July, August & September 2019
July 2019 / August 2019 / September 2019
Myanmar’s startup news:
July 2019
- Myanmar: ASEAN Smart Cities Accelerator Roadshow set for Yangon, August 1st, aiming to recruit for its next cohort
- Myanmar: Japan’s Daiwa Securities Group preps $30M fund to invest in Myanmar startups
- Myanmar: An intro to New Day – Neh Thit – a website startup connecting blue collar job seekers and employers
Myanmar’s startup news:
August 2019
- An investor’s perspective on why to invest in Myanmar over Bangladesh
- Myanmar: An intro to Dinger, a unified payment solution for e-commerce businesses
- Myanmar: Shwe Property real estate portal secures $3M, in part via 500 Startups’ first investment in the country
- Singapore’s Anywheel buys 5999 license-lapsed share bikes from Land Transport Authority to donate to needy students in Myanmar
- Myanmar: Seedstars launched its first Seedstars Academy Program in Yangon this month – here are the 10 startups selected for the 2-day bootcamp
- Myanmar: An intro to the SmartSales system for restaurants by Code2LAB Co, digitizing and streamlining the country’s F&B industry
- Myanmar: A brief intro to ChateSat, online platform connecting freelancers to employers to create a gig economy for the country
- Myanmar: An intro to the 10 startups on the new Seedstars Academy Programme Yangon, a 6-month course giving students and young entrepreneurs startup skills
- Mekong Innovative Startups in Tourism opens nominations for next intake, seeking tourism startups in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myamnar, Thailand and Vietnam
Myanmar’s startup news:
September 2019
- Myanmar: SME Development Bank to set up startup incubation center in Naypyidaw, partnering Industrial Bank of Korea to offer capital, tech and events
- Myanmar: An introduction to 360°ed, education technology startup applying augmented reality and virtual reality to learning materials
- Myanmar: An intro to Oway – online travel agent, ride-hailing service and car rental business and more
- Myanmar: An intro to Seedstars Yangon’s recently-launched Academy Program, 6-month free program to mentor, build, and train young entrepreneurs and students
- Myanmar: “…there were 56.8 million mobile phone users in 2017-18 against a total population of 54 million…”
