Return Helper Raises $4.0M Series

Choco Up

Choco Up is the first technology and financial services platform that provides revenue-based financing and business growth solutions to digital merchants and SMEs in Asia-Pacific. Choco Up, with data analytics and machine intelligence at its core, uses extensive integrations to automate fund distribution, providing fast-growing firms with zero-equity investment in a timely and smooth manner. We empower businesses in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia, offering one-stop smart-growth and real-time analytics, strategic growth capital, and global payment solutions to your needs. Contact: hello@choco-up.com

Atome

Atome is part of Advance Intelligence Group, one of the largest independent financial services-focussed technology startups in Asia. Backed by investors such as Softbank Vision Fund 2, Warburg Pincus, Northstar Group, Standard Chartered Bank and Singapore-based EDBI, the Group has raised over USD 700 million in funding to-date and has secured capital in excess of USD 1 billion supporting its credit book. Today, the Group serves over 500 enterprise clients, 235,000 merchants and 40 million individual consumers. Since inception, it has disbursed over USD 4 billion in loans. Atome is Southeast Asia's leading "buy now, pay later" brand which offers consumers greater financial access and flexibility, allowing them to split their bills into flexible deferred payments over time. Short for "Available to Me", A-To-Me partners over 15,000 online and offline retailers across key verticals such as fashion, beauty, lifestyle, fitness and homeware in offering their consumers choice, flexibility and convenience in how they choose to shop and pay. Our three core brand pillars are "aspirations, access and advice", and our goal is to empower a new generation of tech-savvy consumers with smarter access to their aspirations. Our tagline, “Time to Own It”, plays on the core concept of time; in how Atome helps people to pay and afford products and services over time, but at a deeper level, it’s also an immediate call to action for consumers to own their deepest passions and aspirations. Under the umbrella of Atome Financial, Atome also offers a range of financial services, including Cards and micro-lending with a goal of providing affordable access to credit to majority of unbanked and underbanked population across ASEAN.

SoBanHang (Finan Pte Ltd)

Finan Pte Ltd is a fintech company on a mission to make it easier for businesses to run and grow. We build AI-powered solutions that connect growth, operations, finance, suppliers, and partners — helping businesses work smarter, grow faster, and enabling partners to serve them more efficiently. Our two flagship products reflect this vision: - SoBanHang is the #1 business app in Vietnam that helps shop owners manage sales, inventory, receivables, and digital financial tools — all from a mobile phone. - FinanBook is the modern finance and banking platform that helps SMEs control spending, manage cash flow, and grow smarter. To date, Finan has supported over 650,000 businesses and processed more than $3 billion in annual transactions, with an average app rating of 4.8★ from over 60,000 users. We’re backed by top global investors and have received national recognition, including 1st Prize at Techfest Vietnam 2022 and #3 SEA innovative startup 2024. Our leadership team includes founders and executives from Lazada, OneMount Group, Datamart, Microsoft, and BIDV, bringing deep experience in fintech, e-commerce, and enterprise tech - now building toward a bold 2030 vision: By 2030, Finan One will be the leading AI-powered business platform for 1 million businesses worldwide — helping them run better, grow faster, and work smarter with customers, teams, suppliers, and partners all in one place. We’re building a company that matters — and we’re looking for bold talent, long-term partners, and visionary investors to join us on this journey. Learn more at finan.page.link/Zi7X or contact us at hr@sobanhang.com.

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Chainstack ?️?

The leading suite of services connecting developers with Web3 infrastructure, powering applications in DeFi, NFT, gaming, analytics, and everything in between. From startups to large enterprises, Chainstack enables thousands of companies to cut down the time to market, costs and risks associated with creating and scaling decentralized applications. By offering fast, reliable, and easy-to-use infrastructure solutions distributed globally, we make sure innovators can focus on what’s important. Chainstack provides unified access to multi-chain node and data APIs, distributed compute and storage, identity management and security testing, and the ever-expanding list of services and tools to build amazing applications across all prominent Web3 protocols. Our enterprise-grade platform has intuitive developer experience, battle-tested reliability, predictable pricing, and outstanding customer support.