TechNode Global Staff

Azalea Investment Management Pte. Ltd (Azalea) announced the successful closing of the second fund of its flagship private equity (PE) fund of funds product, Altrium Private Equity Fund II (Altrium II) at $805 million. Altrium II capital commitments were from a diverse group of limited partners including pensions, foundations, insurers, family offices and…

Chain Debrief has closed a US$900,000 seed funding round. The round is led by angel investor Sim Jian Hong and supported by institutional investors QCP Capital, Gecko Ventures, Double Peak Group and Coinhako, Senior executives from Defiance Capital, Xfers, Mintable and other individual investors in the crypto space also participated in the funding round.…

Tribe announced the launch of hacksingapore, in partnership with the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), Enterprise Singapore, Government Technology Agency and Temasek, a ground-up initiative to drive innovation in technology and solve some of the challenges that Singapore may potentially face in the coming years.

Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou has recently released an non fungible token (NFT) series called Phantabear, which is currently among the top four most sold NFT series on Opensea. Over 10,000 NFTs, each costing more than 1,000 USD, were sold in less than five minutes, banking them over $10 million and breaking the record for the fastest selling NFT in the world…

Singapore-based healthtech startup Smarter Health announced Monday that it has secured S$5.15 million ($3.81 million) in Series A funding led by East Ventures, with the participation of Orbit Malaysia, Citrine Capital HMI Group, and Emtek. The funds will be used primarily for product development and market expansion in Southeast Asia.

CyberHash has recently raised $20 million in an early stage funding round led by venture capital firm Lemon, with participation from technology investor Alex Zhu. It intends to use the funds raised in the round to expand its cloud storage facility, which helps to provide a stable、secure and efficient solution to its distributed storage services. The funds…

Healthwire, has closed $3.3 million in funding. The round drew participation from 47 Ventures, Habib Bank Limited, Dilsons Private Limited and angel investors from Silicon Valley. The startup intends to use the funding to further fuel its growth and become the healthcare super app of Pakistan.

Almond Finance has closed a seed funding round of $2 million. The fundraising, led by Morningside Group, will drive hiring, product development and compliance requirements for multiple markets.

Malaysia-based property developer Country Heights Holdings Bhd has inked licensing and collaboration with Beijing Wodong Tianjun Information Technology Co. Ltd (JD.com). The collaboration will lead to the development of JD.com’s Omni channel business model using JD.com technologies and Country Heights’s resources for the Malaysian market.

SGX Catalist-listed Hatten Land Limited's wholly-owned subsidiary Hatten Edge Pte. Ltd. has entered into a Comprehensive collaboration agreement (CCA) with information and communications technology (ICT) provider Huawei International Pte. Ltd. Under the CCA, both companies will jointly explore and develop opportunities in cloud computing and enterprise…