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| 05.02.2026 | 9 fresh takes on the modern cheongsam to elevate your Chinese New Year look | Listen
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The cheongsam has been rising in popularity, thanks to fashion brands putting forth fresh, modern interpretations of it. It goes without saying that th... |
| 15.01.2026 | Powering the next chapter of global growth for Singapore businesses | Listen
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2025 was a year of adjustment for many businesses in Singapore, as they navigated higher operating costs and an increasingly uncertain global environme... |
| 15.09.2025 | Made in Singapore: Fashion, F&B and hospitality brands going global | Listen
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Singapore may be small, but our lifestyle brands are anything but. Over the decades, a rising class of entrepreneurial visionaries have gone from humb... |
| 03.09.2025 | Grand Prix Season Singapore returns with music festivals, a light art installation, pop-ups and more | New: You can now listen to articles.
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The F1 Singapore Grand Prix is revving up for another thrilling edition from Oct 3 to 5. Beyond the high-octane races, fans can look forward to star-studded perform... |
| 19.05.2025 | 'This is not the time to judge': Meet the woman behind Babes, a support group for pregnant teens in Singapore | Listen
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Every year, Babes Pregnancy Crisis Support receives over 600 enquiries to its 24/7 telephone hotline and WhatsApp service. The organisation helps pregn... |
| 09.04.2025 | Brewing Change: Fore Coffee's IPO Amidst Market Turbulence | Fore Coffee is set to launch its IPO on April 14, 2025. This event comes at a time when Indonesia's stock market is experiencing significant turmoil. The market has plunged to its lowest levels since 2021, prompting a trading halt. Consumer... |
| 09.04.2025 | Love, Bonito and Grab: Navigating the Waters of Southeast Asia's Retail and Transport Markets | In the bustling landscape of Southeast Asia, two companies are making waves: Love, Bonito and Grab. Each is carving its niche in the retail and transport sectors, respectively. Their journeys reflect the challenges and triumphs of doing bus... |
| 09.04.2025 | Brewing Opportunities: The Rise of Love, Bonito and Fore Coffee in Southeast Asia | Southeast Asia is a vibrant tapestry of cultures, economies, and emerging businesses. In this dynamic landscape, two brands are making waves: Love, Bonito and Fore Coffee. Each represents a unique approach to growth, navigating challenges a... |
| 06.04.2025 | Grab’s cab comeback | AnalysisInvestmentsNewsletters
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Welcome to the Opening Bell 🔔! Delivered every other Monday via email and through the Tech in Asia website, this free newsletter breaks down the biggest st... |
| 05.04.2025 | Chic in black: Love, Bonito expected to be profitable in 2025 | Premium Content
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Miguel Cordon · 10h ago · 2 min readChic in black: Love, Bonito expected to be prof... |
| 19.02.2025 | NRF 2025: Retail's Big Show Asia Pacific Unveils Conference Speaker Line-up Featuring Leaders from Top Global and Regional Brands | Participating retail brands include Love, Bonito, Authentic Brands Group, Alfamart, Castlery, Suntory, Central Retail Corporation and Zalora
SINGAPORE, Feb. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Global event organiser Comexposium and the National Retail... |
| 06.12.2024 | 'I felt I was blamed': How applying for maternity leave can be stressful | New: You can now listen to articles.
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Managing an all-female workforce at her beauty salon chain, Ms Jasmin Tay occasionally finds her thoughts preoccupied with family planning – not for herself, but fo... |
| 18.10.2024 | The Ripple Effect of Layoffs in Singapore's Corporate Landscape | In the bustling heart of Singapore, a storm brews in the corporate world. Layoffs are becoming a common refrain, echoing through the halls of companies like ONE Championship and Love, Bonito. These layoffs are not just numbers on a spreadsh... |
| 18.10.2024 | Economic Development Board in touch with ONE Championship after layoffs | Listen to this article
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| 17.10.2024 | Love, Bonito lays off dozens of employees; roles in Singapore impacted | Listen to this article
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| 24.09.2024 | Money Talks Podcast: How I Made It - Love, Bonito’s Rachel Lim on leaving university to build a fashion empire | In the second of a two-part series, Love, Bonito co-founder Rachel Lim tells Andrea Heng how her family’s early financial struggles shaped her financial values and why advises budding entrepreneurs not to quit their day jobs.
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| 04.07.2024 | Love Bonito sees 45% revenue growth in 2022 amid costly expansion bet | Premium Content
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Miguel Cordon · 20h ago · 3 min readLove Bonito sees 45% revenue growth in 2022 ami... |
| 27.05.2024 | Aspire expands to Hong Kong with new license | FintechNews
Miguel Cordon · 1d ago · 1 min readAspire expands to Hong Kong with new license
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Singapore-headquartered fintech firm Aspire has secured a... |
| 12.05.2024 | How Singaporean Sharon Wong's retail empire Motherswork came of age amid a turbulent retail landscape | Listen to this article
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| 24.03.2024 | From Love, Bonito to Our Second Nature: Singapore entrepreneur Velda Tan's fashion journey | Listen to this article
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| 20.03.2024 | How to live your best life, the savvy way | Adulting can be overwhelming as we juggle demands from work and at home. Amid the hustle, what keeps us going is celebrating our wins – both big and small. Whether it’s securing a spot at that trendy new restaurant to catch up with friends ... |
| 11.03.2024 | Homegrown womenswear label Love, Bonito comes of age with a new brand identity | Listen to this article
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| 11.03.2024 | Purpose-driven womenswear brand Love, Bonito represents Asian women globally with refreshed brand look and assortment | SINGAPORE, March 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading Southeast Asian womenswear brand, Love, Bonito, is redefining womenswear for the Asian woman with a new brand identity and a revamped assortment strategy. The change signifies the brand's co... |
| 03.01.2023 | Spring cleaning season: Where to donate and recycle clothing, books and bulky items in Singapore | What we declutter is just as important as how we dispose of it, which is why the spring cleaning season calls for both our inner Marie Kondo and karung guni. But rather than binning your unwanted items, how about donating, recycling, or cas... |
| 17.10.2022 | Love, Bonito Introduces cheak with Acquisition of Activewear Brand butter. | From Left to Right: Dione Song (CEO of Love, Bonito); Rachel Lim (Co-founder of Love, Bonito); Olivia Yiong (Co-founder of cheak); Tiffany Chng (Co-founder of cheak)
From Left to Right: BaseCore® Piper Bra and Classic Leggings (Moon) and Ba... |
| 06.09.2022 | SG women-focused supplement brand bags $850k in seed funding | InvestmentsNewsStartups
Aditya Hadi Pratama · 6 Sep 2022 · 1 min readSG women-focused supplement brand bags $850k in seed funding
Moom, a Singapore-based healthtech firm, has raised S$1.2 million (around US$850,000) in a seed funding round ... |
| 04.01.2022 | HK’s investment solutions startup TDX Strategies raises $2.5m led by Transcend | TDX Strategies, a Hong Kong-based investment solutions platform that helps individual and corporate clients manage digital assets, has raised $2.5 million in a Series A round led by Asia-focused venture capital firm Transcend Capital Partne... |
| 29.10.2021 | Love, Bonito raised $50 M Series C funding from Alibaba investor Primavera | Love, Bonito, a Singapore-based omnichannel womenswear brand, has announced the completion of its US $50 million Series C funding round.
Primavera Capital Group, a Chinese venture capital firm that has invested in Alibaba and ByteDance, led... |
| 29.10.2021 | The lines between VCs and other investors are getting blurry | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Happy Friday, Term Sheet readers. Finance reporter Anne Sraders here, filling in for Lucinda (she... |
| 18.08.2021 | Love, Bonito Takes Over Hong Kong’s Iconic Trams to Celebrate New Local Online Experience | Five week tram presence along with month-long social campaign commemorates the launch of localised website providing Hongkongers a seamless online shopping experience
HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 18 August 2021 – Love, Bonito, Southeast... |
| 24.06.2021 | HK’s SmartMore bags $200m in Series B round from Sequoia China, IDG, others | Premium
Hong Kong-headquartered intelligent manufacturing technology major SmartMore on Thursday announced that it has raked in an aggregate of $200 million in a Series B round of financing. With this round, the startup is said to have gain... |
| 24.06.2021 | HK’s SmartMore bags $200m in Series B round from Sequoia China, IDG, others | Hong Kong-headquartered intelligent manufacturing technology major SmartMore on Thursday announced that it has raked in an aggregate of $200 million in a Series B round of financing. With this round, the startup is said to have gained entry... |
| 24.03.2021 | China's Didi leans towards NY over HK for IPO, eyeing $100 bn valuation | By Julie Zhu and Kane Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's top ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing is leaning toward picking New York over Hong Kong for its initial public offering IPO), eyeing a valuation of at least $100 billion via the float, two... |
| 08.04.2020 | HK fintech startup Neat raises $11m in Visa-backed Series A | Premium
Hong Kong-based financial technology (fintech) startup Neat announced Wednesday that it has secured $11 million in its Series A funding round led by Pacific Century Group, with participation from Visa, MassMutual Ventures Southeast ... |
| 23.10.2018 | China’s Linear Capital leads $3m funding in HK fintech firm Neat | Premium
China-based early stage venture capital firm Linear Capital has anchored a $3-million funding round for Hong Kong-based financial technology (fintech) firm Neat, which seeks to accelerate the release of new products and grow its tea... |
| 15.08.2018 | Openspace Ventures closes second fund of $135m from Temasek, StepStone | Formerly known as NSI Ventures, Singapore-based investment firm Openspace Ventures has closed its second fund at US$135 million from Singapore investment arm Temasek, private markets firm StepStone Group, and other limited partners, includi... |
| 25.04.2018 | Early Go-Jek investor NSI Ventures goes independent and rebrands to Openspace | NSI Ventures, the Singapore-based VC firm affiliated with PE firm Northstar Group that invested early in ride-sharing unicorn Go-Jek, is going independent after it announced it has rebranded to Openspace Ventures.
NSI Ventures was started b... |
| 04.04.2018 | Southeast Asia fashion startup Zilingo continues its meteoric rise with $54M Series C | Many will rightly say that raising money as a startup in Southeast Asia is no easy thing, but up-and-coming online fashion service Zilingo sure doesn’t seem to have problems on that front.
Fresh from raising an $18 million Series B round la... |
| 01.02.2018 | Kakaku leads $13m Series B in NSI Ventures portfolio company Love, Bonito | As reported by Shiwen Yap, (found here):
Singapore-based Love Bonito, a digital-first womenswear label, has announced the completion of a $13 million Series B funding round led by Kakaku.com. The round was joined by return backer NSI Ventu... |
| 01.02.2018 | Love, Bonito Raises $13m in Series B Funding | Love, Bonito, a Singapore-based women’s wear label, raised $13m in Series B funding.
The round was ld by Kakaku.com with participation from NSI Ventures.
The company will use the funds to continue to bolster its product, data and engineerin... |
| 01.02.2018 | Singapore: NSI Ventures backs $13m Series B in womenswear label Love, Bonito | Premium
Singapore-based Love Bonito, a digital-first womenswear label, has announced the completion of a $13 million Series B funding round led by Japanese price comparison site Kakaku.com. The round was joined by return backer NSI Ventures... |
| 03.01.2018 | HK’s Affinity Partners closes fifth Asia-Pacific buyout fund at $6b | Premium
Hong Kong-based private equity (PE) firm Affinity Equity Partners has closed its fifth Asian buyout fund – Affinity Asia Pacific Fund V – with a corpus of $6 billion in less than four months after it hit the fundraising trail.
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| 22.09.2017 | HK launches $256m fund, seeks partnerships from VC firms | Premium
Hong Kong’s Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC) has launched a HK$2 billion ($256 million) fund inviting interest from venture capital firms to invest in local startups.
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| 17.08.2017 | Exclusive: New HK realty PE Emerald Lake closes $60m round for co-living platform | Premium
Emerald Lake, a newly found Hong Kong based real estate private equity firm, has closed an initial funding round for its first platform – Weave Co-Living at just under $60 million, an amount that will be used for acquisition of the ... |
| 26.07.2017 | Blue HK Investments strikes first Vietnam deal with $2.5m funding for Beta Media | Premium
Blue HK Investments, a private equity fund with offices in UK, Hong Kong and Ho Chi Minh City, has scored its first investment in Vietnam with an agreement to inject $2.5 million in cinema operator Beta Media.
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| 12.07.2017 | Gaming firm Razer seeks Oct HK IPO at up to $5 billion valuation: source | By Elzio Barreto
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Razer Inc, a gaming hardware maker backed by Intel Corp and Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, plans to go public toward the end of October in an IPO that will value the company at up to $5 ... |
| 01.03.2016 | IFC invests $5m in HK’s WeLab Series B round | Premium
World Bank’s private lending arm International Finance Corp is investing $5 million in Hong Kong-based fintech startup WeLab in its Series B round, which the company announced last month.
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| - | Where to get stylish matching outfits for the family this Chinese New Year | Celebrations may be a little muted again this year, but that doesn’t mean you should tone down the fun factor. In fact, why not dial up the drama and make the Year of the Tiger a roar-some one, and dress up for cool family photos you’ll che... |
