Confessions of an airline miles hunter: Building Mileslife is harder than a self-drive in Western Africa
He says his hardest trip ever was a self-drive in Western Africa. Over a month, he crossed three countries. Road conditions were terrible and he kept hitting police checkpoints everywhere and at each point, he never knew if he would be arrested or released.
“It was a very hard trip,” says Tro [...]
Travel insurance startup Hepstar is Silicon Valley-bound
Cape Town based start-up, Hepstar, has been selected to participate in the world’s largest start-up accelerator programme.
Plug and Play is the most active investment organisation in Silicon Valley, with portfolio companies including PayPal, Dropbox and Skytree.
Hepstar is a travel [...]
Singapore’s Aviato wins AirAsia’s inaugural hackathon
Team Aviato from Singapore has taken the top prize in AIRVOLUTION 2017, AirAsia's first hackathon, which set the challenge of profiling the airline's fans based on their digital social footprint to improve customer experience.
The Singaporeans beat the other 19 teams at the end of the 18-hour eve [...]
Amadeus takes a stake in tech startup FLYR
Amadeus, through its the corporate venture arm Amadeus Ventures, has invested in FLYR, a San Francisco-based startup that forecasts future airfare volatility through complex data analysis.
Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
FLYR is the latest addition to Amadeus Ventures’ portfolio t [...]
Hack Horizon now taking applications for world’s first travel-tech hackathon on a plane
Hack Horizon – the world’s first travel-tech hackathon in the sky – is now accepting submissions for its competition on May 5 – 8, 2017.
After a three stage selection process, 32 carefully chosen finalists will take part in the 80-hour hackathon, flying from Hong Kong International Airpo [...]
e27’s TOP100 plays matchmaker between startups and investors
As part of the run up to Echelon Asia Summit in June 2017, e27 is revamping TOP100 – its annual startup pitch competition and conference exhibition showcase – by playing matchmaker between startups and their ideal investors. All startups need to do is fill out an online profile.
TOP100 will [...]
Co-working space Spacemob Ascent to launch at Singapore Science Park
Singapore co-working space, Spacemob is set to open their second location by the end of March 2017 at their new digs in Singapore Science Park.
The launch of the new 14,000 square foot space came to life under Spacemob’s partnership with Ascendas-Singbridge, who specialise in sustainable urban [...]
Klook secures US$30 million funding, plans to accelerate global expansion
Klook Travel (Klook), Hong Kong-based tour and activities booking startup, announced on March 2 it has raised US$30 million in Series B funding.
The investment round was led by Sequoia Capital China along with existing investors Matrix Partners and ex-Tencent executive-backed Welight Capital.
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AirAsia Foundation plans Destination Good marketplace through its support of social enterprises
It all started with her involvement in the rebuilding of Banda Aceh after the devastating tsunami of December 26, 2004 which killed 167,000 people and destroyed most of the Indonesian coastal city.
Yap Mun Ching, then holding the role of strategic planner at AirAsia, said that the airline had bee [...]
NIDA Rooms raises US$5.6mil, to use fresh funds for expansion
Malaysia-based NIDA Rooms has completed its Series A financing with new investment of US$5.6 million.
The round was led by global private investment firm Shanda Group, headquartered in Singapore, and other Southeast Asian investors.
This brings the total raised by NIDA Rooms to over US$11 [...]
