TechNode Global Staff

Chickin, an Indonesia-based poultry startup, said Friday it has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding led by East Ventures with the participation of other investors. The investment will accelerate Chickin’s mission in enhancing Indonesia’s food security, where Chickin will allocate the fund to focus on improving their growth, people, technology,…

Detect Technologies, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based software as a service (SaaS) enterprise in India, announced Thursday that it has raised $28 million in primary and secondary funding. Prosus Ventures led this round with significant participation from existing investors Accel and Elevation Capital, and continued support from other existing…

Malaysia-based integrated car e-commerce platform Carsome, announced Thursday the appointment of football legend, Eric Cantona, as its brand ambassador. In his capacity as ambassador to the brand, Cantona will take an active involvement in Carsome’s upcoming promotional activities this year as well as group-wide advertising campaigns in Malaysia, Indonesia…

Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturer VinFast said Wednesday it has signed international financing agreements with Credit Suisse and Citigroup in order to raise $4 billion capital for the development of its planned manufacturing facility in North Carolina and its business activities in the United States (U.S.) market.

Animoca Brands, the Hong Kong-based company advancing digital property rights for gaming and the open metaverse, announced Tuesday that it has completed a capital raise of $75.32 million. Investors in the round included Liberty City Ventures, Kingsway Capital, Alpha Wave Ventures, 10T, SG Spring Limited Partnership Fund, Generation Highway Ltd, Cosmic…

Web3 firms Vleppo and Tokel have successfully conducted a breakthrough digital procedure that will pave the way for the blockchain industry and non-fungible token (NFT) owners to establish and enable their legal rights embodied in the NFTs and digital transactions to be made legally enforceable in the courts of law around the world.

MedTel Healthcare, an India-based business to business (B2B) and business to business to consumer (B2B2C) connected care and remote patient monitoring platform, said Tuesday it is planning to raise around $10 million in Series A. Existing investors and leading venture capitals have already expressed interest in the series A fund raise.

Intellect, a Singapore-headquartered mental health startup, announced Tuesday it has raised an additional $10 million in a Series A extension, led by Tiger Global, bringing Intellect to a Series A total of $20 million. This round was led by Tiger Global and joined by new investors including K3 Ventures, JAFCO Asia, Singtel Innov8, and PERSOL Holdings, with…

Tanaku, an Indonesia based proptech startup, said Tuesday it has raised $5.5 million of pre-seed funding led by East Ventures. The round included equity and debt capital from an International Bank, Tanaku. The fresh capital will accelerate Tanaku’s mission to make home ownership accessible and radically transform the home buying experience, with the current…

The Good Food Institute Asia Pacific (GFI APAC) has launched a new “one-stop shop” database in collaboration with FoodInnovate ⁠—a joint initiative launched by Enterprise Singapore (EnterpriseSG) together with the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Economic Development Board (EDB), IPI Singapore, JTC Corporation (JTC), and the Singapore…