SEA

Fintech Pebble seeking to catalyze the mass adoption of Blockchain with $6.2M fundraise

Pebble has launched an app that pays you to save, spend, and send your money in one digital wallet. With the rollout of the product, Pebble concurrently announced their $6.2M raise to ignite the growth of The Money Revolution.

Singapore’s Funding Societies expands financing offerings for MSMEs via Islamic FinTech facilities

Funding Societies, the Singapore-based small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) digital financing platform, on Wednesday introduced its Shariah-compliant trade financing solutions based on Commodity Murabahah (Tawarruq) for creditworthy and underserved Malaysian micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) seeking to grow their business or expand their…

Grab Financial Group launches new brand GrabFin

Grab Financial Group (GFG), a Singapore-based fintech platform, announced Monday that it will be launching GrabFin, a new brand for its digital payments, insurance, lending and wealth management offerings. Following its launch in Singapore and Malaysia, the GrabFin brand will be progressively rolled out in other Southeast Asian markets in the coming months.

Mass-market metaverse builder Virtualtech Frontier announces backing by 500 Global

Southeast Asian Metaverse Builder Virtualtech Frontier (VTF), which has an extensive background in developing virtual environments, NFTs, and game development, has announced its vision to create a high utility Metaverse platform. Backed by venture capital firm 500 Global, the fresh funds will go towards team expansion to serve their waitlist of customers.

Indonesian culinary multi-brand firm Hangry eyes up to 100 outlets in 2022 while hunting for M&A targets

The company’s expansion will focus on Indonesia first before starting to expand regionally in 2024.

Singapore’s Oddle raises $5M in Pre-Series B funding

Funds from this bridge round will power product development and regional market expansion in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Singapore skyline SGX SPAC

Japan’s SBI, South Korea’s Kyobo & NTU Singapore to raise $75M venture fund

The fund aims to accelerate digital transformation in Southeast Asia and South Asia through the combined operational expertise, regional go-to-market connections and extensive industry network across the three general partners.

Singapore’s Jungle Ventures closes a $600 million fund, AUM crosses $1B

This brings their total Assets Under Management (AUM) to over $1 billion.

Zipmex invests in Thailand’s Fintech firm Forward

The investment, made by Zipmex Labs, a unit under Zipmex Group, is part of a series of investments aimed at promoting and supporting blockchain projects and entrepreneurs looking to transform the crypto ecosystem through innovative business ideas, Zipmex said.