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Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou has recently released an non fungible token (NFT) series called Phantabear, which is currently among the top four most sold NFT series on Opensea. Over 10,000 NFTs, each costing more than 1,000 USD, were sold in less than five minutes, banking them over $10 million and breaking the record for the fastest selling NFT in the world…

Singapore-based healthtech startup Smarter Health announced Monday that it has secured S$5.15 million ($3.81 million) in Series A funding led by East Ventures, with the participation of Orbit Malaysia, Citrine Capital HMI Group, and Emtek. The funds will be used primarily for product development and market expansion in Southeast Asia.

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CyberHash has recently raised $20 million in an early stage funding round led by venture capital firm Lemon, with participation from technology investor Alex Zhu. It intends to use the funds raised in the round to expand its cloud storage facility, which helps to provide a stable、secure and efficient solution to its distributed storage services. The funds…

Healthwire, has closed $3.3 million in funding. The round drew participation from 47 Ventures, Habib Bank Limited, Dilsons Private Limited and angel investors from Silicon Valley. The startup intends to use the funding to further fuel its growth and become the healthcare super app of Pakistan.

Almond Finance has closed a seed funding round of $2 million. The fundraising, led by Morningside Group, will drive hiring, product development and compliance requirements for multiple markets.

Vietnam automaker unit VinFast has released and distributed to customers its first batch of VF e34 electric vehicles (EV) at VinFast manufacturing complex in Hai Phong, Vietnam, making the country one of the world’s few countries to have mastered the technology behind clean-energy vehicle production.

Kopi Kenangan has raised $96 million in the first closing of a Series C funding, giving the company a valuation of more than $1 billion. The oversubscribed Series C round was led by Tybourne Capital Management, with participation from existing investors including Horizons Ventures, Kunlun, and B Capital, and new investor Falcon Edge Capital, Kopi Kenangan.

The firm, which has invested in several small and medium enterprises (SME) solutions companies, like GudangAda and UnaBrands, also believes that these firms will be the "next big trends" in the region.

The Sandbox, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, announced Friday that PwC Hong Kong has acquired a land site in The Sandbox metaverse. PwC Hong Kong thus becomes the first member of an internationally recognised professional services network, and the first member firm of the PwC global network, to publicly enter The Sandbox.