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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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These Are The Most Exciting FinTechs To Emerge In Southeast Asia

YoungUpstarts

Below are some of the most exciting FinTechs to look out for in Southeast Asia. Singlife is licensed by the reputable Monetary Authority of Singapore and protected by the Singapore Deposit Insurance Corporation. In fact, it is one of the most trusted FinTechs in Southeast Asia with over $50 million in funding from investors.

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Power To The People – Creating Trust In Data With Collaborative Governance

YoungUpstarts

model evolved, trust between consumers and their service providers was established by crowdsourced mechanisms for rating, ranking and establishing a digital reputation (think Yelp ). Jason Bissell is General Manager of Asia Pacific and Japan, Talend and Calvin Hoon is Regional VP for Sales, Asia Pacific for Talend.

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Q&A Platform Drumo To Drum Up City Discovery In Australia and Asia

YoungUpstarts

Drumo is a hyperlocal question-and-answer platform that connects a community of users in a certain area to ask and answer questions about what is happening around them.

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[Singapore] Online Healthcare Community Compare Clinic Launches

YoungUpstarts

Singapore has a reputation for being one of the best places to seek excellent – if not cheap – healthcare in the region. Compare Clinic is a new Singapore-based online healthcare community that helps users easily find and connect with trusted medical specialists who best fit their healthcare needs, both locally and overseas.

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[Malaysia] [Event] Echelon Malaysia 2014

YoungUpstarts

The one and a half day regional event, organized by e27 , will showcase selected Malaysia startups even as it explores Malaysia’s role in the global technology industry and help connect the Malaysia startup ecosystem with those from the rest of Southeast Asia and the broader Asia Pacific.

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[Singapore] National Research Foundation Selects Six VC Firms To Administer S$120M Startup War Kitty

YoungUpstarts

We want to help build an investor community based in Singapore but with connections around the world,” explains Steve Leonard, Executive Deputy Chairman of Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), who chaired the panel that helped select the six firms. All of them posed the same question, ‘How do I raise money?’

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