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.
08-01-2018 14:54
A number of startups successfully called for millions of dollars from foreign investors in 2017.
04-01-2018 08:00
The enthusiasm and passion for business found in much of the local youth could make Vietnam a future incubator for startups. Is this enough for the country to build up its own Silicon Valley?
07-11-2017 16:14
Joshua Slayton is the founding CTO of AngelList, the leading platform for startups, through which more than $600 million has been invested since 2010. Recently, Joshua has been working on another new platform for cryptocurrency fundraising, called CoinList. VIR talked with Slayton about his opinions on the startup scene and his upcoming trip to Vietnam this December to judge the national round of VietChallenge 2018—the first global entrepreneurship competition for Vietnamese founders from all over the world.
03-11-2017 16:15
SCG announced that its strategic focus is to connect enterprises from around the world to collaborate and create innovations as well as investing in startups through world-class venture capital, utilising technology to strengthen its business in response to digital transformation, after publishing its operating results of the first nine months of 2017, showing a slight decrease in profit compared to the same period of the previous year.
02-11-2017 08:00
Industry insiders are scrutinising a Ministry of Planning and Investment draft to the decree regulating investment into innovative startups that has recently been publicised to elicit comments from the public.
25-10-2017 08:00
When banks work with technology companies or startups, what often comes out are fintech products or services that can offer customers convenience and control over their financial lives. And for Vietnam, those financial technologies are doing something even more meaningful for the economy, as they are helping Vietnam transform from a cash-centric nation into a more digitalised, cashless one. Trang Nguyen reports.
12-09-2017 17:05
Discussions at the APEC 2017 Startups Forum on providing further incentives to micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), especially startup businesses, will be considered and submitted to the SME Ministerial Meeting of APEC 2017.