20-11-2018 15:19
500 Startups, a global seed stage venture capital firm, yesterday (November 19) announced the closing of its first Vietnam fund with over $14 million in committed capital, surpassing its original target of $10 million. The Vietnam fund, led by Eddie Thai and Binh Tran, is on a mission to back Vietnam’s next great tech startups.
07-11-2018 15:23
The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang has launched a project called “Supporting women start-ups in the 2018-2025 period” with the aim of reducing poverty and ensuring social security.
02-10-2018 13:44
Launched in January 2017 by FPT Ventures and Dragon Capital, Vietnam Innovative Startup Accelerator (VIISA) has become one of the most prestigious startup accelerators in Vietnam.
28-09-2018 14:00
As the private sector is booming and the Vietnamese sharing economy and its implications on tech startups are expanding rapidly, a wave of millennials refuse to settle for a job with drawbacks. They want more. Hoang Oanh reports.
20-09-2018 10:25
Many Vietnamese young people’s great passion for business and novel, feasible ideas, which are attracting interest from foreign investors, are contributing to turning Vietnam into an incubator for high-potential startups. But is this enough for the country to develop its own Silicon Valley? Thanh Dat reports.
11-09-2018 12:28
Up to 80 of the most innovative startup firms from the ASEAN region will be featured at the World Economic Forum on ASEAN (WEF ASEAN), of which, three are from Vietnam.
07-09-2018 14:00
The rapid increase in the number of startups operating in the financial services industry, along with a corresponding increase in investment in this sector, has attracted significant attention from industry observers and the media.
01-09-2018 09:12
Investment fund VinaCapital launched its $100 million venture capital arm on August 30, aspiring to build billion-dollar startups that can expand outside Vietnam.
27-08-2018 13:58
Similar to startup enterprises, domestic online booking application Vntrip.vn, despite suffering huge losses in the past two years, has been receiving a large number of investments.
27-08-2018 12:37
Three Vietnamese startups were last week honoured at the Visa’s Everywhere Initiative final contest, a startup competition held in Vietnam for the first time with the aim to building the next generation of fintech and e-commerce solutions. Thanh Van reports.
08-08-2018 16:00
With the population of 100 million people, Vietnam is one of the main growth destinations attracting capital and future M&A deals. Countries which lead the investment wave into Vietnam, sectors that attract the strongest capital flows, chances for local startups, international investors, and local firms to do M&A in Vietnam are the main issues of the second session of Vietnam M&A Forum 2018.
14-07-2018 12:42
GoBear has appointed Adrian Chng to succeed Andre Hesselink as its new CEO as of July 16. The appointment will see Adrian lead the management team with Ivonne Bojoh, Frank Stevenaar, and Marnix Zwart as GoBear continues to build on its successes and rapidly scale the business into new products and markets.
27-06-2018 09:14
Building on the success of the forum “Connecting Vietnamese Startups in the US and Viet Nam” held in San Francisco last December, HCM City hosted a similar event on June 26-27 to bring together Vietnamese startups at home and abroad.
25-06-2018 16:37
Vietnam has seen huge growth in startups in recent years, with 3,000 registered startups in 2017.
11-06-2018 10:15
Local residents are finding it difficult to acquire agricultural land for startups or to expand business operations in HCM City.