August 28, 2019
Grab promises to invest $500 million into Vietnam
Ride-hailing company Grab is going to focus some of its efforts on Vietnam with a $500 million investment over the next five years to grow its activities in…
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August 26, 2019
India’s 9-month-old CRED raises $120M to help people improve their financial behavior
Many Silicon Valley companies and fintech startups in India today share a common mission: They all want to bring their financial services to the next billion users. Dozens…
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India’s FreshToHome raises $20M to grow its fish, meat, vegetable and milk e-commerce platform
FreshToHome, a Bangalore-based e-commerce startup that sells fresh vegetable, fish, chicken and other kinds of meat, has raised $20 million in a new financing round as it looks…
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India’s BharatPe raises $50M to help merchants accept digital payments and secure working capital
BharatPe, a New Delhi-based firm that is enabling hundreds of thousands of merchants to start accepting digital payments for the first time, and is also giving them access…
Read articleAugust 23, 2019
India exempts startups from long-standing ‘angel tax’
India today addressed a long-standing challenge that has been affecting the country’s booming startup ecosystem. As part of a raft of measures to boost overall economic growth from a…
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Japan’s ispace now aims for a lunar landing in 2021, and a Moon rover deployment in 2023
One of the private companies aiming to deliver a commercial lunar lander to the Moon has adjusted the timing for its planned mission, which isn’t all that surprising,…
Read articleAugust 21, 2019
Andrew Ng’s AI companies expand to Medellin, Colombia
After his tenure as chief scientist at Baidu, Andrew Ng, the founder of the Google Brain project and former CEO of Coursera, set up a number of different…
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PayPal-backed money lender Tala raises $110M to enter India
Tala, a Santa Monica, Calif.-headquartered startup that creates a credit profile to provide uncollateralized loans to millions of people in emerging markets, has raised $110 million in a…
Read articleAugust 19, 2019
Shell’s first Greenlots electric vehicle fast charger lands in Singapore
Royal Dutch Shell, the energy giant known for its fossil fuel production and hundreds of Shell gas stations, is creeping into the electric vehicle-power business. The company’s first…
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YC-backed Lokal wants to bring local news, classifieds to 900 million Indians in their regional languages
Each month millions of Indians are coming online for the first time, making India the last great growth market for internet companies worldwide. But winning them presents its…
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