Vietnam’s startup news
#startupVN – 05/2019
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- Vietnam: BE Group home-grown ride-sharing startup partners VPBank to launch digital financial services
- Vietnam: An intro to Virobo, startup behind Captain Eye robots that help prevent myopia and scoliosis in shoolchildren
- Vietnam: Saigon Innovation Hub considering South Korea options for its first in-country representative office
- Vietnam: South Korea tech cooperation centre opens in Ho Chi Minh City
- State Bank of Vietnam announces June 16 will be designated as ‘Cashless Day’ as a way to promote non-cash payments and the digital economy
- Survey report: Private Equity in Vietnam, from Grant Thornton (pdf)
- Vietnam: Luxstay home-sharing platform backed for $1.2M by South Korea’s GS Home Shopping
- Vietnam: Thailand’s KasikornBank KVision partners Vietnam’s VIISA accelerator and UP Co-Working for 3-day hackathon in June
- Vietnam Today – First report of the Vietnam’s Future Digital Economy Project (2018) by Australia’s Data61 and Vietnam Ministry for Science and Technology
- Vietnam: VinTech Fund preps $6.4M to sponsor 15 technology and science research projects this year; applications close June 15
- Vietnam: MonPay e-wallet platform acquired by Vingroup as country’s mobile payments ecosystem booms
- Vietnam: Luxstay home-sharing vacation rental startup secures $4.5M with luxury focus
- Vietnam: Portland State University wins $1M contract to empower Vietnam’s provincial capacity and performance around governance
- Vietnam joins Huawei 5G ban, aiming for state-owned Viettel to work towards core chip technology
- AngelHack Vietnam Hackathon 2019 set for Hanoi and HCM City in June
- By 2020, 500 Startups Vietnam aims to invest in 80 to 100 startups with its $14M fund.
- Vietnam: Quang Ngai Province holds conference to look at methods for building an innovative startup ecosystem
- Vietnam: Abivin AI-powered supply chain optimization startup takes Startup World Cup 2019 title and $1M prize
- Asian Development Bank fains $20.19M from Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative to support women-led SMEs in Vietnam and Pacific
- Vietnam: VIISA unveils 4 startups selected for 5th cohort of its accelerator program
- Vietnam: Government sets target of having 50% of businesses operating on a digital basis by 2025
- Vietnam: A look at Bcnex, aiming to be the country’s first regulated cryptocurrency exchange
- Vietnam: The Coffee House chain partners Vulcan Augmetics startup for Uplift project, providing disabled staff with robotic limbs
- An overview of Vietnam’s burgeoning tech startup environment
- Vietnam: VinBus preps to launch 3000-strong electric bus service country-wide in 2020
- Vietnam: Payoo intermediary payment service provider partnered by Citi Treasury and Trade to aid consumer-to-business collections for corporate clients
- Project Alpha launched by SeedPlus and AWS, seeking startups for events in Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok, Singapore and Manila
- Thailand: KVision investment holding company of Kasikornbank to invest US$100M into startups entering Vietnam
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