Ryan Lee

Quest Ventures leads investment into BILLZ, a user-friendly retail management software for SMEs

BILLZ announced that it has raised a new round of funding from international institutional investors. The round was led by venture capital firm Quest Ventures and included participation from Sturgeon Capital, a London-based VC fund that invests in emerging markets.

Hivestack and Yahoo announce strategic global programmatic DOOH partnership

Yahoo and Hivestack, a programmatic digital out-of-home (DOOH) ad tech company, have today announced a strategic global partnership to connect its technologies and enable premium, programmatic DOOH cross-channel media campaigns on a global scale.

Fintech Pebble seeking to catalyze the mass adoption of Blockchain with $6.2M fundraise

Pebble has launched an app that pays you to save, spend, and send your money in one digital wallet. With the rollout of the product, Pebble concurrently announced their $6.2M raise to ignite the growth of The Money Revolution.

Climate tech startup Allinfra raises $6M in Series A funding round led by Nomura

Allinfra today announced the closing of its Series A funding round. Headquartered in Hong Kong, the company develops enterprise software designed to help institutions across a range of industries achieve their sustainability goals.

Polymerize raises $4.2M in Series A funding led by Elevation Capital

Polymerize, a material informatics platform for R&D in chemical companies headquartered in Singapore, announced today that it has raised $4.2M in Series A funding led by Elevation Capital. The round also saw participation from InfoEdge Ventures who had previously invested in their Seed round.

Red Door Digital lists Reign of Terror NFTs on Fractal Marketplace

Red Door Digital, the Web 3.0-ready game studio and publisher, today announced it will be launching NFTs for its in-house developed Web3 game Reign of Terror via Fractal, the online NFT marketplace for Solana-based game assets. Founded by Twitch Co-Founder Justin Kan and Google Drive co-founder David Wurtz, Fractal shares Red Door Digital’s mission to…

Maria Health partners with Deel to provide affordable health coverage to Philippine remote workers

Maria Health, the largest online health insurance marketplace in the Philippines, has partnered with Deel to provide access to affordable health insurance for companies hiring remote workers in the country.

Choco Up partners with Shoplazza to transform the financing landscape for DTC e-commerce merchants

Choco Up, a global technology and financial services platform offering revenue-based financing and growth solutions for digital merchants and startups, today announced its partnership with Shoplazza, a global e-commerce Software as a Service (SaaS) platform. Together, their collaboration will provide quick and accessible business growth funding for…

Mass-market metaverse builder Virtualtech Frontier announces backing by 500 Global

Southeast Asian Metaverse Builder Virtualtech Frontier (VTF), which has an extensive background in developing virtual environments, NFTs, and game development, has announced its vision to create a high utility Metaverse platform. Backed by venture capital firm 500 Global, the fresh funds will go towards team expansion to serve their waitlist of customers.

SMU and Synagie partner to upskill and plug skill gaps in Southeast Asia’s ecommerce and tech workforce

The programs are specially designed to address the specific talent and skills shortages faced by the technology and eCommerce sector in Singapore and Southeast Asia, with the aim of upskilling over 3,000 sector professionals by 2025.