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From co-working to co-living, these 7 brands in Southeast Asia have got you covered
Humans are naturally wired to be oriented towards one another and sociality is a dominant factor that shapes our physiological and emotional needs. This makes the idea of co-working space a popular option amongst independent workers and startups. It is based on the concept of connecting like-minded individuals, thus giving rise to another trend known […]
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How ShopBack sweetens shopping in Southeast Asia
Singapore-headquartered ShopBack shares how it grew its value proposition in the Southeast Asian e-commerce space and attained year-on-year growth The exponential growth of e-commerce has been one of the largest contributors to the rise of Southeast Asia’s digital economy. In 2019, Southeast Asia’s internet economy hit US$100 billion (or S$135.84 billion) for the first time […]
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Robinhood suffers prolonged outage on the day the Dow enjoyed its biggest point gain since 2009
Robinhood, the startup with a stock trading app valued upwards of at least $7.6 billion, suffered one of its worst outages on one of the busiest trading days of the year. As the Dow Jones Industrial Average enjoyed the single biggest point-gain since 2009, Robinhood’s application fell prey to an error that locked users out […]
Sonantic scores €2.3M funding to bring ‘human-quality’ artificial voices to games
Sonantic, a U.K. startup that has developed “human-quality” artificial voice technology for the games and entertainment industry, has raised €2.3 million in funding. Leading the round is EQT Ventures, with participation from existing backers, including Entrepreneur First (EF), AME Cloud Ventures and Bart Swanson of Horizons Ventures. I also understand one of the company’s earlier […]
Connie Chan of Andreessen Horowitz discusses consumer tech’s winners and losers
Last week, I sat down with Connie Chan, a general partner with Andreessen Horowitz who focuses on investing in consumer tech. She joined the firm in 2011 after working at HP in China. From her temporary offices located in a modest skyscraper with unobscured views of San Francisco, we talked about where she sees the […]
New AngelList data set sheds light on the signaling risks of seed-stage investments
One of the big, ongoing debates in VC and founder circles concerns whether to accept money from top-tier, later-stage venture capitalists during a seed round. Even as their funds reach monstrous sizes, more and more top funds are investing in the earliest stages of a startup’s life, intensifying the question for founders of so-called “signaling […]