The salaries of software engineers reached an all-time high after increasing by up to 32 per cent. The 90th percentile of software engineers is paid as much as 3x more than those in the 10th percentile. 9 of the 15 most searched companies pay 25 per cent above the market median. Companies should...
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Singapore-based Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has closed an over US$500 million equity investment, with Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Investment Company leading the round with a US$350 million injection. Its existing shareholders, Warburg Pincus and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board. The funds...
Singapore-based Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has closed an over US$500 million equity investment, with Abu Dhabi-based Mubadala Investment Company leading the round with a US$350 million injection. Its existing shareholders, Warburg Pincus and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board. The funds...
PRIMO gets Pre-Series A funding from Fuchsia VC, Beacon VC to expand its omnichannel marketing platform

Thailand-based startup Primo World Company Limited (PRIMO), which provides omnichannel marketing platform for large enterprises, today announced an undisclosed Pre-Series A funding round from Fuchsia VC and Beacon VC. Leading VC firm SOSV and Infinity Technologies VC, who contributed to the...
PRIMO gets Pre-Series A funding from Fuchsia VC, Beacon VC to expand its omnichannel marketing platform

Thailand-based startup Primo World Company Limited (PRIMO), which provides omnichannel marketing platform for large enterprises, today announced an undisclosed Pre-Series A funding round from Fuchsia VC and Beacon VC. Leading VC firm SOSV and Infinity Technologies VC, who contributed to the...
Appboxo raises US$7M Series A led by RTP Global to further develop product, expand globally

Singapore-based Appboxo today announced that it has raised a US$7 million Series A funding round led by RTP Global. Existing investors such as Antler and 500 Southeast Asia, as well as new investors SciFi VC, Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused venture fund), and business angels Huey Lin and...
Appboxo raises US$7M Series A led by RTP Global to further develop product, expand globally

Singapore-based Appboxo today announced that it has raised a US$7 million Series A funding round led by RTP Global. Existing investors such as Antler and 500 Southeast Asia, as well as new investors SciFi VC, Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused venture fund), and business angels Huey Lin and...
Appboxo raises US$7M Series A led by RTP Global to further develop product, expand globally

Singapore-based Appboxo today announced that it has raised a US$7 million Series A funding round led by RTP Global. Existing investors such as Antler and 500 Southeast Asia, as well as new investors SciFi VC, Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused venture fund), and business angels Huey Lin and...
For most e-commerce companies, the path to profitability will hardly be a straight line. It is a journey that will twist and turn within the entire organisation and always work in tandem with the constantly shifting consumer demands. A fast and cost-efficient fulfilment process is the mainstay...
For most e-commerce companies, the path to profitability will hardly be a straight line. It is a journey that will twist and turn within the entire organisation and always work in tandem with the constantly shifting consumer demands. A fast and cost-efficient fulfilment process is the mainstay...
Since the pandemic, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have constantly been coming up with creative solutions to remain afloat and keep pace with the rapidly changing business environment. While it has been an uphill battle for some, the extended period of uncertainty in the past two years have...
As the pandemic swept across Asia Pacific and businesses rallied against the impacts of safety restrictions on their operations, small and medium businesses (SMBs) and how they are managing the disruption, has come under the spotlight. Many have been recognised for their resilience and ability to...
As the pandemic swept across Asia Pacific and businesses rallied against the impacts of safety restrictions on their operations, small and medium businesses (SMBs) and how they are managing the disruption, has come under the spotlight. Many have been recognised for their resilience and ability to...
POS startup Olsera nets US$2.5M to accelerate merchant acquisition in 200 Indonesian cities

Olsera, a cloud-based point of sales (POS) startup that helps Indonesian startups to go digital, has received US$2.5 million in seed funding from Kejora-SBI Orbit, a joint US$30-million fund run by Kejora Capital and Japan’s SBI Holdings. With this new money, Olsera looks to strengthen its...
An Aerodyne drone Malaysia’s global drone services company Aerodyne Group has agreed to acquire a principal stake in Malaysia-based AI and data analytics company Synapse Innovation for an undisclosed amount. Aerodyne expects the investment to “supercharge” its AI and data analytics...
This isn’t for you if your company meets customers face-to-face or on the field. But, if 80 per cent or so of your interactions with leads and clients go through some form of email, phone or video call (like many others now), you might want to have a look at natural language...
This isn’t for you if your company meets customers face-to-face or on the field. But, if 80 per cent or so of your interactions with leads and clients go through some form of email, phone or video call (like many others now), you might want to have a look at natural language...
Boom in entrepreneurship In the last decade, entrepreneurship has been on the rise globally. Driving this growth, we have seen governments, VCs and incubators work together to put policy frameworks and mechanisms to establish this as a legitimate career option while also de-risking it by...
The prominence of consumer-focused platforms in Indonesia such as Gojek, Tokopedia, and Traveloka have historically eclipsed the MSMEs opportunity in SEA’s largest economy. However, a closer look at the numbers and challenges faced in this promising sector quickly reveals the vast potential...
WaveScan Technologies, a Singapore-based smart sensors company, has raised “seven-figure US dollars” in a seed round of financing led by Silicon Solution Ventures (SSV), an investment fund managed by Silicon Solution Partners. Joining the round were SEEDS Capital, Koji Ventures, she1K global,...
How Mosaic Solutions was able to increase its addressable market at the height of the pandemic

As a startup that is working closely with the F&B and retail sector, one might imagine that the pandemic must have hit Mosaic Solutions hardly. But surprisingly, in 2020, the Philippine-based company recorded its highest revenue in December –exactly at the height of the pandemic. According to...
Small and medium businesses (SMEs) made up 70 per cent of the employed workforce in 2020. They makeup 99 per cent of enterprises in the country and bring a healthy 43 per cent of the total nominal value-added of S$428 billion (US$322 billion). Even with their significant contributions to the...
How tech can help smaller brands scale in SEA by helping them maintain customers’ loyalty

The world has been wracked by a still-ongoing worldwide pandemic. It’s hard to make plans for the future, or even think about the prospect of growth when most businesses are already struggling to stay above the red line. Yet, digital evolution is necessary for businesses to survive especially...
Mekari, an Indonesia-based SaaS platform for human resource and finance management, today announced the acquisition of Qontak, a startup that provides Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and omnichannel communications platforms, for an undisclosed sum. Following the acquisition, Qontak Founder...
Better workforce management leads to greater customer satisfaction. Here’s how Google did it

Companies with distributed workforces face a common challenge – navigating the complexities of workforce management. Simply put, workforce management is about effective manpower planning so that there is neither surplus nor shortage of talent at any one time. Scheduling too few employees during...
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of most economies worldwide, and Singapore is no exception. Singaporean SMEs employ two-thirds of the workforce and contribute nearly half of the city state’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Covid-19 has wiped out thousands of SMEs, particularly...
Building a privacy-first internet: How developers and enterprises can adapt to the new privacy normal

Whether you’re ready for it or not, Apple’s highly anticipated data and privacy changes are now set to launch. These changes will have a widespread impact on businesses that advertise or operate on mobile. With the upgrade, a new data consent window will appear in all apps that collect and...
Tech for good: How Ula aims to facilitate the needs of small businesses in emerging market

At 17, Bu Nanik started selling staples at a rented shop in Surabaya where she would travel long distances to source her inventory, and then lug the purchased goods back in a rented car. The arduous journey was expensive and time-consuming, and often entailed shutting her store during peak...
Tech for good: How Ula aims to facilitate the needs of small businesses in emerging market

At 17, Bu Nanik started selling staples at a rented shop in Surabaya where she would travel long distances to source her inventory, and then lug the purchased goods back in a rented car. The arduous journey was expensive and time-consuming, and often entailed shutting her store during peak...
Tech for good: How Ula aims to facilitate the needs of small businesses in emerging market

At 17, Bu Nanik started selling staples at a rented shop in Surabaya where she would travel long distances to source her inventory, and then lug the purchased goods back in a rented car. The arduous journey was expensive and time-consuming, and often entailed shutting her store during peak...