Regardless, it's safe to say that PricePanda Thailand occupies dead last place with a share way below 1%, according to SimilarWeb. It was launched a year ago this month by the German startup conglomerate Rocket Internet.
* Malaysia’s Richest 2018: Anthony Tan’s Grab Hits $6B Valuation As Ride-Hailing Race Quickens—Forbes Asia
What's more, Tan has taken Singaporean citizenship, according to a Grab filing with the Singapore government last year ... Grab's holding company lost $82.8 million in 2016, more than triple its losses in 2015, ... Grab faces strikes and protests by drivers, lawsuits in Vietnam and Myanmar, and governments still debating how best to license and tax ride-hailing companies.
* Rocket Internet – First Mover In Asia?—Forbes
So back to the "market leader" thing. The prospectus reiterates that many Rocket sites are market leaders but never defines the term. Jabong is pulling impressive user traffic in India—almost 2 million visits per day, as the data above from SimilarWeb show. But that number is nowhere near Flipkart's daily average of 2.45 million.
* Omidyar grant jumpstarts for-profit accelerator in Myanmar—Digital News Asia
Besides Phandeeyar, the eBay founder's "philanthropic investment firm" has given grants to the Open Myanmar Initiative for election monitoring activities, Yangon Journalism Institute and Myitmaklia News Agency. It also supported a Global Witness report on labour conditions in Myanmar jade mines.
* Malaysia’s Anthony Tan Leads GrabTaxi in Regional App Race—Forbes Asia
GrabTaxi may have won the first rounds. At the end of 2014 Easy Taxi pulled out of Indonesia and was laying off staff in Malaysia, while GrabTaxi Holdings had raised almost $340 million in venture capital and loans; Japan’s SoftBank is its biggest investor.
Susan J Cunningham 