We are currently looking for solutions solving pain points around the Insurtech, Payment, Cross-border, Regtech and Banking industry. Below are the pain points broken down and deconstructed:
STATE OF THE MALAYSIAN FINTECH ECOSYSTEM 2019 Read More »
1337 Ventures is proud to announce that we are one of the three new recipients of the Equity Crowdfunding (ECF) license by the Securities Commission. The official announcement took place today, the 17th of May, 2019.
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We are currently looking for solutions solving pain points around the Insurtech, Payment, Cross-border, Regtech and Banking industry. Below are the pain points broken down and deconstructed:
Top 20 Malaysian Fintech Problems – by Alpha Startups: MyFintech Week Read More »
1337 Ventures will be launching its first ever accelerator programme for Bank Negara Malaysia’s MyFintech Week 2019, and it’s geared towards early stage startups! Alpha Startups: MyFintech Week Edition, powered by 1337 Ventures is an initiative by Bank Negara Malaysia in conjunction with MyFintech Week, a one-week long festival of events with the goal to
1337 Ventures and Bank Negara Malaysia Brings You Alpha Startups For MyFintech Week! Read More »
1337 Ventures would like to wish each and everyone of you a happy holiday, and a happy new year! First of all, thank you to everyone for participating in 1337 Ventures’ journey throughout 2018! If you’ve been following us, you’d know that 2018 has been a crazy fantastic year! We invested in 10 startups in one batch,
1337 Ventures’ 2018 Recap Read More »
IN THE race towards digital transformation, businesses and large corporates must employ sound strategies – instead of simply placing the responsibility of innovation on the IT department, says Bikesh Lakhmichand (pic), the CEO of 1337 Ventures. In a talk titled ‘Raise your Digital Quotient’ at Digital News Asia’s What’s Next 2018, Bikesh shared his know-how for companies
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CONTRARY to common belief, fintechs are not all about e-wallets and remittances. The Alpha Startups Fintech Edition Demo Day by 1337 Ventures, in collaboration with MDEC and Innostart Capital, presented a spectrum of digital solutions ranging across microloans, debt collection, investor profiling, insurtech and even will-writing and funeral planning. The Aug 2 event attracted around
More than payment solutions at 1337 Venture’s Alpha Startups Fintech Edition Read More »
As Fintech starts becoming the hot topic in the startup and technology industry, the insights team in 1337 Ventures decided to launch a thorough investigation in the Fintech scene in Malaysia, and publish a short report of the scene locally, listing current market players and concentrated verticals. The insights team took data available from our
1337 Ventures: The Malaysian Fintech Opportunity Report 2018 Read More »
Malaysia-headquartered early-stage venture capital firm 1337 Ventures is teaming up with Canadian investment firm InnoStart Capital for its upcoming pre-accelerator programme Alpha Startups: Fintech Edition, that will kick off in July. According to 1337 Ventures founding partner Bikesh Lakhmichand, the programme, which runs every quarter, will select three top startups to receive early-stage funding of
Malaysia’s 1337 Ventures partners Canada-based InnoStart for pre-accelerator Read More »
KUALA LUMPUR – Khazanah Nasional Bhd. (Khazanah) menerima lebih daripada 700 permohonan bagi program Khazanah Nasional Entrepreneurship Outreach (KNEO) yang dilancarkan Oktober tahun lepas. Timbalan Pengarah Urusan Khazanah, Tengku Datuk Seri Azmil Zahruddin Raja Abdul Aziz berkata, program selama 28 minggu yang berakhir semalam itu menyaksikan tiga pemenang utama telah dipilih. Mereka dipilih daripada 12
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