OVERSEA EXPANSION Volanews

Chinese Ride-Sharing Giant Didi Plans Entry Into Europe Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing Technology Co. plans to make its debut in Western Europe, people familiar with the matter said, as the company seeks new growth markets ahead of a long-awaited initial public offering.

by caixinglobal

2021-02-25

EGYPT Startups Trella

Egypt’s Trella Expands Its Trucking Marketplace to Pakistan Trella’s online marketplace connects shippers with carriers to help them transport goods. The marketplace claims to have brought transparency, affordability, and reliability, for the main stakeholders of the trucking industry.

by MENAbytes

2020-12-01

CHINA UNICORNS Lalamove

Hong Kong Logistics Unicorn Lalamove Unveils Foray into The US Lalamove claims it has to date matched more than 7 million users with a pool of over 700,000 delivery partners in 22 markets around the world.

by TechCrunch

2020-10-14

CHINA GIANT PChome Online

Taiwan E-Commerce Group PChome Launches Service in Southeast Asia This alliance will boost the visibility of Taiwanese products, further differentiate our partners in the respective local markets, and create a mutually-benefiting Southeast Asian e-commerce ecology.

by KrAsia

2020-09-25

SINGAPORE JAPAN GIANT

Singapore-Based Delivery Firm Foodpanda Launches in Japan The initial rollout will cover Kobe, Yokohama, and Nagoya from September 17, and Sapporo, Fukuoka, and Hiroshima from October 1.

by KrAsia

2020-09-18

FRANCE Mobile Game Publisher Voodoo

Voodoo’s International Growth Continues with New Offices and Leadership in the Asia-Pacific Region On the heel of the Tencent investment into Voodoo on a disclosed 1.4Bn USD valuation, Voodoo announces the appointment of Julian Corbett to head the APAC region

by Alfred

2020-08-27

INDIA GIANTS FINTECH

Indian National Payments Corp to Take UPI, Rupay Global Through New Subsidiary NIPL has been tasked with exporting NPCI’s indigenously developed offerings and technological acumen to foreign markets.

by Inc42

2020-08-21

CHINA OVERSEA EXPANSION Realme

Chinese Smartphone Maker Realme Enters Kenyan Market The company, one of the fastest-growing smartphone brands in the world whose operations in both high-end and mid-range smartphones began in 2018.

by ChinaDaily

2020-08-04

THAILAND UNICORNS Bolt

Didi-Backed Estonian Ride-Hailer Bolt Launches in Thailand “Our experience in Europe and Africa has proven that ride-hailing is not a winner-takes-all market.” Bolt said in a statement.

by DealStreetAsia

2020-07-30

KENYA Agriculture GIANTS

Gov’t, Microsoft sign MoU to boost innovation in agricultural sector The Ministry of Agriculture has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate with Microsoft to accelerate innovation in the agricultural sector to boost food and nutrition security.

by kenyandigest

2020-03-17

CHINA ENTERTAINMENT BYTEDANCE

ByteDance’s founder Zhang Yiming to focus on global expansion after firm’s management restructure The startup expects to nearly double its global headcount to 100,000 by the end of 2020.

by kr-asia

2020-03-16

INDIA 5G ONEPLUS

OnePlus Announces Tech Lab To Make 5G Smartphones In India The OnePlus R&D lab will be based in Hyderabad.

by Inc42

2020-03-09

CHINA RIDE-HAILING Didi Chuxing

Chinese ride-hailing platform launches taxi service in Chile's capital Nearly 5,000 taxis have joined the program, the company said.

by Xinhuanet

2020-02-28

UAE CUSTOMER SERVICE Justmop.com

Dubai's digital home cleaning app expands into Saudi Arabia Justmop.com announces start of operations in Jeddah, with plans to expand to Riyadh later this month.

by arabianbusiness

2020-02-19

CHINA RIDE-HAILING Didi Chuxing

China’s Didi to launch ride-hailing services in Sydney Didi plans to roll out its Sydney launch with DiDi Express and DiDi Max services first.

by pandaily

2020-02-18

SOUTH AFRICA AI GotBot

SA’s GotBot has plans to expand its AI solutions to UK, Asia in near future South African artificial intelligence (AI) startup GotBot plans to expand to the United Kingdom (UK) and Southeast Asia in the near future after building a sizeable customer base at home and raising funding.

by disrupt-africa

2020-02-18

UAE VC Nuwa Capital

New $100m Nuwa Capital fund to target MENA, East African startups Nuwa Capital aims to raise $100m and is already in talks with various startups in the region.

by ventureburn

2020-02-17

CHINA FINTECH WECHAT PAY

WeChat Pay gets Permission to Operate Mobile Payment Service in Nepal WeChat Pay, a digital payment platform based in China finally got its approval to operate in Nepal without any hindrances.

by techsathi

2020-02-13

INDONESIA ACCELERATOR Skymind

Skymind, a UK-based US$800M fund, expanding to grow AI ecosystems of Indonesia, Malaysia The fund sees strong potential in Malaysia and Southeast Asian to build a thriving AI ecosystem and make the region a global AI hub.

by e27

2020-02-13

SINGAPORE VC Vertex Holdings

Singapore’s Vertex Holdings taps Japanese investors to widen reach Vertex was established more than 30 years ago as a unit of Singapore Technologies and later became the venture capital arm of Temasek.

by DealStreetAsia

2020-02-06