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Many people have plenty of online subscriptions that they barely use, and can save a fair amount of money with a service like Truebill to see all their recurring payments in one place. Spendflo wants to do the same for enterprise subscribers of SaaS services, and is targeted...
Thailand’s Salary Hero is an earned wage access startup that plans to become a neobank – TechCrunch
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Salary Hero wants to provide lower-income Thai workers with more financial flexibility. The startup, which focuses on earned wage access and finance education, with plans to add neo banking products, too, announced today it has raised $2.8 million. The funding included participation from Global Founders Capital, M Venture...
Curious Thing’s voice AI communication platform asks the right questions – TechCrunch
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Curious Thing founders Dr. Han Xu, Sam Zheng and David Mckeague
Sydney-based Curious Thing is an aptly-named startup. The voice AI communication platform can call people and ask them questions like “How are you feeling today?” and then follow up with “how does it feel compared to yesterday?” Used...
Singapore-based Good Startup raises $34M fund to invest in alternative protein companies – TechCrunch
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Good Startup founders Gautam Godhwani and Jayesh Parekh
Good Startup, a Singapore-based venture capital firm focused on alternative protein, has closed its latest fund. Consisting of $34 million, the new fund, called Good Protein Fund I, included participation from Vinmar International founder and chairman Vijay Goradia; former head of...
Dat Bike is the creator of Vietnam’s first domestic electric motorbike – TechCrunch
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Dat Bike founder and CEO Son Nguyen
Dat Bike is on a journey to reduce the amount of gasoline used in Vietnam. The startup makes electric motorbikes with key components that it designs and produces domestically to reduce costs and improve performance. Today, Dat Bike announced it has raised...
BintanGO has almost everything Indonesian creators need to monetize their content. First, there is its CreatorSpace, which helps them manage brand collaborations by measuring engagement and sending invoices.
Businesses, meanwhile can search through BintanGO’s marketplace for a verified creator, who are accepted based on social media followers, post consistency...
Everstage raises $13M Series A to make sales commissions more transparent – TechCrunch
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Everstage founders Vivek Suriyamoorthy and Siva Rajamani
For sales reps, commission plans are often complicated and lack transparency, leading to accounting errors and frustration. Everstage, a sales commission platform, solves that, letting sales rep see exactly how much they earned. It also has features to estimate how much commissions...
Pakistan’s Zaraye, a B2B supplies platform, raises $2.1M from Tiger Global and Zayn – TechCrunch
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Obtaining raw materials is a major pain point for Pakistan’s manufacturers, who need to have multiple phone calls with suppliers while waiting for rates, say the founders of Zayare. The startup, which runs a platform that connects manufacturers directly with suppliers, announced today it has raised $2.1 million...
Aemi founders Hieu Nguyen and Kim Vu
Social commerce sellers can be as small as one person selling products to their followers on social media platforms like Instagram or Facebook. Many don’t have a web storefront and instead rely on private messages to take orders and payments. This might...
The Parentinc raises $22M led by East Ventures for its parenting community and D2C brand – TechCrunch
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Roshni Mahtani Cheung, group CEO and founder of The Parentinc
The Parentinc, a Singapore-based startup that runs a parenting community and direct-to-consumer product line, announced today it has raised $22 million.
The round was led by East Ventures with undisclosed investors and included participation from Central Retail Corporation, a new...