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Platform Strategies Serve Go-Jek And Line Well In Southeast Asia:
Grace Xia, a venture investor with Jungle Ventures and former Tencent executive, says that startups aren’t cut out. They can become innovation pipelines to these platform companies. That could even lead to an acquisition by the biggies, which certainly is not unheard of in this fast-emerging tech innovative region.
Excited to share our next project – and especially stoked to have such an amazing partner in AWS.
Be sure to sign up for your city and please encourage any early stage startups to check it out.
Places to go in Indonesia to get your startup, started!
Research: Start-up Assistance Organizations in Indonesia: Taxonomy and Landscape | ANGIN
Skift’s Top Travel Startups to Watch 2018 – Skift:
REDDOORZ SINGAPORE AN OYO WITH SINGAPOREAN CHARACTERISTICS
Money Raised: Close to $20 million Headline Investors: Jungle Ventures, Susquehanna International Group and InnoVen Capital
Skift Take: Launched in 2015, RedDoorz is a network of budget branded lodging, with more than 500 properties primarily in Indonesia but also in Singapore and the Philippines. Yes, the company is mimicking a model that others pioneered in India. But we bet that its executives, led by co-founder and CEO Amit Saberwal, have the rare skills needed to lead their team of 180 workers in fending off looming competition from Chinese-owned budget hotels.
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Thought I would check this one out
I see this a lot – companies either continually raising from angels or even putting together large seed size rounds made up of angels.
Angel rounds are not bad but do one and then get to the institutional round.
Interesting read – don’t know much about Lee Fixel.
He made some coin on this though.
It seems to me if that if the founders were left alone on FlipKart – none of this would have ever happened.
Still remains to be seen what a post WalMart world will look like.
How Lee Fixel, Flipkart’s godfather in New York, changed India’s start-up ecosystem – Livemint
Depending on the final details, Fixel could make more than $3.5 billion on an investment of less than $1 billion, and still retain a 4-5% stake in Flipkart. That’s a stunning return by any measure. For the exit-starved Indian market, it’s almost beyond belief.
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