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.
09-06-2018 10:00
A handful of winners have been named in a large-scale fintech challenge, providing inspiration and opportunities for many other fintechs to capture. Vietnam can be very proud of these first-generation fintechs and, in the years to come, it can expect further innovative financial solutions, both from local and international fintech startups, to help it achieve a financial inclusion goal and nurture a fintech ecosystem.
26-05-2018 17:41
Digital payment provider Visa launched the first competition for startups in Vietnam today, aiming to encourage innovations in the local fintech sector for the prize of $30,000.
17-05-2018 09:00
Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon, is promoting the AWS Activate programme to support the growth of startups in Vietnam.
16-04-2018 16:30
Sharing their marketing strategies as well as their stories of success and failure in trading, the large-scale enterprises at 1,000 CEOs inspired small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), especially startups.
27-03-2018 22:51
Vietnamese startups in new technology will be a key driver in luring in foreign capital within the next decade, said Maybank Kim Eng Group in today's conference in Singapore.
05-03-2018 22:49
Destination Mekong and Mekong Business Initiative announced that their Mekong Innovative Startups in Tourism (MIST) will extend the application deadline for Vietnamese startups from March 10 to 24.
18-02-2018 14:30
While many people scoff at the thought of working in agriculture, said to come with low productivity and low added value, a slew of local youths are pursuing smart farming support methods with the hope of making meaningful changes in the agricultural sector.
25-01-2018 14:00
Vietnam’s startup ecosystem is on the radar of Japanese firms wishing to co-operate with Vietnamese startups and calling for capital from Japan’s funds to develop novel ideas.