A structure fire is a fire involving the structural components of various types of residential, commercial or industrial buildings. Residential buildings range from single-family detached homes and townhouses to apartments and tower blocks, or various commercial buildings ranging from offices to shopping malls. This is in contrast to “room and contents ” fires, chimney fires, vehicle fires, wild fires or other outdoor fires.
Structure fires typically have a similar response from the fire deportment that include engines, ladder trucks, rescue squads, chief officers, and an EMS unit, each of which will have specific initial assignments. The actual response and assignments will vary between fire departments.
It is not unusual for some fire departments to have a pre-determined mobilization plan for when a fire incident is reported in certain structures in their area. This plan may include mobilizing the nearest aerial firefighting to a tower block, or a foam-carrying vehicle to structures known to contain certain hazardous chemicals.
Other investors in the round included Singapore-based Insignia Ventures Partners, TVS, Headline,TNB Aura and IVC, Finhay said in a statement. Earlier this month, Insignia, whose other investments include GoTo and Singapore-based used-car unicorn Carro, led a pre-Series A funding round for Bluesheets, a financial data startup in Singapore.
Finhay was founded in 2017 by Huy Nghiem, a Vietnamese-Australian who quit his finance job in Australia. The startup operates a micro-investment platform for Millennials and has more than 2.7 million registered users in the country of almost 100 million people. It recommends multiple micro-financial products including saving, investment and insurance based on the customer’s personal information and risk assessment.
“Finhay is already emerging as the clear frontrunner in Vietnam’s booming investment space,” Jessica Huang Pouleur, partner at Openspace, said in the statement. “We believe a massive opportunity exists in Vietnam, which has an enterprising population hungry for the chance to invest smartly.”
“A large number of people are now looking for ways to start investing – often for the first time, and we are exploring different ways to enable them,” added Nghiem. “It’s such an important inflection point.”
Other rising fintech platforms in Vietnam include MoMo, which has raised money from the likes of Goldman Sachs, Warburg Pincus and Vietnam Investments Group, and Toss, the fintech superapp operated by South Korean billionaire Lee Seung-gun’s Viva Republica.
