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| 05.11.2024 | Singapore's Tech and Aviation Landscape: A Dual Investment Surge | Singapore is a bustling hub of innovation and competition. Recently, two major players have made headlines: Insider and Singapore Airlines. Both are investing heavily to secure their positions in a rapidly evolving market. Their strategies ... |
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| 06.06.2022 | CEO of Indonesia’s biggest tech company Gojek resigns two months after a $1.5 billion IPO | Indonesia’s biggest technology company PT GoTo Gojek Tokopedia Tbk announced on Monday that Gojek Founder and Chief Executive Kevin Aluwi will resign to join the group’s board of commissioners to support senior leaders, Reuters reported. Al... |
| 11.11.2021 | GoTo—formed by Indonesia’s tech giants Gojek and Tokopedia—raise $1.3 billion ahead of IPO | Subscribe to Fortune Daily to get essential business stories straight to your inbox each morning.
GoTo Group, formed this year by the merger of Indonesia’s two most valuable internet startups, raised more than $1.3 billion in the first clos... |
| 16.10.2019 | State-backed Cool Japan Fund to invest $50m in Indonesia’s Gojek | Premium
The state-backed Cool Japan Fund will invest about $50 million in Indonesian ride-hailing startup Go-Jek, seeking to add Japanese content to the multi-service company’s new video streaming offering and promote Japanese cuisine.
Cont... |
| 19.07.2019 | Didi, Go-Jek, And Grab Remind Us That Becoming A ‘Super-App’ Is Expensive, Globally | 14 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Food delivery, travel planners, payments, bike and car rentals, and yes, even drones.
These aren’t the startups of the week, they’re features rolled out by ride-hailing companies as they barrel towa... |
| 17.07.2019 | Go-jek becomes the first ride-hailing operator in Singapore to encourage inward-facing recording devices | Go-jek, an Indonesian ride-hailing operator, recently informed its passengers in Singapore that it has allowed drivers to registers with Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) to install inward-facing in-vehicle recording devices (IVRDs... |
| 11.07.2019 | On-Demand Insurance Gigacover Secured Seed Round | Singapore-based GigaCover GigaCover
Founded: 2016
Headquarters: Singapore
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Established in 2016, the startup offers income protection coverage underwritten... |
| 29.06.2019 | Стартапы недели: производитель БАД 8greens, автоматизатор рабочих мест Rippling, российский kwork и другие проекты Статьи редакции... | А также обзор проектов из прошлогодних выпусков.
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8greens — американский производитель БАД, паразитирующий на вере людей в полезность всего ор... |
| 09.05.2019 | German investor Allianz X chooses Uganda’s SafeBoda as its first African investment | Allianz X, the digital investment unit of German financial services company Allianz Group has made in its first investment in an African-based company — Ugandan ride-hailing startup SafeBoda.
Allianz X said in a statement on Tuesday (7 May)... |
| 09.05.2019 | German investor Allianz X chooses Uganda’s SafeBoda as its first African investment | Allianz X, the digital investment unit of German financial services company Allianz Group has made in its first investment in an African-based company — Ugandan ride-hailing startup SafeBoda.
Allianz X said in a statement on Tuesday (7 May... |
| 19.03.2019 | Go-Jek launches initiatives to prevent sexual harassment in Indonesia | The on-demand service provider Go-Jek recently launched two new initiatives to improve the safety of its partners and users in Indonesia. The security solutions consist of a risk mitigation programme and new security features.
The measures ... |
| 21.02.2019 | SA fintech JUMO selected to join second cohort of Google Launchpad Studio | Fresh off raising a whopping $64.5-million last year, fintech startup JUMO today announced its participation in the second session of Google’s Launchpad Studio.
The startup’s financial technology platform connects underserved markets with f... |
| 21.02.2019 | SA fintech JUMO selected to join second cohort of Google Launchpad Studio | Fresh off raising a whopping $64.5-million last year, fintech startup JUMO today announced its participation in the second session of Google’s Launchpad Studio.
The startup’s financial technology platform connects underserved markets with ... |
| 20.02.2019 | Allianz și-a crescut fondul de investiții în startupuri IT la 1 miliard de euro. Exemple | Grupul financiar german Allianz SE a injectat noi resurse în fondul său de investiții în startupuri IT, Allianz X, crescându-l la 1 miliard de euro.
"Suntem foarte multumiti de progresul realizat de Allianz X până acum si suntem hotărâ... |
| 04.02.2019 | Daily funding roundup - February 4th, 2019 | Aurora Solar raised $20M; Catalytic raised $30M; Sustainable Bioproducts raised $33M
Go-Jek: Go-Jek specializes in ride-hailing, logistics, and digital payments. Go-Jek has raised roughly $1 billion in funding at a valuation between $9 bill... |
| 04.02.2019 | Term Sheet — Monday, February 4 | LISTEN UP
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| 03.02.2019 | Трэвис Каланик задумал новый бизнес в Китае, оценка Go-Jek составила $9 млрд и другие новости рынка Азии | Обзор интересных событий рынка за неделю от Telegram-канала «Мобильная Азия».
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Агрегатор мототакси и других услуг Go-Jek привлек раунд серии F при оценке в $10 млрд
Индонезийский Go-Jek объявил о за... |
| 31.01.2019 | Go-Jek makes first close of Series F round at $9.5B valuation | Go-Jek, the Indonesia-based ride-hailing company that is challenging Grab in Southeast Asia, has announced the first close of its Series F round, as TechCrunch reported last week. The company isn’t revealing numbers. Sources told us last we... |
| 25.01.2019 | Daily funding roundup - January 25th, 2019 | AirWorks Solutions raised $2.3M; RealBlocks raised $3.1M; 7shifts raised $10M
AirWorks Solutions: AirWorks’ aerial mapping software helps land developers and engineers to evaluate more job sites within their critical planning and acquisitio... |
| 25.01.2019 | Report: Go-Jek Is Raising $2 Billion At A $9.5 Billion Valuation | Go-Jek, an Indonesia-based technology company that specializes in ride-sharing, is planning to raise $2 billion in a new round of funding at a valuation of $9.5 billion. Existing investors Google, Tencent, and JD.com are believed to be invo... |
| 24.01.2019 | Go-Jek makes first close of $2 billion round at $9.5 billion valuation | Southeast Asia-based ridesharing firm Go-Jek is making progress with its plan to raise up to $2 billion in fresh capital to fund its battle with close rival Grab.
Indonesia-headquartered Go-Jek has closed an initial chunk of that round afte... |
| 09.01.2019 | Go-Jek said to invest in JD.ID at $1b valuation, Indonesia might have its fifth unicorn soon | Indonesia is likely to welcome its fifth unicorn soon.
JD.ID, the Indonesian e-commerce joint venture of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, is reportedly in talk with Go-Jek for a hundreds of millions of dollars capital injection that will va... |
| 31.12.2018 | Go-Jek extends ride-hailing service to the rest of Singapore | After a limited rollout, Go-Jek said today that it will extend its ride-hailing service to all of Singapore tomorrow while continuing its beta phase. The Indonesian-based company began offering rides in Singapore at the end of November, but... |
| 29.11.2018 | Go-Jek begins roll out in Singapore | Indonesian ride-hailing giant is delivering an early Christmas present to the city-state. The company has launched a ‘beta version’ of its app in Singapore, Straits Times just said.
During the beta phase, access to the app will be granted i... |
| 06.11.2018 | Grab pulls in $250M from Hyundai as ongoing round reaches $2.7B | Grab, the Singapore startup that bought Uber’s Southeast Asia business earlier this year, continues to announce strategic investors for its ongoing Series H funding round. The latest edition revealed today is Korean automotive firm Hyundai,... |
| 30.10.2018 | Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Tuesday, October 30 | Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Tuesday, October 30.
Go-Jek secures commitment of US$1.2 billion. In a show of trust in Indonesian ride-hailing’s performance, Google, Tencent, and JD are doubling... |
| 29.10.2018 | Go-Jek preps for Singapore entry, now pre-registering local drivers | As Indonesia-based O2O platform Go-Jek prepares itself to officially launch its ride-hailing service in Singapore, it has opened a pre-registration site today for drivers in the city-state to sign up as Go-Jek drivers.
Go-Jek will then cont... |
| 18.09.2018 | Go-Jek execs said to sell stakes amidst new funding at $10b valuation (updated) | Indonesian ride-hailing giant Go-Jek is seeing its founding team including CEO Nadiem Makarim make attempts to sell their stakes in the unicorn amidst a rumoured recent funding round, according to people familiar with the matter.
One source... |
| 05.09.2018 | Google’s Launchpad Studio introduces class of financial AI startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google today announced a new cohort of AI startup... |
| 05.09.2018 | Google’s Launchpad Studio accelerator welcomes a cohort of blockchain and finance startups | Google has inducted a new class of startups into the Launchpad Studio accelerator it inaugurated last year; the first group was focused on gleaning new insights from medical data, and this one is about shaking up established financial marke... |
| 05.09.2018 | Google’s Launchpad Studio introduces class of financial AI startups | Google today announced a new cohort of AI startups selected to join its Developer Launchpad Studio, a four-month, product-focused startup accelerator held at the Google Developers Launchpad Space in San Francisco.
Participating companies co... |
| 28.08.2018 | Indonesian unicorn shows Silicon Valley model can’t beat going local [Opinion] | It is said that Jakartans spend 10 years of their life in traffic. The populous and fast growing Indonesian capital city is a sweaty, gridlocked cacophony of just about every type of vehicle you can think of.
It’s a problem that has been no... |
| 28.08.2018 | Indonesian unicorn shows Silicon Valley model can’t beat going local [Opinion] | It is said that Jakartans spend 10 years of their life in traffic. The populous and fast growing Indonesian capital city is a sweaty, gridlocked cacophony of just about every type of vehicle you can think of.
It’s a problem that has been n... |
| 15.08.2018 | Openspace Ventures closes second fund of $135m from Temasek, StepStone | Formerly known as NSI Ventures, Singapore-based investment firm Openspace Ventures has closed its second fund at US$135 million from Singapore investment arm Temasek, private markets firm StepStone Group, and other limited partners, includi... |
| 02.08.2018 | Temasek Singapore Ramps Up Fintech Investments | Singapore state investor Temasek is betting big on fintech. Nearly half of the company’s new investments of S$29 billion made during the financial year ended March 31, 2018, went into technology, life sciences, agribusiness, consumer and no... |
| 25.06.2018 | Go-Jek prepares to launch ride-hailing services in Vietnam and Thailand | It looks like Indonesian ride-hailing firm Go-Jek will finally initiate its long-awaited expansion in Southeast Asia over the next month.
The company announced today that it’ll launch businesses in Vietnam and Thailand under the names of Go... |
| 24.05.2018 | Indonesian Go-Jek stages $500M expansion battle with Grab across SEA | After Grab confirmed the merger of Uber’s SE Asian operations in March, passengers in the region were worrying that their choices will be limited and the price for hailing a cab will surge. However, things might not end up that way.
On Thur... |
| 12.04.2018 | Go-Jek Secures $35M in Funding | Go-Jek, a Jakarta, Indonesia-based ride-hailing platform, secured $35m in funding.
The investor was Allianz X, Allianz Group‘s digital investment unit.
The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations.
Go-Jek is an is a... |
| 12.04.2018 | Term Sheet — Thursday April 12 | It’s Thursday
Good morning, Term Sheet readers. Lucinda here filling in for Polina as she takes a much-deserved vacation. Meanwhile, New York City yo-yos in and out of acceptable April weather.
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| 22.01.2018 | It’s Becoming Increasingly Difficult For Newcomers To Enter The Mobile Wallet Space In Indonesia | Providers of digital goods and services in Indonesia had to be inventive to make their business work. Credit cards aren’t widespread in the country, with only an estimated 7 to 8 million out of a population of roughly 265 million owning one... |
| 18.01.2018 | Term Sheet — Thursday, January 18 | BREAKING TRADITION
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| 17.01.2018 | Google is investing in Indonesia-based Uber rival Go-Jek | Google is back investing in ride-hailing companies. The U.S. search firm and China’s Meituan-Dianping are among the tech giants set to invest in Go-Jek, the Indonesia-based rival to Grab and Uber, a source with knowledge of discussions told... |
| 13.10.2017 | 10 Fast Growing FinTechs in Indonesia | IDC Financial Insights has unveiled a list of 10 fast growing fintechs in Indonesia, part of the broader FinTech 101 list for Asia/Pacific, at the FinTech Innovation Summit 2017 held at The Ritz-Carlton Pacific Place, Jakarta.
“IDC’s FinTec... |
| 25.08.2017 | Term Sheet — Friday, August 25 | GRIFFITH OUT
This is it! My last Term Sheet and my last day at Fortune. (It’s not my last story for Fortune – I’ve got one more Boom With a View column, a profile of a venture capital firm, and some blurbs running in upcoming issues of the ... |
| 18.07.2017 | Обзор главных тем крупнейшей технологической конференции в Азии RISE 2017 Статьи редакции | Отчёт от сооснователя консалтинговой компании Uchina и главного редактора интернет-издания о Китае ЭКД Артема Жданова.
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| 05.07.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, July 5 | Welcome back from the holiday weekend. Like many of you, my days off were peppered with a slew of push notifications about the sexual harassment reckoning happening in Startup-land. I felt disgusted by every new accusation. But I also felt ... |
| 04.05.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, May 4 | ET CETERA
New money: Heap, an analytics software company, has raised $27 million in Series B funding led by NEA and Menlo Ventures with participation from Initialized Capital and Pear VC. Heap CEO and co-founder Matin Movassate created the ... |
| 03.05.2017 | Indonesia’s Uber rival Go-Jek raises $1.2 billion led by Tencent at a $3 billion valuation | Go-Jek, the motorbike on-demand startup that is battling Uber and Grab in Indonesia, has closed a new round of $1.2 billion led by Chinese internet giant Tencent, two sources close the company told TechCrunch. The deal, which we understand ... |
| 29.01.2017 | Indonesia is an investment opportunity like China was in 2008 | Most investors would jump at the chance to go back in time and invest in a sure thing. Imagine having the opportunity to time travel to China in 2007 or 2008 to make an early-stage stake investment in a startup like Alibaba, now a publicly-... |
| 08.09.2016 | Google Maps goes beyond Uber with Lyft support | The navigation app now displays nine ridesharing partners as transportation across 60 countries
Editor's note: Our 6th Annual Vator Splash LA conference is coming up on October 13 at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica. Speakers include Mark Cu... |
| 05.09.2016 | Go-Jek Raises Over $550 Million In KKR, Warburg-Led Round | As reported in TechCrunch. More details can be found here.
Indonesia-based Go-Jek, the motorbike taxis on-demand company that competes with Uber and Grab, has confirmed that it has raised upwards of $550 million in new funding. It also hin... |
| 08.08.2016 | Indonesia’s on-demand startups still ‘hot items’: Fenox Ventures | Premium
With Go-Jek attracting $550 million in funding last week, this has further enforced the notion that Indonesian startups are fertile ground – thanks to its growing population of young internet users. This leads many market watchers t... |
| 04.08.2016 | Uber rival Go-Jek confirms $550M raise and hints at Southeast Asia expansion | Indonesia-based Go-Jek, the motorbike taxis on-demand company that competes with Uber and Grab, has confirmed that it has raised upwards of $550 million in new funding. It also hinted that it may expand to other parts of Southeast Asia for ... |
| 04.08.2016 | Indonesia’s Go-Jek raises $550 million to battle Uber and Grab | Go-Jek, the on-demand motorbike taxi service that rivals Uber and Grab in Indonesia, has closed $550 million in new funding, a source close to the company told TechCrunch. The deal values Go-Jek at $1.3 billion (post-money) and could be ann... |
| 04.08.2016 | Indonesia’s Go-Jek raises over $550m from KKR, Warburg to battle Uber and Grab | Premium
Indonesia’s on-demand motorbike taxi service Go-Jek has raised $550 million in a new funding found that was led by private equity firms KKR & Co. and Warburg Pincus LLC, as it battles competition from other ride-hailing apps suc... |
| 26.06.2016 | The opportunities Silicon Valley doesn’t see | Sebastiaan Vaessen Contributor
Sebastiaan Vaessen is head of strategy at Naspers Group.
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| 20.03.2016 | Grab, Uber’s biggest rival in Southeast Asia, signs deal with conglomerate Lippo Group | Singapore-based Grab has just scored a new ally in its battle against Uber and other on-demand ride apps. The company, which claims to be Southeast Asia’s leading ride-hailing app, announced a strategic partnership with Lippo Group, one of ... |
| 02.03.2016 | Uber and Ola launch motorbike taxi services in India | Bangalore is the setting for the latest showdown between Uber and its fierce India-based rival Ola after both companies launched motorbike taxi on-demand services in the city.
Ola, which is backed by Tiger Global and has an alliance with Ly... |
| 23.02.2016 | Uber Launches A Motorbike Taxi On-Demand Service, Initially In Thailand | Uber is expanding its services from four wheels to two after the U.S. company launched a motorbike taxi on-demand service in Thailand.
‘UberMoto’ is initially a pilot service in Bangkok, a city where motorbike taxis are already a popular wa... |
| 23.02.2016 | Making The Southeast Asian Travel Connection | Choon Yan Contributor
Choon Yan previously led the PayPal Startup Relation team in APAC and is a mentor in various Asian accelerators.
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| 03.02.2016 | Line Integrates Bike Taxi Service Go-Jek Into Its Chat App In Indonesia | Messaging app Line‘s ongoing efforts to be more than just a messaging app took an interesting turn in Indonesia, the world’s fifth largest country with over 250 million people, after it teamed up with popular motorbike taxi on-demand servic... |
| 18.12.2015 | Indonesia Bans, Then Swiftly Unbans, Motorcycle Taxi On-Demand Services | A kerfuffle in Indonesia today illustrated the unpredictable nature of regulators and regulations when it comes to ride-sharing services in Southeast Asia, the region where smartphone ownership is rapidly growing among its collective popula... |
| 20.05.2015 | GrabTaxi Expands Its Motorbike Taxi On-Demand Program In Southeast Asia | GrabTaxi, the Uber-like ride-hailing company backed by SoftBank to the tune of $250 million, has expanded its GrabBike motorbike taxi on-demand service to Indonesia’s capital Jakarta — a city with a 10 million population and serious transpo... |
| - | Funding Galore: Startup Fundings Of The Week [26 September – 1 October] | Pune-based converged data protection solution provider Druva raised $51 Mn funding from Sequoia India, Singapore-based EDBI, as well as Blue Cloud Ventures and Hercules Capital. This round also includes contributions from other existing inv... |
| - | Indonesian Bike-Taxi Startup Go-Jek Acquires Pune Based Mobile App Developer Leftshift | Sequoia-backed Indonesian bike-taxi service Go-Jek has acquired Pune-based mobile application developer Leftshift.
The acquisition is aimed at strengthening and upscaling Go-Jek’s product development, design, and engineering platforms to su... |
| - | Funding Galore: Startup Fundings Of The Week [7 November – 12 November] | Ecommerce major Flipkart’s valuation took another beating as two of its mutual fund investors marked down the value of their holdings in the company. Mutual fund Valic marked down the valuation of Flipkart shares from $108.04 (May end quart... |
| - | Indonesia Weekly Review : 5 Archipelago Startup Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week [27 March – 1 April] | Image Source
With new technologies, fundings, and launches, the Indonesian startup ecosystem has had an eventful seven days. Here’s all the juiciest startup information from the archipelago in our dedicated Indonesian review for this week.O... |
| - | Startup brasileira é selecionada para o programa Launchpad Studio do Google | O Google anunciou hoje as startups selecionadas para Launchpad Studio, um programa de aceleração para as principais startups do mundo. Os empreendedores trabalharão em conjunto com equipes e especialistas em produtos do Google e do Alphabet... |
| - | Urban and inter-urban mobility: how is changing how people move | This article is not intended to be a consultancy paper. Instead, we want to provide you with a snapshot of what we see in the market. With this in mind, we have deliberately created it. If you want to discuss a holistic approach, feel free ... |
| - | Indonesian Bike Taxi Service Go-Jek Acquires Healthcare Marketplace Pianta | Sequoia-backed Indonesian bike-taxi service Go-Jek has acquired Bengaluru-based healthcare marketplace Pianta for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition will help fast track the development of Go-Jek’s logistics and transportation platforms... |
