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StaffAny has raised $3.4 million in its Series A funding round. This investment was led by GGV Capital, with participation from East Ventures, FreakOut Shinsei Fund, Far East Ventures, Farquhar Venture Capital and prolific business angels such as Allen Shim, the former Chief Financial Officer of Slack. It will use this new investment to grow the company,…

NPX Capital announced that the firm through its private equity arm NPX Private Equity has invested $43 million into South Korean digital content developer Copin Communications. The investment by NPX Capital will be used to strengthen and diversify digital content production capabilities as well as to support business expansion overseas, targeting promising…

The VinFuture Prize rewards breakthrough scientific research and technological innovations with humanitarian outcomes. The VinFuture Prize is aligned with one or more of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and is grounded in recognizing proven, real-life impact. Winners demonstrated breakthrough innovations in science and technology focused on…

Infinity Force announced its $5.5 million seed-funding raise led by Animoca Brands. Other participants in the round included JUMP Capital, Sky Vision Capital, OKex Blockdream Ventures, MEXC, GSR, Double Peak Group, Tokenbay, DWeb3, and more. It will use the new funding to further scale its functionality to facilitate onboarding games, guilds and players, as…

Ancient8 announced the completion of a $4 million round of seed financing led by Dragonfly Capital, Pantera Capital, and Hashed. The round also saw the participation from strategic backers including Mechanism Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Alameda Research, 3Twelve Capital, Coin98 Ventures, Kyros Ventures, Raydium, Jump Capital, GuildFi, Impossible Finance,…

GuruLab has closed a $1 million seed round. It intends to use the funds to enhance its proprietary analytics platform and expand its offerings within Malaysia’s education ecosystem.

Moladin has raised a $42 million Series A investment round led by Sequoia Capital India and Northstar Group. The investment, which is one of Southeast Asia’s largest Series A funding rounds, will allow Moladin to solidify its position as Indonesia’s leading used car platform. The round also includes participation from East Ventures, Global Founders Capital,…

Newswav has raised RM6 million in its latest Series A funding led by OSK Ventures International Berhad (OSKVI) to further strengthen its market-leader position and drive user penetration in key market segments. As part of its expansion plans, part of its funds will be used towards user acquisition, strengthening their leadership in the content aggregation…

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Monday issued guidelines giving effect to MAS’ expectations that Digital Payment Token (DPT or more commonly known as cryptocurrency) service providers should not promote their DPT services to the general public in Singapore.

Alpha JWC Ventures forecasts that Indonesia will produce at least 10 more unicorns by 2025. The VC firm saw four unicorns from its portfolio in 2021, with 14 companies valued between $500 million to $1 billion, buoyed by global investors’ interests and the strong performance of Indonesia’s tech sector. In the fourth quarter of last year, the VC firm also…