Welcome!
Didi Chuxing
Disruption and Digitalisation
Grab set for major investment in Vietnam
SINGAPORE (Aug 26): Singapore-based ride-hailing firm Grab is set to invest “several hundred million dollars” in Vietnam where the company sees its next major growth market, just weeks after it unveiled a US$2 billion ($2.8 billion) plan in Indonesia.
August 26, 2019
Investing strategies
Tech companies, network effect, universal apps: Where the future and the past are different, yet similar
SINGAPORE (Apr 29): A significant portion of the value we have seen created in technology has been credited to the network effect (or positive feedback loop) associated with digital platforms. Think Facebook, Apple, Amazon.com, Google (owned by Alphabet),
April 29, 2019
Grab secures investment from Microsoft as it adopts Azure platform's cloud services
(Oct 9): Microsoft Corp will invest an unspecified amount in Grab as the ride-hailing giant adopts the US company’s Azure as its preferred platform for cloud services.
October 09, 2018
Tech
Ride-hailing giant Grab expects to double revenue in 2019
(Sept 6): Singapore’s Grab outlined ambitious fundraising plans and predicted that sales will double next year, adding to evidence that Southeast Asia’s most valuable startup is expanding well beyond its roots as a ride-haling app and intensifying a r
September 06, 2018
SoftBank emerges as lead financier for Uber rivals
(July 25): Uber Technologies Inc. is at risk of losing out on another big chunk of the global market.
July 25, 2017
Update
Grab gets US$2 bil from SoftBank, Didi to fight Uber in Asia
(July 24): Grab raised US$2 billion ($2.7 billion) from Didi Chuxing and SoftBank Group Corp. in the largest–ever venture fundraising in Southeast Asia, joining forces with two companies instrumental in driving Uber Technologies Inc. out of China.
July 24, 2017
China Focus
China's road to world tech domination begins in Southeast Asia
(June 1): Isaac Ho and several investors were watching a pitch from a cancer-detection startup in Singapore when one of the Chinese billionaires present got up and – without a word – scrawled “Speed x Market Share” in Chinese characters on a wh
June 01, 2017
Grab CEO’s epiphany at 30,000 feet: taking down an Uber Goliath
SINGAPORE (Nov 2): It was on a late July flight home to Singapore when Anthony Tan grasped the potential calamity in news that his biggest ally, Didi Chuxing, was about to buy out arch-rival Uber’s Chinese business.
November 02, 2016
China Focus
Tencent now China's top company in private economy win
(Sept 5): Tencent Holdings has surpassed China Mobile to become the country's most valuable corporation, underscoring the growing importance of a vibrant private economy over lumbering state-owned enterprise.
September 06, 2016
Didi, SoftBank lead US$600 mil-plus round for Grab
(Aug 3): China’s Didi Chuxing and SoftBank Group Corp. are leading a new round of funding in the Southeast Asian ride-sharing service Grab that could exceed US$600 million ($805 million), according to people familiar with the deal.
August 03, 2016