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Dash Electric, an Indonesian electric vehicle (EV)-as-a-service startup, has on Wednesday announced the successful close of its oversubscribed seed funding round, led by The Radical Fund and co-led by Bali Investment Club (BIC).

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and leading global venture capital (VC) firm Walden International are launching a new venture capital fund to support deep tech spin-offs from the university.

Canva, an Australia-based online design platform, has forged a long-term partnership with Philippines e-commerce platform Enstack to empower businesses with free design tools.

Funding Societies, the Singapore-based unified digital finance platform for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) has on Tuesday announced signing the third credit facility with HSBC under its ASEAN Growth Fund.

Singapore-based climate tech venture builder Wavemaker Impact has launched Numat, a new venture focused on transforming bamboo processing with sustainable practices.

Bizcap, an Australia-headquartered fintech firm, has on Monday announced its expansion plans into Singapore, along with the appointment of Joseph Lim as Asia Managing Partner.

NTT DATA, a global firm in digital business and information technology (IT) services, has on Monday announced the expansion of its strategic partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate the adoption of cloud-based data analytics and generative artificial intelligence AI solutions for customers across key markets in Asia Pacific (APAC).

Kenanga Research said Monday that data center and cloud boom is expected to benefit multi sectors in Malaysia.

FLock.io, a community-driven platform for federated learning on blockchain, has partnered Animoca Brands, the company driving digital property rights via non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and gaming to build the open metaverse, to explore co-creation opportunities for domain-specific AI models using FLock.io’s training platform and protocol.

Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional Berhad has launched the national fund-of-funds, Jelawang Capital Sdn Bhd, to accelerate growth of Malaysia’s venture capital ecosystem.