Singapore

Singapore leads Southeast Asia in per capita adoption of Google's Gemini AI platform and ranks first globally by the same measure, while Vietnam dominates the region in mathematical reasoning, coding, and AI-assisted education.

Singapore-based pQCee, a post-quantum cryptography solutions firm, has raised $3.9 million in a seed funding round co-led by SGInnovate and Lotus One Investment, with participation from In Group Holdings, Wavemaker Ventures, SUTD Venture Holdings, and Apsara Investments.

Singaporean-Founded Paymonade has been granted a MiCA license by Liechtenstein's Financial Market Authority (FMA) to provide regulated crypto-asset services across all 30 states of the European Economic Area under a single passportable license.

Crypto.com announced Thursday a strategic $400 million investment from Citadel Securities valuing the company at $20 billion.

Singapore-based enterprise AI company Whale has raised $40 million in a Series C extension, bringing its total Series C funding to $100 million, as it looks to expand operations across North America, the Middle East, and Europe.

London-based Winnow, an AI-powered food waste solution provider, has acquired Singapore's Lumitics, a food waste technology company operating in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, the former said in a statement on Thursday, without any financial details.

DigiFT, a Singapore and Hong Kong-based regulated digital asset exchange for institutional-grade real-world assets (RWAs), and SBI Global Asset Management Co., Ltd. (SBI GAM), a subsidiary of SBI Holdings, Inc., have on Wednesday announced the launch of the SBI Japan High Dividend Equity Strategy Token (JX token).

Singapore's Rize, an agricultural technology company working to reduce emissions from rice cultivation, has raised $31 million in a Series B round comprising $20 million in equity and $11 million in debt financing.

The Vietnam Advanced Manufacturing Research Center (VAMRC), a joint project of Vietnam and Singapore, is set to develop automation, robotics, artificial intelligence in manufacturing, factory digital transformation, green manufacturing, and supply chain resilience.

PixVerse, a global AI video generation platform with over 150 million users across 177 countries, has completed a Series C extension bringing total Series C fundraising to $439 million, following strong interest from international investors across media, entertainment, and technology.