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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. KPMG’s Venture Pulse Q3 2017 reported that the Asian market has raised $12.3 Drives development in technology. Allows startups to scale up easily.

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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

Gogii spent way more effort marketing to what I call “The USA Today market&# rather than the tech blog market. I’m on record all over place saying that 70% of my investment decision is the team & 30% is the market. And Austin Murray runs sales & marketing – a role he also held at JAMDAT.

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Disrupting VC

thebarefootvc

I saw some specific gaps in the market which I looked to address: NYC: I have been fortunate to be a part of the surge of entrepreneurial activity in NYC over the past several years. With RTP, I plan to help portfolio companies across the US access the fast growing emerging markets.

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15 steps to launch your own tech startup: Part 2

The Next Web

Over the past couple of years Berlin has attracted talented developers, designers, marketers and creative people from all across the globe. 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. Understand trends and markets.

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Should We Take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders? [New Data]

View from Seed

That’s a pretty astounding figure, especially when you consider that many students in the latter years of that cohort have yet to raise or have yet to raise later-stage, larger rounds. Others are dominating categories in foreign markets, such as Dafiti, Linio, Coupang, and Grabtaxi. Combined, they’ve raised over $2.5