{"id":316,"date":"2026-01-20T17:41:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/wptest\/2026\/01\/20\/cockroach-tech-funding-programme-to-help-malaysian-startups-get-the-right-ict-support\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:05:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:05:47","slug":"cockroach-tech-funding-programme-to-help-malaysian-startups-get-the-right-ict-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/2026\/01\/20\/cockroach-tech-funding-programme-to-help-malaysian-startups-get-the-right-ict-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Cockroach Tech Funding Programme to Help Malaysian Startups Get The Right ICT Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kuala Lumpur, April 4 \u2013 The Exabytes Group,a leading web hosting services and eCom-merce solutions provider in Malaysia announces today the launch of its &#8216;Cockroach Startup Program&#8217; on 1 April 2017 as its first ever Technology-Funding program to help de-velop and grow a strong startup community across Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>Founder cum Executive Director of Exabytes, Chan Kee Siak shares, &#8220;A cockroach startup is the one which keeps struggling and moves forward in spite of changing environments, market conditions and investment scenarios, just like a cockroach.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He adds that Exabytes&#8217; motivation is to provide a platform that continues to see success in promoting high potential Malaysian startups in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The introduction of the Cockroach Startup Program is part of Exabytes&#8217; continual com-mitments in nurturing startups by providing a sustainable platform to help drive the setup of aspiring startups in Malaysia,&#8221; says Chan.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia is the 3rd largest market for startups. Grab, iflix and HappyFresh are just a few top Malaysian founded startup companies with great innovations and fascinating technol-ogies that have established themselves in the South-East Asia region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Malaysian government is always supportive of startups and tech innovation. There is also a passionate group of startup advocates comprising actual business owners or suc-cessful entrepreneurs, who are willing to help other entrepreneurs succeed by way of in-vestment funding, providing mentorship and access to global network.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;To complement these startup advocates, we have designed Cockroach Startup Program to support pre-seed to seed high potential startup from all industry categories by way of technology funding to build and grow their business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuala Lumpur, April 4 \u2013 The Exabytes Group,a leading web hosting services and eCom-merce solutions provider in Malaysia announces today the launch of its &#8216;Cockroach Startup Program&#8217; on 1 April 2017 as its first ever Technology-Funding program to help de-velop and grow a strong startup community across Malaysia. Founder cum Executive Director of Exabytes, Chan [&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-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","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=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5714,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/5714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}