Tagged: malaysia
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Yezza
Yezza is a Malaysian SaaS company (YC W22) that helps small businesses in Southeast Asia sell and operate through WhatsApp. It started as a tool to spin up storefronts inside the messaging app and has grown into an operating system for SMBs - with online stores, WhatsApp forms, broadcasting, invoicing, and industry-specific systems for clinics, dental and other service businesses.
Etaily
Etaily is a Southeast Asian commerce enablement platform that helps global and regional consumer brands sell online across the region. Founded in 2020 by Alexander Friedhoff, it runs an end-to-end operation - marketplace and D2C store management, social commerce and livestreaming, digital marketing, data analytics, warehousing and fulfillment - so brands can launch and scale on channels like Lazada, Shopee, TikTok Shop, Zalora and brand.com without building local teams. Headquartered in the Philippines with offices in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, Etaily has processed over 40 million orders and works with brands including Levi's, Skechers, Abbott and L'Oreal.
Hata
Hata is a Malaysian dual-licensed digital asset exchange that lets people buy, sell, store and stake cryptocurrencies using local fiat. Founded in 2023 and launched in May of that year, it holds licences from both the Securities Commission Malaysia and the Labuan Financial Services Authority - a rare dual-regulated footprint that keeps customer assets custodied inside the country. Led by ex-Luno APAC general manager David Low, Hata grew to more than 209,000 registered users by the end of 2025 and closed an US$8 million Series A led by Bybit in April 2026.
Instapay Technologies Sdn Bhd
Instapay Technologies is a Kuala Lumpur-based fintech that gives migrant and foreign workers in Malaysia a regulated digital salary account. Through a mobile e-wallet paired with a prepaid Mastercard, workers receive their pay, send money home to 30+ countries, pay bills, top up mobile plans, shop and withdraw cash at ATMs. Licensed by Bank Negara Malaysia as an e-money issuer and money services business, Instapay also runs payroll disbursement for hundreds of corporate employers, bringing an underbanked workforce into the formal digital economy.
ISATEC
ISATEC is a Malaysia-based enterprise software and IT services company that helps large enterprises and governments across Asia-Pacific with digital transformation, observability, application performance, cybersecurity, cloud modernization and intelligent automation. Founded in 1994 and based in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, it is a long-standing Dynatrace and Microsoft partner and an associate company of the regional IT group VSTECS, building products such as the KUBE low-code automation platform, the justSAMit IT asset management service and the SAMLite/IdentityLite identity tools.
Jirnexu
Jirnexu is a Kuala Lumpur-based fintech company that runs RinggitPlus, Malaysia's largest financial-product comparison platform, and builds XpressApply, a digital application and CRM stack that banks and insurers use to acquire and onboard customers online. It pairs a consumer-facing comparison site with white-label technology, positioning itself as a full-stack customer-acquisition and lifecycle-management provider for financial institutions across Southeast Asia.
MantaYaY
MantaYaY is a Kuala Lumpur-based TikTok-first creator network and media company. It manages a network of thousands of creators, runs influencer marketing and social-media accounts for brands, operates TikTok Shop live commerce, and produces short-form drama and gaming content across Southeast Asia. Founded by former TikTok creators Yubin Ng and Joel Lim, the company positions itself as a full-stack partner connecting brands, creators, and audiences on short-form video.
MoneyMatch
MoneyMatch is a Kuala Lumpur-based fintech founded in 2015 that moves money across borders faster and cheaper than traditional banks. Starting as a peer-to-peer currency exchange, it grew into a licensed money services business serving individuals, SMEs and financial institutions across Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand. It uses digital eKYC, machine learning treasury tools and blockchain rails - including Ripple - to settle payments in dozens of currencies, and is now an equity partner in Malaysia's KAF-led Islamic digital bank.
PolicyStreet
PolicyStreet is a Malaysia-based, full-stack insurtech group that makes insurance simpler and more accessible across Southeast Asia and Australia. Founded in 2016 and operating under holding company Polisea, it works with more than 40 life, general and Takaful providers to deliver embedded insurance, employee benefits, gig-worker protection, financial advisory and an online insurance marketplace through B2B, B2B2C and direct-to-consumer channels. Backed by Khazanah Nasional, Cool Japan Fund and others, it has grown to serve over 10 million customers and turned profitable in 2025.
Qualitas Health Malaysia
Qualitas Health Malaysia is the Malaysian arm of Qualitas Medical Group, one of Asia Pacific's largest privately-held primary healthcare networks. Operating since late 1997, it runs an integrated web of general practice clinics, dental clinics, medical imaging centres, ambulatory care, therapy and rehabilitation, and wound care facilities across Malaysia. It serves both individual patients and corporate clients through services spanning primary care, corporate health screening, occupational health and digital health tools like the Qualitas Plus app. The group is backed by Japan's Sojitz Corporation and private equity firm Southern Capital, and has been reported to be weighing a landmark Bursa Malaysia IPO.
Raheel Zubairi
Raheel Zubairi is a Pakistani-born, Malaysia-based technology founder and product builder who has bounced from mobile games to fintech to deep-tech medical imaging. He is the CEO of Pixelence, a Cyberjaya startup using AI to produce contrast-like brain scans without injected dyes, which won the Deep-X track of the 2025 Selangor Twin Accelerator. Before that he founded the mobile gaming studio The Game Loop and led BMN Enterprise Solutions, and he has logged stints around Antler, MYPINPAD, EBP and GoodCore Software as an AI/ML product manager working across the Web2 and Web3 worlds.
Xendit
Xendit is a Southeast Asian payments infrastructure company that lets businesses accept, process, and disburse money across Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, and the wider region through a single API. Founded in 2015 and the first Indonesian company backed by Y Combinator, it handles virtual accounts, e-wallets, cards, QR codes, payouts, and fraud prevention for startups, marketplaces, and global enterprises expanding into the region.
Hazim Mohamad
Hazim Mohamad is the Co-Founder and CEO of CoffeeSpace, a San Francisco-based AI-powered cofounder matching platform that functions like Tinder for entrepreneurs. After spending four years managing a $40 billion portfolio at the World Bank, he traded financial risk for startup risk - building a mobile-first platform that has amassed 25,000+ users and 2M+ swipes by connecting founders, early hires, and collaborators across the global startup ecosystem. CoffeeSpace raised $1M in pre-seed funding and was featured at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024.
Cedric Chin
Cedric Chin is a Malaysian-born operator, writer, and founder of Commoncog - a paid newsletter serving 9,000+ investors and operators weekly. He bootstrapped a restaurant point-of-sale system (EPOS) from zero to $4.5M ARR in two years before its acquisition by Ant Financial, doubled a SaaS company's ARR in 8 months through repositioning, founded NUS Hackers (Singapore's most influential university hacker club), and now writes long-form research on accelerating business expertise, tacit knowledge, and the mental models shared by experienced operators.
Tom Pepinsky
Tom Pepinsky is the Walter F. LaFeber Professor of Government and Public Policy at Cornell University and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. A specialist in Southeast Asian comparative politics, democratic backsliding, and political economy, he is best known for his viral 2017 essay 'Everyday Authoritarianism is Boring and Tolerable,' which warned Americans that authoritarian erosion looks mundane from the inside. Fluent in Indonesian, he has written five books spanning Indonesian and Malaysian politics, COVID-19 partisanship, and global democratic challenges. His Substack newsletter, launched in 2025, continues his two-decade tradition of public-facing analysis at the intersection of academic rigor and accessible political commentary.