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Fintech is the new applications, processes, products, or business models in the financial services industry, composed of one or more complementary financial services and provided as an end-to-end process via the internet.

Fintech

The increase was largely driven by investments in payment and lending startups, alongside insurtech.

Singapore's fintech investments touch USD 735 million in first 9 months of 2019 | KrASIA

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Singapore&#8217;s fintech investments touch USD 735 million in first 9 months of 2019

Spotlighting Asia&#039;s next wave of innovations.

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Thu Huong Le

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. is a transportation network company based in Singapore. In addition to transportation, the company offers food delivery services via mobile app. It operates in the Southeast Asian countries of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia. 

Grab

Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. 

Transportation

The move follows the recent rollout of GrabKitchen in the country.

Grab starts on-demand bus service pilot program in southern Vietnam | KrASIA

Grab starts on-demand bus service pilot program in southern Vietnam

Gojek is a transportation network company and logistics startup company based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Gojek

An on-demand service platform connects waiting-time-sensitive customers with independent service providers.

On-Demand Services

Gojek cannot afford to lose in the Vietnamese ride-hailing sector, which is expected to be worth USD 4 billion by 2025.

Can Gojek overcome its struggles in Vietnam? | KrASIA

Can Gojek overcome its struggles in Vietnam?

This comes amid WeWork's global woes, restructuring, and potential plans to lay off staff.

WeWork plans for two new locations in Singapore despite global setbacks | KrASIA

WeWork plans for two new locations in Singapore despite global setbacks

AirVisual said it has been unfairly attacked in Vietnam following data showing Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City among worst polluted cities in the world.

Air quality measurer AirVisual withdraws app in Vietnam following public outcry | KrASIA

Air quality measurer AirVisual withdraws app in Vietnam following public outcry

Venture capital is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth.

Venture Capital

Q&amp;A

Can the region continue to entice investors for years to come?

Gobi Partners Chairman Thomas Tsao on Southeast Asia's innovation and the next big wave | KrASIA

Gobi Partners Chairman Thomas Tsao on Southeast Asia&#8217;s innovation and the next big wave

PropertyGuru operates a digital property classifieds marketplaces in five countries across Southeast Asia.

Singapore's PropertyGuru targets USD 257 million IPO in Australia | KrASIA

Singapore&#8217;s PropertyGuru targets USD 257 million IPO in Australia

WeWork, the larger than life monopoly game in China

Has WeWork valuation implosion and failed IPO offered local VCs any food for thought?

The WeWork fiasco and its lessons for Southeast Asia's startups scene: Venture Voices | KrASIA

The WeWork fiasco and its lessons for Southeast Asia&#8217;s startups scene: Venture Voices

An e-commerce payment system facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for online transactions. Read stories of Payment service providers, platforms or the trending of the Payment industry.

Payments

Telecom providers have been lobbying hard for mobile money to compete with other financial services providers.

Thu Huong Le

Singapore’s fintech investments touch USD 735 million in first 9 months of 2019

Grab starts on-demand bus service pilot program in southern Vietnam

Can Gojek overcome its struggles in Vietnam?

WeWork plans for two new locations in Singapore despite global setbacks

Air quality measurer AirVisual withdraws app in Vietnam following public outcry

Gobi Partners Chairman Thomas Tsao on Southeast Asia’s innovation and the next big wave

Singapore’s PropertyGuru targets USD 257 million IPO in Australia

The WeWork fiasco and its lessons for Southeast Asia’s startups scene: Venture Voices

Vietnam’s major telecom plans to roll out 100,000 service points for mobile money in 2020