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PSB Academy expands its City Campus with S$10 million high-tech STEM Wing

PSB Academy announced on Friday plans to launch PSB Academy City Campus: STEM Wing, an expansion of its City Campus in Marina Square.

Pakistan’s DealCart secures $4.5M funding led by Shorooq Partners

Pakistan-based social commerce platform DealCart announced Thursday that it has raised a $4.5 million pre-seed funding round led by Shorooq Partners. The round also saw participation from Fatima Gobi Ventures, Vibe Capital, 500 Global, i2i Ventures, Julian Shapiro, Rally Cap Ventures, Alex Lazarow, and several strategic angel investors.

Reconnect: How to Engage Employees in Hybrid Workplace [event recap]

The panelists discussed the challenges and opportunities workers faced when during the "work from home" period, the concerns employers have during those times and how can technology help companies to communicate and engage their employees better in a hybrid workplace.

Stripe and Saison Capital team up on new insights programme for Southeast Asia’s startups

Singapore-based venture capital firm Saison Capital will be introducing to its portfolio companies a new insights program in collaboration with Stripe, a United States and Ireland-based financial infrastructure platform for businesses.

Malaysia’s AirAsia, UK’s Skyports seal partnership to explore air taxi in Malaysia

Skyports Infrastructure, the United Kingdom-based advanced air mobility (AAM) infrastructure developer, and AirAsia’s Advanced Air Mobility, a dedicated unit of Malaysia's AirAsia Aviation Group Limited (the aviation arm of Capital A), have signed a letter of tntent (LoI) to explore the development of air taxi infrastructure in Malaysia.

Singapore’s Circles Global acquires Pareteum to accelerate growth in global digital telco SaaS market

Singapore telco Circles Global announced Thursday it has completed the acquisition of the Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE) business of Pareteum, a US-based cloud software communications platform company with operations in multiple regions around the world.

Philippines Packworks raises $2M seed round led by Fast Group and CVC Capital Partners

Philippines technology startup Packworks said Thursday it has raised $2 million seed round to launch mobile enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform for 150,000+ Sari-Sari store-partners in the Philippines. The seed round is led by leading end-to-end logistics group Fast Group and global private equity firm CVC Capital Partners, with participation from…

Singapore’s Helicap lists private credit fund on ADDX

Helicap Investments has listed its flagship fund, Helicap Fund I, on the private market exchange ADDX to improve financial inclusion for underserved individuals as well as micro- to small- and medium-sized enterprises in Southeast Asia, and to empower partner institutions to transform the way consumers and SMEs access credit.

SuperAtom raises $22M to expand its consumer financing platform to new emerging markets

SuperAtom, one of Southeast Asia’s leading fintech platforms, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $22 million in Series C financing led by Malaysia-based digital investment fund Nue 3 Capital.

Singapore’s SDAX launches integrated digital investment and trading platform

SDAX, a Singapore-based integrated digital investment and trading platform regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), has official launched. SDAX offers access to curated institutional-grade investments focusing on real estate and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) to institutional, accredited and retail investors.