Today, Vietnam’s finally got a crowdfunding platform. The
full-time team of seven come from a motley crew of startups based out of Hanoi
including Dynabyte and The Missing Corner. The company is founded by Nam Do,
the current CEO of Emotiv, a US
company now based in the Silicon Valley, which produces a piece of headgear
that allows users to control objects on a screen with their brains. IG9, a
cheeky version of the english word “ignite”, will be the first crowdfunding
platform of its type in Vietnam – operating in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city.
Crowdfunding is not a new concept to Asia, there’s at least nine across the region from
Japan to Indonesia. The IG9 team hopes to be at the forefront of this in
Vietnam, so I talked to Lew Yin How, CEO of the project, to get the lowdown. Read more
