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Amazon, Amazon FBA, Analysis, Branded Group, brands consolidation, ecommerce aggregrators, ecommerce enablers, ecommerce marketplace, Investments, Premium Content, Rainforest

Why these ex-Carousell, Fave execs raised $36.5m to join the global Amazon roll-up frenzy

Singapore-based Rainforest joins the fray to aggregrate Amazon FBA sellers. We look at the challenges of capturing a slice of…

Analysis, CDG, Chope, comfort, comfortdelgro, Grab, Klook, Lazada, Premium Content, Profiles, ride-hailing, Singapore, super-app, superapp, transport, zig

ComfortDelGro’s super-app gambit: Can it succeed?

The Singapore-based land transport company wants to be a super app, but it faces a chicken-and-egg situation. Source link

Analysis, moomoo, Premium Content, Singapore, Tiger Brokers, up fintech

China’s Robinhoods steal young traders from Singapore’s old-school brokerages

Tiger and Futu are attracting millennial and Gen Z traders in Singapore with low commissions, but their “margin trading” feature…

Analysis, Premium Content, sea, super-app, superapp, Tencent

Sea Group wants to build a super-app empire. Here’s how Tencent did it

Tencent’s playbook could provide a blueprint for Sea’s own super-app aspirations. Source link

Analysis, Credit Saison, Insignia Venture Partners, investment, Investments, Premium Content, Saison Capital, Singapore, Southeast Asia, startups in singapore, venture capital Firms, venture capital firms in Southeast Asia

Hunting for deals: the rise of VC scouts in SEA

In the footsteps of Sequoia Capital, VC firms in Southeast Asia have started offering scout programs to help with deal…

Analysis, ecommerce, Indonesia, J&T Express, logistics, Premium Content, Sicepat

Indonesia’s ecommerce logistics giants brace for a price war

As these companies raise funds in the hundreds of millions of dollars and secure valuations worth a billion or more,…

Analysis, Grab, newsletters, SPAC

What Grab won’t tell you in its investor presentation

We noticed an omission or two in Grab’s slides. Source link

Analysis, Grab, Premium Content, Southeast Asia

The superpower behind Grab’s super app?

While Grab is best known for its consumer app, its secret sauce may be its network of thousands of drivers…

Analysis, Grab, Premium Content, Singapore, Southeast Asia

6 surprises from the reveal of Grab’s jealously guarded financials

We finally got a closer look at Grab’s financials this week, and here are six things that surprised us. Source…

Analysis, gojek, Grab, Indonesia, Premium Content, Transportation

Should Grab and Gojek drivers be considered employees, not contractors?

Some argue that ride-hailing companies are exploiting driver-partners by not giving them sufficient rights. Source link