India’s Cashfree raises $5.5M from Korea’s Smilegate, Y Combinator and others

Cashfree, an India-based startup that specializes in making corporate banking...


Vietnamese retail tech Vingroup to sell US$1B shares to SK Group

Korean conglomerate SK Group reportedly plans to purchase US$1 billion worth of...


500 Startups Vietnam to launch The Saola Accelerator, known locally as “Asian Unicorn”

Just one month after going IPO, 500 Startups Vietnam shares its plan to bring...


Singapore-based NEO Global Capital funds music blockchain startup Muzika

Muzika is a Korea-based blockchain startup with a unique rewards system for...


Buzzvil reaches US$27M in sales with surplus at US$1.2M in 2017

This represents a sales increase of 15x over the past four years and a net...


The Jay Kim Show with HYPE Co-founder and CEO Henek Lo

Airbnb entrusted to Henek their expansion into Asia, and now via HYPE you can...


Fast Five gets a US$18M investment from Atinum Investment and TimeFolio Asset Management

Fast Five is considered a market leader in the Korean co-working space Announced...


Today’s top tech news, January 22: Snow raises US$50 million from Sequoia and Softbank

Besides Snow, there are new rules to govern ride-hailing in Indonesia and a...


VR eye-tracking, blockchain money remittance, conversational AI startups win K-Global Demo Day

fK-Global Demo Day is an initiative from the Korean government to foster...


Captain’s Log, Nov 8: MyMusicTaste raises Series C, StickEarn gets seed funding, and Spark Systems has new advisors

MyMusicTaste gets US$11M, StickEarns gets funded by East Ventures, and Spark...