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ACASE puts a foreign market in the room
Melbourne’s ACASE pairs students with businesses and founders with Asian market networks. Its useful trick is making international expansion a practical assignment, rather than a handsome ambition.
Zolve lets you pack a credit card before you pack a suitcase
Moving to America can make an experienced borrower look like a beginner. Zolve builds its business in that awkward gap, helping newcomers apply for banking and credit before the flight.
EasyUni
EasyUni is a Kuala Lumpur-based education technology company that runs a network of free university search, comparison and application websites for students across Southeast Asia, South Asia and the Middle East, and sells the resulting attention back to universities as premium listings, qualified leads, bespoke digital marketing and virtual-event software. Incorporated in 2008 and launched publicly in December 2010 after co-founder Edwin Tay watched his niece struggle to compare colleges in any systematic way, the company has grown into a multi-country portal group - eleven regional sites at last count - with counsellors who walk applicants through admissions, visas and travel at no cost to the student. Universities pay; students do not. Backed by Teak Capital (Series A, 2013) and the Axiata Digital Innovation Fund (Series B, 2015), EasyUni also builds Fairwiz, a cloud platform for virtual open days and education fairs that started development in November 2019 and landed just as campus visits stopped being possible.
uhomes.com
uhomes.com (operated by Uhouzz) is a global online marketplace for international student accommodation. Founded in 2015 by Jason Yin, it connects students with verified housing near universities across 500+ cities in around 27 countries, listing more than 2 million beds from 2,000+ apartment brands. The platform combines AI-driven property matching, VR and 3D virtual viewings, multilingual one-on-one consultants and a zero-agency-fee, zero-markup pricing promise, and has served over 2.5 million registered users with 400,000+ successful bookings.
Jason Yin
Jason Yin (Yin Jiankun) is the founder and CEO of uhomes.com (formerly Uhouzz), a global online marketplace for international student accommodation. After more than a decade teaching and leading at New Oriental Education & Technology Group, he launched the platform in March 2015 to help students studying overseas find, tour and book housing. Today uhomes.com lists more than two million beds across 500-plus cities and roughly 2,000 universities, operates from around 16 global offices, and carries a 4.9-star Trustpilot rating, positioning itself as one of the largest student housing booking platforms in the world.