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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. What a week. What an insane, heart-stopping, odd, and stuffed week. I’m utterly exhausted. But, in better news, all of that great fodder for podcast and chat, so today’s Equity is pretty ok if I may say so. […]

Business Grab launches accelerator programme Grab Ventures Ignite in Vietnam Grab announced that it has officially launched an accelerator programme, Grab Ventures Ignite, for early-stage startups in Vietnam as part of the ‘Grab for Good’ development roadmap. “Grab Ventures Ignite will nurture and support promising Vietnamese startups in their journey to become national champions in […]

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Isla Lipana & Co./PwC Philippines (PwC) has conducted its second collaboration with QBO, the country’s first public-private initiative for startups, and IdeaSpace, a non-profit that supports early-stage technology entrepreneurship, resulting in the 2020 Philippine Startup Survey. According to the survey, which covers questions directed to startup founders and investors about their current status as well as […]

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A 9-year-old is smashing the shuttle far and wide, and frantically pacing back and forth on the court in Bangalore, India, as her competition refuses to back down. Her rival is not a human. She is playing against a machine that is mimicking the game of badminton legend P.V. Sindhu, toned down a few notches […]

In 2008, Ryan Chin, a Singaporian, and Reggie Yam, who hails from Hong Kong, founded a B2B cybersecurity company Nexusguard in Taiwan. In 2017, with so many cloud incidents, such as website outages due to cloud failure, including the AWS outage, Chin saw a huge opportunity and decided to start a new venture to tackle […]

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  Singaporean VC firm Reapra backs Thai edtech startup Quest Quest, a Thailand-based coding education platform, has just received backing from a Singapore-based VC firm Reapra and angel investors, according to TechInAsia. The amount raised is a six-digit undisclosed seed amount. The newly-added capital will be used to further enhance its platform to create a […]

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