VIETNAM’S small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can now access up to 500 million dong (S$29,220) in funds online, under a new cross-border partnership to improve access to SME financing.
WAVECELL, a privately held communications platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) provider based in Singapore, has been acquired by New York-listed 8x8 for around US$125 million in cash and stock, marking...
THE year 2019 has been a big one for initial public offerings (IPOs), with Uber, Lyft, Pinterest and Slack receiving some of the highest valuations. But these big IPOs have distracted the media...
TICKLED Media, the startup behind parenting portal theAsianparent, is now eyeing the African parent community with the backing of Chinese corporate giants Fosun International and JD.com.
[SINGAPORE] Ride-hailing giant Go-Jek has secured an investment from Siam Commercial Bank, the Thai lender that counts King Maha Vajiralongkorn as its biggest shareholder, according to people...
[HONG KONG] Taiger, a Singapore-backed artificial intelligence (AI) startup whose clients include Bank of America, AIA Group and Banco Santander, has raised US$25 million of funding for its...
CHINA went through a five-year surge in venture capital (VC) investment that fostered a new generation of startups from ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing to TikTok-parent Bytedance Ltd. Now the boom...
[HONG KONG] Tencent Holdings Ltd.-backed grocery delivery startup Missfresh is seeking up to US$500 million of new funding to help tide it over tougher times, according to people familiar with the...
ASIA surpassed North America in Venture Capital (VC) deals in 2018, recording US$129 billion worth of deals for the year, as opposed to North America's US$113 billion, a report by alternative...
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