Mental health startup raises USD1.1 million in seed round
SOUTHEAST ASIA: Southeast Asian-based healthcare startup has raised USD 1.1 million in the seed round from venture capital firms across Asia, family offices, and angel investors. The latest funds will be used for product development and to hire more talent. It is also looking at expanding further within the Southeast Asian region. The startup […]
HR data collecting app E-Dabu can monitor Covid-hit employees
INDONESIA: E-Dabu, a local app created to help HR professionals track and record employee national health insurance and social security details, has diversified its features to include monitoring employees who contracted Covid as part of efforts to mitigate virus spread. Organisations using E-Dabu can check when the employee has visited the doctor, see the diagnosis, […]
Huawei offers cybersecurity trainings to boost digital talents
INDONESIA: Telecommunications giant Huawei has reaffirmed its commitment to share cybersecurity knowledge, improve workers’ IT skills, and overall upgrade digital infrastructure in Indonesia. Huawei has renewed the Memorandum of Understanding by sealing off a new tripartite cooperation agreement between Huawei, the National Cyber and Crypto Agency of Indonesia (BSSN), and Institut Teknologi Del. Under […]
Lockdowns inspired first time users of HR tech: Global survey
HR TECHNOLOGY: An estimated 69% of organisations worldwide switched to using HR technology for the first time during the Covid-19 pandemic and its related community lockdowns. This was a key finding in a recent global survey by India-based HR technology provider Qandle. It also revealed that 53% of its survey respondents said they switched to […]
Give more attention to Vietnam’s space tech, experts say
VIETNAM: Vietnam needs to put in efforts and focus on developing human resources for space technologies, as it gears up to meet the needs of the 4th Industrial Revolution, local experts are advising. Lê Xuân Huy, the deputy general director of the Việt Nam Space Center (part of the Việt Nam Academy of Science and […]
MYR 4 million in Series A funding for job app Troopers
MALAYSIA: The investment will be used towards developing its mobile app technology, marketing, and working capital to further expand its business in the region. Digital employment platform, Troopers Malaysia, has received a Series A funding round of MYR 4 million (USD 950,000) from local marketing firm Shooper360. Troopers Malaysia offers a mobile app that matches […]
Thailand moves to the cutting edge of social commerce tech
Fuelled by a young and entrepreneurial workforce, online shopping platforms have quickly developed in Thailand during the Covid-19 pandemic and its restrictions on social movement. The development of “social commerce” in particular is being seen as a game-changer with respect to young entrepreneurs’ capabilities to buy and sell online, across social media as much as […]
Automation dividends show plenty of returns for the required transition
Supplementing automation across entire economies in Southeast Asia will be a difficult and painful transition, but could hold enormous returns on investment once complete. That was one of the key findings of a recent Deloitte report, which noted that the ASEAN region stood to gain disproportionately from the process of automation in industry, even more […]
