싱가포르 아이디 캐피탈(ID Capital), 아태지역 농업∙식품기술 컨퍼런스 제5회 퓨처 푸드 아시아(Future Food Asia) 참가 스타트업 모집 아태지역 농업기술과 식품기술 분야 전문 투자사인 아이디 캐피탈(ID Capital)이 2021년 6월 제5회 퓨처 푸드 아시아(Future Food Asia)를 개최한다고 밝혔다. 퓨처 푸드 아시아(Future Food Asia)는 농식품 분야의 혁신에 기여하고, 전문 기업과 스타트업이 공존할 수 있는 농업 식품 기술 산업 생태계를 조성을 위하여 아이디 캐피탈이 2016년부터 시작했다. 지난 4년 동안 퓨처 푸드 아시아는 아태지역 40여 개 스타트업에 첨단…

[TC] 동남아시아판 아마존 라자다, 2억 5천만 달러 투자받다 동남아시아의 아마존, 라자다(Lazada)가 싱가폴의 테마섹 홀딩스(Temasek Holdings)가 이끄는 2억 5천만 달러(한화 약 2천8백억 원) 규모의 투자를 받았습니다. 라자다는 독일 기반의 인터넷 스타트업 인큐베이터 로켓 인터넷(Rocket Internet)이 만든 동남아시아의 이 커머스(e-commerce) 회사인데요. 이번 투자에서 기업 가치를 부려 12억 5천만 달러(1조 4천억 원)로 평가받았다고 하네요.   [re/code] 블랙프라이데이, 온라인 매출 매해 20% 성장 미국 최대의 연말 쇼핑 시즌인 블랙 프라이데이(Black Friday)의 온라인 매출이 매해 20%씩 성장하고…

Saemin Ahn leads Rakuten Venture’s strategy and investments in South East Asia, Korea and North America. The size of the current fund is $100 million. Saemin previously led a $10 million fund focused on Singapore, Rakuten’s first in the region. I caught up with him in Seoul to find out where his current VC passions are focused. Currently Rakuten Ventures has invested in once Korean startup, file sharing service, ESTMob. On Discovering Startups…

Rakuten Ventures today announced the launch of a $100M global investment fund. This fund builds on the success of the Southeast Asia fund, which was launched in 2013 and counts Carousell, Visenze, Coda Payments and Send Anywhere among its investment portfolio. The investment in Send Anywhere is Rakuten’s first investment in a company outside South East Asia and their first in a South Korean startup, ESTMob. The new fund will target investments…

Over the last year collaboration between the startup ecosystems in North and South Asia has seen greatly increased velocity as resources come together to enable the rising tide in Asian entrepreneurship to accelerate. And in recent days Joyful Frog Digital Incubator (JFDI), an accelerator based in Singapore, and the Banks Foundation for Young Entrepreneurs (Banks Foundation) a community centre for Korean entrepreneurs in Seoul, have announced a partnership. This formal collaboration aims to…

Following the success of TechInAsia’s previous Startup Asia event held in Jakarta last November, TechinAsia.com, Asia’s largest English-language technology and startup blog in Asia, is gearing up for another round of conference with Startup Asia Singapore 2014. The event will be held May 7-8, right in the heart of Biopolis, Singapore’s deep tech research center. Startup Asia Singapore 2014 will feature, as seen at last year’s Jakarta event, a conference, a Startup…

The application period for JFDI’s next session is open, but only for a few short days, before decisions are made about which founders will join the program this time around. Apply here now. In the past year JFDI has worked with 19 teams from all over Asia and as program Director, Ray Wu, looked back on his experience leading entrepreneurs he realized the importance of what JFDI is doing to build the startup community in…

Echelon 2013 is organized by tech media and events platform e27, and is one of the region’s largest tech and business events held over two days in Singapore to celebrate Southeast Asia’s emerging technology industry. It features 50 of the region’s most promising startups, renowned global and regional speakers on Internet and Digital businesses and 10 exceptional startups pitching for the title of Echelon 2013’s Most Promising Startup. Organized annually since 2010, Echelon has evolved to become…

This year I have been on a record number of business trips overseas, some solo and some with Korean startups. All with the aim of brokering closer international business ties and developing startup success across boarders. I have learned a lot and would like to share some tips from my experience to help you make the most of what can be expensive mistakes if you are not prepared. This post was inspired…

Just over a month ago 10 Korean startup teams departed for Singapore on a month-long acceleration program jointly organized by NIPA (National IT Promotion Agency) and beSUCCESS. The teams were based in the well known Singapore startup hub of Block 71, where they were able to tap into the advanced startup community surrounding local stars like JFDI Asia, Singtel’s investment arm Innov8, and South East Asia’s startup media heavyweight, e27 which also…

JFDI’s 2nd program for 2013 is scheduled to start on 29 August and the first confirmed participating team is Vault Dragon, from Singapore. They will be joined by 10-12 other teams, drawn from over 1,400 individuals who registered interest. In exchange for a minority equity stake, every team will receive a package including $11,700 cash, mentoring valued at $117,000, technical and other vendor perks worth $234,000 and working space for the duration of…

This program is dedicated towards helping Korean Startups get global perspective by sponsoring their travel to three major innovation hubs: Singapore, Israel, and Boston. KISED and the SMBA recognize the difficulty of startups going global with their user base and thus have created a fully immersive program to help take their companies to the next level. This six month, fully-sponsored program will include monthly intensive workshops, mentorship training, meetings with funding sources,…