November 4, 2020
Our Investment in Logisly: Reinventing Logistics for Shippers and Transporters

Imagine a $100 billion-plus industry running entirely on phone calls and text messages. This is essentially the state of the trucking industry in Indonesia today.

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November 3, 2020
B2B Tech-Enabled Logistics Platform Logisly Raises US$6 Million in Series A Round led by Monk’s Hill Ventures

The funding will be used to scale Logisly’s operations in Indonesia, by growing their sales and vendor acquisition teams to strengthen its network of shippers and transporters and product development.

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October 29, 2020
Anti-Usage Products: The Next Generation of SaaS Products

"Hey Gabriel, why did you fill in N/A for Weekly Active Users in your investor report?" "Oh, we are not tracking it." "Wait, what? Why?"

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October 20, 2020
Advice for Founders in Southeast Asia: 3 Tips on How To Work With VCs to Create Winning Teams and Companies

The past five years have been a story of optimism for Southeast Asia’s tech investments scene.

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October 16, 2020
ION Mobility Raises US$3.3 Million Seed Round to Launch Smart Electric Motorbikes

ION Mobility aims to convert the 200+ million motorcycle users in Southeast Asia from petrol to electric to drive a sustainable future.

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October 14, 2020
Investing in GoGet

Today, we welcome GoGet, an on-demand workforce and job platform, to the MHV family and we can’t be more pleased to be working with the founders Francesca Chia and Fung Wei Tai.

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October 13, 2020
GoGet Raises US$2M Series A to Scale On-Demand Workforce Platform Led by Monk’s Hill Ventures

The funding will be used to scale GoGet’s services in Malaysia through product development, building and expanding its product and technology teams.

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October 7, 2020
iVS Launches Programmatic In-Stream Video Marketplace and Expands in Southeast Asia with New Senior Hires

Off the back of increasing advertiser demand, iVS launches the first in-stream video marketplace in Southeast Asia.

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September 29, 2020
Travel Experiences Platform KKday Raises $75 Million for Series C

KKday, the leading travel experiences platform in Asia, today announced the close of a USD$75 million Series C funding.

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May 5, 2020
Ninja Van’s Big-Ticket Funding Signals Startup Deal Resilience

Singapore’s Ninja Van has raised $279 million from backers including France’s GeoPost SA and ride-hailing giant Grab Holdings Inc., scoring one of Southeast Asia’s largest startup investments since Covid-19 was declared a pandemic.

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April 23, 2020
Being a Rainmaker

Over the last few weeks, we have seen and will continue to see who will be the survival of the fittest. At MHV, we’ve started breaking down companies into three buckets.

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November 22, 2019
Betting Big on Technification in Southeast Asia

There has never been a better time than now to be a tech investor in Southeast Asia. Tech companies are transforming traditional industries today. An exciting phenomenon is powering the rise of such transformational tech companies today: technification.

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September 18, 2019
5 Little-Known "Gotchas" That Make or Break a Pitch

At Monk’s Hill Ventures, we receive dozens of pitch decks every day. I personally look at hundreds of pitch decks every year. As a venture investor, it comes with the territory.

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July 24, 2018
A Startup Playbook

When I got to Singapore in 2011 and was starting my own startup, Perx, the ecosystem looked a lot different than it does today. I am committed to the region for the long-term, so I really want to see the ecosystem expand and mature here.

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February 7, 2015
A Modified Starfish Story

The moral of the story is not about whether it is better to do good for one person at a time, or to operate an impersonal machinery to save many.

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