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| Jan 2, 2016 | The Unicorns Of Southeast Asia | 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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| Dec 21, 2015 | Lyft Files To Raise As Much As $1 Billion | Lyft has authorized a Series F round in which it could raise as much as $1 billion, according to a report by Bloomberg, citing a Delaware state filing.
We hear that Credit Suisse is running the fundraise — the big banks are getting involved... |
| Dec 8, 2015 | Biggest city in Southeast Asia opens up to Uber, GrabTaxi | Governor of Jakarta, Indonesia hails more transportation options as a boon to the public
Tally up another victory for ride-hailing startups.
Jakarta, the most populous city in Southeast Asia, has granted permission to Uber and its competito... |
| Dec 8, 2015 | Didi Kuaidi Strengthens Its Tech Alliances By Adding Yahoo Co-Founder Jerry Yang As Senior Advisor | Didi Kuaidi, the largest car-hailing app in China, announced today that it has added Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang to its board as its senior advisor. In a statement, the company said Yang’s experience will help it build its mobile platform, ... |
| Dec 3, 2015 | Lyft, Didi, Ola And GrabTaxi Partner In Global Tech, Service Alliance To Rival Uber | As Uber ramps up its business globally with yet more money, four of its regional rivals are getting closer to each other in a bid for more scale and service continuity. Lyft in the U.S., Didi Kuaidi in China, Ola in India and GrabTaxi in So... |
| Oct 6, 2015 | GrabTaxi follows Uber with ‘number masking’ between drivers and passengers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Uber’s main competitor in Southeast Asia, GrabTaxi, announced on Tuesday that it has rolled out a new security feature in its push to m... |
| Oct 6, 2015 | GrabTaxi follows Uber with ‘number masking’ between drivers and passengers | Uber’s main competitor in Southeast Asia, GrabTaxi, announced on Tuesday that it has rolled out a new security feature in its push to make users feel more comfortable using car-hailing services — “number masking” between drivers and passeng... |
| Aug 20, 2015 | GrabTaxi Raises $350m in Funding | GrabTaxi, a Singapore-based mobile taxi service operating in Southeast Asia, raised $350m in funding.
The round brought total funding to over $700m.
Backers included Coatue, China Investment Corporation (CIC), China’s sovereign wealth fund,... |
| Aug 19, 2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. GrabTaxi grabs $350 million to grow its e-hail vehicle service across Southeast Asia
GrabTaxi, an Uber-style taxi service op... |
| Aug 19, 2015 | Taxi app GrabTaxi raises $350 million from CIC, others | By Reuters Staff
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Taxi-booking app GrabTaxi Holdings Pte Ltd said it raised over $350 million from investors including sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation, in the Southeast Asian company’s larg... |
| Aug 19, 2015 | Daily funding roundup - August 19, 2015 | Kik raised $50M; SpotHero pulled $20M; Thrive Bioscience closed a $4M
If you thought unicorn fever was coming to an end, I'm sorry to break it to you, but it's still out there. There have been 18 new billion companies in the first half of t... |
| Aug 19, 2015 | GrabTaxi grabs $350M to grow its e-hail vehicle service across Southeast Asia | GrabTaxi, an Uber-style e-taxi service operating in Southeast Asia, has raised a colossal $350 million round, taking its total funding speeding past the $700 million mark.
Launched in 2012, GrabTaxi is now available in 26 cities across Indo... |
| Aug 19, 2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | 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!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| Aug 19, 2015 | GrabTaxi raises largest round yet, $350m from Coatue, CIC & Didi Kuaidi | Premium
Southeast Asia’s largest taxi-hailing company, GrabTaxi Holdings Pte Ltd has raised its largest round of funding yet, a whopping $350 million, led by Coatue Management, LLC, China Investment Corporation (CIC) and Didi Kuaidi.
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| Aug 19, 2015 | Uber Competitor GrabTaxi Raises More Than $350 Million | August 19, 2015 1 min read This story originally appeared on Reuters
Taxi-booking app GrabTaxi Holdings Pte Ltd said it raised over $350 million from investors including sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation, in the Southeast A... |
| Aug 18, 2015 | GrabTaxi Lands $350M From China’s Top Uber Rival Didi Kuaidi And Others | GrabTaxi, the taxi-hailing app that rivals Uber in Southeast Asia, is getting some big name support from China after it announced a $350 million Series E round from a range of investors that — most interestingly — includes Didi Kuaidi, Chin... |
| Aug 14, 2015 | Daily funding roundup - August 14, 2015 | GrabTaxi secured $400M; The Honest Company raised $100M; Massdrop bagged $40M
The Honest Company, the subscription service that offers eco-friendly baby and family products, has long been seen as a potential IPO candidate. Now comes a bit o... |
| Jul 2, 2015 | GrabTaxi raises $200m, now valued at $1.5b | Premium
Singapore-based riding-hailing service, GrabTaxi is raising more than $200 million in fresh capital, led by US hedge fund Coatue Management LLC, a report said. The latest round values the company at over $1.5 billion, and comes with... |
| Jul 1, 2015 | GrabTaxi raises $200M, now valued at $1.5B | The Singapore-based riding-hailing service can capitalize on Uber's recent bad press in Asia
Asia is a hugely important market for Uber, but there are a few things standing its in way. First, of course, has been legal trouble. But, since Ub... |
| Jul 1, 2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 1, 2015 | GrabTaxi secured $250M; Zozi nabbed $30M; PubNub raised $20M
PubNub, a provider of cloud-based infrastructure for real-time applications raised $20 million in a Series C round of funding to help scale it. The round was led by Sapphire Ventu... |
| May 20, 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... |
| May 5, 2015 | 500 Startups Aims To Be The Largest VC Shop In The World | Dave McClure, the founding partner of 500 Startups, wants his investment shop to be the biggest venture capital shop in the world and is confused that the firm is now larger than 500 startups. It’s more like 1,000 startups, he said.
What mi... |
| Apr 7, 2015 | Uber Rival GrabTaxi Opens R&D Center To Lure Engineering Talent | GrabTaxi, Uber’s largest taxi hailing rival in Southeast Asia, has announced an R&D center in Singapore as it looks to develop its technical prowess and increase its appeal to overseas hires.
The company raised $250 million from SoftBan... |
| Mar 25, 2015 | GrabTaxi, Uber’s SoftBank-Backed Rival In Southeast Asia, Tests Courier Service | GrabTaxi, the Uber rival backed by SoftBank, is trialling a next-day delivery service as it experiments with logistics-related offerings beyond its core taxi-hailing business in Southeast Asia.
The ‘Parcel-Document’ service quietly went liv... |
| Feb 11, 2015 | GrabTaxi, Uber’s Rival In Southeast Asia, Prepares To Introduce Cashless Payments | GrabTaxi, the SoftBank-backed taxi-on-demand service in Southeast Asia, is preparing to introduce cashless payments to take it beyond cash-only fares and put it on par with Uber’s frictionless payment system.
TechCrunch understands that cas... |
| Jan 23, 2015 | Uber Rival GrabTaxi Pilots A ‘Welfare’ Program For Drivers In Southeast Asia | GrabTaxi, the SoftBank-backed Uber rival operating in Southeast Asia, is putting aside a portion of the $330 million in funding that it raised over the past 18 months to create a ‘welfare fund’ for its drivers.
The company is piloting the i... |
| Jan 20, 2015 | Singapore Launches Program In San Francisco To Attract More U.S. Startups | Singapore is already one of the most developed startup hubs in Asia. Now its government wants to bring more U.S. startups to the city-nation.
Earlier today, the Infocomm Development Authority Of Singapore, a government organization focused ... |
| Dec 17, 2014 | Как азиатские клоны Uber, Spotify и Amazon зарабатывают миллионы долларов на своём бизнесе | Шамиль Курамшин, аналитик департамента торговых операций ИК «Фридом Финанс», составил для ЦП список успешных азиатских стартапов, скопировавших идеи у Uber, Spotify, Amazon и других западных сервисов.
Китайский интернет-холдинг Alibaba Grou... |
| Dec 10, 2014 | Uber’s asian competitors consolidate under SoftBank | As Uber comes under fire both at home and abroad, Alibaba’s largest investor SoftBank has invested $250 million taxi app GrabTaxi, adding the Southeast Asian front runner to its investment family that already includes both China and India’s... |
| Dec 5, 2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 12/5/14 | Stripe, 4th Office, Eternal Sun, ad2games, Glide, Nestio, Lesson.ly, MarketInvoice, Weaveworks, QLL
Seed stage
Real-time real estate platform Nestio raised a $1.6 million funding round led by Freestyle Capital with participation from RiverP... |
| Dec 4, 2014 | SoftBank invests $250 million in Southeast Asian taxi-hailing app GrabTaxi | By Aradhana Aravindan
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Japanese telecoms firm SoftBank Corp has pumped in $250 million to become the top investor in Southeast Asian mobile taxi-booking application GrabTaxi Holdings Pte Ltd, its biggest inve... |
| Dec 4, 2014 | SoftBank invests $250m in Uber-rival GrabTaxi | Premium
Malaysia’s GrabTaxi, which has emerged as Southeast Asia’s leading taxi mobile app, said it raised $250 million in Series D financing from SoftBank Corp, the technology firm controlled by Masayoshi Son, marking the largest ever fund... |
| Dec 4, 2014 | GrabTaxi Receives US$250M Investment from SoftBank Internet and Media | GrabTaxi, a Singapore-based provider of a mobile taxi booking platform, received a US$250m investment from SoftBank Internet and Media (SIMI).
The company intends to use the funds for further expansion in the region.
Launched in 2012 by Ant... |
| Dec 3, 2014 | SoftBank Invests $250M In GrabTaxi, Uber’s Archrival In Southeast Asia | Not content with leading a $627 million mega-round for Snapdeal and a $210 million raise for Ola as part of a $10 billion commitment to startups in India, Japanese telecom giant SoftBank has now turned its attention to Southeast Asia and su... |
| Dec 3, 2014 | SoftBank to invest $250 million in SE Asian taxi app firm GrabTaxi | By Reuters Staff
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A man holding an umbrella walks past the logo of Softbank Corp at its branch in Tokyo April 22, 2014. REUTERS/Yuya Shino
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank Corp said on Thursday it will invest $25... |
| Oct 20, 2014 | GrabTaxi Raises $65 Million To Increase The Competition With Uber In Southeast Asia | You’d be forgiven for thinking that the taxi app war is exclusively a U.S. phenomenon, such is the fierce battle between Uber and Lyft, but similar rivalries are actually ongoing across other parts of the world. The battle is heating up in ... |
| Jul 26, 2014 | Rocket Internet’s Easy Taxi Raises $40M Series D To Expand In Asia, Latin America | Easy Taxi, Rocket Internet’s taxi calling app, announced today that it has raised a Series D round of $40 million, led by Phenomen Ventures with participation from Tengelmann Ventures, the investment arm of German retail giant Tengelmann Gr... |
| May 30, 2014 | GrabTaxi Raises $15M in Series B Funding | GrabTaxi, a Singapore-based smartphone taxi booking platform, raised $15m in Series B funding.
The round was led by GGV Capital with participation from Qunar and existing investor Vertex Venture Holdings. In conjunction with the funding, GG... |
| May 28, 2014 | GrabTaxi Raises $15M Series B Led By GGV Capital | GrabTaxi, the taxi-calling app that claims to be the largest in Southeast Asia, said today that it has raised a $15 million Series B led by GGV Capital with participation from Qunar and returning investor Vertex Venture Holdings. The latter... |
| Apr 10, 2014 | GrabTaxi Raises Funding | GrabTaxi (known as MyTeksi in Malaysia), an automated smartphone taxi booking platform, raised an undisclosed amount of funding.
Backers included Vertex Venture Holdings, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings and a group of angel in... |
| Apr 7, 2014 | GrabTaxi Raises Series A, Prepares To Expand In Southeast Asia | GrabTaxi, which claims to be the largest taxi app in Southeast Asia, has raised its Series A round from Vertex Ventures, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek, an investment company owned by Singapore’s government. The startup’s CEO and foun... |
| Jan 14, 2014 | Uber Will Focus On Southeast Asia Launches Over The Next Two Months | Uber is preparing to launch in several Southeast Asian cities over the next few weeks, said its head of Asian expansion in an interview last week. The well-funded startup’s decision to focus there is a sign of the many opportunities for con... |
| Американский фонд 500 startups пришел в Россию | Диана сфокусируется на B2C интернет-сервисах и мобильных приложениях на ранней стадии развития (seed-раунд и A-раунды), работающих на рынках shared economy, маркетплейсах и сервисах по запросу, обучающих и игровых приложениях. Помимо россий... |