millennials

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Gradana: P2P lending for more accessible home ownership in Indonesia

Gradana wants to create an ecosystem where developers, agents, landlords, buyers and lenders benefit one another through interconnected financing 

Real Estate | P2P | Lending

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Ajaib targets millennials with easy-to-use investment app

Y Combinator alumnus Ajaib recently acquired a local brokerage to add stock trading to its products   

Fintech | Investment | Personal Finance

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Coinscrap: Digital piggy banks for millennials

Smart savings app helps young consumers save and invest every cent of spare change by rounding up payments for purchases

Personal Finance | Fintech

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Airhopping: Breakthrough in the OTA sector for millennials

Offering cheap and flexible multi-destination flight packages is helping the platform become the go-to reservation agent for budget travelers

Travel & Tourism | Lanzadera

Interviews

Halofina brings wealth management to millennials

Indonesian startup extends service once reserved for the rich to a wider market so the young can invest toward their life goals

Fintech | Personal Finance | Wealth management

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Treasury: Bringing gold savings to millennials

Gold savings online platform Treasury targets a younger demographic with its playful and contemporary branding

Fintech | Investment | Personal Finance

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Halal Local: Companion for the faithful

Indonesian app lets Muslims travel fuss-free, without sacrificing their religious values

Hospitality | Travel & Tourism | Muslim economy

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How millennials travel: Waynabox for low-cost, X-factor surprise getaways

Play online vacation games and let computers plan your holidays from just €150

Students | Travel & Tourism

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This Chinese café startup aims to best Starbucks with “new retail” strategy

Luckin Coffee has gone from scratch to China’s first coffee shop unicorn in less than a year, pouring more than 5 million cups of coffee along the way

Food & Beverage | Retail

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Founder and CEO João Barros on Veniam's early days, being an “accidental entrepreneur,” and the challenges going forward

A Q&A with the Veniam founder and CEO

Smart Vehicles | Wireless | Internet of Things

Interviews

Day Day Cook: Creating content that sells

She may not be a celebrity chef but Norma Chu, the analyst-turned-cook, is a familiar face in food-obsessed Hong Kong, where she has her recipe website to encourage youths to learn cooking

Food & Beverage | Lifestyle | Women

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GeoDB: Empowering consumers through monetizing their digital data

Consumers and businesses, and not just tech giants, should tap the value of big data too, says blockchain-based data trading platform GeoDB, which has raised £5.5m since 2018

Blockchain | Big Data & Analytics | Cryptocurrency

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From China, Clever Home to build “Home Depot” marts in Africa

Combining B2B2C and O2O models, Clever Home is turning its 40,000sqm trade center in Nigeria into the "Yiwu marketplace" for Chinese companies looking to set up shop in Africa

Retail | Marketplaces & Platforms

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Portofolio: Showing rookie investors the ropes without the rip-offs

Through investment education and the guidance of master traders, Portofolio aims to show aspiring forex and derivatives traders and investors how to avoid scams and stabilize their returns

Fintech | Investment | Marketplaces & Platforms

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SingularCover: Spanish SME insurance sector disruptor is Virtual South Summit winner

AI-honed personalization is proving successful in the underserved SME insurtech vertical  

Insurance | Artificial Intelligence | SaaS