Top news of the week: 07.02.2023.
Tiger Global Cuts Fundraising Target as Startup Market Cools
The prolific startup investor is aiming to raise $5 billion, less than half of its initial ambition for a large venture-capital fund.
JD exits Southeast Asia, Animoca gears up for crypto winter and more
[And we are back] Asia Tech Review: 6 February 2023
Zomato shutters operations in Philippines, its first SE Asia market
Zomato entered the Philippines in April 2013.
BetterPlace acquires MyRobin, enters Southeast Asia market
While the terms of current transaction were not disclosed, Pravin Agarwala, Co-founder and Group CEO of BetterPlace, told YourStory that it is one of its largest deals in Indonesia from a ...
Indonesia’s seafood farming industry faces a ‘technology gap’ — and startups are raising big bucks to fill it
"A lot of decisions made are based on gut feeling or what ancestors have been doing for the past 60 years," says one startup's co-founder and CEO.
The People Powering Japan’s Startup Ecosystem
Japan’s startup ecosystem has arrived at a pivot point: for the first time, it is able to draw top-tier talent to high-growth startups at a scale that was not possible just 15 years ago.
Chat-based marketing platform ChiChat secures series A round for Asia expansion
The HitoBito team with their investors in this round.Founder and CEO Masaya Ishikawa sits in the middle of the first row.Image credit: HitoBito Some of our readers may recall that we have ...
Rethinking ride-hailing with BluSmart
Four-year-old BluSmart is not only providing customers access to EV (electric vehicle) cabs but is also trying to disrupt the existing ride-hailing model in India.