TechNode Global Staff
Singapore’s Qosmosys secures $100M seed funding to expedite strategic goals
Qosmosys, a Singapore-based space venture, has announced a seed funding round of $100 million. The injection of this seed capital allows the firm to expedite its strategic goals, fortifying its position as a premier private player in the burgeoning moon economy.
Vietnam’s FPT partners US’s Landing AI to advance AI development and education
FPT, a Vietnam-based technology firm, and Landing AI, a United States-based computer vision platform and artificial intelligence (AI) software company, have on Tuesday announced a strategic relationship that will drive the application and education of AI.
Malaysian stock exchange develops platform for firms to assess their carbon emissions impact
Malaysian stock exchange is developing the Centralized Sustainability Intelligence (CSI) Platform, to be used by both public listed companies (PLCs) and non-listed small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to assess their carbon emissions impact. The platform also allows firm to disclose standardized environmental, social and governance (ESG) data in compliance…
Southeast Asia leads in digital economy growth at 15.8 percent for the next five years: report
Southeast Asia (SEA) is racing ahead among the region in digital economy, according to the latest report conducted by market intelligence firm IDC and commissioned by global payments platform 2C2P and Ant Group. According to the report, SEA leads in digital economy growth at 15.8 percent for the next five years, outpacing the United States (9.4 percent) and…
Conrad Maintenance partners SoftBank Robotics Singapore for smart facility management service
Singapore-based cleaning firm Conrad Maintenance has welcomed its new shareholder SoftBank Robotics Singapore (SBRSG), the Asia-Pacific Headquarters of SoftBank Robotics Group Corp, as one of the first Singapore partnerships in order to transform the cleaning services into a smart facility management service in Singapore as (Smart Business Transformation…
City Energy and Gentari to study feasibility of building hydrogen pipeline from Malaysia to Singapore
City Energy and Gentari have signed a joint feasibility study agreement to construct a pipeline from Malaysia to Singapore for the import of hydrogen into the Republic. The study will be conducted over a period of 12 months.
Databricks acquires real-time enterprise data replication technology provider Arcion for $100M
Databricks, the United States-based data and artificial intelligence (AI) company, has on Tuesday announced it has agreed to acquire Arcion, a Databricks Ventures portfolio company that helps enterprises quickly and reliably replicate data across on-prem, cloud databases and data platforms, for $100 million.
Australia’s Employment Hero raises $168M Series F funding for global expansion
Employment Hero, an Australia-based employment management platforms, has on Monday announced a Series F growth round of SGD 229 million ($168 million) to fuel its rapid global expansion. The funding follows the company’s 2022 Series E and takes the total amount of capital it has raised to over SGD 572 million ($419 million).
India’s Giga ML secures $3.6M in seed funding led by Nexus Venture Partners
Giga AI, Inc, an India-based company that provides large language models (LLMs), has raised $3.6 million in seed funding to further its goal of helping businesses safely implement on-premises deployments of large language models. Nexus Venture Partners led the investment round, with participation from Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Venture, and Y Combinator Chief…
Qiscus secures $2M from Init6 for Southeast Asian markets expansion
Qiscus, a technology company providing an omnichannelcustomer engagement platform, has secured $2 million from Init6, an investment company founded by Achmad Zaky, who is also Co-Founder of Indonesian e-commerce giant, Bukalapak. This investment will be strategically used to strengthen Qiscus’ expansion into the Southeast Asian market in upcoming 2024.
