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Singapore startup Kluje.com facing entrepreneur icons Branson and Wozniak as judges in global technology talent competition

Awarded ‘Best Start Up’ South East Asia at ‘Talent Unleashed’ just six months after setting up Singapore, 24 July 2014 – Jamey Merkel, CEO and Co-Founder of Kluje.com–pronounced “KLOO-JAY”—an online service platform that helps homeowners and agents find better contractors, has recently been awarded as the regional winner for the Best Start Up Award …

LAZADA secures US$100 million of funding and launches a new mobile shopping platform

June, 20th. LAZADA, Southeast Asia’s largest online shopping mall, today disclosed that Verlinvest, a Belgian family-owned, consumer-focused investment holding company, has joined the company as an investor. Existing investors Holtzbrinck Ventures, Kinnevik, Summit Partners and Tengelmann Group also participated in the financing round that injected about US$100 million of fresh capital into LAZADA’s German holding …