Singapore’s Silence Laboratories raises $1.7M seed funding led by Pi Ventures
Silence Laboratories, a web3 focused cybersecurity startup headquartered in Singapore, said Thursday it has closed a $1.7 million round in a seed funding led by Pi Ventures. The round also included participation from web3 centric funds such as imToken ventures and prominent angels like Daniel Ari Friedman, Mahin Gupta, CK Vishwakarma, Priyeshu Garg, Ashish Tiwari, […]
Declout Ventures leads $4.5M investment in Charged Indonesia
Singapore-headquartered DeClout Ventures Pte. Ltd. has led a $4.5 million investment in Indonesia-focused e-mobility scale up Charged Indonesia, as part of their inaugural funding round. “Carbon emissions from traditional combustion motorcycles are one of the main sources of air pollution in Indonesia, and Charged Indonesia aims to improve this by leading the transition of combustion motorcycle […]
Singapore B2B commerce enabler Eezee raises $7.5m to expand across SE Asia
Eezee, a Singapore-based B2B procurement startup, revealed that it has raised $7.5 million in its Series A funding round that will fuel its further expansion in Southeast Asia. The funding round was led by Ayala Corporate Technology Innovation Venture Fund (ACTIVE Fund), one of Southeast Asia’s top corporate venture capital firms backed by Ayala Corporation and […]
Vietnamese e-commerce retailer Coolmate receives $2.3m in Series A funding
Coolmate, a Vietnamese menswear brand that sells through its own e-commerce store, has raised an additional $2.3 million for its Series A funding round participated by GSR Ventures and Do Ventures, according to an announcement. Coolmate is the first Vietnamese startup to receive funding from GSR Ventures, a world-renowned early backer of unicorns including Advance Intelligence Group, Nium, Ele.me, and […]
Singapore’s Monk’s Hill Ventures leads Starboard’s $3.5m pre-Series A funding
Singapore-based venture capital (VC) investor Monk’s Hill Ventures has led the $3.5-million pre-Series A funding in Starboard, a platform for founders to start and run their companies globally. The funding round was also backed by Actium Partners, Iterative Capital, Bruno Poh (General Counsel, Lyte Ventures), Lelaina Lim (CFO, Eu Yang Sang International Limited), Michael Tor (Executive Director, UOB), Soh Gin […]
Tencent, Sony buy 30.34 percent stake in Japan’s FromSoftware for $260M
Hong Kong-based Tencent Holdings Limited and Japan-based Sony Group Corporation have acquired 30.34 percent stake in Japanese game developer FromSoftware for 36.4 billion yen ($259.48 million). FromSoftware parent firm Kadokawa Corporation said in a statement on Wednesday that it has issued FromSoftware shares to Tencent’ subsidiary Sixjoy Hong Kong Limit and Sony’s subsidiary Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. Following the deal, Sixjoy […]
Japan’s oVice raises $32M Series B funding led by multiple investors
OVice, a Japan-based virtual office platform, announced Wednesday a 45 billion yen (around $32.5 million) Series B funding round led by a group of Japanese and overseas investors. The company said in a statement the investment puts the company’s total raised capital at $45 million. According to the statement, it plans on creating solutions that […]
Indonesian credit tech startup SkorLife scores $2.2M pre-seed funding
Indonesia-based credit tech startup SkorLife announced Monday that it has raised a $2.2 million pre-seed funding round from a group of high-profile investors. AC Ventures participated in the round, along with Saison Capital and an all-star list of angel investors in Asia, SkorLife said in a statement. The round’s angels include all the Co-Founders of OneCard (FPL […]
98point6 Raises Over $20M in Funding
98point6, a Seattle, WA-based on-demand virtual primary care company, raised over $20 million in funding. Backers included existing investors L Catterton (Growth Fund), and Activant Capital. The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand operations and its business reach. 98point6 is a digital health company committed to building a path to integrated, optimized care that […]
HumanQ Raises $2M in Seed Funding
HumanQ (formerly known as Experiential Insight), a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a live video platform for group coaching, raised $2M in Seed funding. The round was led by Kindred Ventures with participation from notable angels including Toast CFO Elena Gomez, Natus Medical CHRO Lisa Paul, Google Head of Engineering Dinesh Chahlia, and several others. […]