Karzo CEO Simon Howett Secures Partnerships in Cambodia for Logistics Expansion
Karzo’s CEO, Simon Howett, recently visited Cambodia, finalizing the incorporation of Karzo Cambodia Ltd. MOUs and NDAs were signed with future LSP partners, bringing further collaboration and partnerships in the logistics industry.
Cocoon Capital's 11th Portfolio Day Spotlights Tech Entrepreneurs' Ambitious Plans for Regional Expansion
Alex Wicks, Founder and Group CEO of Karzo, outlined the company's vision, plans for Mekong regional expansion, and the strategic outlook for the coming year.
China-Laos Railway: Enhancing Regional Connectivity and Trade Growth
Karzo’s CEO, Simon Howett, recently visited the China-Laos Railway and Thanaleng Dry Port in Vientiane to meet with Thai and Laotian Logistic Service Providers.
Myanmar's Logistics Landscape: A Perilous Path Ahead Amidst Ongoing Challenges
Logistics in Myanmar remain challenging on all levels. If we step outside of Yangon, where port trucking remains slow due to complicated customs clearance processes and a paper-based documentation system, different problems exist in the outer regions.
Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy Hosts Expand North Star 2023: The World's Premier Startup and Investor Event
Alex Wicks, Founder & Group CEO of Karzo attended this world's largest event.
APAC Digital Leaders’ Summit 2023: Exploring the Future of Tech and Innovation
Karzo’s Founder & Group CEO, Alex Wicks, also attended the event and discussed the future of digital transformation in the logistics and technology sector across ASEAN.
EuroCham Myanmar's Legal & Finance Session Spurs Business Empowerment
On Thursday, 5th October, EuroCham Myanmar hosted another enlightening session as part of our Legal and Tax Advocacy Group's ongoing efforts to empower the business community.
5 Facts about Karzo
Discover 5 facts about Karzo, the emerging B2B tech-logistics company aiming to revolutionize fragmented logistics in the Mekong region with comprehensive 'end-to-end' technology.
Innovating the Industry: Karzo CEO Shares Vision for Logistics at Techsauce Global Summit 2023
Techsauce Global Summit 2023, Asia’s largest tech summit, successfully concluded yesterday. Karzo CEO, Alex Wicks, shared his vision for the future of logistics and the role of technology in driving the industry forward. The summit brought together leading tech innovators, investors, and entrepreneurs from across the region to discuss the latest trends and developments in the tech industry.
Techsauce Thailand Accelerator: Modernize Your Logistics with Karzo!
Founded in Myanmar 2016 and now operating Thailand, KARZO is a B2B Tech Platform offering businesses a comprehensive range of integrated logistics solutions [...]
Tech Startups in Thailand Accelerator
Getting to know 4 interested startup in ‘Thailand Accelerator’ where start up business could access to the funding source which could help them to grown up their business in the future.
Cocoon Capital's 10th Portfolio Day 2023: Empowering Southeast Asian Startups for Growth and Innovation
Cocoon Capital, the lead investor backing Karzo, actively invests in early-stage startups focused on B2B enterprise and deep tech throughout Southeast Asia.
Karzo's Business Expansion in Thailand
We’re delighted to announce that Karzo is operating into Thailand. Karzo manages border trade and import/export processes [...]
Cocoon Capital's 9th Portfolio Day in Singapore
Cocoon Capital's hosted its 9th Portfolio Day in-person in Singapore on Friday, 11 November 2022. Managing Partners Will Klippgen 威廉 and Michael Blakey kicked off with welcome remarks [...]
Coca-Cola Road Safety Day Campaign and 3PL QSE COMPLIANCE AWARD 2022
It's a privilege to be recognized as one of the 3PL partners by our valued customer, Coca-Cola Pinya Beverages Myanmar. Karzo's CBO, Simon Howett, and account holder, Khant Zaw Lu, attended Coca-Cola Road Safety Day Campaign [...]
Karzo renews unsecured invoice financing contract with Yoma Bank for fourth term
This October, Karzo renewed its unsecured loan facility with Yoma Bank, the Myanmar bank Building a Better Myanmar for its people. Karzo’s CEO Alex Wicks and CBO Simon Howett joined with the team for the official signing. [...]
Karzo Platform, that is trusted by those who want to transport goods in Myanmar and abroad
Karzo is a logistics platform that transports any type of goods in Myanmar and its neighboring countries such as Thailand, India, and China which is convenient for clients who want to transport their products nationwide or into the region. [...]
Karzo, EuroCham and partners distribute specialised equipment across Myanmar in the fight against COVID-19
In September 2021, Karzo assisted EuroCham Myanmar, alongside other Foreign Chambers present in Myanmar, in distributing Oxygen Concentrators as part of the Oxygen Campaign to lessen the impact of #covid -19 on Myanmar’s public. This included.. [...]
Karzo renews unsecured SME financing deal with Yoma Bank in difficult Myanmar banking environment
Karzo and Yoma Bank has renewed an SME loan agreement under which Yoma Bank provides unsecured financing based on Karzo’s Accounts Receivable. This is.. [...]
SEA New Markets GM, Sook Hoon Cheah, interviews Alex Wicks - Founder at Karzo
As part of Highway to a 100 Unicorns initiative, watch Sook Hoon Cheah - GM, SEA, New Markets in an interview with Alex Wicks - Founder, Karzo, Myanmar. Karzo is one of the EmergeX winners of the Highway to a 100 Unicorns Program.. [...]
Karzo wins regional edition of Startup World Cup 2021, to represent SEA at grand finals in US
Karzo claims it has seen a 150 per cent annual growth in revenue during low-peak periods, with this figure rising during the peak season. [...]
Karzo announces new name as it grows Myanmar business and expands into cross-border trade
Karzo announces new name as it grows Myanmar business and expands into cross-border trade. [...]
Myanmar-based logistics startup Kargo rebrands to Karzo as it refocusses on the B2B segment
Karzo CEO Alex Wicks wants to tap into Myanmar's "freight market" which is expected to grow by 300 per cent. [...]
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရဲ့ ပထမဆုံး ကုန်စည်ပို့ဆောင်ရေးလုပ်ငန်းဖြစ်တဲ့ Karzo ရဲ့လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်သစ်များမိတ်ဆက်ပွဲ
မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရဲ့ ပထမဆုံးသော နည်းပညာအခြေပြုထောက်ပံပို့ဆောင်ရေးလုပ်ငန်းဖြစ်တဲ့ Kargo မှ Karzo အမှတ်တံဆိပ် သစ်ပြောင်းလဲခြင်းနှင့် ရှေ့ဆက်လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်များအား ရှင်းလင်းခြင်းမီဒီယာမိတ်ဆက်ပွဲ အခမ်းအနား ကိုဖေဖော်ဝါရီလ(၆)ရက်နေ့ ၊ညနေပိုင်းက အမှတ်၂၀/၂၂၊ (၇)လွှာ၊ Esperado Tower, Penthouse မှာပြုလုပ်ကျင်းပသွားခဲ့ပါတယ်။. [...]
Kargo Rebrand
Kargo has come a long way servicing the logistics industry since 2016, we are very excited of what's to come with our fresh new look, logo and name at our official REBRAND launch this coming Thursday 6th Feb!' [...]
Kargo cuts out middleman to simplify goods transport
Kargo, a Yangon-based start-up founded by Australian Alexander Wicks in September 2016, is out to simplify a fragmented transport and logistics market and an opaque pricing structure for transporting goods in Myanmar. [...]
Myanmar-based trucking startup raises $800k from Cocoon Capital, others
Logistics startup Kargo has raised US$800,000 in a pre-series A funding round led by Singapore-based venture capital firm Cocoon Capital, with participation from two angel investors. [...]
Startups on the move
Kargo, which was founded in 2016, is an online marketplace connecting truck owners with businesses and individuals for logistics and delivery services. Neh Thit, founded in 2017, is a platform that connects workers with employers in and [...]
Myanmar: GSMA Innovation Fund awards six-digit grants to New Day, Kargo
The GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator Innovation Fund, which provides equity-free grant funding to startups in Asia-Pacific and Africa, has chosen New Day (Neh Thit) and Kargo from Myanmar for a grant support worth six-digit dollars each [...]
Echelon Asia Summit 2018 တွင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှ Kargo Company မှ ထူးချွန်ဆုရရှိ
Echelon Asia Summit 2018 ၏ TOP 100 Fight Club ယှဉ်ပြိုင်မှုတွင် နိုင်ငံပေါင်း ၂၀ ကျော်က ပါဝင်ခဲ့ကြရာ ထိပ်ဆုံး စာရင်းဝင် ကုမ္ပဏီ(၁၀)ခု ထဲတွင် Kargo ကလည်း ရွေးချယ်ခံခဲ့ရတာဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ ထို့အပြင် TOP 100 APAC 2018 Fight Club တွင် ဝင်ရောက်ယှဉ်ပြိုင်ခဲ့ကြသော [...]
A brief exploration of Echelon Asia 2018
The runner-up was no other than one of our portfolio start-ups; Myanmar-based Kargo. Kargo is an online marketplace that connects truck owners with businesses and individuals for efficient [...]
Phandeeyar Accelerator Launches First Cohort
Are you having trouble finding transportation for your goods in Yangon? Then Kargo is for you. Kargo connects individuals and businesses who need to move goods – furniture, appliances, packages and anything else you can think of – with pickups [...]
Shaking up the logistics industry by building a community of truck drivers
Is Kargo the Uber with trucks? Not quite. AIRBNB threatens the hospitality industry without owning a single hotel; Uber disrupts the taxi industry without owning a car. In Myanmar, Kargo, a logistics start-up, aims to shake up the [...]
Singapore’s Vulpes launches Myanmar-focused tech VC fund
Singapore-based Vulpes Investment Management Pte Ltd has announced the launch of a Myanmar-focused venture capital (VC) fund to invest in early-stage technology companies. [...]
Mondato Summit Asia 2017: Emerging Asia's DFC moment
Jamie Robinson, CFO of Kargo Myanmar, provided the perspective of a DFC enterprise customer looking to facilitate payments within supply chain logistics. According to Mr. Robinson, implementation remains difficult given variable cash-out liquidity [...]
Kargo: Technology Solving the Highway to Logistics Hell
Coordinating the logistics of trucking goods around Myanmar should be a nightmare. And for foreign firms, or even new companies, it is. Unsurprisingly, this industry is highly inefficient, outdated, and unorganised, plagued with many of the [...]
Local start-ups get ready for six-month accelerator
Kargo, founded by Alex Wicks and Htun Khaing Lynn, will also provide connections, in this case between truck drivers and individuals or business in need of shipping space or an entire vehicle. [...]
How to boost Myanmar entrepreneurs
One example is Kargo, an online platform that connects customers with a pool of drivers to transport products in Yangon, and around the country, and was launched by Ko Htun Khaing Lynn and his Australian business partner, Mr Alex Wicks, in [...]
