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Meet the VC: Philippines’s Kickstart Ventures on becoming the country’s gatekeeper for startup ecosystem scale-up
Kickstart Ventures has lately been in the news for its US$200 million funds deployment plans in the Philippines. For the country’s startup scene, which is believed to be lagging behind other countries in the region despite a mature infrastructure, it’s an encouraging sign. It established itself as one of the most active VC firms in the Philippines with […]
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Big banks and fintech startups: Rivals or allies?
When fintech first came on the scene, the term was generally applied to the technology used in the back-end of financial institutions. Nowadays, fintech is at the forefront of banking, giving rise to completely automated financial services with peer-to-peer lending platforms, cryptocurrency and internet banking revolutionising the way people bank, borrow and invest. These innovations […]
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Don’t tell your remote employees when to work
Remote work was first thought of as a trend. Today, that has changed substantially — especially during the coronavirus outbreak — and companies are also increasingly transitioning into remote, distributed teams, regardless of whether there’s a crisis or not. In reality, 70 per cent of people globally work remotely at least once a week, as seen in a study […]
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Edtech startups prepare to become ‘not just a teaching tool but a necessity’
As Stanford, Princeton, Columbia and others shutter classrooms to limit the coronavirus outbreak, college educators around the country are clambering to move their classes online. At the same time, tech companies that enable remote learning are finding a surge in usage and signups. Zoom Video Communications, a videoconferencing company, has been crushing it in the […]
Immutouch wristband buzzes to stop you touching your face
In the age of coronavirus, we all have to resist the urge to touch our faces. It’s how the virus can travel from doorknobs or other objects to your mucus membranes and get you sick. Luckily, a startup called Slightly Robot had already developed a wristband to stop another type of harmful touching — trichotillomania, […]
Zapier CEO Wade Foster on scaling a remote team up to 300 employees
When Zapier was founded in 2011, it was a side project for three friends from Missouri who wanted to make it easier to connect any one web app to another. Nine years, millions of users and around 300 employees later, it’s one of the most highly valued companies to ever go through Y Combinator — […]