TechNode Global Staff

Gusto Collective, Hong Kong-based BrandTech holding company, said Thursday it has raised $ 11 million in its seed plus funding round led by Animoca Brands and Gaw Capital. The oversubscribed round also received participation from BlackPine, YCI Limited, and several existing shareholders including ClearVue Partners. With the completion of this round, the…

Singapore-based robotics firm Eureka Robotics said Wednesday it has raised a Pre-Series A round of $4.25 million led by one of Asia’s largest deep-tech investment firms The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners (UTEC), with participation from Vietnam’s Touchstone Partners and Eureka’s seed round investor ATEQ.

Gogoro Inc., a Taiwan-based battery swapping ecosystems provider, announced Thursday it was partnering with Israeli two-wheel vehicle distributor Metro Motor and Israeli gas and energy company Paz Group to launch its battery swapping platform and smartscooters in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area this summer and other cities in Israel in the future.

Private market exchange ADDX said Wednesday it has partnered with investment specialist Fullerton Fund Management Company Ltd (Fullerton) to list Fullerton’s private equity fund of funds on its digital platform. The Fullerton Optimised Alpha Fund is a closed-end fund targeting 8 percent to 12 percent in returns per annum over its fund life of seven years.

CoverGo, a Singapore-based insurtech platform, announced Tuesday it has secured $15 million in Series A funding led by California-based SemperVirens VC with participation from US venture capital firms SixThirty, Tribeca Early Stage Partners and Fresco Capital. The startup's strategic investors include pan-African insurance group Old Mutual, Asia-based…

oHouse, a South Korean home furnishing and remodeling unicorn, announced Friday that it has raised $182 million Series D funding from prominent global investors to power the global growth of its groundbreaking lifestyle platform. The funding came investors including SoftBank Ventures Asia, BRV Capital Management, Vertex Growth which is anchored by…

SoftBank Ventures Asia, the early stage venture capital arm of Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group, announced Tuesday its participation in a $5.8 million new funding round of Seadronix, a next-generation, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solution for the maritime industry that develops autonomous navigation and assistant systems in South Korea.

Funding Societies, a Singapore-based small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) digital financing platform, has officially launched in Vietnam on Tuesday, marking its fifth market expansion .Addressing the SME financing gap in Vietnam, where the SME landscape is growing yet financially underserved, is a natural next step for the fintech company as it pushes…

Fundnel Group, Southeast Asia’s largest marketplace for alternative assets, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Monday with BRI Ventures (BVI), the corporate venture capital arm of Indonesia’s largest bank, to launch a first-of-its-kind BVI – Fundnel Secondaries Fund. Upon signing of the MoU and through this strategic partnership, Fundnel and…

After officially entering the Singapore market in January, global fintech firm Airwallex continues to progressively roll out key offerings in its global payments suite with Tuesday’s launch of its Airwallex Borderless Card and integrated expense management solution.