#SeoTips Blockchain technology is all about decentralization and virtualization. So it’s a little ironic that humans love to come together in person at big blockchain events. Such was the case last week in Seoul, where a record 17,000 people and 30...
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Monday, September 2, 2024
SparkLabs closes $50M fund to back AI startups #Ecommerce
#SeoTips SparkLabs — an early-stage venture capital firm that has made a name for itself for backing OpenAI as well as a host of other AI startups such as Vectara, Allganize, Kneron, Anthropic, xAI, Glade (YC S23) and Lucidya AI — is gearing up to ...
Sunday, September 1, 2024
Validus, a Singapore-based digital SME lending platform, secures $50M debt financing to help enterprises in Indonesia #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Validus, a Singapore-based digital lending platform for small and medium businesses, has secured $50 million in debt financing from HSBC under the ASEAN Growth Fund strategy. Validus will use the proceeds to support the financial inclusion...
Friday, August 30, 2024
Uber drives deeper into South Korea to take on Kakao Mobility #Ecommerce
#SeoTips After seeing double-digit growth in South Korea, Uber Technologies has announced a strategic plan to double down in the country — directly challenging market leader Kakao Mobility, the ride-hailing unit majority-owned South Korean messagin...
Monday, July 1, 2024
Japan’s SmartHR raises $140M Series E as strong demand for HR tech boosts its ARR to $100M #Ecommerce
#SeoTips The round was led by KKR and Teachers' Ventures Growth, an investment arm of Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Kate Park, Khareem Sudlow ...
Monday, June 17, 2024
Autify launches Zenes, an AI agent for software quality assurance #Ecommerce
#SeoTips With the advent of generative AI, AI applications are transforming and reshaping various industries and changing how people work. Software development is no exception. San Francisco- and Tokyo-based startup Autify has built an autonomous A...
Perplexity AI searches for users in Japan, via SoftBank deal #Ecommerce
#SeoTips After announcing a strategic partnership with SoftBank in April, Perplexity — the AI search engine that has ambitions to take on Google — is now using the deal to expand its user base, and data touchpoints, in SoftBank’s home market of Jap...
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Carv raises $10M Series A to help gamers monetize their data #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Carv, a data layer platform that lets web3 gaming and AI companies, as well as gamers, control and monetize their data, has raised a $10 million Series A round led by Tribe Capital and IOSG Ventures. Carv’s new round comes approximately f...
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Full Glass Wine raises $14M to continue DTC marketplaces spree, buys Bright Cellars #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Full Glass Wine, a brand acquisition management startup that specializes in acquiring wine marketplaces, has raised a $14 million Series A round to continue acquiring DTC (direct-to-consumer) wine marketplaces, aiming to lead the DTC wine ...
Monday, February 19, 2024
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son is reportedly seeking $100B to build a new AI chip venture #Ecommerce
#SeoTips SoftBank Group’s Masayoshi Son has made no secret of his intent to double down on red-hot artificial intelligence industry. Now, he’s fundraising for his next move in that strategy. According to a report in Bloomberg, the SoftBank founder ...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Wattpad, a storytelling platform, conducts another layoff round #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Wattpad, a Toronto-based storytelling platform owned by Naver’s Webtoon Entertainment, conducted another round of layoffs earlier this month. Wattpad has cut around 30 jobs, or roughly 15% of its workforce, a source familiar with the situ...
Monday, January 15, 2024
LG opens its first US EV charging factory in Texas #Ecommerce
#SeoTips LG Electronics has opened its first electric vehicle (EV) charger facility outside of South Korea — in Fort Worth, Texas — to capture a share of North America’s competitive EV charging market. Its new EV charging station factory, spanning...
Thursday, November 30, 2023
South Korea to launch digital currency pilot with 100,000 residents next year #Ecommerce
#SeoTips The Bank of Korea (BOK) rolled out details on its pilot program for its retail central bank digital currency (CBDC), stating that 100,000 selected Korean citizens will join the trial in the fourth quarter of next year. The participants wil...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
AmazeVR wants to scale its virtual concert platform with $17M funding #Ecommerce
#SeoTips AmazeVR, a Los Angeles-based virtual concert platform, said Tuesday it has raised a $17 million funding round to create immersive music experiences through virtual reality (VR) concerts. Like other industries, the entertainment sector was ...
Sunday, September 25, 2022
Cloud kitchen startup CloudEats raises more capital to ramp up Southeast Asian expansion #Ecommerce
#SeoTips A cloud kitchen — also known as a ghost kitchen or a shared kitchen — offers restaurant owners and food entrepreneurs a commercial kitchen space at a reduced cost for food delivery and takeout. This trend has been circling around the resta...
Friday, September 23, 2022
South Korea finds more suspicious crypto-linked foreign exchange transactions #Ecommerce
#SeoTips South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) said on Thursday that it had found additional unusual foreign exchange transactions of $680 million, which brings the total amount of “abnormal” transfers to approximately $7.2 billion sinc...
Friday, August 12, 2022
Samsung heir receives presidential pardon in a bid to ‘overcome economic crisis’ #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y. Lee will receive a presidential pardon on Monday, South Korea’s Ministry of Justice said, paving way for the heir to the country’s biggest company to regain power at the top. Lee was paroled from pr...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Japanese e-commerce enabler AnyMind raises funding in equity, debt for acquisitions #Ecommerce
#SeoTips The pandemic has triggered more demand for online shopping and fueled many smaller retailers to establish their own online offerings. Japanese commerce enabler AnyMind, which helps brands and influencers’ online operations, has closed a ¥5...
Thursday, May 12, 2022
Investors cheer as Coupang cuts net loss 29% in Q1 #Ecommerce
#SeoTips South Korean e-commerce platform Coupang said its first-quarter net loss shrank by 29% from a year earlier. The company posted a net loss of $209.2 million in Q1 this year, in contrast to last year’s net losses of $295 million in Q1 and $4...
Thursday, April 7, 2022
Peeba raises $4.2M to digitize Asia’s B2B wholesale market #Ecommerce
#SeoTips Over the past two years, Asia’s retailers were forced to do virtual meetings instead of visiting in-person trade shows or conferences to source new brands and products due to the pandemic lockdowns. A startup called Peeba has built a B2B w...