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Data-driven venture investment platform Hatcher+ closes US$5.5M funding round, completes 100th investment
Singapore-based data-driven venture investment platform Hatcher+ today announced the completion of the 100th investment from its H2 fund and the closing of a US$5...
Data-driven VC firm Hatcher+ bags US$5.5m in seed funding
Singapore-based venture investment firm Hatcher+ said that it raised US$5...
The Practical Challenges Of Co-Investments
Al Hemmingsen is chief investment officer at Parkland Management Company, a single-family investment office based in Cleveland, Ohio...
Hatcher+ Partner BlueChilli Expands Into Asia
BlueChilli has partnered Enterprise Singapore (ESG) to launch a Singapore-based healthtech accelerator, as part of efforts to scout for and support startups aimed at addressing health challenges and opportunities in South-east Asia...
Data-Driven VCs: Who Is Using AI To Be A Better (And Smarter) Investor
Hatcher+ uses a data-driven approach to offer their partners quality analysis and opportunity scoring...
Hatcher+ And Stadia Ventures Announce Multi-Year Partnership To Invest In SportsTech
Hatcher+, a unique, data-driven venture firm, have announced a partnership with Stadia Ventures to co-invest in early-stage companies accepted into the Stadia Accelerator program...
Quake Joins Our Hatcher+ Family with a Multi-Year Investment Partnership
I met Glenn Argenbright just under a year ago, and it didn't take long for me to realize just how awesome the firm he and his partners were building really was...
Hatcher+ & thinQbate Announce Multi-Year Partnership To Invest In Early-Stage Startups
Mumbai-based incubator thinQbate has partnered with data-driven venture capital firm Hatcher+ to gain additional capital and AI-based platforms to assist in assessing candidates and tracking performance...
Sente Foundry, Hatcher+ Form Partnership To Benefit International Startups.
Sente and Hatcher+ will support the most promising startups by co-investing into 10 accelerator programs over the next 3 years...
LVenture and Hatcher+ Sign Co-Investment Partnership
LVenture Group, a holding company listed on the Italian stock exchange as a digital startup investor, has signed a co-investment partnership with Hatcher+, a unique, data-driven venture firm...
Serial Entrepreneur Taizo Son Has A Welcoming Laboratory For High-Tech Ideas
Son is lead investor in a $3,500,000 million round for Singapore-based Hatcher+, which enables fund managers to invest in thousands of startups using artificial intelligence...
Techgrind Venture Capital Raising $50M Fund to Invest in the Asean Region
TechGrind operates a portfolio of 21 startups that are part of its incubator in Bangkok...
BlueChilli partners with Coca-Cola
BlueChilli has joined forces with corporate bigwig Coca-Cola to launch a new accelerator program and expand across the ditch, as the Australian startup giant continues its phase of rapid growth...
HATCHER+ AND BLUE STARTUPS ANNOUNCE MULTI- YEAR PARTNERSHIP TO INVEST IN STARTUPS
Honolulu-based accelerator Blue Startups is partnering with Singapore-based venture capital investment platform Hatcher+ to co-invest in its startups...
Coming soon: ETF on SGX for venture capital investing
The ETF has a global focus and, most importantly, as Mr Sharp highlights, invests in a relatively large number of start-ups at very early stages -- two features that Hatcher's studies have shown offer high probabilities of high returns...
BlueChilli teams up with $162m Hatcher+ global fund
Australian technology start-up tech accelerator BlueChilli has signed a partnership with an ambitious Singapore-based venture capital firm Hatcher+, which has pledged to co-invest in 240 global start-ups picked by BlueChilli in the next three years f...
Asian Entrepreneur: Interview with John Sharp
I started my professional career as an orchestral arranger and composer in Adelaide, Australia...
Hatcher+ Launches World's First Exchange-Tradable, Early Stage VC Fund
Two days from now, the world's first early-stage, globally-focused, exchange-tradable VC fund will be open for business - I'm talking of course about our very own Hatcher+ H2 fund, which will list on the Euronext (Amsterdam) and Wiener Bourse exchang...
Leading Fashion Technology Accelerator Partners with Hatcher+
FTA has announced a partnership with Hatcher+, a unique, data-driven venture capital company based in Singapore and Miami...
Hatcher+ Partners with Funderbeam to Launch Blockchain-based Startup Listings
Singapore-based Hatcher+, a venture investment platform, has partnered with Funderbeam to enable shares in its individual portfolio companies to be listed on the latter’s blockchain-based exchange...
The Venture Capital Industry is About to Change Forever
John Sharp, co-founding partner of Hatcher+, explains why they decided to build a data-driven venture investment platform and how they are shaping up to shake up the venture capital industry...
Billionaire Taizo Son funds data-driven VC platform Hatcher+
Singapore-based venture capital investment platform Hatcher+ has closed a funding round worth US$3...
Dropsuite Raises $4.5Mn, Hits 200,000 Subscribers
Hatcher Portfolio Company Dropsuite, the leading provider of backup-as-a-service to domain management companies, has raised over AUD4...
The Rising Stars of Fintech in Southeast Asia
A key difference between fintech entrepreneurs and other start-up founders, says John Sharp, Partner at Hatcher, a venture capital firm, is that the former tend to possess more commercial experience and a better understanding of corporate governance ...
Hatcher racks up two exits via ASX
Singapore-based venture investment firm Hatcher has exited two of its portfolio companies — a cloud software platform Dropsuite and gaming development firm Inzen Studio — both via listings on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)...
Hatcher Scores 2 Exits
Singapore-based Hatcher, a venture investment company, announced today that two of its portfolio companies have exited via the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX): Dropsuite, a leading global provider of business continuity services led by former Go...
Telr CEO Says Mobile Payments on the Rise
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Acquisition of Inzen Studio
iCandy interactive announces the completion of the acquisition of Hatcher, Incubate Fund, and Baidu-backed Inzen studio...
Dropsuite Releases Annual Report
Dropsuite’s mission is to ensure that businesses never lose data again...
Could AI replace your lawyer or accountant?
In this NatWest ContentLive article ThoughtRiver’s CEO Tim Pullan explains how AI can boost productivity in legal functions, aiding e-discovery, proofreading, due diligence, legal research and compliance amongst others...
Taylor Vinters partners with contract intelligence startup ThoughtRiver
Just four months after it invested in legal technology startup Pekama, Taylor Vinters has announced a strategic partnership with contract intelligence startup ThoughtRiver and will this week begin beta testing its platform across the law firm’s int...
ThoughtRiver: Contract decisions simplified - Law Hackers
ThoughtRiver is revolutionising the way businesses make contractual decisions...
Dropsuite signs platform partnership with Atomia
Australian cloud software platform provider Dropsuite is rolling out its suite of back-up products through a partnership with Sweden-based hosting and billing software company Atomia...
Telr Predicts 2017 Will Be A Busy Year For Digital Payment
India is set to follow in the footsteps of China and observe a boom in the FinTech landscape...
Technology Law Crammer: Rise of the Machines
Tim Pullan, ThoughtRiver’s CEO will be speaking at this event on Thursday 12 January 2017 which takes place from 9am-2pm at Fieldfisher’s office in London...
Singapore's Dropsuite debuts on ASX
Dropsuite, a cloud software platform for small businesses to backup their digital assets, opened on the ASX today in a backdoor listing via Excalibur Mining Corporation Limited...
Crazy Domains, Dropsuite to provide website backup solution for SMEs
Ahead of listing on the ASX, Dropsuite has a secured a partnership with Crazy Domains that will allow it to offer a website backup solution to more than 1...
Dark Dot from Inzen Studios is like playing Space Invaders on your mobile device
Dark Dot is like playing Space Invaders on your mobile device...
Telr Predicts Rise in Cashless Transactions in India
Payment gateway Telr expects the government move to ban Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes to reduce cash transactions and speed up adoption of e-payment methods, its top executive said...
Cloud Control
Paul Gilder reports that offering simple data recovery through the cloud is giving Dropsuite an edge on its rivals...
Dropsuite partners with ICONZ-Webvisions to provide easy cloud solutions
Dropsuite, a global, cloud based software platform enabling small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to backup, recover and protect their digital assets, has partnered with Singapore-based ICONZ-Webvisions (iWV), a cloud and managed services provide...
ThoughtRiver Closes Funding Round
Contract intelligence software startup ThoughtRiver has received its highest level of funding yet from Ascential’s chief executive Duncan Painter, who has been appointed as a key advisor to the board...
Telr Wants to Be the One Stop E-Commerce Solution
Sirish Kumar, CEO and Founder, Telr, is quick to point out that the company isn't so much a payment gateway, as being what he describes as an "ecosystem enabler"...
A ‘Telr’ for SMBs to Make Payments Social
"The phenomenal growth Telr has experienced over the past two years has been exciting for us to witness as investors," says John Sharp, Managing Partner at Hatcher, a venture capital firm, which invested in Telr...
Interview with Investor/CEO Charif Elansari
After completing his graduation from American University of Beirut and an MBA from Vanderbilt University in 2000, Charif El-Ansari started working with Dell, where he grew up the ranks to become their Marketing Director...
Ignyte Announces Fund, Hatcher Tie-Up
Ignyte Lab is raising funds for a new $5 million investment fund - and deploying the Hatcher+ Platform to help manage its growing portfolio...
Singapore’s Dropsuite to bring better data backup to Europe
Singapore-based Dropsuite yesterday announced its partnership with LeaderTelecom, a Netherlands-based telco service provider and European market leader in online security...
Telr CEO Wins Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Award
Fourteen entrepreneurs and business leaders from the UAE were honoured as winners of Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards 2016, or Apea, at a star-studded awards ceremony in Dubai...
Singapore’s DocDoc raises $8.5M series A round
DocDoc, the Singapore-based startup that helps patients book doctor appointments online, today announced it has closed a US$8...
Dropsuite announces partnership with US-based tech giant Ingram Micro
Cloud-based software services to back-up digital assets for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) Dropsuite today announced that it has secured partnership with US-based tech distributor Ingram Micro, marking its official entry to the North American ma...
e27 wins the 2016 Heardable Digital Brand of the Year Grand Prix Award
Heardable, a Singapore-based digital brand analytics company awarded e27 the Digital Brand of the Year Grand Prix Award in the inaugural Brand Digital Excellence Awards Singapore 2016...
Heardable Unveils Singapore's Strongest Brands
Heardable, a Singapore-based digital brand analytics company, today unveiled the Brand Digital Excellence Awards, Singapore 2016...
SocialCops Makes the Cover of Fortune India
We're very excited to share that SocialCops is on the cover of Fortune India! We were selected for the 40 Under 40 List for the second year in a row...
SWR to Acquire Yojee
SWR to acquire 100% of Asia-Pacific focused logistics sharing economy economy company, Yojee...
Venture Capital Firms in Singapore
Here are the venture capital firms with a presence in Singapore that have been investing in startups in the past six months...
Hatcher Expands into India
Singapore-based Hatcher, a venture investment platform focussed on B2B startups in emerging markets, announced today it is expanding into India...
Dropsuite to go Public in Australia
PERTH: Singapore-based cloud backup company Dropsuite (formerly DropMySite) is in the middle of a reverse takeover deal with Australia’s Excalibur Mining Corporation, according to an article by Business News...
ePayment Gateway Telr Launches India Operations
MUMBAI: Singapore-based epayment gateway Telr has launched its operations in India with the aim of getting Indian medium and small level enterprises to onboard its online platform seamlessly and without any upfront cost...
Singtel Tapping on Dropsuite's Backup Service
SINGAPORE Email plays a critical function your business today...
Hatcher: Investing in Financial Innovation
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Dropsuite's Dropmysite Reviewed By PC Magazine
NEW YORK: Feature-packed and easy to use, Dropmysite by Dropsuite is a backup service that gives websites an additional layer of protection should disaster strike...
Telr Helps Small Merchants Make Friends With Big Banks
DUBAI: After holding leadership positions in Motorola, Nokia, Cargill and most recently at PayPal as CFO for Southeast Asia, Kumar is now CEO of Telr, and providing a way for SME merchants to deal with multiple currencies from buyers and draw cash in...
FinTech Firm ApexPeak Buys Dutch Company ASYX
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ApexPeak Acquires ASYX
SINGAPORE-headquartered fintech (financial services technology) startup ApexPeak said it has acquired Netherlands-based supply chain finance and collaboration solutions provider Asyx...
Keygo Enters Security Startup Challenge 2015
BOSTON: Keygo has been selected to take part in the Security Startup Challenge 2015, sponsored by Kaspersky Labs, Mangrove Capital Partners, and ABRT Venture Fund...
ApexPeak on Bridging the SME Finance Gap in Asia
According to Singapore-headquartered ApexPeak, a platform-based provider of trade finance in emerging markets, this model of financing looks set to play a critical role in Asia in the years to come...
Game Developers Thrive in Singapore's Own 'Silicon Valley'
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Arab Bank and Telr Sign eCommerce Payment Facilitator Agreement
AMMAN: Telr, a Singapore and Dubai-based, emerging market focused online payment gateway, and Arab Bank , have announced today a landmarke-commerce Payment Facilitator Agreement, to serve the growing e-commerce market across the region...
Telr Wins 'Best Payment Product in the MIddle East' Award
Telr has won the 2015 award for ‘Best Payment Product in the Middle East’ from leading financial services research and intelligence provider, The Asian Banker...
Arab Bank Signs Agreement With Telr
Telr, a Singapore and Dubai-based, emerging market focused online payment gateway, and Arab Bank , have announced today a landmarke-commerce Payment Facilitator Agreement, to serve the growing e-commerce market across the region...
Growing List of Global VCs Investing in MENA
BEIRUT: These guys have just announced their new Hatcher Fund of $100 million, a global early-stage venture fund of which a third is likely to go towards fin-tech and IT startups in the MENA region...
New Investment Fund Emerges for Tech Startups
Venture capital firm Hatcher—a seed-stage investor in startups like online payments processing firms ApexPeak and Telr—says it expects to raise $100 million this year to fund later-stage companies, particularly in B2B financial technology and gam...
Hatcher Sees Potential in North African Startups
We are in active discussions with several potential partners regarding rolling out our venture builder platform in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco, but this will more likely take place in 2016 than this year, and will follow our planned rollouts in Dubai ...
Hatcher Sees Potential in North African Startups
We are in active discussions with several potential partners regarding rolling out our venture builder platform in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco, but this will more likely take place in 2016 than this year, and will follow our planned rollouts in Dubai ...
Hatcher Announces Seed and Series A Funding for MENA Startups
Hatcher, the Singapore-based B2B venture builder is looking to “double down,” as stated in a press release, on their focus on the Middle East and North Africa region...
This New Venture Capital Fund is Looking for Fintech and B2B Startups
It is targeting to raise $100m...
This New Venture Capital Fund is Looking for Fintech and B2B Startups
It is targeting to raise $100m...
New Singapore Fund Wants to Hatch Fintech and B2B Startups
A new venture capital fund called Hatcher has launched, and it is targeting to raise US$100 million...
New Singapore Fund Wants to Hatch Fintech and B2B Startups
A new venture capital fund called Hatcher has launched, and it is targeting to raise US$100 million...
MasterCard and Telr Collaborate to Drive e-Commerce
MasterCard and Telr, a Singapore and Dubai-based, emerging market focused online payment gateway, have announced a collaboration to empower small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the United Arab Emirates...
Dropmysite Expands Global Reach Signing Partnerships With Three Regional Web Hosting Companies
As part of its global expansion strategy, Dropmysite Pte Ltd, a leading website, email, and mobile backup service, today announced that it has signed strategic reseller agreements with three new regional web hosting companies, including ReadySpace, a...
Dropmysite Forges Strategic Partnership with BIGLOBE
Dropmysite Pte Ltd, a leading website, email and mobile backup service, today announced that it has forged a strategic partnership with BIGLOBE, one of Japan's leading Internet companies...
Hatcher's SocialCops Makes Forbes '30 Under 30' List for 2015
Unfettered by preconception and baggage, these men and women are giving change a real chance in India...
Dubai Fintech Startup Cashnomix Acquired by ApexPeak
With ApexPeak now firmly establishing a foothold in the region, their key investor, Hatcher, is clearly being strategic in growing their portfolio of fin-tech in the Middle East...
Financial Times on Telr: Dubai 'Local Hero'
Telr is a Dubai and Singapore-based start-up founded by a former PayPal executive that lets small businesses plug in to a digital platform to process payments in multiple languages and currencies...
PrimeRevenue and ApexPeak Forge Global Partnership in Supply Chain Finance
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Telr Awarded Prestigious Startup of the Year
Telr, a Singapore and Dubai-based, online payment gateway focused on emerging markets in Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia, has been awarded the prestigious Startup of the Year award during the Arabian Business Startup Awards which were recently...
Singaporean Mobile Game Developer Inzen Raises $748,000
Inzen, a Singapore-based mobile game developer, has raised a Series A round of $935,000 SGD (about $748,000)...
Hatcher Supports Lifting of Foreign Manpower Limits
Ho Meng Kit's suggestion regarding exempting startups from foreign manpower limits would be welcomed by our group, and by the rest of the Singapore startup community...
GameStart 2014 pulls in top regional games, cosplay enthusiasts & game producers
Inzen Studio and Liongeeks Studios will also be showcasing their work, as well as homegrown artists Kinetiquettes, who will showcase their crafted licensed Capcom figurines, and conduct a live sculpting demo at their booth over the two days...
Hatcher Supports Lifting of Foreign Manpower Limits
Ho Meng Kit's suggestion regarding exempting startups from foreign manpower limits would be welcomed by our group, and by the rest of the Singapore startup community...
SESAMI Welcomes Equity Investment From Apexpeak
Singapore-based e-procurement platform SESAMi this week welcomed an equity investment by non-bank capital provider ApexPeak...
Telr, leading UAE online merchant payment platform, secures growth funding
Telr, a Singapore and Dubai-based, emerging market focused online payment gateway, has secured Series A funding, from Hatcher and iMENA, two leading Singapore and Middle East-based investors...
Telr Raises Series A Round from iMENA and Hatcher
Telr, the multi-currency and multi-lingual payment gateway for SMEs, headquartered in Singapore and Dubai, has just raised a Series A round from Singapore-based Hatcher and Middle-East based iMENA...
FinTech firm, ApexPeak, finances US$23m deal with South African fruits exporter
Non-bank capital provider, ApexPeak, closed a US$23 million export finance deal with South African citrus fruit grower Karu Exporters, a subsidiary of the Bonaire Group...
Online Payments Company Telr Launches Mideast Operations
Telr, the payments company based out of Singapore and Dubai, has merged with a payment gateway in the United Arab Emirates to launch its services to e-commerce websites across the Middle East...
Using Citizens As Human Sensors To Improve Public Services
Sankar is co-founder of Social Cops, a social enterprise that recruits citizens to act as "human sensors" around India's capital...
Local start-up ApexPeak seeks to raise US$200m
Small companies in need of a smooth cash flow can borrow money from it to pay their invoices...
Singapore Game Developer Inzen Studio Raises $550,000
Singapore-based game developer Inzen Studio turns one today and also revealed that it has raised a total of $550,000 to date from angel investors Hans de Back (October 2012) and Harveen Narulla (August 2013)...
Dropmysite Appoints New CEO
Former Google business development head of Southeast Asia Charif El Ansari has taken over as CEO of Dropmysite, a company with cloud backup services for websites and emails...