October 2019
A collection of the tech, startup and funding news from Vietnam in October of 2019, as covered in the English-language online press.
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- Vietnam: “…in H1 2019, there were 60 transactions with $250M worth of capital poured into Vietnam’s startups”, ranking third after Singapore and Indonesia
- Vietnam: Rever proptech startup aims to take on the country’s real estate brokerage market, following $2.3M fundraise
- Vietnam: VIISA unveils Batch 6 of its accelerator program, 5 startups chosen from over 100 applications
- Vietnam: An introduction to the 5 startups selected for Batch 6 of the VIISA Acceleration Program
- Vietnam: VIISA Accelerator Program Batch 7 applications are now open
- Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh City Innovation, Startup and Entrepreneurship Week 2019 set for October 15-19, featuring more than 30 events
- Vietnam: Da Nang Start-up Innovation Festival set for November 1st, featuring 30 speakers, 70-startup expo and hoped-for attendance of 2000
- Vietnam: Women’s Initiative for Startups and Entrepreneurship demo day set for Ho Chi Minh City, October 30th
- Vietnam: An intro to Upp! upcycling startup using plastic waste from landfills and oceans for construction
- Vietnam’s fintech market predicted to grow to $7.8BN value by 2020, growing from $4.4BN in 2017
- Vietnam: MindX edtech startup raises $500K with focus on training tech skills in schools
- Vietnam: Province of Dak Lak sets sights on developing local startup ecosystem, given its large-scale agricultural area
- Vietnam: Cricket One cricket protein startup gains funding, in part from 500 Startups, with insect-based food
- Vietnam establishes cybersecurity emergency response centre, given 7000 cyberattacks so far in 2019, and 2500 website attacks in Q3 alone
- Viettel, Vietnam’s military-run telecom group, to roll out 5G tech in Laos by year-end, following on from Myanmar and Cambodia tests
- An intro to Rens, Vietnamese startup making the world’s first shoes from coffee grounds
- Vietnam: An overview of Topica Edtech Group, e-learning platform firm aiming to help Southeast Asia’s young workers reskill for the digital age
- Singapore’s Doctor Anywhere partners Vietnam’s ViettelPay to provide online healthcare services in Vietnam
- Vietnam: South Korea’s Woori Financial Group launches Digital Innovation Lab Vietnam to strengthen ties between Korean and Vietnamese fintech startups
- Vietnam orders Chinese-car importer to remove navigation maps showing spurious, illegal and unrecognised 9-dash-line in South China Sea
- Vietnam: WISE Women Accelerator 2019 Demo Day set for October 30th in Ho Chi Minh City
- The 10 finalists selected for the Mekong Innovative Startups in Tourism, set to pitch in Bangkok, October 9th
- An intro to the winners and finalists of the 2019 Mekong Innovative Startups in Tourism program
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