Malaysian startup, Zoom won Startup of the Year award at the 3rd ASEAN Rice Bowl Startup Awards (the’ Rice Bowl’) ceremony, along with 13 other regional winners in various categories picked to represent Southeast Asia at the Global Startup Awards in China next year. The awards ceremony also saw an MoU Exchange Ceremony between myNEF and its...
MyCash Online is a fintech startup that has been making waves domestically for its ability to provide migrant workers the opportunity to purchase products and services without the need for using bank accounts. Central to this much talked about platform is Mehedi Hasan, CEO of MyCash Online who happens...
Malaysian startup StartupToolkit.my emerges as the dark horse of MaGIC’s Global Accelerator Program Cohort 2 (GAP) at its Demo Day event yesterday. StartupToolkit.my is an idea thought up by entrepreneur and founder David Battersby. It is a simple digital toolkit filled with resources, templates, and canvasses for entrepreneurs to launch...
Manminder Kaur, CEO of Supernewsroom, sharing her expertise in Press Release writing at the PR for Startups Talk. Kuala Lumpur, 20 February 2016 - For a startup company, securing media coverage can often be quite the challenge, as many would not know where to start or lack the necessary network...
Kuala Lumpur, 23 April 2020 - GoApe officially launches its Equity Crowdfunding (“ECF”) campaign today on the Ata Plus platform. Offering investors attractive dividend payouts after just three years, GoApe seeks to raise up to RM3 million in equity financing in return for a 13% stake of the company. GoApe...
Kuala Lumpur 7 April 2020: The outbreak of Covid-19 and the domino effect that follows have not faltered the morale of startups in Malaysia by much. In fact, more than ever, each entrepreneur has begun to restrategize their business model and continue to remain productive despite working in isolation...
One of the common dilemmas when travelling is the burden of lugging around your bags when your flight arrives way before check-in time at the hotel, or when you are booked on the last flight of the night and having to worry about going back to the hotel and...
The Global Entrepreneurship Movement (GEM) announced a strategic partnership with The National ICT Association of Malaysia (PIKOM) to further strengthen entrepreneurial efforts and maximize benefits for 10 winning entrepreneurs under the TENxCLUB Challenge. The GEM-PIKOM partnership aims to increase investment opportunities of up to RM100million through its Venture Investment...
Jack Ma is founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group - a Chinese e-commerce company that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business sales services via web portals. Today, the internet business behemoth is worth 31.4 billion USD. Jack Ma’s rise to superstardom in the business world is extraordinary. Growing up poor,...
Common Ground recently formed a strategic partnership with Supernewsroom, Asia’s first digital media relations platform. The partnership aims to support Common Ground’s entrepreneurial community in terms of public relations advisory and access to Supernewsroom. And why are we not surprised? Common Ground is one of the largest co-working spaces in Malaysia...