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Animoca Brands, the Hong Kong-based company advancing digital property rights for gaming and the metaverse, announced Monday it has completed the acquisition of 100 percent of the issued capital of French racing game developer Eden Games S.A.S. from Engine Gaming & Media. Animoca Brands will leverage the expertise and capabilities of Eden Games to work…

TiTi Protocol, a Singapore-based multi-asset reserve stablecoin, on Tuesday announced a successful fundraising round of $3.5 million, led by The Spartan Group. The round also saw the participation from SevenX Ventures, Incuba Alpha, DeFi Alliance, Agnostic Fund, Fourth Revolution Capital (4RCapital), Solidity Venture, and other institutions, as well as…

Sustainable investment needs to be powered by data, and the problem of ESG data today is that it is mostly fragmented, and whatever is available is a historical snapshot of self-disclosures with little value to forward-looking risk assessments. Technology is a key enabler to addressing these gaps and can make data higher quality, more consistent, and…

GoTo previously said it is also considering a listing in another market such as the US, according to earlier reports.

ZA Tech Global Limited (ZA Tech), a Singaporean technology venture founded by ZA International and backed by Softbank’s Vision Fund 1, has become the latest strategic partner to collaborate with Aladin Bank as an investor and a business partner, and is fully committed to strengthening Aladin Bank’s ecosystem.

The news came after VinFast announced recently that its Singapore-based holding company had filed for an initial public offering (IPO) with US securities regulators.

Google will also tap AirAsia Super App’s in-region network to expand its developer community in Southeast Asia.

Instoried, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based writer assistance tool in India, said Thursday it has secured a capital commitment of $200 million from Global Emerging Markets Group (GEM), an alternative investment group with operations in Paris, New York, and the Bahamas, ahead of its listing plan.

Peeba, the online business to business (B2B) wholesale platform in Hong Kong, said Thursday it has secured $4.2 million in seed funding led by Headline Ventures.The company will use the funds to deepen its localization efforts across 11 Asia Pacific (APAC) countries, as well as to further build out the machine learning technologies underlying its platform.

Hong Kong-based investment firm Newman Capital announced Wednesday the launch of its $50 million investment fund to help cutting-edge traditional businesses to strengthen their position in the ever-growing Web3 world. The fund is on the mission to accelerate the Web3 adoption, especially in the traditional business world, focusing on Asia.