Southeast Asia’s digital economy is entering a golden age, powered by surging consumer demand, accelerated fintech adoption, and the rise of cross-border digital platforms. In 2025, the region’s leading startups boast multi-billion-dollar valuations, massive user bases, and growing influence on the global investment map.
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Traveloka |
- Indonesia
Online travel super‐app
Valued at ~$3 billion (2022)
Traveloka is Southeast Asia’s leading travel platform, empowering consumers to explore, book, and enjoy a wide range of travel products. The platform offers extensive transportation options, including flights, buses, trains, car rentals, and airport transfers. Traveloka’s accommodation offerings are equally broad, encompassing hotels, apartments, guest houses, homestays, resorts, and villas. Additionally, the platform enhances the travel experience by offering cruise packages and access to various local attractions, such as theme parks, museums, day tours, and more.
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GoTo |
- Indonesia
Super‐app – merger of Gojek & Tokopedia
Contributes ~2% of Indonesia’s GDP
GoTo is the largest technology group in Indonesia, combining on-demand and financial services through the Gojek and GoTo Financial brands. It is the first platform in Southeast Asia to host these two essential use cases in one ecosystem, capturing a majority of Indonesian consumer household expenditure.
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Lenskart |
- India
Omnichannel eyewear platform
$5 billion valuation (June 2024)
Lenskart is Asia’s largest eyewear company serving 40 Million people – helping them see better and lead better quality lives. We have more than 1500 omnichannel stores across 175 cities in India, Singapore and Dubai. Our aim is to serve One Billion eyes by 2025 globally. And in this journey, we want to go beyond vision correction to transform the way people see and experience the world. That’s our new purpose – and we can only get there through cutting-edge technology and exceptional people.
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Mynt (GCash) |
- Philippines
Fintech – e‑wallet & digital financial services
$5 billion valuation after Ayala/MUFG round (Aug 2024)
Mynt is the first and only duacorn in the Philippines. It’s a leader in mobile financial services focused on accelerating financial inclusion through mobile money, financial services, and technology. Mynt operates two fintech companies: GXI, the mobile wallet operator of GCash — the #1 Finance App in the Philippines, and Fuse Lending, a tech-based lending company that gives Filipinos access to microloans and business loans.
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Nium |
- Singapore
B2B cross‑border payments
Unicorn with $2 billion valuation (2021)
Nium, the global leader in real-time, cross-border payments, was founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. With the onset of the global economy, its payments infrastructure is shaping how banks, fintechs, and businesses everywhere collect, convert, and disburse funds instantly across borders. Its payout network supports 100 currencies and spans 220+ markets, 100 of which in real-time. Funds can be disbursed to accounts, wallets, and cards and collected locally in 35 markets. Nium’s growing card issuance business is already available in 34 countries. Nium holds regulatory licences and authorizations in more than 40 countries, enabling seamless onboarding, rapid integration, and compliance – independent of geography. The company is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore.
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Amity Corp |
- Thailand
Generative AI for enterprise
$90 M total funding, $60 M latest round (Jul 2024)
Amity Corp is Thailand’s industry-leading Platform as a Service (PaaS) specializing in tailored, enterprise-grade AI applications and AI agents. Amity Corp offerings include Enterprise and Generative AI Chatbots, pre-built social features for apps, websites, and building blocks for engaging employee experiences.
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Tyme Group |
- Singapore
Digital banking – TymeBank & GoTyme
$1.5 billion unicorn after $250 M Series D (Dec 2024)
Tyme Group is a multi-country digital banking group, focused on serving consumers and SMEs in emerging markets. Headquartered in Singapore, with a technology and product development hub in Vietnam, Tyme designs, builds, and operates digital banks for the mass market, providing access to affordable, quality financial services for consumers and small businesses across the economic spectrum. Across the Group, Tyme now serves almost 12 million customers.
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Oyika |
- Singapore
Battery‑as‑a‑Service for e‑motorbikes
200+ swapping stations in Indonesia; rolling out 300 stations in Thailand by end‑2024
Oyika seeks to reduce the barriers to EV adoption by offering an affordable and convenient alternative to traditional fuel consumption. Oyika provides swappable batteries and a network of battery swap stations that can be easily accessed by e2W riders and offers Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) that is compatible with most e2W brands and models on the market.
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Halodoc |
- Indonesia
Health‑tech platform
Ranked #1 Software & Data startup by investment & traffic in SEA (2025)
Halodoc is a secure health-tech platform with a mission to simplifying access to healthcare by connecting millions of patients with licensed doctors, insurance, labs, and pharmacies in one simple mobile application. Halodoc’s innovative technology, nimble services, and patient focus enable a host of solutions including 24/7 doctor tele consultation via chat, voice or video; medicine purchase & delivery; lab services at home; and strong customer support.
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Manabie |
- Vietnam
Edtech – K‑12 learning platform
Featured among “Top Asian Startup Funding – Week 18, 2025” deals
Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning around the world. We provide students with everything they need for efficient learning; high-quality learning materials, great learning environments, personal coaches and more! We believe that our new method of learning, integrating online and offline will dramatically innovate the way students learn.
These successful startups Southeast Asia span travel, fintech, health‑tech, AI and green mobility—each leveraging scale, deep funding and innovative business models. Together, they illustrate the region’s maturation into a global tech powerhouse, where platforms solve local pain points and attract marquee capital.
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