News – Vertex Ventures SE Asia & India

Sportswear brand FILA partners with Ace Turtle to strengthen presence in India

14 February 2019

Ace Turtle’s enterprise ready technology will play a critical role in accelerating FILA’s aim towards building a unified brand experience for its customers across multiple channels. To date, Ace Turtle has partnered with more than 50 fashion and lifestyle brands in their omnichannel journey. In India, FILA has an exclusive license agreement with Cravatex, the […]

InstaReM joins Visa’s fintech fast-track programme

01 February 2019

Cross-border payments firm InstaReM announced on Friday that it is joining Visa’s fintech fast-track programme in Asia Pacific. The programme aims to make it easier and quicker for fintech partners to build and deliver new solutions on Visa’s payments network. Visa and InstaRem will work together to build new solutions for moving money to and […]

Grab partners with Warung Pintar

26 January 2019

Grab announced yesterday that it has partnered with Indonesia-based Warung Pintar, a micro retail technology startup company, connected by ASEAN Impact Challenge partnership, in a bid to empower grassroots community in Indonesia to migrate to the digital economy. ASEAN Impact Challenge (AIC) is a regional platform specified to discover innovators and entrepreneurs from Southeast Asia. It […]

FWD launches chatbot for 24/7 travel insurance

24 January 2019

Digital insurer FWD Singapore has launched a virtual personal insurance assistant named Faith. Faith can guide customers through the entire process of submitting a travel insurance claim. The 24/7 virtual assistant is a result of the collaboration between FWD Singapore and Active.Ai, a Singaporean-based FinTech start-up that specializes in helping financial institutions process and understand […]

Indonesia’s Warung Pintar raises a $27.5m Series B round from OVO and existing investors

21 January 2019

Indonesian micro retail tech startup Warung Pintar has bagged a new funding of $27.5 million in a Series B round from existing investors, as well as new investor OVO. Warung Pintar, which translates to smart kiosk, is a prefabricated kiosk with technology integration for Indonesian SMEs and mom-and-pop stores. The kiosk typically features a surveillance […]

Flutura Recognized as 2018 North American Entrepreneurial Company of the Year for AI by Frost and Sullivan

17 January 2019

We are thrilled to announce Flutura Decision Sciences and Analytics, an industrial artificial intelligence (AI) product company, has won the Frost & Sullivan’s Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award for Artificial Intelligence in the Energy Industry for North America in the growth company’s annual Best Practices Awards. This award recognizes Cereba, Flutura’s AI platform, ability […]

Patsnap’s CEO Jeffrey Tiong awarded Entrepreneur of the Year 2018

26 October 2018

We’re pleased to announce that Jeffrey Tiong, CEO of Patsnap, was named the Entrepreneur of the Year by EY. The award celebrates his efforts to build innovations that help companies around the world. He’ll go on to be a contender for the global EOY award in June 2019.

Celebrating Vertex’s 30th Anniversary

23 October 2018

The Vertex Ventures network celebrated its 30 year anniversary in Singapore this October, bringing in our teams from across the world and friends from across our global network. The event was opened by our CEO, Mr. Chua Kee Lock. He gave a brief introduction of Vertex as a worldwide group of venture capital funds with […]

Our new investment into Binance

Following our commitments to invest into the blockchain universe, that we’ve had a keen look at, we’re happy to announce our investment in Binance. This is a collaborative investment between the Vertex Ventures China and Vertex Ventures SEA & India funds. Binance, which is a fiat-to-crypto exchange, is one of the largest exchanges of its […]

M17 holds Reality Streaming Competition

12 October 2018

In a concerted effort to find Japan’s next generation star, M17 Entertainment Limited, operator of the largest live streaming platform in developed Asian markets and Avex Inc., Japan’s leading entertainment production company, have announced a joint partnership. A competition will be held on the M17’s live streaming platform, where the winner will win a special […]