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Australia’s Language Confidence raises $1.5M in seed funding from Wavemaker Partners and Investible
Language Confidence has raised $1.5 million seed round to automate the teaching and testing of spoken English. The capital raise was led by Wavemaker Partners with participation from Investible. The funding will enable the company to expand its product offering and grow it’s already global customer base.
March 2, 2022
Korean digital content distribution firm RIDI gets $100B funding led by Singapore’s GIC
RIDI Corporation has signed definitive agreements to receive an investment of KRW 120 billion ($100 million) led by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC. Korea Development Bank, NVESTOR, and Atinum Investment also participated in this investment. As a result, RIDI has been recognized as the first unicorn startup in Korea’s content platform industry with an…
March 2, 2022
Three golden tips on how to retain your employees in 2022
One simply can not expect to take their employees for granted and expect them to stay because healthy relationships simply do not work that way. Employees make up the company you’re building and hence, it makes sense that as a business owner or business leader, you take care of the very talented pool of people who are working together to make the business…
March 2, 2022
News,FinTech,Mergers and Acquisitions,Asia,Malaysia
Binance & Cuscapi Bhd take strategic stakes in Malaysia FinTech firm MX Global
MX Global Sdn. Bhd announced Tuesday an equity investment into the company from Binance. It also landed another investment for Redeemable Convertible Preference Shares (RCPS) into the company by Cuscapi Berhad. These new capital injections will allow MX Global, a licensed fintech company, to build brand awareness, hire more high-quality talent and develop…
March 1, 2022
TechNode Event,Sustainability,TNGlobal Q&A and Interviews
Meatless food & plastic-free packaging trends driving innovations in APAC, says Mi Terro CEO Robert Luo [ORIGIN Innovation Awards Q&A]
Luo also shared what are the challenges faced by businesses in the context of sustainability and his firm's strategies to overcome these challenges.
March 1, 2022
News,eCommerce,Singapore,Investments
Singapore e-commerce startup Cococart raises $4.2M from Forerunner Ventures and Sequoia Capital for overseas expansion
Cococart has secured $4.2 million in seed funding to expand its growth internationally. The new capital was raised from Forerunner Ventures and Sequoia Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, Uncommon Capital, Soma Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures, Fitbit Chief Executive Officer James Park, Curated Chief Executive Officer Eduardo Vivas, and other strategic…
March 1, 2022
PropertyGuru delivers over $74.36M revenue in 2021, beats full year forecast
PropertyGuru Group said Monday its total revenue increased by 22.7 percentto S$100.7 million ($74.36 million) from S$82.1 million ($60.63 million), reflecting rising confidence in the property market .This is also 3.3 percent better than the group’s 2021 forecast of S$97.5 million ($72 million).
March 1, 2022
Malaysia needs “big innovation purpose” to stay ahead, says its government agency MRANTI
An ambitious purpose on innovation, a synergised ecosystem and a ‘bridge’ between research and commercialisation - these are among the elements needed for Malaysia to pull ahead in the region and achieve its ambition to be among the top 20 most innovative nations by 2030 in the Global Innovation Index, said Malaysian Research Accelerator for Technology and…
March 1, 2022
News,FinTech,Singapore,Investments
Singapore FinTech firm Volopay raises $29M for APAC and MENA expansion
Volopay has successfully raised $29 million in its Series A round through a mix of equity and debt. The investment round included participation from JAM Fund, Winklevoss Capital Management, Rapyd Ventures, Accial Capital, fintech veteran and angel investor Jeffrey Cruttenden (Chief Executive Officer of Acorns) along with Access Ventures, Antler Global, and…
March 1, 2022
Japan e-commerce giant Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani donates $8.7M to Ukraine for humanitarian assistance
The donation is intended for humanitarian activities to help people in the country who have become victims of the violence, he said.
February 28, 2022












