#StartupVietnam news
January, February & March 2019
- Vietnam: Hiip automated influencer platform, connecting brands and advertisers with social influencers, lands 7-digit series A
- Data Summit Vietnam 2019 set for May 28 & 29 in Ho Chi Minh City
- Vietnam: Triip travel platform startup offers to pay for user data in cryptocurrency
- Vietnam: Triip traveltech startup offers 100M travel tokens in month-long ICO
- PaySend partners Vietcombank Remittance Company for remittances to any account, Napas card, Visa or Mastercard issued in Vietnam
- Vietnam: Urbox digital gifting platform and Wee Digital, fintech using biometrics and AI to authenticate customers, both gain funding
- Vietnam steps towards e-Government, creating national database and public service portal
- Vietnam: Kamereo sourcing platform for restaurants secures $500K
- Vietnam: An intro to 8 of the country’s AI startups making global moves
- Vietnam: Momo payment app secures backing led by Warburg Pincus
- Vietnam’s FastGo ride-hailing startup expands operations to Myanmar
- Vietnam: Luxstay rental-sharing startup raises $3M
- Australian Government Austrade releases report on Vietnam’s Innovation Ecosystem 2019
- Vietnam: Getdone startup launches platform for hiring blockchain talent
- Vietnam: Ministry of Trade signs partnership with Amazon to aid Vietnamese merchants
- Vietnam-founded Elsa English learning app Elsa secures $7M from Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI fund
- An overview of Vietnam’s emergence as a startup hub
- Vietnam: Finhay raises $1M with micro-investment platform targeted at millennials
- A brief intro to 13 of Vietnam’s fast-rising fintech startups
- Vietnam: An intro to Student Life Care, startup with all-in-one assistance services for overseas Vietnamese students in nearly 80 cities worldwide
- Vietnam: Topica Founder Institute accelerator graduates to gain at least $50K investment from Singapore’s Insignia Ventures
- Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh City plans to develop Innovation District, with Singapore support around smart city development
- Vietnam: Hanoi developes strategy and roadmap to build a smart city by 2025
- Near $900M was invested into Vietnam’s startups in 2018
- Vietnam: Google Cloud for Startups launches to provide tools and infrastructure
- A brief look at Vietnam’s 5 most-funded fintech startups from 2018
- Vietnam: JAMJA local service booking platform secures $1M with time-based discounts business
- Vietnam: WeFit fitness platform raises $1M
- Vietnam: ‘Start & Up – Behind the Scene’ incubation program launched in Hanoi
- Vietnam: LogiVan logistics startup raises $5.5M with web platform that helps trucks connect with customers
- Vietnam: Edmicro startup selected for March 2019 cohort of US’s GMC Calibrator with smart self-learning ecosystem for students
- Vietnam: A brief intro to 9 startups pitching at e27’s Vietnam TOP100 event
- Vietnam: UrBox digital gifting platform secures seed funding from VIISA and VinaCapital Ventures VC firms
- Vietnam’s FastGo plans $50M fundraise for ride-hailing push into US and Brazil
- An overview of investments in Vietnam’s startups made in January 2019
- A brief look at how Vietnam’s tech startups are starting to appear on international VC firms’s investment radar
- Vietnam: Proof-of-Concept competition runs with ‘Women and the future of green economy’ theme and $1M funding pool
- Australia and Vietnam develope tech partnership with launch of Aus4Innovation project
- Japan: Cinnamon AI startup secures $15M
- South Korea: Vietnam’s Vingroup opens VinTech Korea Research to explore IoT technologies, artificial intelligence, robotics
