🍨 An apple a day

Featuring an app where you and your pet can get consultations!

August 01, 2023

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🍨 Today, we’ve got the scoop on:

  • Halodoc checks in with a $100M Series D from Astra Capital

  • $6M for VUIHOC to use AI for personalized learning

Image by Freepik showing a woman doing a teleconsultation

There’s a better way to do check-ups. Says who? Indonesia’s Halodoc, a health service app that connects patients to medical practitioners and healthcare services.

Investor check. PT Astra Digital led the round, while Openspace and Denmark’s Novo Holdings also joined in!

🍎 An apple a day?

There are a lot of reasons why you can’t meet a doctor face-to-face.

For one, chronic pain can make it hard for you to wait for hours at the hospital. Bad weather and traffic also make it a hassle to commute to your doctor, especially if their clinic is hours away. 😫

Now, Halodoc lets you complete the whole check-up process from home!

  • Consult with doctors, order medicine, book diagnostic tests, schedule doctor visits, do insurance arrangements, and make payments!

Everyone’s included. Book consultations for your whole family—and even your pet! (Yes, their app offers online vet consultations and pet care!)

⚕️ About Halodoc

Halodoc is a product under MHealth Tech, which develops other consumer tech products in the healthcare industry.

  • 🏍️ ApotikAntar, a medicine delivery service.

  • 🧑‍⚕️ LinkDokter, a social platform for medical practitioners.

  • 🩺 Lab, a booking platform for lab tests.

Patients can connect with over 20K medical practitioners, 3.3K hospitals, and 4.9K pharmacies through Halodoc.

💪 Health is wealth

The new $$$ will help Halodoc add more doctors, pharmacists, clinics, and insurance providers to the platform.

  • They’ll also develop their at-home health test service, Home Lab.

  • Halodoc will also work on a feature that lets patients access services integrated with their health insurance.

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VUIHOC executive team (from left to right) Travis Stewart (VP of Academy and Strategy), Minh Thu Do (Co-founder and COO), Lam Do (Co-founder and CEO). Image from VUIHOC

Learn it how you want. VUIHOC, a Vietnam-based edtech that creates educational content for K-12 Vietnamese students, just raised $6M in Series A funding!

  • They’ll explore AI tech and its applications in personalized learning.

Investor check. TNB Aura led the round, while TKG Taekwang, IBK-STIC Pioneer fund, Do Ventures, BAce Capital, and Vulpes Ventures joined in!

  • They raised $2M in a bridge round led by BAce Capital last September.

  • With their previous round of $$$, they launched an interactive live-streaming feature for large group sizes and expanded their content offerings.

💻 The ABCs of VUIHOC

VUIHOC initially started as a primary school-focused platform. Today though, they’ve reached over 1.1M students in Vietnam’s Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities.

  • Take your time. Their platform offers educational content like video lectures and quizzes.

  • Face-to-face. They also offer live classes so students can get instant feedback from teachers.

  • No resources? No problem. They offer access to over half a million educational resources!

Industry spotlight. Launched in 2019, they compete with other Vietnamese edtechs like Teky, MindX, Edupia, and more!

🦅 Bird’s eye view

The latest World Bank data showed that based on aggregate learning scores, Vietnam students are shaping up to be on top.

For context, they not only outperform SEA peers like Malaysia and Thailand, but they also rank higher than students in Britain and Canada!

Daan van Rossum is the founder and CEO of FlexOS, a worktech startup that helps hybrid and remote managers level up their leadership game.

The company raised $1M from investors including Do Ventures VIK Partners, Vulpes Ventures, Hustle Fund, Wing Vasiksiri, and Plug and Play Tech Center.

🎧 What we talk about?
Dropping out of high school to work — yes, he even got permission from the government to do so! Building his own startup in the Netherlands (and failing).

Landing a role at Oglivy and how he "re-applied" his way across the company to land roles at Ogilvy in New York, Singapore, and Vietnam.

Starting FlexOS, and so much more!

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Ethan Ang is the co-founder and CEO of NodeFlair, a career advancement platform for tech talents in Asia.

NodeFlair currently operates in Singapore and Vietnam and recently raised US$2M in Series A funding.

👋🏼 How would you explain your job to someone outside tech?

We provide payslip-verified salary data and detailed career information for talents to make better career decisions!

🧐 What's something about you or your job that would surprise us?

I was crazy close to becoming a teacher.

If the government had given me a scholarship, I would have joined the education ministry and would not be writing this now.

🏆 What has been the biggest highlight of your career so far?

I love to build! I've ventured into many projects since young but mostly failed.

Today, I remain extremely proud of what we've built as a team here at NodeFlair.

We still don't get things right all the time, but what has been consistently fulfilling is seeing the huge growth of the team and myself.

💼 What advice would you give someone starting out in your industry?

Be clear about why you're doing it (probably it's advice to all industries).

🗣 What's one thing you can keep talking about for hours?

Physics.

🎥 What's your favorite movie/TV show?

Comedies that are south of what most would consider ‘sophisticated’: We Are the Millers, The Dictator.

🍨 What's your go-to ice cream flavor?‍

Yuzu.

We've edited this interview for length and clarity.

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