TechNode Global Staff

Shomvob, the business to business (B2B) job-tech and human resource (HR) tech platform in Bangladesh, has on Thursday announced a $1 million pre-seed financing round led by Singapore-based early-stage venture capital firm Cocoon Capital.

PopChill, a luxury resale marketplace operating in Taiwan and Hong Kong, announced Wednesday that it had finalized a $3.1 million Pre-A+ funding round. The firm secured an additional $1.3 million, bringing the total funds raised in this round to $3.1 million, inclusive of the earlier announced $1.8 million.

Singapore-based angel investment network ThinKuvate has on Tuesday announced the launch of its first India focused Fund – ThinKuvate India Fund – I with a total corpus of Rs 100 crore ($12 million).

Singapore-based online property portal PropertyGuru said Tuesday that its total revenue increased 12 percent year over year to SGD 37 million ($27.45 million) in the first quarter.

International insurtech firm discovermarket has announced its launch in the Philippines, starting with its partnership with Globe Telecom Inc. - a full-service telecommunications company in the Philippines, to launch its embedded personal cyber insurance product.

REDEX, the Singapore-based renewable energy certificates (RECs) trading platform, will be an exclusive partner to Malaysia’s utility company Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB)'s wholly-owned subsidiary TNBX, to support the development of the Malaysia Green Attribute Trading System (mGATS) into the country’s preeminent digital trading platform for Malaysia…

BANIQL, a United States-based company developing a novel and sustainable approach to nickel and cobalt extraction from laterites using first principles, has announced the successful closing of its $1.6 million seed funding round.

Philippine climate technology startup Humble Sustainability (Humble) has secured additional funding to expand its operations and scale its business. The funding round was led by Asia-focused venture capital firm, Gobi Partners, through the Gobi-Core Philippine Fund (Gobi-Core).

Venture capital firm Vertex Ventures Japan (VVJ), has announced the launch of its JPY 10 billion ($64.24 million) inaugural fund, Vertex Ventures Japan Fund I (VVJFI), anchored by Vertex Holdings.

Osome, a Singapore-based finance admin platform for founders and small and medium businesses (SMBs), has on Friday announced it has concluded its Series B funding round with over $17 million in capital in a mix of equity and debt, from new and existing investors.