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Mark Schwartz who played a major role in Alibaba’s US$25 billion IPO joins Paytm’s Board
Mark Schwartz is currently Vice Chairman of the Goldman Sachs Group and Chairman of Goldman Sachs in Asia-Pacific India’s leading mobile payment and commerce platform Paytm, run by Delhi-based One97 Communications, has announced that Mark Schwartz, Vice Chairman of the Goldman Sachs Group and Chairman of Goldman Sachs in Asia-Pacific, will join its Board. Schwartz, who...
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Singapore’s ManyTutors launches free crowdsourced homework solution app
Ask.ManyTutors pools answers from its database of over 40,000 tutors Singapore-based tuition marketplace ManyTutors has released a public beta of its crowdsourced homework solution app Ask.ManyTutors. The app, available on both iOS and Android, is completely free — so no micro-transactions. The app caters to only Mathematics and Science questions but Founder Lai Weichang said...
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Box8 raises US$7.5M Series B as Indian foodtech slowly recovering from the crisis
The food delivery startup serves 12,000 meals every day through a network of 60 stores across three cities: Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore It seems India’s foodtech industry is on a path of revival after a lull of over 12 months, as companies have once started seeing investor interest. Just weeks after Bangalore-based InnerChef got US$2.5M in a...
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Honeycomb, a TV and video ad management startup from Adstream founders, scores £3M Series A
Honeycomb, a TV and video ad management platform founded by James Carpenter and Richard Carter, who both previously founded Adstream, has raised £3 million in Series A funding. It follows a £1 million “friends and family” round in May this year. Read More
Blockchain for the unbanked: Philippines’ Coins.ph raises US$5M Series A
With a fast growing mobile market and largely underbanked population, Coins.ph uses the blockchain to deliver financial services via mobile and web Coins.ph, a Philippines-based startup that provides financial services through the blockchain, announced on Friday it has raised a US$5 million Series A led by Quona Capital’s Accion Frontier Inclusion Fund. Other participating investors were Innovation Endeavors, Pantera...
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For content-driven startups, speed (or the lack of it) can kill
An edu-tech and game developer shares how investing in good internet infrastructure and a speedy user experience can make or break your digital startup Running a tech startup in an emerging economy has its own set of challenges, whether you are targeting the global market, or even if you are going hyper-local. Talent-wise, the region has plenty...
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