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Vietnamese dating app flirts $10 bln market

Home-grown dating app Fika seeks to end Tinder’s dominance in Vietnam before entering the Asian market.

Vietnam’s play-to-earn gaming studio raises $6.8m in seed round

Vietnam-based blockchain gaming studio Sipher has officially raised $6.8 million seed round to develop its ecosystem of upcoming Play To Earn Blockchain NFT games.

Vietnam's first industrial-focused B2B e-commerce marketplace startup raises $670k

EI Industrial, the first industrial-focused B2B marketplace in Vietnam has announced a $670k seed financing round led by early-stage venture capital firm Cocoon Capital with participation from BEENEXT.

Vietnamese dating app Fika raises $1.6 mln to make finding friends and love ...

Fika, the world’s first female-focused, AI-powered social and dating app, has raised a $1.6 million Seed funding round led by VNV Global with participation from a host of leading angels and entrepreneurs.

Vietnamese invoice processing automation startup raises $3 million

Bizzi, a software as a service platform that streamlines the manually draining accounting process, has successfully raised $3 million during a pre-Series A round, according to a statement.

Mekong Capital pours $15m into Vietnamese gene-testing firm

Mekong Capital, a Vietnam-based private equity firm, said it invested $15 million into Gene Solutions through its Mekong Enterprise Fund IV (MEF-IV).

Carmaker Vinfast partners with Cerence for voice assistant solutions on smart ...

VinFast has selected Cerence Inc. (NASDAQ: CRNC) to power conversational AI across its lineup of smart EVs as it expands globally.

Vietnamese startup KiotViet raises $45 mln from a global investment firm ...

Injecting $45 million in a Series B funding round, global investment firm KKR has become the biggest investor in KiotViet, a store management enabler, according to a from the investment firm.

Pandemic and digitalization push Uniphore to explore $12 bln voice AI ...

Pandemic and digitalization trend have become catalyst for the growth of artificial intelligence conversational automation market which is potentially about $10 to $12 billion.

Boom in e-wallets, contactless payment amid pandemic

Since the beginning of the year, the State Bank of Vietnam has licensed five non-bank institutions to provide intermediary payment services, increasing the total to 44.

GIC-Backed Vietnam Tech Firm Considers $3 Billion SPAC Merger: ...

VNG Corp., whose investors include a unit of Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte, is considering going public in the U.S. through a reverse merger with a blank-check company.

Pandemic presents tech industry unprecedented opportunities to grow

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented the tech industry unprecedented opportunities to grow, Mr. Nguyen Minh Duc, Managing Director of HP Vietnam told the review.

Vietnam to tighten control over social media livestreaming

The Ministry of Information and Communications has proposed several regulations to tighten control on livestream activities on social media like Facebook and Youtube.

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Lava Digital and Dailymotion announce exclusive ads sales partnership in Vietnam

Vietnam’s on-demand pay solution provider GIMO raises $1.9 mln in a Seed+ round

Bankograph partners with CAB to develop social media targeting gen Z