Sam Shafie

Digerati50: Startups, you’ll never walk alone
Sam Shafie holds on fast to dream of catalyzing crowd funding in Malaysia, despite rocky early going between 2012-2015.
KakiTangan raises RM1mil from pitchIN in record time of less than 24 hours
Coastal Hectare Sdn Bhd, which runs KakiTangan.com just raised RM1 mil on PitchIn in less than 24-hours, giving a huge boost to ECF as a viable funding platform for other startups. 
Logistics startup RunningMan hits pitchIN Equity crowdfunding target … and how
Last-mile logistics startup RunningMan successfully raised its target amount of RM175,000 moments after it went live on Aug 22 on pitchIN Equity, an equity crowdfunding (ECF) platform.
Cradle gets even more co-investment partners, 5 of them ECF operators
Early-stage grant provider Cradle Fund brought on board six more partners for its co-investment initiative, five of them equity crowdfunding operators.
pitchIN Equity launches, first issuance in mid-April
Malaysia’s crowdfunding pioneer pitchIN has launched its equity crowdfunding (ECF) platform, with the first campaigns slated to go live in mid-April.
KiniBiz opts for equity crowdfunding with pitchIN
KiniBiz has announced plans to go for equity crowdfunding under the guidelines approved by the SC, the first Malaysian company to do so.  
Malaysian tech startups invited to apply for WTF Accelerator Batch #2
WatchTower and Friends (WTF) is inviting startups to apply for the second batch of the Cyberview Living Lab Accelerator programme it is running for Cyberview Sdn Bhd.
Cyberview launches Living Lab Accelerator Programme
The latest accelerator programme has just launched in Kuala Lumpur. Karamjit Singh has the story of the Cyberview Living Lab Accelerator Programme which will be run by Watch Tower & Friends and Infinite Ventures.
Free The Seed to represent Malaysia at global green forum
An idea by Free The Seed to turn fibre derived from paddy husks and stalks into recyclable boxes and other packing material won the Malaysian leg of the Global Cleantech Innovation Programme (GCIP).
Crowdsourcing off to good start in Malaysia, challenges remain
Crowdsourcing under the Digital Malaysia initiative may have got off to a good start, but challenges remain, according to the head of national ICT custodian the Multimedia Development Corp (MDeC).
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