight: Bot MD, An Interview with EMPEA

EMPEA spoke with Co-Founder & CEO Dorothea Koh about how her experience working for large healthcare companies informed the need to build better information tools for doctors, the strategy behind a doctor-first model, expansion plans in Asia, and the digitization of the medical industry during the pandemic.

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