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Sedania Innovator Berhad (Sedania)'s Singapore-based Esports Players League (ESPL) on Wednesday announced a partnership with Yield Guild Games Southeast Asia (YGG SEA) as part of its vision to amass gamers in the cryptocurrency, non-fungible token (NFT) gaming and metaverse sphere. The partnership aims to generate up to 300,000 gamers for ESPL and Sedania.

PhableCare, an India-based chronic disease management company, said Monday it has raised Series B funding of INR187 crores ($25 million) led by Kalaari Capital with participation from Aflac Ventures, Digital Horizon, Stride Ventures. Existing investors, Omron Ventures, SOSV, Social Starts, and Fresco Capital also participated in the round.

EUDA Health Limited, a Singapore-based digital health platform, and 8i Acquisition 2 Corp. (8i)(NASDAQ: LAX), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, announced Tuesday that they have entered into a definitive business combination agreement that will result in EUDA Health Limited becoming a publicly listed company

Singapore-based FinTech firm FOMO Pay said Wednesday it has rolled out a new cryptocurrency (crypto) payment solution for retailers in Singapore, which allowed them to accept digital payment tokens (DPT). The new payment method targetted at retailers is the first such to be developed by a DPT licensee in Singapore.

JULO, an Indonesia-based FinTech firm, said Wednesday it has secured $80 million funding from Credit Saison, a Japanese financial services company affiliated to Mizuho Financial Group. This funding includes a mix of $30 million equity and $50 million debt fully funded by Credit Saison.

Zetrix is the international extension of Xinghuo BIF, China’s largest national-level blockchain network supported by all levels of the Chinese government and running both governmental and commercial applications.

Hmlet,a Singapore-based flexible living company, said Tuesday it is merging with Habyt, a European co-living player, to create a global company catering to the fast-growing flexible living sector. The combined group will have a presence in 10 countries and 20 cities.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 has led the $125 milllion Series C funding in Observe.AI, an United State-based intelligent workforce platform that transforms contact centers through artificial intelligence (AI). The round also saw the participation from Zoom Video Communications, Inc, Menlo Ventures, Nexus Ventures, Scale Ventures, Emergent Ventures, NGP Capital,…

Funding Societies, Southeast Asia’s largest small and medium enterprise (SME) digital financing platform, announced Wednesday that it has partnered Dedoco, a Singapore-based decentralized digital document and workflow management platform, to become one of the first FinTech platforms to enable micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) customers in Singapore…

The concerns center on the way that Zilingo accounted for transactions and revenue across a platform spanning thousands of small merchants, the report said.