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Gojek’s total funding now sits at $5.3 billion. Telkomsel has been working together as early as 2018 when they partnered to subsidize mobile data costs incurred by Gojek’s driver-partners. In November 2020, Telkomsel invested $150 million into the company to explore a “broad range of collaboration opportunities.”

Climate change causes changing harvest patterns that threaten the predictability of supply, while over-cultivation leads to the desertification of land. Food self-sufficiency, and farming in urban areas, could revolutionize our traditional modes of procuring food.

Acronis plans to boost the manpower in engineering, sales, and technical support teams. Currently, the company has 1,600 employees worldwide, with roughly 1,000 of them in technical roles. It plans to double the number of technical employees in Bulgaria, Israel, Singapore, Switzerland, and Arizona within the next 2 to 3 years. 

On the technology front, we're putting a lot of resources into building the backbone and foundation of what's needed to operate a multinational dark kitchen across various geographies, languages, and ethnicities. Traditional F&B isn't an easy sector to expand effectively in, we're really pushing to leverage technology to enable our expansion. 

Innovation and sustainability come hand in hand. For sustainability to truly be sustainable, it actually requires the presence of a vibrant ecosystem that is able to introduce new technologies and perspectives to address the challenges we face today.

"For POPS WORLDWIDE, we recognize the importance of localization and hence we have a team for each market, creating local content for the local audience. We also help brands and creators to think local and go global--providing them with the local expertise they need to reach out to over 407 million fans."

The emergency of climate change requires drastic changes. However, a lot of issues do not need a disruptive technology (often then contrary: old tech, low tech, symbiotic tech), but a disruptive change in behavior. Sobriety has a faster chance of success than developing alternative solutions to support the consequences of pursuing overconsumption.

A winner at the ORIGIN Innovation Awards--Startup Awards in HealthTech in 2020, Vault Dragon is a digital health solutions company that provides a full-stack enterprise solution for hospitals and healthcare institutions.

Una Brands indicated intends to use the capital to purchase and scale e-commerce brands operating in the Asia-Pacific region. The company plans to buy businesses that sell their products on leading e-commerce sites including Amazon, Shopee, and Lazada.

The company is targeting to start its fundraising for its Series D within the year with a target of $50 million. POPS Worldwide shared that it plans to use the projected amount to “further innovate, grow and expand across Southeast Asia, starting with the Philippines, as well as go deeper into Indonesia where the company is seeing impressive traction.”