Press coverage, funding milestones, and company announcements charting Lapasar’s rise as Malaysia’s leading B2B procurement marketplace.
Maxis Broadband Sdn Bhd is now live on Lapasar — onboarded onto Lapasar Marketplace Version 6.0, the newest version of the platform, covering procurement for Menara Maxis and more than 70 Maxis Centres nationwide.
Sabah Electricity partners with Lapasar to digitise its long-tail procurement, moving thousands of low-value, high-frequency purchases onto a single digital marketplace while bringing local Sabah vendors online.
DRB-HICOM Group has officially onboarded onto Lapasar, bringing procurement transformation across its diverse ecosystem of companies. The initiative is focused on two key outcomes: ✅ Making long-tail spend faster, better and more cost-effective ✅ Increasing procurement efficiency and governance across all subsidiaries By digitising indirect procurement through a unified platform, DRB-HICOM teams can reduce manual work, improve spend visibility, streamline approvals, and enable procurement professionals to focus on strategic value creation rather than administrative processing. A significant step forward in modernising enterprise procurement across one of Malaysia’s most diversified conglomerates.
More than 60 professionals from across the Tradewinds Group came together to explore one of procurement’s biggest challenges: gaining greater visibility, control and efficiency across long-tail spend. The session featured insightful discussions on supplier and spend consolidation, with participants examining how organisations can reduce fragmentation, improve governance and unlock greater value from everyday purchasing activities. A key highlight was a sharing by DRB-HICOM Chief Procurement Officer Khairul Azman, who outlined a vision for driving stronger procurement visibility and collaboration across the wider DRB-HICOM, MMC and Tradewinds ecosystem. The event underscored the power of cross-functional dialogue in shaping the future of procurement and accelerating meaningful transformation.
Malaysia's largest private hospital group is now fully onboarded onto Lapasar's enterprise procurement platform, marking a significant step in the company's healthcare sector push.
Sarawak Petchem, the state-backed petrochemical producer behind one of Southeast Asia's largest methanol complexes in Bintulu, is now live on Lapasar. The onboarding extends Lapasar's enterprise procurement footprint into East Malaysia's energy and petrochemical sector — one of the most demanding procurement environments in the country.
Another agency onboarded. The public sector engine keeps compounding.
Kuala Lumpur ranks among the Top 20 emerging startup ecosystems, with Lapasar among the Cradle-supported businesses that helped get it there.
BFM 89.9 sits down with co-founder and CEO Thinesh Kumar Asogan to unpack Lapasar's path to RM1 billion in revenue, profitability, and its own consumer brands.
The fast-growing tech-enabled FMCG distributor serving mom-and-pop stores and restaurants raises RM31mil to fund aggressive plans for the FMCG sector.
Lapasar secures RM31 million from a roster of investors including KWAP, Creador, Gobi Dana Impak Ventures and Adaptive Capital Partners.
Retirement Fund (Inc) (KWAP) announces its first batch of investments — totalling RM100 million — in local startups and VC funds under its Dana Perintis strategy.
Lapasar is named among six Malaysian companies recognised in Forbes Asia's annual list of small companies and startups on the rise across Asia-Pacific.
Enam syarikat Malaysia, termasuk Lapasar, tersenarai dalam edisi tahunan ketiga '100 to Watch' Forbes Asia yang menonjolkan syarikat pemula sedang berkembang.
The Edge Malaysia reports that six Malaysian firms, including Lapasar, made the third edition of the Forbes Asia 100 to Watch list.
Digital News Asia recaps a DisruptInvest Summit 2023 panel where Lapasar's fundraising journey showed that a strong business and team matter more than chasing valuation.
How Lapasar is digitalising the FMCG supply chain to better serve small retailers and mom-and-pop stores competing against modern trade.
Pan-Asian VC firm Gobi Partners adds four Malaysian startups, including Lapasar, to its Superseed II Fund.
Thinesh Kumar's procurement platform Lapasar gives small vendors a chance to win — profiled among Malaysia's 50 digital economy influencers.
As chain supermarkets proliferate, Lapasar helps independent and traditional grocery stores digitalise and stay competitive.
B2B wholesale procurement startup Lapasar aims to serve 10,000 grocery stores, restaurants and hawker stalls after raising US$1.8m.
The startup targets to serve 10K grocery stores, restaurants and hawker stalls over the next 24 months with its new mobile app Lapasar-Borong.
Lapasar has been selected to receive support from Endeavor Malaysia, the global scale-up network that has backed over 45 local companies generating RM1.4 billion in revenue.
Tenaga Nasional Berhad adopts the Lapasar e-procurement platform to digitalise and strengthen governance over its procurement processes.
The Lapasar founders share their Startup Stories on disrupting Malaysia's procurement processes and their ambitions beyond the local market.
Lapasar lets enterprises procure operational, capital and direct spend within one add-to-cart and checkout environment.
Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd strengthens its procurement governance by digitalising its processes on Lapasar's e-marketplace platform.
The Lapasar e-procurement platform provides increased convenience for Telekom Malaysia employees as TM digitalises procurement.
The story of how Lapasar's founders set out to fix an unfair B2B supply chain — and built a thriving procurement platform.