- “You can actually make a lot of money by serving a population which doesn’t have that much money,” said Khailee Ng, managing partner at 500 Startups.
- What does Khailee mean? Read more here, plus more on Food Market Hub’s grants and a Grab and Pomelo fashion collaboration.
- When the pandemic first hit, 500-backed e-grocery startup HappyFresh saw a 560% surge in daily active users and an 800% jump in new users.
- How did the startup cope? Find out here, and more on what Prenetics is doing for football and a 500-backed hospitality startup named one of the fastest-growing companies in Singapore.
- Global VC firm 500 Startups has launched applications for batch 3 of accelerator programs in Singapore and San Francisco.
- More details here. Read on the latest news on a 500-backed app for vernacular speakers in India and how mClinica is using tech to boost the Vietnamese pharmaceutical industry.
Other stories you may have missed:
- iMotorbike’s founder and CEO Gil Carmo on Focus Malaysia and Augustman.
- Mushroom startup Mycotech Lab was named winner of Circular Economy Enterprise by Sankalp Global Awards 2020.
- 500-backed startups Grab, and Bibit have closed some of the highest funding rounds so far in 2021.
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