AI
Germany’s Soundcloud acquires Singapore music AI firm Musiio
Germany music entertainment firm SoundCloud announced Tuesday it has acquired Musiio, a Singapore-based music artificial intelligence (AI) firm. Musiio will amplify SoundCloud’s existing music intelligence capabilities and allow the company to further leverage its vast data to identify what’s next in music trends and talent.
Vietnam’s Trusting Social raises $65M Series C round from Sherpa
Vietnamese FinTech firm Trusting Social announced Thursday an investment of $65 million in the group from The Sherpa Company Limited (Sherpa), a subsidiary of Masan Group Corporation, for the initial close of its Series C round. It also announced a strategic collaboration between Trusting Social and Masan intends to develop an artificial intelligence…
Grab, NCS to pilot autonomous vehicle robot food delivery service in Singapore
Singapore-based super app Grab and technology services firm NCS, with the support of Sentosa Development Corporation, have teamed up to pilot an autonomous vehicle (AV) robot food delivery service designed to serve guests on Sentosa’s beaches and food and beverage (F&B) merchants along Siloso Beach.
Glife’s Caleb Wu & Novitee’s Benjamin Yang on the impact of data, AI & innovative financing on the future of food [Q&A]
In this TechNode Global Q&A with Caleb Wu, Co-Founder and Deputy CEO of Glife Technologies; and Benjamin Yang, Chief Executive Officer of Novitee, we learn how the partnership foresees the use of AI and predictive analysis to determine the supply and demand of ingredients a restaurant would need with every order made from a diner.
Temasek’s Heliconia Capital invests in Crown Digital’s $3.7M Pre-Series A round
Crown Digital, the Singapore-based full-stack hardware and software tech start-up behind ELLA the robot barista, said Wednesday it has raised S5 million ($3.66 million) in a Pre-Series A round from Temasek Holdings’s Heliconia Capital Management, Momentum Ventures (SMRT), ParticleX, Leave a Nest, Gloca Link and M4ever.
SoftBank Robotics partners UnaBiz to integrate IoT and robotics to boost facility management operations efficiencies
SoftBank Robotics Group Corp., a robotics solutions provider under Softbank, announced Monday that it has partnered with UnaBiz, a massive internet of things (IoT) provider based in Singapore, to initiate a seamless integration of IoT sensors and robotics in building management and maintenance that will streamline work processes, allowing efficient…
SoftBank leads US intelligent workforce platform Observe.AI $125M Series C funding
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 has led the $125 milllion Series C funding in Observe.AI, an United State-based intelligent workforce platform that transforms contact centers through artificial intelligence (AI). The round also saw the participation from Zoom Video Communications, Inc, Menlo Ventures, Nexus Ventures, Scale Ventures, Emergent Ventures, NGP Capital,…
airasia Super App collaborates with Google Cloud for digital growth
Google will also tap AirAsia Super App’s in-region network to expand its developer community in Southeast Asia.
US’s Gupshup acquires Singapore conversational AI platform Active.Ai
Gupshup, a United States-based conversational engagement firm, announced Tuesday the acquisition of Active.Ai, a Singapore-based conversational artificial intelligence (AI) platform used by banks and Fintech firms. The acquisition strengthens Gupshup’s customer experience (CX) solutions for banking, financial services, and insurance solutions (BFSI)…
South Korean AI-driven FinTech firm Akros Technologies bags $3.75M funding led by PeopleFund
South Korea-based artificial intelligence (AI)-driven asset management fintech start-up Akros Technologies (Akros) announced on Tuesday that it has raised $3.75 million led by South Korea-based peer-to-peer lending platform PeopleFund.
