Sea makes major FinTech push as it acquires Indonesia’s Bank BKE
With this acquisition, Sea, which is regarded as Southeast Asia’s most valuable company, strengthens its foothold in the FinTech sector. The company is inching closer towards its…
Crypto.com announces partnership with Alchemy to enhance its developer platform
This collaboration expands the company’s chain support ecosystem as it takes another significant step towards its Mainnet launch. The partnership is set to give rise to a suite of…
Vietnam’s most widely used e-wallet app MoMo secures at least $100M in Series D
M-Service, the company responsible for operating Vietnam’s most popular e-wallet service MoMo, has secured at least $100 million in a Series D funding round. This is the most…
OpenBook Ventures is GitLab Co-Founder Sid Sijbrandij’s $100M VC fund reportedly looking to invest in Asia
Sid Sijbrandij, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of GitLab, has reportedly established a $100 million venture fund in 2020 called OpenBook Ventures, which looks to invest in…
Singapore FinTech Zipmex raises $6M to grow its digital assets exchange in Asia Pacific
The company plans to grow the team and work on its current product offerings and set up new offerings to further diversify. This will include working on ZipUp, Zipmex’s…
Singapore sets new rules for payment service companies that support crypto
On the first working day of 2021, Singapore’s Parliament approved a bill to impose stricter oversight on virtual payment service providers that support DPTs or cryptocurrencies
Singapore’s Grab Holdings boosts its FinTech unit with a $300M funding round
This is the first time for Grab’s FinTech arm to secure money from new investors. The new investment in Grab Financial Group is substantial, but Grab Holdings Inc. continues to…
How technology companies are pioneering the remote work revolution
For tech-based companies, the concept of remote working has been in existence for a long time. It is quite common for staff to work remotely or from home due to the nature of…
Opening the 2021 Cohort of Saison Capital VC Scout Program – April 2021
We are especially looking for unusual profiles and messy CVs — profiles that HR finds hard to place. Our Scouts include YC founders, ex-partners of VC funds, country managers of…
Malaysia’s TIME dotCom acquires controlling stake in AVM Cloud in a major cloud computing push
TIME dotCom shelled out over $14.5 million to purchase a 60 percent controlling stake in the company.
