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Behind India’s largest series A round in IoT: how Flutura chose its investors
Flutura CEO and co-founder Krishnan Raman speaking at Tech in Asia Bangalore 2016. Vertex Ventures, whose investor is Singapore government’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek, has led a US$7.5 million...
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An artificially intelligent pathologist bags India’s biggest funding in...
Photo credit: Pixabay. The World Health Organization requires a pathologist to spend 20 minutes examining a blood smear on a slide under a microscope before ruling out malaria if no parasites are seen....
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Startups are nailing their own coffins with VC hammers. Here’s a way to...
“If somebody is not paying you to build the product, you are betting that your product is something people might buy. Then, you are in the gambling business,” Professor Saras Sarasvathy says. Photo...
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Why fraud affects online stores more than you realize
If only all fraudsters looked like Leonardo DiCaprio. Gif credit: TIA / Catch Me If You Can (2002) We may still get the occasional email from a Nigerian prince asking for friendship and money, but that...
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Indonesia’s Ideabox accelerator kicks off fourth batch
Andy Zain, managing director of Kejora in Indonesia. Ideabox, one of Indonesia’s longest-running startup accelerators, today announced the participants of its fourth batch. Andalin is a service to help...
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40 tech jobs in Asia this week: Carousell, Blaire Labs, Indosight and more
Good day folks! Here are the latest tech jobs in Asia this week! This list will focus on highlighting digital and tech-centric jobs from a healthy mix of startups and companies across tech and...
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Malaysian co-working space scores funding from 500 Startups, other investors
Photo credit: ammentorp / 123RF. 500 Startups’ Southeast Asia fund, 500 Durians, along with Malaysia’s Cradle Fund and investment holding firm SMG, has injected US$787,000 into an upcoming Kuala...
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Don’t miss these 5 speakers at TIA Singapore 2017
We’re only a couple of weeks into 2017, but we’ve already got a lot to look forward to as Tech in Asia Singapore 2017 looms on the horizon. Today, we’re excited to unveil some of the biggest names in...
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Startups target subprime customers, riding on India’s fintech boom
Photo credit: rosinka79 / 123RF Stock Photo India is all set to be the world’s fastest growing economy, and like all rapidly developing countries, it is seeing its share of economic challenges. There’s...
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These engineers love skateboarding so much they created a trick tracker
Photo credit: lzflzf / 123RF. Most of us mere mortals keep our jobs and hobbies in two separate worlds. For engineer-skateboarders Jibin Jose and Abimanyu Nair, that wasn’t good enough. “From where our...
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I spent a day in the shoes of a last-mile courier. Here’s what I learned.
This is a one-storey tall stack of parcels in the chute. But it isn’t a busy day for SingPost. It’s 8am. I’m half-asleep, but I seem to be the only one. At SingPost’s Regional eCommerce Logistics Hub,...
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A crash course in India’s startup scene
Photo credit: Himanshu Singh Gurjar/Unsplash. India is the world’s fastest growing smartphone market, with 462 million internet users, second only to China. The number rose 23 percent last year, and...
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Singapore’s central bank sets up data analytics group headed by a machine...
Photo credit: Drumah. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) isn’t just dipping its toes in the technology pool so much as jumping into it feet-first. After setting up its own innovation lab and...
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Angel investing in India is broken. Here’s how AngelList wants to fix that.
Photo credit: AngelList. Angel investing in India has grown popular in recent times, but it’s still a scattered process. Unlike in the United States – the mecca of all things tech, startups, and...
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WeWork continues Asian expansion with Hong Kong launch
Inside WeWork’s new space in Hong Kong’s Tower 535. Photo credit: WeWork. Nearly eight months after first entering Asia with a co-working space in Shanghai, US-based WeWork has brought its hustle to...
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AI and IoT define the new India – not outsourcing or ecommerce
Today is a red letter day for new age software products out of India. SigTuple became the country’s highest funded healthcare AI startup, with a US$5.8 million series A round from marquee investors –...
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Come tech bubble or fundraising struggle, India’s startups stay optimistic:...
Their experiences might be difficult, but startups are willing to look past that because they believe they have what it takes. Photo credit: viperagp / 123RF. The success rate for funded startups is...
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Nazara puts up $20m to give India an esports league
A nice, ripe retirement age. Photo credit: blackregis / 123RF. The career of an esports player is a short one. Maybe you start playing League of Legends at the tender age of 14 or 15, get scouted to...
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Payments software for businesses gets funding from VC arm of Indonesia’s...
Indonesian startup Moka announced today it’s raised a $2m round of financing led by Mandiri Capital. Existing investors Convergence Ventures, East Ventures, Fenox, and Northstar Group also...
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4 rising startups in India – Feb 13, 2017
Photo credit: Pixabay. It’s a day for breaking ground. A startup nabs the largest series A round of funding yet for an Indian AI healthcare company, while an IoT business brings in the largest series A...
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