{"id":2708,"date":"2026-01-20T17:46:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/wptest\/2026\/01\/20\/teleport-and-gobi-invest-us10-6m-in-easyparcel-to-grow-social-and-e-commerce-across-asean\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:54:23","slug":"teleport-and-gobi-invest-us10-6m-in-easyparcel-to-grow-social-and-e-commerce-across-asean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/2026\/01\/20\/teleport-and-gobi-invest-us10-6m-in-easyparcel-to-grow-social-and-e-commerce-across-asean\/","title":{"rendered":"Teleport and Gobi invest US$10.6M in EasyParcel to grow social and\u00a0e-commerce across Asean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>KUALA LUMPUR, 16 July 2019 <\/strong>&#8211; Teleport, the rebranded cargo and logistics platform of AirAsia, and leading venture capital firm Gobi Partners have invested US$10.6M in regional e-commerce and parcel delivery player, EasyParcel. EasyParcel, which has close to half a million users will use the Series B funding to expand its offering for SME customers, leveraging Teleport\u2019s unrivalled logistics and infrastructure capabilities which include more than 100 cities, 10,000 AirAsia flights per week and some 1,000,000+ tonnes of cargo capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The announcement was made by AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes, Teleport CEO Pete Chareonwongsak, Gobi Partners Managing Director Malaysia Jamaludin Bujang and EasyParcel Founder and CEO Clarence Leong in Kuala Lumpur today. <strong>Tony Fernandes, CEO of AirAsia Group <\/strong>said, \u201cI\u2019ve always believed AirAsia\u2019s logistics business has a huge opportunity to be part of the social and e-commerce ecosystem. Today, we are unlocking that potential with the help of EasyParcel, making parcel delivery across Asean more accessible and inclusive for everyone. <strong>Pete Chareonwongsak, CEO of Teleport <\/strong>said, \u201cTeleport will transform the logistics and e-commerce ecosystem as we know it, making it easier for people, especially SMEs, to move items from A to B. With our deep operational expertise, this investment will allow us to accelerate the accessibility of logistics for SMEs, while at the same time encourage more collaboration with the regions logistics startup community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">We are really impressed by what Clarence and the EasyParcel team have built and look forward to working with them to grow social and e-commerce across the region.\u201d <strong>Gobi Partners Chairman and Founding Partner Thomas G Tsao <\/strong>said, \u201cWe are glad to be co-investing with AirAsia\u2019s Teleport. Together, we will combine our efforts to help EasyParcel solve Southeast Asia\u2019s logistics bottlenecks and boost the industry\u2019s data analytics. As a platform, EasyParcel is uniquely positioned to streamline the customer\u2019s full journey by integrating end-to-end logistics services with its partners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This generates operating efficiencies overall and creates synergies for the entire ecosystem, including our existing logistics investments, Deliveree and Zoom.\u201d <strong>EasyParcel Founder and CEO Clarence Leong <\/strong>said, \u201cOur mission is to address last-mile delivery challenges. Since we started in 2014, we\u2019ve been successfully making in-roads in our home country, Malaysia, as well as in Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The funding received from Teleport and Gobi Partners is key to strengthening our footprint in those existing markets. We are grateful for the opportunity to collaborate and excited to start our journey together. EasyParcel\u2019s Series B round follows a successful series A, which was secured from Axiata Digital Innovation Fund (ADIF) and angel investors in January 2016.\u201d Today\u2019s investment from Teleport is funded from retained earnings, whilst Gobi Partners makes its investment through the Meranti Asean Growth Fund, a fund which seeks to invest in Asean innovation such as cloud services, e-commerce and financial technology.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, 16 July 2019 &#8211; Teleport, the rebranded cargo and logistics platform of AirAsia, and leading venture capital firm Gobi Partners have invested US$10.6M in regional e-commerce and parcel delivery player, EasyParcel. EasyParcel, which has close to half a million users will use the Series B funding to expand its offering for SME customers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3961,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions\/3961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}