TechNode Global Staff

GIMO has successfully raised $1.9 million in a Seed+ round led by Singapore’s Integra Partners. The round also saw participation from Resolution Ventures, Blauwpark Partners, and TNB Aura VN Scout. With the fresh funding, the company plans to allocate more resources for hiring senior engineers, strengthening risk management competencies, and integrating…

RWDC Industries Limited announced the closing of a $95.1 million Series B2 funding round co-led by Singapore venture capital firm Vickers Venture Partners and Singapore state investor Temasek. The funding will support the group’s expansion and boost its production of biodegradable biopolymer material that will help the group speed adoption of sustainable…

ADDX has enabled rare fractional access to a private credit fund with more than $1 billion in committed capital, reducing the fund’s minimum investment size for individual accredited investors from $5 million to $20,000.

The two VC Funds will provide equity funding to startups with strong growth potential in Malaysia and other Southeast Asian markets, focusing on verticals such as Artificial Intelligence, Fintech, Healthtech, Greentech, Industrialtech, Internet of Things and EdTech.

Following this investment round, Pace is now the fastest-growing multi-territory BNPL player from Singapore. The new funding will go towards expanding technology, operations, and business development, to hit a Gross Merchandise Value run rate of $1 billion in 2022 and grow its user base by 25 times over the next 12 months.

Quidd, the digital collectibles company and a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, announced that the QUIDD token has raised a total of $5 million via private sale, pre-sale, and initial DEX offering (IDO), and is now available on PancakeSwap.

Velocity has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures. Other investors who participated in the round include Presight Capital, Utsav Somani’s iSeed, Maninder Gulati (Oyo), Zac Prince (BlockFi) and Philippe De Mota (Hedosophia). Armed with capital, the start-up has set its sights high and aims to deploy over Rs.1,000 Crores…

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named a 14-member team, drawn from Chinese institutions, recipients of the 2021 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their project, Closing the "Quantum Supremacy" Gap: Achieving Real-Time Simulation of a Random Quantum Circuit Using a New Sunway Supercomputer.

Pomelo Pay has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Inference Partners. The investment will allow the company to expand its presence across global markets including Europe and Asia, starting with plans to double their workforce in London, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines.

Gojek and PT TBS Energi Utama Tbk (TBS) has announced the formation of a joint venture to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in Indonesia. The joint venture, known as Electrum, will act as a platform through which both companies will develop infrastructure for two-wheel EVs throughout the country, both parties said in a statement.