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The Hong Kong Monthly Funding Tracker for June 2026 recorded total funding of $31.17 million across 2 rounds. This marks a 67.3 percent decrease month-on-month (May 2026: $95.3 million across 6 rounds), reflecting a quieter month after May's more active deal flow. Against the same period last year (June 2025: $0.1 million across 2 rounds), funding was up…

The SEA Monthly Funding Tracker for June 2026 recorded a record-breaking surge in total capital deployment, reaching $3,846.33 million across 18 rounds. This represents an extraordinary 1,616.2 percent increase month-on-month (May 2026: $224.12 million), and a 1,469.8 percent increase compared to the same period last year (June 2025: $245.03 million).

AnyMind Group, a business process as a service (BPaaS) company for marketing, e-commerce and digital transformation, announced Thursday the launch of its newest live commerce studio hub located in Bintaro, Indonesia.

BTSE Group, a provider of blockchain asset trading and technology solutions, announced Friday the official launch of BTSE Indonesia, a regulated Indonesian digital and crypto assets exchange established through a joint venture between BTSE Group and PT Aset Kripto Internasional.

Schneider Electric, the global energy technology firm, and Seraya Partners, a Singapore-based next-generation infrastructure investor, have announced the launch of Faraday Energy, a new energy infrastructure platform established in strategic partnership between the two firms.

Net Zero Challenge, Vietnam’s largest climate technology innovation competition, has opened applications for its fourth edition, offering a total prize pool exceeding VND21 billion ($800,000), with applications open from July 1 to August 31, 2026.

Temasek-backed Azalea Investment Management Pte. Ltd. announced Friday the successful launch of Azalea All Access, its first private equity (PE) evergreen fund, with $350 million in initial commitments from a select group of anchor investors.

Singapore-based dConstruct Technologies has closed a $125 million Series A funding round, marking the standout achievement of the inaugural cohort of Singapore's RoboNexus accelerator, a venture-building program under the National Robotics Program.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), together with leading financial institutions and FinTechs, have on Friday published an industry white paper on developing safeguards for artificial intelligence (AI) agents in finance.

Singapore robotics and embodied artificial intelligence (AI) companies supported under the RoboNexus accelerator are scaling into global markets and achieving strong commercial outcomes, as the National Robotics Program (NRP) concludes its inaugural cohort.