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Dahmakan, a full-stack food delivery startup based in Malaysia, announced today that it has closed a $18 million Series B. Investors include Rakuten Capital, White Star Capital, JAFCO Asia and GEC-KIP Fund, along with participation from South Korean food delivery app Woowa Brothers, and returning investors Partech Partners and Y Combinator. This brings Dahmakan’s total […]

Finance Malaysian food delivery startup Dahmakan raises US$18 million series B funding round Dahmakan, Malaysia-based direct-to-consumer delivery-only food startup, just closed a US$18 million Series B funding round from new investors Rakuten Capital, White Star Capital, JAFCO Asia, and the GEC-KIP Fund. Other investors include Korean food delivery unicorn Woowa Brothers, the former CEO of […]

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You have built a tech startup to provide an outstanding solution, but your audience might not understand it in the beginning.  Yeah, it happens. Sometimes, your target audience is not fully aware of how brilliant your idea is. And the task to explain the concept of your startup is on your shoulders.  Whether you deal […]

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In an early-evening press conference, President Donald Trump tapped Vice President Mike Pence to lead the U.S. response to the COVID-19 outbreak that has spread through Europe, Asia and Latin America. The new coronavirus strain, which has infected about 81,000 people around the world and killed 3,000, has already wrought havoc on the global economy. […]

Not long ago, a real estate agent in Singapore pocketed US$132,800 of a client’s money and used it to renovate his own home. He was caught and jailed for it, but such cases have, unfortunately, occurred more than once in the city-state’s property landscape. This is obviously a cause of concern with genuine homebuyers. If […]

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Made Renovation, a new, San Francisco-based company, thinks it has found a profitable way to help homeowners get done something that busy general contractors in the Bay Area won’t otherwise make time for, which is bathroom remodels. Why they typically pass on these: they have too many entire homes, or, at least, entire floors, to […]