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Indonesia’s DANA closes latest investment from Sinar Mas and Lazada Group

DANA, a digital wallet-based financial technology company in Indonesia, announced Wednesday the close of the latest investment from Indonesian conglomerate Sinar Mas and leading e-Commerce company Lazada Group.

Atome Financial, HSBC Singapore seal $100M debt facility

Singapore-based FinTech firm Atome Financial announced Thursday it has entered into an $100 million debt facility with HSBC Singapore to supercharge Atome Financial’s flexible deferred payments business across Asia

South Korea’s Neowiz and India’s Polygon launch Web3 game platform Intella X

Indian crypto firm Polygon is teaming up with South Korean gaming firm Neowiz Corporation to launch a brand new Web3 gaming platform Intella X, to bring some of Neowiz’s popular gaming IPs to Web3.Exercising the core principles of user ownership in Web3, Intella X is designed to distribute the shares of all generated revenue back to the contributors of the…

Indonesia’s Diri Care closes $4.3M seed funding co-led by East Ventures, Sequoia Capital India and Surge

Diri Care, an Indonesia-based consumer health technology startup, announced Thursday it has closed its oversubscribed seed round at $ 4.3 million, co-led by East Ventures and Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia’s Surge.The round also saw follow-on participation from prominent angel investor, Henry Hendrawan.

Hong Kong’s Insilico Medicine bags new investment led by Aramco-backed Prosperity7 Ventures

Insilico Medicine, a Hong Kong-based clinical-stage end-to-end artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company, announced Wednesday that it has completed a second closing of its Series D round, led by Prosperity7 Ventures, the diversified growth fund of Aramco Ventures, bringing the total Series D financing to $95 million.

Brazil’s Votorantim and Singapore’s Temasek launch new $700M fund to invest in Brazil

Brazil-based investment firm Votorantim and Singapore state investor Temasek announced Wednesday a strategic partnership to explore new investment opportunities in growth capital in various sectors of the Brazilian economy. By the terms of the agreement, Votorantim and Temasek will be partners in a new investment fund, in which both parties have committed…

CleverTap raises $105M in Series D funding round led by CDPQ

CleverTap, an India-founded business to business (B2B) software as a service (SaaS) platform for customer engagement and retention, announced Wednesday it has signed definitive agreements to raise $105 million in a Series D funding round led by CDPQ, a global investment group who committed $75 million in the funding.