{"id":16415,"date":"2021-07-21T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/07\/21\/alibaba-backed-saas-sleekflow-picked-malaysia-and-singapore-as-their-first-step-in-the-sea-expansion-plan\/"},"modified":"2021-07-21T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T02:00:00","slug":"alibaba-backed-saas-sleekflow-picked-malaysia-and-singapore-as-their-first-step-in-the-sea-expansion-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/07\/21\/alibaba-backed-saas-sleekflow-picked-malaysia-and-singapore-as-their-first-step-in-the-sea-expansion-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba-backed SaaS SleekFlow picked Malaysia and Singapore as their first step in the SEA expansion plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media&#13;<br \/>\nOutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 21 July 2021 &#8211;<i>\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/sleekflow.io\/\">SleekFlow<\/a> has&#13;<br \/>\nrecently raised a 7-figure MYR Pre-A round&#13;<br \/>\ninvestment from Gobi Partners China (<a href=\"https:\/\/china.gobivc.com\/ch\/\">Gobi<\/a>), the investment manager of Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ent-fund.org\/\">AEF<\/a>) will&#13;<br \/>\nexpand their business to SEA. The first stop will be Malaysia and&#13;<br \/>\nSingapore.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/release.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/Images\/Thumb\/500x0\/164327\/Cover-photo.jpg#image-164327\" width=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Within a year, SleekFlow, the&#13;<br \/>\nall-in-one social messaging platform that helps over 2000+ users across 20+&#13;<br \/>\ncountries in streamlining workflow on chat commerce, hitting the target of&#13;<br \/>\nannual recurring revenue of 7-digit USD.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First, I would like to express my gratitude&#13;<br \/>\ntowards the Gobi for believing in SleekFlow. Aiming to scale the height in the Southeast Asia&#13;<br \/>\nMarket, we will set up new teams in Malaysia and Singapore, where people rely&#13;<br \/>\nheavily on WhatsApp.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/henson-tsai\/\"><img style=\"margin-right: 7px;vertical-align: middle;display: inline-block !important;width: 24px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/Release\/templates\/images\/socialMedia\/iconmonstr-linkedin-1-24.png\"\/>Henson Tsai<\/a>, the founder, and CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/sleekflow.io\/\">SleekFlow<\/a> stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Alice So, Head of Entrepreneurship at Cyberport, a Hong Kong-based&#13;<br \/>\nincubator, said, &#8220;We are also pleased to see that this promising start-up is&#13;<br \/>\nfunded by the highly selective Gobi Partners China. We believe the demand for&#13;<br \/>\ndigital transformation will continue to grow, enabling technology start-ups to&#13;<br \/>\nbe the new favorites of investors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are 8-10 Unicorns in Hong Kong while very few of them are&#13;<br \/>\nselling SaaS products. I hope that SleekFlow can become a world-renowned Hong&#13;<br \/>\nKong SaaS brand. That&#8217;s why we planned to expand to Southeast Asia first and&#13;<br \/>\nthen to the world.&#8221; Henson added. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/sleekflow.io\/\">SleekFlow<\/a>\u00a0is missioned to realize&#13;<br \/>\nthe full potential of social messaging for business all over the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Bio of the Founder, <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/henson-tsai\/\"><img style=\"margin-right: 7px;vertical-align: middle;display: inline-block !important;width: 24px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/Release\/templates\/images\/socialMedia\/iconmonstr-linkedin-1-24.png\"\/><b>Henson Tsai<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Henson&#13;<br \/>\nTsai (26) graduated from Imperial College London and worked as an iBanker at&#13;<br \/>\nHSBC and Ernst &amp; Young. Before SleekFlow&#8217;s success, Henson has already two&#13;<br \/>\nentrepreneurial experiences.\u00a0\u00a0<b\/><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-07-21\/86641\/alibaba-backed-saas-sleekflow-picked-malaysia-and-singapore-as-their-first-step-in-the-sea-expansion-plan\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Media&#13; OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 21 July 2021 &#8211;\u00a0SleekFlow has&#13; recently raised a 7-figure MYR Pre-A round&#13; investment from Gobi Partners China (Gobi), the investment manager of Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund (AEF) will&#13; expand their business to SEA. The first stop will be Malaysia and&#13; Singapore.\u00a0 &#13; &#13; Within a year, SleekFlow, the&#13; all-in-one social messaging platform &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}