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Retail Asia29/09/2021

The Singapore-based neobank has raised a $158 million led by renown VCs and fintech founders. Aspire is looking to double down on existing markets, while building the foundations to serve growing business clients across the whole South East Asia region, the firm said in an announcement on Monday. The oversubscribed funding round consisted of $58 million […]

Retail Asia18/04/2019

Recently, Echelon, the tech event startup organizer from Singapore held an event at WeWork Asia Centre in Bangkok. The Echelon Roadshow is part of a series of international stops leading up to the annual Echelon Asia Summit happening in May. The event brought together the local startup ecosystem over a night of networking, Thailand top 100 […]

Retail Asia05/11/2018

Malaysia’s long-haul budget carrier AirAsia X on Thursday appointed Nadda Buranasiri as its new group chief executive officer to take over from its co-founders. Buranasiri, chief executive of the Thai arm of AirAsia X since 2014, will replace co-CEOs and co-founders Tony Fernandes and Kamarudin Meranun with immediate effect, the company said in a statement. […]

Retail Asia10/01/2017

‘Just propose those projects to me, no matter how bad it is,’ Nguyen Ha Dong writes on Facebook. The overnight success of mobile game Flappy Bird has turned its creator Nguyen Ha Dong into a star of the local startup scene. The game, hailed by the industry as one of the milestones of Vietnam’s startup […]

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Fintech Startup Aspire Sets Sights on Southeast Asia’s Digital Economy

Echelon Bangkok roadshow showcases the bright new stars in Thailand’s ecosystem

AirAsia X names new CEO to take over from Founders

Flappy Bird creator lends a wing to Vietnamese startups