Our portfolio company's nominated in "The 50 Most Promising Start-ups in 2022"!
Hi there,
This month is full of exciting news, let's dive in.
Our Partner?Akio Tanaka?will be speaking at the Super Return Japan conference on December 1st. The?Let’s start-up Japan: Economy 2.0:?panel discussion will revolve around unique opportunities and challenges within Japan’s venture ecosystem, Japan’s government support for start-ups, and how the next Japan's unicorn might emerge. If you're in Tokyo during that time, be sure to reach out.
Our Portfolio companies are?in the news?this month:?respond.io?has been?nominated as one of the "50 Most Promising Startups" by The Information, GoFreight is raising a $23 million Series A Funding round and Jungle X has agreed to a joint venture with SBI Holdings. Check the full recap in the Popular Stories section.
Last but not least:?we're extremely happy to introduce a revamped look for all our recurring news on Linkedin. Follow us here so you never miss them :?
As always, have a great week, and see you next month,
Headline Asia team
Nominated as one of "The Information 50 Most Promising Startups" respond.io is a one-stop platform for businesses to manage customer conversations in multiple messaging apps. You can read our Founder Spotlight Interview with Jerry (the Founder), who is named?Forbes’ 30 under 30?and the Chairman of the Artificial Intelligence Society of Hong Kong.?
In part II of "The Negotiation" podcast, Akio talks about his preference to invest in companies that share equity among cofounders on the cap table, the evolution of blockchain and gaming, and why GameFi may be the catalyst to the second wave of crypto.?
In this episode of Startup Island Taiwan Podcast, Akio sits down with Leo Seewald, the Director of MaiCoin, Taiwan’s largest legal digital asset trading platform. Their conversation covers Taiwan Dollar Coin (TWDC), Terra's Luna stablecoin case, and crypto in Asia (especially Taiwan).
Our portfolio company and a?LAUNCHPAD finalist,?Jungle X, is entering into a basic agreement on a capital and business alliance with?SBI Holdings?to promote web3.0, establishing a joint venture company in Singapore.?(Article is in Japanese)
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The Los Angeles and Taipei-based company, GoFreight, simplifies the complexities of running a freight forwarding business. From quotation to shipment booking, forwarding operation, processing payments, etc - all the essentials for running your business on one platform.?
Our Investor Nicolas von Blottnitz discovered several fast-growing startups to keep an eye on.?Only with five lines of code, you can automatically optimize, scale, and manages the cache of cloud products with moment.?Build your API's as a team with bum....and more.
News From Japan
1?? Paypay's users reached 51M and monthly transactions reached 400M times.
2?? Japan's government is setting up a startup support center in Silicon valley.
3?? Japan's government?is establishing a $1B fund to support startups' PoC.
4???SmartNews reaches 10M MAU and starts an advertisement business in the US.
Last Newsletters Popular Stories
Our portfolio company, Respond.io, has?raised 7?million USD?in its Series A led by Headline Asia.
We spoke with CEO Gerardo Salandra about?building a solution unlike anything else on the market.?Read the Founder Spotlight interview?here.?
Podcast with?our founding partner, Akio Tanaka:?If you want to have more in-depth knowledge of the?entrepreneurial ecosystem?in Japan and how they?grow their brands?in the market, check out Backing Technical Founders & Growing Businesses In Asia on "The Negotiation" podcast on?Apple?and?Spotify