Today’s top tech news, Jan 18: India’s Dailyhunt raises US$3.5M
In addition to Dailyhunt, we also have updates from Delegate, Go-Jek, Coins.ph, and a scholarship programme for IT talents
Indian news aggregator Dailyhunt raises US$3.5 million – Dealstreet Asia
Indian regional language news aggregator platform Dailyhunt has raised INR24.61 crore (US$3.5 million) in Series E2 funding round, Dealstreet Asia reported.
Documents from intelligence platform Paper.VC named Omidyar Network, Sequoia Capital and the Renu Sehgal Trust as investors in the funding round.
Founded in 2007 by Virendra Gupta, the platform started out as an aggregator of news from newspapers. It also has a focus on aggregating and providing video content, as well as live television streaming.
Dailyhunt has raised INR36.9 crore in an earlier Series E2 funding round from LightVC.
Singapore’s Delegate raises US$1M pre-Series A funding round – e27
Singapore-based event management platform Delegate today announced that it has raised a US$1 million pre-Series A funding round from an undisclosed family office and former Zopim CTO Yang Bin Kwok.
The company planned to use the funding to support its expansion to the US and Australia as well as to improve its PRO SaaS product.
Delegate is a platform for users to find vendors to manage their events, from parties to marriage proposals.
Its PRO platform help vendors manage their business online through services such as lead generation, customer relations management (CRM), and payments.
Go-Jek invests in the Philippines’ Coins.ph – e27
Indonesian on-demand transportation, payments, and logistics giant Go-Jek today announced that it has made a “substantial” acquisition of Philippines-based blockchain-based fintech company Coins.ph.
Go-Jek also announced a partnership with Coins.ph to encourage greater cashless financial transactions in the Philippines by combining Go-Pay’s technological expertise, scalability and experience in Indonesia with the blockchain firm’s deep local knowledge.
Coins.ph Founder and CEO Ron Hose and his team will continue with their existing roles following the acquisition, with no impact to the platform’s users.
Indonesia to allocate US$7M for IT scholarship – KataData
The Indonesian government through the Ministry of Communications and Informatics is set to allocate IDR100 billion (US$7 million) of funds for an IT professional scholarship programme, KataData reported.
For the scholarship programme, the ministry will work with 28 private and public universities, 22 polytechnics, and five global tech companies.
The programme is being divided into four categories (“academies”): Freshgraduates, vocational schools, coding teachers, as well as online academies.
The programme aimed to solve Indonesia’s challenge in providing IT talents.
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