Skype co-founder’s Oriente rides the Fintech wave with top conglomerates
On November 28 2018, Oriente, a fintech company based in Hong Kong, announced that it received an initial funding of $105M. The operative word...
New investment boom of property marketplaces?
Last year, a good friend of ours, who wanted to build a property marketplace (“à la Opendoor style”) in a country of 200+ M...
Final verdict: how many 2018 SEA predictions did we get right?
GoPay, bitcoins and corporate innovation are the biggest disappointments.
Will Dana become “Alipay” in Indonesia?
In April 2017, Ant Financial announced to establish a joint venture together with Emtek to develop mobile payment products.
Emtek operates three Indonesian TV channels,...
Will LightInTheBox save Ezbuy and itself?
The announced acquisition price of Ezbuy was above the market cap of LITB after Thursday’s trading.
LITB took a series of actions, including replacing CEO...
Will OYO win in Indonesia?
My colleague recently wrote about OYO’s rapid development in China. In fact, armed with Softbank arsenal, OYO just launched in Indonesia last month.
It...
MW launches the Emerging Markets Tech Investment Index at Wuzhen Summit
Wuzhen, 6 Nov, 2018 - Momentum Works has officially launched the Emerging Markets Tech Investment Index (EMTII) at the prestigious 5th World Internet Conference,...
Can Tencent match Ant Financial after $175 million investment in Philippine...
The main product of Mynt is e-wallet GCash
Voyager was founded in 2013, and owns e-wallet PayMaya, remittance service provider Smart Padala, lending platform Lendr,...
