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Last activity: 04.06.2026
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Boost is the fintech arm of Axiata Digital that unifies financial services spanning payments, artificial intelligence (AI)-based alternative lending, digital insurance, cross border content services and merchant solutions. Its businesses are streamlined into four core brands to serve a regional consumer and enterprise customer base with the aim of establishing a Malaysia-headquartered regional financial services powerhouse:

Boost Life - The Boost e-wallet business that launched in 2017, it focuses on consumer lifestyle offerings such as online and offline retail payments, bill settlement, insurance and transportation & transit use cases with new features constantly introduced.

Boost Biz - The merchant business that offers a payment platform for enterprises of all sizes, business tools and digitalisation solutions.

Boost Credit - Formerly Aspirasi, it houses the micro-financing & micro-insurance business and is a pioneering Digital Alternative financier in Malaysia and Indonesia.

Boost Connect - Formerly Apigate, a predominantly payment facilitation business that aggregates and distributes content via a seamless API platform.

Boost makes transactions and financing easier, faster, secure and overall a more rewarding experience by combining deep fintech, in-house data and AI to meet growing and evolving market demand. Since its inception in 2017 as a digital payments provider with Malaysia’s first major eWallet, Boost is rapidly evolving into a broader digital financial services provider today with micro merchants and SMEs (MSMEs) being a key focus segment.
Followers
27.31K
Website visits
87.3K /mo.
Mentions
6

Overview

Location
Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Employees
201-500
Founded date
2017

Mentions in press and media 6

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Oct 23, 2025eCommerce Expo | DMEXCO Asia 2025 celebrates a successful debut at Tech Week SingaporeeCommerce Expo | DMEXCO Asia welcomed 4,000+ attendees amid Tech Week Singapore's 29,000+ total visitors 78 speakers across three stages - Digital Marketing, eCommerce Retail & CX, and Borderless Commerce SINGAPORE, Oct. 23, 2025 /PRNew...
Sep 16, 2025Weixin Pay expands international wallet support, making travel easier for international visitors to the Chinese mainlandHONG KONG, Sept. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Tencent is making payments simpler and more convenient for international travellers visiting the Chinese mainland by expanding its cross-border payment support with Weixin Pay through the Cross-Bord...
May 11, 2021How will that remodel help boost your home value? Seattle startup Plunk raises $6.5M to find outNew funding: Seattle real estate startup Plunk has closed a $6.5 million seed round led by Unlock Ventures. The tech: Plunk helps homeowners play “what if” scenarios to figure out what might drive the value of their home up or down. The app...
Nov 3, 2017Malaysia Mobile Wallets Space Heats Up: Axiata’s Boost Partners with UTMBoost, an app based mobile wallet developed by Axiata Digital, announced their partnership with Universiti Teknologi Malaysia to create a “Cashless Campus” in Malaysia. This partnership could potentially enable 25,000 students and faculty m...
Boost App“Unlock your financial journey with Boost, Axiata's full spectrum fintech arm that empowers milions of customers and merchants towards financial freedom with all-in-one digital financial services.”

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FAQ about Boost

When was Boost founded?

Boost was founded in 2017.

What has the press written about Boost?

Parsers VC has collected 6 articles mentioning Boost, among them “eCommerce Expo | DMEXCO Asia 2025 celebrates a successful debut at Tech Week Singapore” (Oct 23, 2025) and “Weixin Pay expands international wallet support, making travel easier for international visitors to the Chinese mainland” (Sep 16, 2025).

Is Boost still active?

Yes, Boost is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jun 4, 2026.