TechNode Global Staff

Thailand’s MONIX closes $20M pre-IPO round led by SCBX and Lombard Asia

MONIX Co., Ltd., a Thailand-based artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital lending platform, announced Wednesday that the company has secured $20 million in the first close of its pre-initial public offering (IPO) fundraising.

Singapore’s PixCap raises $2.8M seed funding led by Surge

PixCap, a web-based 3D design platform in Singapore that allows users to find, create and export 3D designs in minutes, has on Tuesday announced its $2.8 million seed funding led by Surge, the rapid scale-up program from Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia.

The Sandbox announces partnership with Cut the Rope creator ZeptoLab to build new Web3 experiences

The Sandbox, a leading decentralized gaming virtual world and subsidiary of Animoca Brands, has on Tuesday announced a partnership with ZeptoLab, the global gaming company behind the highly popular games Cut the Rope, CATS: Crash Arena Turbo Stars, King of Thieves, and Bullet Echo.

Mobily joins hands with Tencent Cloud to provide cloud solutions and services in Saudi Arabia

Mobily, an integrated service company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), and Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of global technology company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a strategic collaboration that will pave the way to launch the next-generation cloud solutions and services in KSA.

Concerns related to driving range are shown as the main barrier for EV, says Kantar

Concerns related to driving range were shown as the main barrier for electric vehicle (EV) buying, says a study. EV considerers named driving range (46 percent), battery durability (43 percent), charging speed (42 percent) and availability of charging stations (41 percent) as the top four triggers that will determine their switch, and selection of brand/…

Singapore’s VFlowTech raises $10M Series A funding led by Real Tech

VFlowTech, the Singapore-based provider of vanadium-based redox flow batteries, announced Tuesday it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by Japan-based venture capital (VC) firm Real Tech Holdings.

VinaCapital Ventures invests $1M in Vietnamese agriculture technology platform Koina

VinaCapital Ventures, the technology investment vehicle of VinaCapital Group, announced last week that it is investing $1 million in Koina, a Vietnam-baseddata-driven Farm-to-Business (F2B) agriculture technology platform.

Binance invests in South Korean cryptocurrency exchange GOPAX

Binance, the world’s leading blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider, has invested in GOPAX, a leading South Korean cryptocurrency exchange licensed to provide fiat-to-crypto services to customers, as part of its Industry Recovery Initiative (IRI).