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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

The Next Web

The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60M in funding. We’ve asked him to give us some insight into starting, building, and funding a company across Asia. Asia has far fewer VC firms and institutional investors, each of which invests a far smaller amount of capital.

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5 Ways Venture Capital Is Shaking Up The Tech Startup Landscape In Asia

YoungUpstarts

With venture capitalists around the world shifting their focus to Asia, here are 5 ways the surge in venture capital fundraising is shaking up the startup landscape in the region. Venture capital fundraising can be divided into three stages: seed, early stage, and later stage. Drives development in technology.

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[Singapore] Golden Gate Ventures And JFDI Asia Form Strategic Alliance

YoungUpstarts

We hope that this will be the first of several alliances with key partners across the region who share our ambition to support the coming generation of digital success stories across Asia, for Asia.” ” “The next billion people are coming online in our region.

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

Both Sides of the Table

He not only has experience in dealing with the carriers where at JAMDAT he established all the carrier relationships but he also led the international expansion of JAMDAT in Europe, Asia & South America giving them a footprint in 40 countries.

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Disrupting VC

thebarefootvc

While the initial fund is $120M we will have access to ru-Net’s (the Russian LP) $700M of capital to support growth of portfolio companies and opportunistically invest at later stages where we can add value beyond capital. Startups are not immune to globalization and can accelerate growth if thinking globally from launch.

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Happy 2017!  Some shoutouts and new goals.

Hippoland

Juggling our household schedules isn’t easy — especially with all my trips (Asia / Europe / LatAm / Canada / US) in 2016. A few shoutouts and highlights from 2016: 1) Family I feel so lucky and grateful to have such an amazing family.

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15 steps to launch your own tech startup: Part 2

The Next Web

We decided to go for Berlin also because we want to shape Berlin’s startup culture, always with the goals to expand to the US at a later stage. It’s now a global product, in US, Asia, Europe and Africa. It’s a lot more vibrant, but Berlin is catching up. In Berlin, most startups are based in Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg and Kreuzberg.