Singapore

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…

Polymerize, a material informatics platform for R&D in chemical companies headquartered in Singapore, announced today that it has raised $4.2M in Series A funding led by Elevation Capital. The round also saw participation from InfoEdge Ventures who had previously invested in their Seed round.

Red Door Digital, the Web 3.0-ready game studio and publisher, today announced it will be launching NFTs for its in-house developed Web3 game Reign of Terror via Fractal, the online NFT marketplace for Solana-based game assets. Founded by Twitch Co-Founder Justin Kan and Google Drive co-founder David Wurtz, Fractal shares Red Door Digital’s mission to…

BUD, a Singapore-based metaverse user-generated platform, announces Monday its $36.8 million Series B round led by Sequoia Capital India with participation from ClearVue Partners, NetEase and Northern Light Venture Capital. Existing investors GGV Capital, Qiming Venture Partners and Source Code Capital also participated in the round.

SwipeRx (formerly mClinica Pharmacy Solutions), a Singapore-based platform for pharmacies, announced Monday it has secured a Series B round of $27 million in equity and debt to accelerate growth across southeast asia (SEA). The round was led by Indonesia's MDI Ventures, with participation from global investors, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Johnson…

Choco Up, a global technology and financial services platform offering revenue-based financing and growth solutions for digital merchants and startups, today announced its partnership with Shoplazza, a global e-commerce Software as a Service (SaaS) platform. Together, their collaboration will provide quick and accessible business growth funding for…

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.

MatchMove, Singapore-based embedded finance firm, said Monday it has acquired e-commerce specialist Shopmatic in a $200 million deal, creating an end-to-end embedded finance and ecommerce powerhouse. The combined company will enable MatchMove to provide its Banking-as-a-Service capabilities to Shopmatic’s ecosystem of over a million e-commerce small and…

The Growhub, Singapore-based one-stop farm to table solution for food traceability and data analytics, announced Friday that it has inked a 5-year lease agreement with the Food Innovation Precinct Western Australia (FIPWA), to establish Western Australia's first food innovation centre creating a corridor between the two countries for agri-innovation,…

Nium, a Singapore-based platform for modern money movement, announced Thursday the availability of real-time payments into Malaysia, further strengthening the company’s real-time payments capabilities across the globe. With the addition of Malaysia, it now processes over 75 percent of transactions globally in real-time, and increases its total real-time…