Startup news, VietNam
Vietnam’s tech and startup funding news, as covered in the online press across the month of December, 2019.
Our Vietnam tech news summaries focus mainly on the country’s early-stage scene, delivering the widest possible snapshot of the month’s news in Vietnam’s digital payments, e-commerce, AI and broad tech spaces.
- Vietnam: An overview of opportunities growing in the country’s burgeoning esports and gaming market
- Vietnam: 4 key factors that make Vietnam likely to be Southeast Asia’s next growth story
- Vietnam: ViecCo takes win at Vietnam Startup 2019 with platform connecting employers and freelancers
- Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City reiterates goal of becoming a strategic partner of Australia in innovation and education in recent state-level visit
- Vietnam’s emerging startup scene is proving to be a case of ‘right place, right time’ for local and international venture capital funds
- Vietnam: Interloan, a winner in the Fintech Vietnam Challenge 2019, gains $500K backing to provide unsecured loans to working professionals in the country
- A brief intro to the finalists from the recent Fintech Vietnam Challenge 2019, spanning AI, real estate, lending and more
- Vietnam: A brief look at the thinking behind Techfest 2019 Conference, part of the government’s ‘Supporting the national innovative startup ecosystem until 2025’ project
- Vietnam: A brief intro to the 4 startups recently graduated from VIISA Acceleration Programme’s 6th batch
- Vietnam: Echelon Asia Summit 2020 Roadshow Vietnam edition set for Ho Chi Minh City in February
- Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh City confirms Sasaki architecture firm to design innovation district in eastern part of the city, proposing 6 ‘innovation hotspots’ for investment
- Vietnamese startups have been able to successfully attract capital, with a total amount of more than $670M for 50 projects’, with HCMC accounting for nearly half
- Vietnam: MultiGlass, startup producing smart glasses for the handicapped, wins national contest; preps to represent Vietnam at Startup World Cup 2020 in the US
- Vietnam’s fintech industry growth is a model for Southeast Asia’
- Vietnam: State-owned MobiFone becomes the second mobile network provider to pilot 5G system
- Vietnam: eMonkey e-wallet reportedly quietly backed by China’s Ant Financial; parent firm M-Pay has partnerships with most of Vietnam’s largest banks, telco’s
- Vietnam: Telio B2B e-commerce startup raises $25M Series A with platform connecting small mom-and-pop stores with brands and wholesalers
- Vietnam: An overview of the opportunities and challenges for the country’s new environmentally-focused ‘zero-waste’ startups
- Vietnam’s Cai Mep International Terminal joins TradeLens, Maersk and IBM blockchain platform for supply chain efficiency
- Vietnam: An interview with Phi Van Nguyen, Chairwoman of Open Innovation Vietnam, in the Women in GovTech Special Report 2019
- Vietnam: Dream Viet Education edtech startup sells majority ownership of 2 adult learning platforms, aiming to focus on children’s education
- Vietnam: VeXeRe bus booking platform gains funding to boost products beyond online bookings, software, and ticket distribution software for agents
- AWStartups Summit Vietnam set for February 13th in Ho Chi Minh City
- Vietnam: An intro to Jingo Live, helping brands connect with audiences using app-based gamification
- Indonesia: Ruangguru online learning platform raises $150M with over 15M students and 300K teachers across Indonesia, setting sights on Vietnam entry
- MVL, parent of blockchain ride-hailing app TADA, raises $5M Series A with over 50K drivers and over 500K users across Singapore, Vietnam and Cambodia
- A brief intro to 5 of Southeast Asia’s early-stage startups, working in farming, logistics and more
Other subject-specific news from December 2019:
Blockchain in Asia • Crypto news, Asia • AI news • Fintech in Asia
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