Startup, tech and funding news from Cambodia across the first month of 2020, as reported online in the English-language press. News in this month, as in other months and quarterly collections, covers items in the social impact space, e-commerce and mobile payments, and fintech – financial technologies.
- Korea’s KB Kookmin Bank reportedly to buy LOLC Cambodian microfinance arm, PRASAC Microfinance Institution, for $603.4M
- Cambodia: 4th quarter 2019’s startup news collection, online, covering October, November and December 2019
- Digital Cambodia 2020 conference and expo set for March 20-23 – 170 ICT-focused booths and 30K visitors expected across the 3-day event
- Cambodia: UNDP Accelerator Labs launches, aiming to works with citizens, governments, the private sector and civil society on development issues
- Cambodia: Muuve food delivery startup take inaugural investment from homegrown OOCTANE VC firm
- Singapore’s Digicro lending startup expands to Cambodia, providing the unbanked population with access to mobile app-driven microloans
- Cambodia: ‘Grab for Good’ social impact program gains government support for 2 initiatives, one addressing disability, the other combating human trafficking
- National Bank of Cambodia to launch Project Bakong, a blockchain-based, peer-to-peer payment and money transfer platform
