<article>Indonesia’s ride-hailing giant <a href="https://www.dealstreetasia.com/tag/Go-Jek/">Go-Jek</a> has officially kicked off its operation in 12 districts across Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam since August 1 through local company Go-Viet, marking its international expansion.</article>

Indonesia’s ride-hailing giant <a href="https://www.dealstreetasia.com/tag/Go-Jek/">Go-Jek</a> has officially kicked off its operation in 12 districts across Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam since August 1 through local company Go-Viet, marking its international expansion.
This is an expansion operation after a trial of two of its services, Go-Bike and Go-Send in two districts 1 and 3 since July 18. Go-Viet will cover 12 districts in Ho Chi Minh City with a motorbike on-demand service in Google Play and will soon live on Apple Appstore.
“Currently there are more than 1,000 drivers registered to be partners of Go-Viet,” a representative of Go-Viet told DEALSTREETASIA in an interaction, adding that official operation in Vietnam will take place in the next few weeks.
After the testing, Go-Viet will be widely deployed in Ho Chi Minh City and quickly expanded to Hanoi as well as other provinces in the country.
The plan is to then expand into Thailand in September and the Philippines before the end of this year.
Go-Viet is a multi-service connectivity application, run by the Vietnamese founding management team, backed by Go-Jek in terms of technology, knowledge, expertise, and finance.
Go-Jek earlier launched two locally founded companies in Vietnam (Go-Viet) and Thailand (GET) to mark the first wave of its international expansion.
The Indonesian unicorn in May announced to invest $500 million in its expansion into the four Southeast Asian markets of Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines.
The Southeast Asia expansion, according to Go-Jek, follows many months of detailed planning and market research after its latest fundraising round, which was joined by KKR, Warburg Pincus, Google, BlackRock, Jd.com, Meituan, Tencent and Temasek, among others. The round is believed to have pushed up the Indonesian unicorn’s valuation to $5 billion.
In June, Go-Jek was said to be in talks to raise a fresh funding round of another $1.5 billion to support its plan to expand into new markets and challenge Grab’s domination in the region following Uber’s recent exit.
Go-Jek’s competitor Grab, meanwhile, is continuing to expand its foothold in the region. By the end of June, it launched GrabPay mobile wallet with GrabPay Credits in Malaysia and is eyeing more partnerships with local service providers.
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Indonesia’s ride-hailing giant Go-Jek has officially kicked off its operation in 12 districts across Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam since August 1 through local company Go-Viet, marking its first international operations outside of Indonesia.   

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