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Southeast Asia Startup Ecosystem Continues to Prosper Post-Pandemic

ReadWriteStart

Southeast Asia is one of them. Southeast Asia was walloped by Covid-19. million people into extreme poverty across Southeast Asia and removed 9.3 If you leave aside the devastating impacts of Covid-19 on the economy and people, this pandemic was able to change the prospects of startups in Southeast Asia. billion in 2018.

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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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The Top 5 Stock Exchanges According to a 2020 Study

The Startup Magazine

With the market being steadier and shareholders watching price activity all day long, stock markets around the globe have become far more important than it ever was. The New York Stock Exchange has been the largest stock exchange by market capitalisation in the world since the end of the World War. Its total valuation is 4.9

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Q2 2019 Summary: Portfolio News and Activities

Version One Ventures

We also invested in Guesser whose mission is to make prediction markets more accessible to mainstream users. valuation – the first Version One unicorn! Ada , a market leader in automated customer experience , launched Ada Glass. It’s also the first company we’ve helped incubate! Other funding announcements and exits!

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Everything you should know before working with investors across Asia

The Next Web

Entrepreneurs with businesses in Asia know that fundraising here can be a daunting task. With this in mind, I would like to use my experience as an entrepreneur, having closed several sizable rounds of investment around Asia over the last six years, to help explain the landscape as it currently stands.

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JFDI.Asia Accelerator: Bootcamp Practicalities

YoungUpstarts

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. During the course of the bootcamp you will be expect not just to build the product, but launch it, and keep iterating it in response to market feedback, in whatever direction maximizes growth. Have we confirmed a CHANNEL to reach our market? We can’t deal with that.

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Getting ‘Fashion Forward’ On Customs

YoungUpstarts

Markets such as Mexico require textile or material importers to hold a license or visa. Be sure valuations are accurate and goods are clearly labelled in detail. In addition to this, many countries have supplemental laws that govern trade of animal products, which differ between markets. Cunningham, Jr.