A snapshot of Malaysia’s startup news headlines, articles, reports and downloads from August 2021
Tech news from Malaysia in August 2021 covered developments including: cross-border payment trials between Malaysia and Thailand; Marketing In Asia digital content platform’s funding; Malaysia-Cambodia remittances using Cambodia’s Bakong CBDC platform; AirAsia’s moves to compete in ride-hailing; and more.
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- Malaysia: 2nd round of ‘Meet the VCs Investor Speed Dating’ from Found8 applications close 8th August
- e-news, latest issue: Meet Malaysia’s VCs, Twitter in India, Singapore fem-techs…
- Can You Hack It’ Virtual Hackathon ASEAN Edition 2021 launched by Malaysia’s Hong Leong Bank seeking solutions around environmental, social and governance issues in banking
- Unicorn Pitches Malaysia online event set for August 26th from StartupNetwork – startup applications close August 20th
- Bank Negara Malaysia and Bank of Thailand recently launched cross-border QR-based payments, aiming for real-time consumer and merchant payments between the countries
- Malaysia’s BigPay, fintech unit of AirAsia digital arm, gains $100M from South Korea’s SK Group with prepaid debit card, local and int’l money transfers, micro-insurance and more
- Malaysia Digital Economy Corp – MDEC – renews collaboration with NEXEA VC and accelerator on Entrepreneurs Programme for another six months
- e-news, latest issue: Malaysia’s entrepreneurs, Australian e-commerce, Indonesia’s digital economy…
- Malaysia: Marketing In Asia digital content platform raises $230K with sights on becoming the go-to platform for brands and content creators
- Malaysia: AirAsia moves into ride-hailing with launch of AirAsia Ride as part of group’s super app, initially available in Klang Valley before national and wider ASEAN roll-out
- ScaleUp Malaysia Accelerator Cohort 3 applications close September 2nd
- National Bank of Cambodia and Malaysia’s Maybank launch mobile cross-border remittances built on Bakong, Cambodia’s central bank digital currency project
- e-news, latest issue: Insuretech in India, Malaysian bank hackathon, Facebook’s metaverse…
- e-news, latest issue: Thailand’s aCommerce, ESG in finance, Indian agri-data, Unicorn Pitch in Malaysia…
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