AI
India’s Detect Technologies raises $28M Series B funding led by Prosus Ventures
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…
Talkwalker’s Benjamin Soubies on how AI-enabled consumer intelligence is making a difference in customer engagement [Q&A]
In this TechNode Global Q&A with Soubies, we learn how the company's AI-enabled consumer intelligence platform empowers marketing, communications, and consumer research teams to transform millions of data points into actionable insights, enabling brands to better anticipate consumers’ needs and engage their audiences.
Korea’s CNAI raises $4.1M from Centauri Fund and IMM Investment
Korea-based artificial intelligence (AI) enablement company CNAI announced on Monday that it has raised a $4.1 million pre-series A funding round co-led by Centauri Fund and IMM Investment.
Singapore’s Eureka Robotics raises $4.25M Pre-Series A round led by UTEC
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.
SoftBank Ventures Asia leads South Korean Seadronix’s $5.8M new funding round
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.
Germany’s Soundcloud acquires Singapore music AI firm Musiio
Germany music entertainment firm SoundCloud announced Tuesday it has acquired Musiio, a Singapore-based music artificial intelligence (AI) firm. Musiio will amplify SoundCloud’s existing music intelligence capabilities and allow the company to further leverage its vast data to identify what’s next in music trends and talent.
Vietnam’s Trusting Social raises $65M Series C round from Sherpa
Vietnamese FinTech firm Trusting Social announced Thursday an investment of $65 million in the group from The Sherpa Company Limited (Sherpa), a subsidiary of Masan Group Corporation, for the initial close of its Series C round. It also announced a strategic collaboration between Trusting Social and Masan intends to develop an artificial intelligence…
Grab, NCS to pilot autonomous vehicle robot food delivery service in Singapore
Singapore-based super app Grab and technology services firm NCS, with the support of Sentosa Development Corporation, have teamed up to pilot an autonomous vehicle (AV) robot food delivery service designed to serve guests on Sentosa’s beaches and food and beverage (F&B) merchants along Siloso Beach.
Glife’s Caleb Wu & Novitee’s Benjamin Yang on the impact of data, AI & innovative financing on the future of food [Q&A]
In this TechNode Global Q&A with Caleb Wu, Co-Founder and Deputy CEO of Glife Technologies; and Benjamin Yang, Chief Executive Officer of Novitee, we learn how the partnership foresees the use of AI and predictive analysis to determine the supply and demand of ingredients a restaurant would need with every order made from a diner.
Temasek’s Heliconia Capital invests in Crown Digital’s $3.7M Pre-Series A round
Crown Digital, the Singapore-based full-stack hardware and software tech start-up behind ELLA the robot barista, said Wednesday it has raised S5 million ($3.66 million) in a Pre-Series A round from Temasek Holdings’s Heliconia Capital Management, Momentum Ventures (SMRT), ParticleX, Leave a Nest, Gloca Link and M4ever.
