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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.

Athena Mentor (Athena), a Thai blockchain startup, on Wednesday introduced its core mentor-to-earn service with the key feature "wisdom mining", whereby a user can receive Athena Mentor tokens by contributing as a mentor or participating as a mentee.

Carzuno, a Singapore-based all-inclusive subscription platform for cars, announced Thursday that it has launched its operations across Thailand. The company has hired Wisate Kirin (ex-Carro, Toyota, Michelin) and Cathrin Samijtwong (ex-Servcorp, HappyFresh) to spearhead the car subscription operations in Thailand and enhance Carzuno's service ofering by…

Zaapi has raised a $4 million seed investment in the current round of funding. Prominent venture capital investors, including Global Founders Capital (GFC), Flourish Ventures, and Partech, led the investment. Other institutional investors in the round include 1982 Ventures, Kaya Founders, Iterative, XA Network, and Sketchnote Partners/Invertidos.

Thai venture capital firm ORZON Ventures on Friday announced its investments in five fast-growing startups in Thailand and Southeast Asia (SEA) region, namely Pomelo, Carsome, Freshket, GoWabi and Protomate.

On February 23rd, True Digital Park and TechNode Global co-presented the TDPK TALK Special EP x TNG Tech Insights Series: Building Connections and Capabilities Before You Land in the Thai Market session. 

Primo World Company Limited (PRIMO) has received Pre-Series A funding from Fuchsia Venture Capital Company Limited (Fuchsia VC) and Beacon Venture Capital Company Limited (Beacon VC). SOSV, the world’s top-five venture capital (VC), and Infinity Technologies VC, who contributed to the Pre-Seed round, also took part in this round of funding.

Manatal has closed $5.1 million in seed funding from Sequoia India’s Surge alongside angel investors. The fresh funds will be channeled into engineering as the startup looks to enhance their product offering and artificial intelligence (AI)-recommendation engine in the following months.