AQWIRE claims it is projected to break US$1B in yearly gross volume by 2023 AQWIRE, a Philippine proptech startup, announced it has raised US$2.1 million in a Series A financing round, led by Spiral Ventures. Other notable investors in this round include Singapore-based Gentree, PropertyGuru’s original investor Vulpes, Hong Kong’s Betatron Venture, and Steve Melhuish, Co-founder of PropertyGuru. The company …

This article first published at: Philippine Primer   GCash, the leading mobile wallet provider in the Philippines, has signed a deal with Qwikwire—Philippines’ largest cross-border payments platform, to innovate the local real estate payment transactions in the country. Local Real Estate Payments In the Philippines, people still pay their real estate dues through traditional post-dated checks, bank deposits, over the …