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The Weekly Snapshot: News from Google, SoftBank, Wavemaker, and more

The Weekly Snapshot: News from Google, SoftBank, Wavemaker, and more

Here’s what you missed from last week’s headlines.
Nathaniel Fetalvero · · 1 min read
Tributes pour in for Skype founder Toivo Annus who passed away at 48

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.
Doris Yu · · 4 min read
Thai fashion brand Pomelo banks $52m in series C round

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.
Miguel Cordon · · 2 min read
Coda Payments scores $2m funding from IMJ, other investors

Coda Payments scores $2m funding from IMJ, other investors

Coda allows its users to pay for digital content such as games without credit cards.
Jum Balea · · 2 min read
Indonesia’s foodtech firm Qraved gobbles up an $8M series B

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.
Leighton Cosseboom · · 4 min read

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.
Malavika Velayanikal · · 2 min read

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.
Willis Wee · · 2 min read

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
Willis Wee · · 1 min read

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.
Enricko Lukman · · 13 min read

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,
Terence Lee · · 2 min read