Prasetia Dwidharma leads seed funding round in Indonesian online trucking startup Webtrace
Indonesia’s online trucking startup Webtrace has secured an undisclosed seed stage funding, led by VC firm Prasetia Dwidharma, with participation from Astra Ventura.
The company said it plans to use the funds to strengthen its marketing and customer acquisition strategy as well as to expand sales headcount.
Erwin Subroto, CEO and Co-founder, said: “Webtrace aims to help those companies by using its technology and solution, to be more efficient in cost saving as well as improving the utilisation rate, productivity, and safety; by implementing IoT sensors and solution that will generate various real time data and analysis.”
Although the characteristics of Indonesia’s geography are a combination from land, sea, and air, land transportation remains the primary way good are moved goods and it touches the lives of nearly the entire population.
In addition, trucking is the physical backbone of e-commerce, and person-to-person shipments, with spending on overland logistics estimated to reach US$290 billion by 2020.
Edutech startup Lido secures over US$7.4M in funding led by BAce Capital
India-based edutech firm focussing on live online tutorials Lido Learning has raised over US$7.4 million in Series B round led by Ant Financial-backed BAce Capital.
The company said it plans to use the funding to expand its offering to Indian students in tier II and tier III cities with more curriculum-focussed subjects, as well as modern skills like analytical thinking, critical reasoning, communication, collaboration, and creativity
According to Outlook India, Lido is BAce Capital’s first edutech investment in India, as part of a strategy to continue investing in early stage companies in emerging economies in India and Southeast Asia.
Lido has a community of students, tutors, and parents connected by its technology to make education more accessible. With the COVID-19 lockdown taking place, Lido offers to connect expert teachers to students across the country in subjects such as mathematics and science tutorials for Classes V to IX in ICSE and CBSE syllabus.
LiveIn launches Pay What You Can (PWYC) programme addressing COVID-19’s vulnerable community
LiveIn, a property-technology company for a long-stay term, has launched a PWYC (Pay What You Can) scheme to its existing tenants and any individuals affected by the COVID-18 situation.
This scheme provides access to discounted rooms for LiveIn, which is aimed at helping those who have gotten furloughed, terminated, retrenched, or have undergone a loss of business and/or revenue during the MCO which began on March 18, 2020.
Through this arrangement with the owner-partners, LiveIn is open to invite more home seekers to come onboard and rent rooms with a ‘Pay What You Can’ afford basis, provided they have the necessary supporting documents required.
LiveIn was established in 2015. It provides property care services for homeowners and room-rental solutions for accommodation seekers in the Klang Valley with hassle-free convenience.
According to CEO and Co-founder Keek Wen Khai, the LiveIn Assist Rent-Relief Program can be found on LiveIn’s social media channels.
NUHS launches AI bot to assist instant information access to COVID-19
The National University Health System (NUHS) and Bot MD have announced a partnership to launch the NUHS-Bot MD A.I., a clinical assistant app for frontline medical staff to instantly search for hospital specific information including COVID-19 guidelines and operational directives.
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Over 500 healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and medical social workers from NUHS have benefited from the first-phase roll-out, with plans to expand access to more than 3,000 staff across the NUHS healthcare cluster.
The NUHS-Bot MD A.I. assistant is a chatbot that instantly answers questions from hospital staff about hospital protocols, COVID-19 operational directives, drug dosage information, drug formulary, and even on-call rosters. It also allows hospital staff to record their temperatures by integrating the daily temperature reporting form within the Bot interface.
The NUHS-Bot MD A.I. assistant is accessible on any smartphone device and serves as a 24×7 virtual assistant that benefits hospital clinical staff, allowing them to access healthcare information anytime and anywhere, even when they are off duty. The smartphone app also allows hospitals to build custom clinical tools based on their own guidelines and protocols.
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