Startup news: Vietnam
The Vietnam startup news round-up for April 2021 gathers items across subjects including mobile gaming, electric bus services, the government’s Mobile Money trial, app-based healthcare bookings and many more.
Items listed are April 2021’s startup news headlines for Vietnam, drawn from Startup News Asia’s daily news feeds; each headline listed links to the online article behind it, providing our readers with:
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- Vietnam: Fundiin buy-now-pay-later startup gains backing led by 1982 Ventures and Zone Startups Ventures, helping merchants offer customers monthly instalments
- Vietnam: Gimo fintech gains seed funding from ThinkZone Ventures, BK Fund and angel investors with focus on underbanked workers, providing early access to earned wages
- Vietnam: Mobile Money likely to launch in Q2 2021, providing telco customers with cashless method to pay for small-value goods and services
- Vietnam: “Mobile Money on a trial basis will create a precedent for applying the sandbox mechanism to other services and new professions to appear in digital society.”
- Vietnam: Hatch Ventures startup ecosystem builder acquired by Singapore’s Draper Startup House
- Vietnam’s Docosan healthcare booking app lands $1M seed funding led by Taiwan’s AppWorks, helping patients avoid long waiting times for consultations
- Vietnam: Dat Bike electric motorbike startup raises $2.6M with 3 times the performance and twice the range of most competitors, at the same price point
- Vietnam: Touchstone Partners early-stage VC hist first close on $50M fund, looking at Vietnamese startups in the fintech, real estate, healthcare and edtech sectors
- Vietnam: Funtap mobile gaming company invests in 9PAY digital payments platform, allowing game-related purchases using 9PAY’s digital wallet
- Vietnam: Coin98 Finance gains $4M investment from US’ crypto trading firm Alameda Research, working on decentralized finance protocols and applications
- Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh City to commence 2-year trial of 77 electric buses on 5 routes, accompanied by 9 new stations
- Vietnam: Docosan raises $1M seed funding, led by Taiwan’s AppWorks, with platform and app connecting doctors and patients nationwide
- 2021 Hack4Growth Australia launched by Startup Vietnam Frontier Australia and Vietnam Australia Innovation Network
- Vietnam enters partnership with South Korea’s Naver, country’s largest internet company, in national strategy move aiming for global player status in artificial intelligence
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