Malaysia’s startup news
February 2020’s tech, startup and funding news from Malaysia.
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- Malaysia: Cyber Security Awareness Master Plan in development by gov’t to coordinate implementation of cyber-security awareness programs nationwide
- Malaysia: A brief intro to 7 SaaS startups aiming to help SMEs digitalise their businesses
- Malaysia: An intro to RentSmart Asia, a fully-insured peer-to-peer online rental platform for underused items
- Malaysia: Sarawak Digital Economy Strategy 2018-2022 – overview booklet (pdf)
- Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation partners Startup Genome to boost the country’s startup ecosystem, focusing on policy action
- Malaysia: An intro to BuildEasy and PropEasy, property-management and pre-purchase platforms for real estate
- Malaysia warns its officials of Chinese state-backed hacking campaign targeting government projects
- Malaysia: A look at how Langkawi can transform its city, agriculture and water management with 5G-backed technologies
- Malaysia: Forward School raises $500K pre-seed funding with integrated learning and co-living concept focused on work portfolio rather than paper qualifications
- Malaysia: NEXEA startup investment firm returns for 5th edition of its Multi-Corporate Accelerator 2020, bringing together tech startups and corporations
- Malaysia: Courts in Sarawak to deploy artificial intelligence to provide judges with guidelines and analysis to determine and mete out jail penalties and fines
- Malaysia: Sabah state launches its own digital wallet, Sabah Pay, in bid to drive tech adoption
- Malaysia: BizApp, the country’s largest rural social commerce platform, gains 7-digit backing
- Malaysia: A look at the evolution of the Global Acceleration & Innovation Network program, created by Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation in 2015
- Malaysia-focused SOCAR car-sharing platform gains $18M funding with 2K cars across 3 major cities
- SOCAR Malaysia preps to launch Trevo, people-to-people car-sharing platform, to complement owned-fleet service
- Malaysia: Axiata Group telecoms firm in talks with 11 potential partners, including banks, to jointly bid for a digital banking licence
- Malaysia: Johor to roll out IoT, AI, big data, analytics, autonomous vehicles and 5G tech in state-level smart city project
- Malaysia: Dahmakan raises $18M Series B with full-stack approach to food prep and delivery, from recipe development thu cloud kitchens to last-mile
- A look at ClicknCare, bridging the healthcare gap for migrants, initially in Malaysia, with virtual doctor consultations in native languages
- Indonesia and Malaysia to gain from expansion of UK’s Skymind Global Ventures, and artificial intelligence-focused startup fund and accelerator
- Singapore: EduSpaze accelerator unveils 9 startups for inaugural cohort, selected from 200 applicants and including startups from Singapore, Australia and Malaysia
- A brief look at the competition between SEA countries for technical talent, in terms of both hiring and retention
- Taiwan: An intro to the 10 startups selected for the 8th cohort of MOX mobile-only accelerator
Other news in February 2020
Other subject-specific news from across Asia-Pacific in February 2020:
• Blockchain news across Asia-Pac
• Artificial Intelligence news, Asia
• Cybersecurity and data security news
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