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.
06-09-2017 16:01
Procter & Gamble (P&G) today hosted P&G Leadership College and introduced the Signal Accelerator for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), reaffirming the company’s long-standing commitment to work with the Ministry of Planning and Investment to enhance SMEs’ competitiveness, increase their innovative capabilities as well as approach new business opportunities around the globe.
11-08-2017 10:06
As technology is becoming an integral part of life, financial technology (fintech) is becoming ever more enticing to foreign investment in Vietnamese startups.
07-08-2017 12:20
Vietnam’s bustling e-commerce market is drawing more attention from Singaporean firms and startups.
16-07-2017 15:00
Ho Chi Minh City has established a number of support and consultancy centers to help startups as part of its startup support program. The establishment of more than 20,000 enterprises in the first half of this year has proved the effectiveness of this program.
06-07-2017 15:47
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project to support women’s startups for 2017-2025, aiming to raise women’s awareness of the Party and State’s laws and policies on startups and encourage the realisation of their ideas.
28-06-2017 16:57
More and more technology firms are receiving investment from foreign venture funds, which indicates the maturing of the Vietnamese technology community.
24-06-2017 16:21
The pressing issue of raising capital across the local startup community has just been brought to discussion in a bid to help existing and would-be startups successfully call for investment.
10-06-2017 17:26
Vietnam and the globe are abuzz with startups and small-scale enterprises bringing out new ideas and innovative products to the market. However, finding one’s way through the winding, littered path to bring a fledgling enterprise to fruition, be it a successful IPO or an acquisition by a larger company, is a difficult undertaking.