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The Weekly Snapshot: News from Google, SoftBank, Wavemaker, and more
Here’s what you missed from last week’s headlines.
Tributes pour in for Skype founder Toivo Annus who passed away at 48
The tech community in the region remembers Annus as a fearless investor, a brother, a friend.
Thai fashion brand Pomelo banks $52m in series C round
It looks to use the new funds to bankroll its expansion across Asia and to invest in big data and AI.
Coda Payments scores $2m funding from IMJ, other investors
Coda allows its users to pay for digital content such as games without credit cards.
Indonesia’s foodtech firm Qraved gobbles up an $8M series B
The Jakarta-based food discovery startup just got takeaway in the form of an $8M series B funding round led by Richmond Global Ventures and Gobi Partners.
Singapore’s hot online grocer RedMart sets foot in India
Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten opened a development center in Bangalore in June. Now, so has Redmart from Singapore.
Singapore’s HipVan raises $1.12M from LionRock Capital and Toivo Annus
Singapore-based ecommerce startup HipVan has completed its $1.4M series A financing round led by LionRock Capital and Skype co-founder Toivo Annus.
Skype co-founder hops onto Singapore’s HipVan, joins as latest angel investor
Singapore-based startup, HipVan today announced that Skype co-founder Toivo Annus has become one of its investors. The amount invested is undisclosed. Besides Annus, HipVan’s investors include Singapore celebrity Jade Seah, tech
Show me the money! Here are 30 funding rounds and acquisitions from Indonesia this year
We’ve rounded up the 30 funding rounds and acquisitions that happened in Indonesia in 2013.
Coda Payments scores $2.3 million to make mobile payments without credit cards a cinch
Coda Payments, a Singapore-based company working with telcos to implement easy payments for digital products, has secured $2.3 million in Series A funding from GMO Global Payment Fund, Rakuten Ventures,




