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Google will also tap AirAsia Super App’s in-region network to expand its developer community in Southeast Asia.

Instoried, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based writer assistance tool in India, said Thursday it has secured a capital commitment of $200 million from Global Emerging Markets Group (GEM), an alternative investment group with operations in Paris, New York, and the Bahamas, ahead of its listing plan.

Peeba, the online business to business (B2B) wholesale platform in Hong Kong, said Thursday it has secured $4.2 million in seed funding led by Headline Ventures.The company will use the funds to deepen its localization efforts across 11 Asia Pacific (APAC) countries, as well as to further build out the machine learning technologies underlying its platform.

Travel tech firms are finally able to hope for a better year as Malaysia reopens for international travelers after two years. But still, the recovery of the traveling industry may not be a smooth one as a sub-variant of the highly transmissible Omicron version of coronavirus, BA.2, is now dominant worldwide, prompting surges in countries across US, Europe…

Hong Kong-based investment firm Newman Capital announced Wednesday the launch of its $50 million investment fund to help cutting-edge traditional businesses to strengthen their position in the ever-growing Web3 world. The fund is on the mission to accelerate the Web3 adoption, especially in the traditional business world, focusing on Asia.

Sky Mavis, the Vietnamese gaming firm behind play-to-earn game Axie Infinity, said Thursday it has raised $150 million funding round led by Binance to restore funds on the Ronin Bridge.The round also saw the participation of Animoca Brands, a16z, Dialectic, Paradigm and Accel. The fund will be used to reimburse user funds affected by the Ronin Validator…

With the right support and innovation, FinTech companies can unlock better access to digital payment solutions, democratized investments, digitized traditional financial services, and even new verticals such as e-commerce for all Filipinos, driving the Philippines’ digital economy to greater heights.

To date, Pace has over 5,000 points-of-sale across the Asia region and is on track to meet its goal of 1 million users by the end of 2022. Pace also aims to have an annualized Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) of $1 billion by end 2022.

AnyMind Group, an end-to-end commerce enablement company in Japan, announced Wednesday the launch of AnyX, a one-stop e-commerce management platform for individuals and businesses that connects various e-commerce channels and AnyMind Group’s various platforms for manufacturing, e-commerce enablement, conversational commerce, marketing and logistics.