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Golden Gate's move comes at a time when Southeast Asia is attracting more investors into the region.

Binance Asia Services, the blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency provider behind Binance Singapore, announced its post-money stake of 18 percent in Singapore private securities exchange Hg Exchange (HGX). Through this investment, Binance Singpoare seeks to work with HGX in enhancing offerings of products and services supported by blockchain technology.

Tyme has successfully secured investments from Tencent and CDC to complete its $180 million Series B capital raise. Tyme, which has its roots in South Africa, is using the funding to grow TymeBank in South Africa and GOTyme in the Philippines.

Xen Capital has raised $7.5 million in a Series A round led by Headline Asia (formerly known as Infinity Ventures) to scale its business to business to consumer (B2B2C) alternative investment platform.

Latin Leap and Enterprise Singapore (ESG) have launched the first market entry programme to help tech startups in Singapore to have greater access to business and partnership opportunities in Latin America. The Leap2LatAm programme aims to connect tech startups in Singapore with potential customers, multipliers, and joint venture partners in Latin America…

Tigerhall has raised $7 million funding led by Monk’s Hill Ventures.Other investors participating in the round include Vulpes Investment Management, XA Networkand Taurus Ventures. The funding will be used to expand its footprint into the United States and Asia Pacific (APAC) markets to continue expanding its enterprise client base.

Qashier announced Thursday a $4.7 million fundraise from Exor Seeds, the technology-focused venture arm of Exor. The company will be expanding its presence in Malaysia following the fundraise, as entering other parts of the Southeast Asian market is next in line as part of the company’s growth plan.

Big Tiny has raised $3 million in pre-Series A funding, gives the business a valuation cap of $22.5 million. The round was led by a prominent businessman, Koh Boon Hwee, along with Phillip Private Equity, GPPC Capital Limited, and Ascend Angels. This latest funding will be used to build on Big Tiny’s momentum, fuelling further growth in Australia as well as…

Altimeter Growth Corp announced that its shareholders approved the business combination with Grab at an extraordinary meeting of shareholders on Tuesday.

Tablevibe has raised a $1.5M seed investment round led by venture capital firm Global Founder Capital. Velocity Ventures and multiple angel investors, among which Farouk Kadous, founder of African fast-food chain Chickin Worx, also participated in the seed round.