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SPORTPASS, a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based gaming firm Animoca Brands, has on Wednesday announced a collaboration with Queens Park Rangers Football Club (QPR), marking the beginning of a new era in fan interaction and entertainment by bringing together the passion of football fandom with the innovative features of SPORTPASS.

Perfios, an India-based business to business (B28) software as a service (SaaS) fintech company, announced Wednesday that Teachers' Venture Growth (TVG), the late-stage venture and growth investment arm of Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board (Ontario Teachers), will invest $80 million into the company.

Kaskade finance, a gamified incentivization layer protocol based in Dubai, has just announced the closure of its pre-seed funding round from over 40 investors.

Malaysia Airlines has on Wednesday unveiled an innovative collaboration with Google, designed to accelerate Malaysia's ascent as a top-tier tourism destination while driving digital evolution within the aviation sector.

VAST Data, the data infrastructure company for the artificial intelligence (AI) era, has launched its regional headquarters in Singapore to service the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region.

First Move, an early stage fund, created by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, is making moves in the Malaysian startup scene by backing its first ten ventures in the first year.

Singapore-based UMAMI Bioworks and Shiok Meats have announced the proposed merger of the two cultivated seafood pioneers, establishing the combined entity as a global leader in the burgeoning cultivated seafood market.

Sugar.fit, an India-based health-tech startup, has secured an extra $5 million in Series A funding, bringing its total Series A funding to $16 million. B Capital led the recent funding, with previous participation from MassMutual Ventures and existing investors including Tanglin Venture Partners, Endiya Partners, and Cure.Fit.

Singapore headquartered digital behavior aggregator SQREEM Technologies has acquired Melbourne-founded programmatic business Trade Indy, as part of their ongoing global expansion plans.

AI Singapore (AISG) and Google Research have embarked on Project Southeast Asian Languages in One Network Data (SEALD), a research collaboration to enhance datasets that can be used to train, fine-tune, and evaluate large language models (LLMs) in languages spoken across Southeast Asia (SEA).