Startups with at least one female founder in Southeast Asia raised $1.41 billion in equity funding in 2023, or 18.3% of the total private capital secured during the year, according to a new report from DealStreetAsia. The 2023 performance is a step up from the 12.6% share of funding garnered by female-founded startups in 2022. […]

On March 7, 2024 we announced the six winners of our second Front & Female Awards Malaysia, which celebrates the individuals championing the progress of women. Selected with the help of our expert voting committee, which includes some of the most influential leaders in Malaysia, these six women were chosen from a shortlist of 19 […]

Founded in April 2020, MADCash stands for Multiply, Assist, Donate Cash and the startup funds and grows unbanked and underbanked women entrepreneurs, aiming to create an alternative credit scoring to increase their future bankability. The company runs on a proprietary technological platform that allows donors to contribute and see whom their funds are helping at […]

It’s International Women’s Day (IWD) this Friday (March 8), and the theme for this year is ‘Invest in women: Accelerate progress’ under the hashtag #InvestInWomen. Industry experts have long acknowledged that bringing women into the tech industry and investing in their futures is a core part of building a skilled workforce that can help further […]

MALAYSIANKINI | While the long pandemic lockdowns sent many businesses to their knees, it was a period of remarkable growth for a group of remarkable women entrepreneurs. Even more remarkable, the women never even thought of being entrepreneurs. But as the pandemic turned the world upside down, an engineer launched a Nyonya food paste business, […]

Nuraizah Shamsul Baharin is the founder and Managing Director of MADCash, a fintech that enables women who run micro-businesses to realize their dreams by using the platform to access micro-lending. MADCash raised a $1M Pre-Series A last year. ‍How would you explain your job to someone outside tech? I find funders who would like to […]

During the announcement of Budget 2023, Finance Minister Tengku Zafrul said that a total of RM235 million in financing funds would be specifically allocated to women. These would be delegated through BSN Semarak-Nita, Tekunita TEKUN, DanaNITA MARA, and Biz Lady Bank Rakyat schemes to help women entrepreneurs grow their businesses and enhance their marketing strategies. […]

PETALING JAYA: Hong Leong Islamic Bank (HLISB) has rolled out a new social finance programme HLB Jumpstart – Micro Business as part of its value-based intermediation (VBI) offerings. This programme will provide funding to individuals who may not have the opportunities and means to secure full-time employment or to aspiring entrepreneurs who lack credit history […]

Hong Leong Islamic Bank (HLISB) has rolled out a brand new social finance programme, ‘HLB Jumpstart – Micro Business’ as part of its Value-Based Intermediation (VBI) offerings, in line with social finance to play a greater role in advancing financial inclusion and enabling social development in the country, This programme will provide funding to individuals […]

At Fintech Energy we track over 200,000 fintech startups and over 1,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting. We’ve ranked the top 44 FinTech companies in Kuala Lumpur. The companies, startups and […]