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- Only about 40% of Vietnam’s 95M people have bank accounts, mostly in urban areas, while there are around 120M mobile phone subscriptions
- Vietnam: Jio Health tech startups raises US$5M with ecosystem of tech-driven healthcare services
- A broad overview of Vietnam’s burgeoning startup ecosystem
- Vietnam: Government moves to legalise P2P lending with trial implementation
- Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh City partners Australia’s New South Wales state on broad areas of interest, including startup and SME development
- Vietnam: Utop blockchain startup secures $3M backing to bridge loyalty programs between merchants
- Vietnam: An overview of how Ho Chi Minh City is set to develop as its population breaks the 9M mark
- As Vietnam’s consumer class grows rapidly and access to financial services remains relatively low, opportunities for fintech startups are emerging
- Vietnam: Country’s first IoT Innovation Hub launches in Hanoi, supported by Ministry of Science and Technology and Sweden’s Ericsson
- Shark Tank Vietnam’s Linh Thai on recent investments and the country’s startup ecosystem
- Vietnam: A look at the recent Social Impact Business Model event in Ho Chi Minh City
- Vietnam Startup Wheel 2019 event launched in Ho Chi Minh City, expecting near 1000 project entries
- An intro to the national Vietnam Startup Wheel 2019 event
- Vietnam: An intro to I Love Asia Tour, female-led motorbike touring startup expanding rapidly
- Vietnam: Germany’s former vice chancellor steps into Chairman position on VinaCapital Ventures board, announcing upwards career move
- Vietnam: An intro to OPENSEA travel startup, promoting local tourism with experiential tours of Hanoi
- Vietnam’s FastGo ride-hailing app to hit Singapore streets in April as part of regional expansion
- Book: Startup Vietnam – Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Socialist Republic by Andrew Rowan
- A look at the likely next wave of Vietnamese startups
- An intro to Vietnam-Singapore startup Uiza, an API platform for video streaming recently selected for Sequoia’s SURGE accelerator
- Vietnam joins Huawei 5G ban, aiming for state-owned Viettel to work towards core chip technology
- Vietnam: Luxstay home-sharing vacation rental startup secures $4.5M with luxury focus
- 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
- Vietnam: Payoo intermediary payment service provider partnered by Citi Treasury and Trade to aid consumer-to-business collections for corporate clients
- Vietnam: Abivin AI-powered supply chain optimization startup takes Startup World Cup 2019 title and $1M prize
- Vietnam: BE Group home-grown ride-sharing startup partners VPBank to launch digital financial services
- Vietnam: Luxstay home-sharing platform backed for $1.2M by South Korea’s GS Home Shopping
- AngelHack Vietnam Hackathon 2019 set for Hanoi and HCM City in June
- Vietnam: A look at Bcnex, aiming to be the country’s first regulated cryptocurrency exchange
- Vietnam: MonPay e-wallet platform acquired by Vingroup as country’s mobile payments ecosystem booms
- 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: VIISA unveils 4 startups selected for 5th cohort of its accelerator program
- Survey report: Private Equity in Vietnam, from Grant Thornton (pdf)
- Vietnam: Saigon Innovation Hub considering South Korea options for its first in-country representative office
- Vietnam: VinBus preps to launch 3000-strong electric bus service country-wide in 2020
- Asian Development Bank fains $20.19M from Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative to support women-led SMEs in Vietnam and Pacific
- Vietnam: Government sets target of having 50% of businesses operating on a digital basis by 2025
- Vietnam: The Coffee House chain partners Vulcan Augmetics startup for Uplift project, providing disabled staff with robotic limbs
- Vietnam: Thailand’s KasikornBank KVision partners Vietnam’s VIISA accelerator and UP Co-Working for 3-day hackathon in June
- Vietnam: An intro to Virobo, startup behind Captain Eye robots that help prevent myopia and scoliosis in shoolchildren
- Vietnam: South Korea tech cooperation centre opens in Ho Chi Minh City
- Vietnam: Quang Ngai Province holds conference to look at methods for building an innovative startup ecosystem
- Vietnam: Portland State University wins $1M contract to empower Vietnam’s provincial capacity and performance around governance
- An overview of Vietnam’s burgeoning tech startup environment
- By 2020, 500 Startups Vietnam aims to invest in 80 to 100 startups with its $14M fund.
- Vietnam: VinTech Fund preps $6.4M to sponsor 15 technology and science research projects this year; applications close June 15
- Vietnam: Vimo and mPOS to merge, rebranded as NextPay, with sights set on $30M fundraise for Myanmar and Indonesia expansion in 2020
- Vietnam: Government unveils ICT reference framework to guide smart city development
- Vietnam: ‘…fast-growing but fragmented digital payments market is set for a wave of consolidation…’
- Vietnam: Hahalolo tourism-focused platform launches, integrating social network, online tourism services and e-commerce
- Endeavor Vietnam to host inaugural Scale-Up Talk on July 10th in Ho Chi Minh City
- Thailand’s KasikornBank Kasikorn Vision partners Vietnam’s VIISA and UP Co-Working Space for 3-day hackathon, aiming to boost local and regional innovation
- South Korea’s Woowa Brothers food delivery app operator launches in Ho Chi Minh City, bringing to bear 9 years’ experience
- Vietnam: Another look at Abivin, one month on from taking $1M Startup World Cup prize with AI-powered route optimization and transport management platform
- Saigon Innovation Hub appointed as Vietnam representative for Rice Bowl Republic, an ASEAN startup program proposed by Malaysia’s New Entrepreneur Foundation
- Vietnam: An overview of the government’s Supporting National Innovative Startup Ecosystems project growth since its inception 3 years ago
- VIetnam: Project Alpha, AWS and SeedPlus VC firm partnership, set for Ho Chi Minh City, June 27th, aiming to select 2 outstanding startups
- 18 VC funds commit combined $425M for Vietnamese startups over the next 3 years during the Vietnam Venture Summit
- Vietnam: AngelHack 2019 comes to Hanoi June 15-16, and Ho Chi Minh City June 22-23
- Vietnam: Rever tech-enabled real estate brokerage gains $4M backing from VinaCapital Ventures
- Vietnam: Kyna online education platform startup selected for Google Demo Day Asia finals
- Vietnam: IoT Startup 2019 competition launches with prize pool of over US$20K
- Vietnam: 6 executives share their views on the country’s startup challenges and opportunities
- Vietnam: Viettonkin Startup Launch 2019 applications open for pre-seed and seed stage tech startups
- Vietnam: VNTechpedia portal for tech startups launched by Ministry of Science and Technology partnership with Nexus FrontierTech Company
- Vietnam’s startup and technology news headlines from the past month
- Vietnam: BedLinker B2B e-commerce platform for hotels and resorts takes win at Government-run tourism startup competition
- A broad overview of Indonesia’s startup ecosystem in the context of CIVETS countries – Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa
- Monk’s Hill Ventures VC firm names two new partners, one base in Singapore, the other in Vietnam
- 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
