Singapore

HitPay, a Singapore-based one-stop payments platform for small and medium-sized businesses, announced Tuesday its $15.75 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global and joined by returning investors Global Founders Capital and HOF Capital.The funding will enable HitPay to continue building the best payment gateway for small businesses and support…

Cloudwall Capital, a new digital asset risk management startup based in United States and Singapore, said Wednesday it has raised $6.3m in seed funding led by LocalGlobe and Illuminate Financial to help it build the tool to bridge the traditional finance world with digital assets and decentralized finance. They were joined by a syndicate of investors…

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced Tuesday the commencement of Project Guardian, a collaborative initiative with the financial industry that seeks to explore the economic potential and value-adding use cases of asset tokenisation.

As part of the sponsorship, Amgen will support one "Golden Ticket" award each year for three years, providing winners with one year of free residency in NSG Biolabs’ fully equipped turnkey BSL-2 laboratory as well as additional facility benefits and connections to Amgen's scientific and business leaders.

Privyr, a Singapore-based startup that helps consumer-facing salespeople and businesses convert leads right from their phones, said Tuesday it has raised $6 million in Series A funding. The round was led by MassMutual Ventures and Vulcan Capital, with participation from Wavemaker Partners, bestselling author Nir Eyal, and former Facebook executive Gwendolyn…

GetGo, the Point A-to-A carsharing platform in Singapore, announced Monday that it has signed two separate memorandum of understandings (MoUs) with HMGICS and CDG ENGIE, commemorating the company’s next major step towards realising its vision of a sustainable and shared mobility ecosystem within Singapore.

Dedoco, a Singapore-based document infrastructure platform for enterprise Web3, said Friday it has secured $3 million funding from True Global Ventures 4 Plus (TGV4 Plus) Fund to fuel its global expansion. The latest investment brings Dedoco's total capital raised to $7.5 million.

Singapore eyewear house Neso Brands announced on Thursday an investment of more than $100 million into eyewear brands. It will partner and invest in consumer eyewear brands around the world and grow these brands by leveraging synergies across the Lenskart Group to accelerate international expansion. Neso is an initiative of omni-channel eyewear unicorn…

Some of the venture capital firms have already started scouting opportunities to invest in renewable energy startups in the region.

BILLZ announced that it has raised a new round of funding from international institutional investors. The round was led by venture capital firm Quest Ventures and included participation from Sturgeon Capital, a London-based VC fund that invests in emerging markets.