TechNode Global Staff

Bukalapak's fintech joint venture firm BMoney has launched stocks trading feature and special programs for the premium user segment "BMoney Privilege" in collaboration with securities company CGS-CIMB Sekuritas Indonesia.

Hong Kong-based gaming company Animoca Brands has partnered Hooked Protocol (Hooked), an immersive edutainment network focusing on Web3 mass adoption, to innovate edutainment practices and trends, enrich Web3 industry ecosystem diversities, and boost mass adoption of Web3 infrastructure among billions of Web2 internet users.

Kyoto Fusioneering (KF), a Japan-based fusion-power engineering company, has successfully raised 10.5 billion yen ($79 million) in an oversubscribed Series C funding round. Led by existing investor, JIC Venture Growth Investments ., the round welcomed a total of 17 investors.

StepChange, a top-tier corporate sustainability platform based in India, has secured over $4 million in seed funding led by BEENEXT and Global Founders Capital.

Vantage Data Centers (Vantage), a United States-based global provider of hyperscale data center campuses, has on Tuesday announced the development of a second data center campus (KUL2) in Cyberjaya, Malaysia with an additional planned US $3 billion investment.

Jenfi, a Singapore-based fintech firm has raised $6.6 million in a successful Pre-Series B fundraising round led by Headline Asia.

Apax Partners LLP (Apax) announced Monday that it has reached a definitive agreement to invest approximately $450 mullion to acquire a significant minority stake in IBS Software, an Indian provider of modern Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions to the global travel and logistics industry, from United States-based fund Blackstone.

Japan-based conglomerate Hitachi, Ltd. has on Monday announced that it has established a new organization called "Generative AI Center" to promote the safe and effective use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Animoca Brands, the Hong Kong-based gaming firm, has on Monday announced that it has committed to contribute to the Global Educators Fund, a $10 million grant fund set up by Open Campus Protocol (Open Campus) to supplement standard education curricula through the use of Web3 technologies and communities.

Etaily, a Philippines-based business to business (B2B) eCommerce enabler, has emerged as the winner of the Expand North Star Pitch Competition, hosted in partnership with the GITEX Global team in the Philippines.