Best Vietnamese startups honoured

The automatic multi-channel selling project PowerSell has won the first prize of the “Startup Viet 2018”, an annual programme selecting the best startups in Vietnam.
Best Vietnamese startups honoured ảnh 1A representative of PowerSell (R) receives the first prize of the “Startup Viet 2018” programme on November 15 (Photo: VNA)
HCMCity (VNA) – The automatic multi-channel selling project PowerSellhas won the first prize of the “Startup Viet 2018”, an annual programmeselecting the best startups in Vietnam.

A ceremony to honour outstanding startups washeld by online newspaper VnExpress.net in Ho Chi Minh City on November 15.

The five shortlisted projects were chosen frommore than 400 entries in the “Startup Viet 2018” programme.

The winner, PowerSell of the Datamart VietnamCo. Ltd, provides an automatic multi-channel selling solution using big dataanalytics and artificial intelligence technology to support sellers one-commerce platforms like Lazada, Shopee, Sendo, Haravan and Zalo.

A year after its debut, PowerSell now supports4,000 sellers with 35,000 orders a day, and it plans to expand across SoutheastAsia.

Organisers said the “Startup Viet 2018”,organised by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), aims to seek andnurture outstanding startups to help promote entrepreneurship.

The programme attracted entries from diverseareas like commerce, real estate, services, healthcare and education. Itcreated a chance for startups to share ideas with one another as well asexperts, advisors and investors, thereby forming mutual supporting relations.

Director of the MoST’s agency in the southernregion Pham Xuan Da said the ministry pledges to be a companion to youngbusinesses, especially by making favourable policies and helping them raisecapital, to help build a strong startup community in Vietnam.-VNA
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