Asia

The Radical Fund, Southeast Asia’s climate-focused venture capital firm, has announced the launch of The Studio, UTOPIA’s artificial intelligence (AI)-native venture builder supporting high-potential founders and technical experts across the Global South.

Binance, the global blockchain ecosystem behind the world's largest digital asset exchange by trading volume and users, announced Wednesday that its Co-founder Yi He, has been appointed as Co-Chief Executive Officer (Co-CEO).

MoneyHero Limited, a tech- and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered personal finance aggregation and comparison platform and a digital insurance brokerage provider in Greater Southeast Asia, has announced the expansion of its digital asset wealth product offerings through its new collaboration with HashKey Group, a Hong Kong-based digital asset company.

Hong Kong-based Web3 firm Animoca Brands announced Monday that it has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Rayls, a blockchain ecosystem to bridge traditional finance with decentralized finance, for a strategic partnership focused on the tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs).

The cross-market forces is shaping Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ)’s emergence in the global artificial intelligence (AI) landscape, a report from UiPath showed recently.

Amid escalating economic and geopolitical uncertainty, nearly half of governance leaders in Asia (48 percent) are prioritizing artificial intelligence (AI) adoption as a top strategic priority for 2026, a recent report showed.

Sunway Innovation Labs (Sunway iLabs), the innovation lab and corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of Sunway Group, and the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) Kuala Lumpur, have concluded the J-StarX Malaysia Deep Tech Program (MYTech) 2025 to accelerate four Japanese startups’ expansion into Malaysia and the ASEAN region.

WeRide, a China-based autonomous driving technology firm, and Uber Technologies, have on Wednesday announced the launch of Level 4 fully driverless Robotaxi commercial operations in Abu Dhabi.

Gobi Partners, one of Asia’s most active venture capital firms, has entered Japan through JR East’s TAKANAWA GATEWAY Link Scholars’ Hub (LiSH) as a Global Network Partner, marking a decisive step in connecting Japan’s innovation frontier with Southeast Asia’s growth markets.

Japan-based SoftBank Group Corp. announced Wednesday that it has completed the acquisition of all equity interests in Ampere Computing Holdings LLC, a U.S.-based semiconductor design company, through its subsidiary Silver Bands 6 (US) Corp.