Vietnam’s startups
News in June 2019
Today’s startup news:
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- Vietnam: 6 executives share their views on the country’s startup challenges and opportunities
- Endeavor Vietnam to host inaugural Scale-Up Talk on July 10th in Ho Chi Minh City
- Vietnam: An overview of the government’s Supporting National Innovative Startup Ecosystems project growth since its inception 3 years ago
- Saigon Innovation Hub appointed as Vietnam representative for Rice Bowl Republic, an ASEAN startup program proposed by Malaysia’s New Entrepreneur Foundation
- VIetnam: Project Alpha, AWS and SeedPlus VC firm partnership, set for Ho Chi Minh City, June 27th, aiming to select 2 outstanding startups
- Vietnam: Government unveils ICT reference framework to guide smart city development
- Vietnam: Another look at Abivin, one month on from taking $1M Startup World Cup prize with AI-powered route optimization and transport management platform
- Vietnam: BedLinker B2B e-commerce platform for hotels and resorts takes win at Government-run tourism startup competition
- Thailand’s KasikornBank Kasikorn Vision partners Vietnam’s VIISA and UP Co-Working Space for 3-day hackathon, aiming to boost local and regional innovation
- Vietnam: ‘…fast-growing but fragmented digital payments market is set for a wave of consolidation…’
- Vietnam: IoT Startup 2019 competition launches with prize pool of over US$20K
- Vietnam: VNTechpedia portal for tech startups launched by Ministry of Science and Technology partnership with Nexus FrontierTech Company
- Vietnam: Viettonkin Startup Launch 2019 applications open for pre-seed and seed stage tech startups
- Vietnam: Rever tech-enabled real estate brokerage gains $4M backing from VinaCapital Ventures
- Vietnam: Vimo and mPOS to merge, rebranded as NextPay, with sights set on $30M fundraise for Myanmar and Indonesia expansion in 2020
- South Korea’s Woowa Brothers food delivery app operator launches in Ho Chi Minh City, bringing to bear 9 years’ experience
- 18 VC funds commit combined $425M for Vietnamese startups over the next 3 years during the Vietnam Venture Summit
- Vietnam: Hahalolo tourism-focused platform launches, integrating social network, online tourism services and e-commerce
- Vietnam: AngelHack 2019 comes to Hanoi June 15-16, and Ho Chi Minh City June 22-23
- Vietnam: Kyna online education platform startup selected for Google Demo Day Asia finals
- Vietnam’s startup and technology news headlines from the past month
- A broad overview of Indonesia’s startup ecosystem in the context of CIVETS countries – Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa
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