July 4th is the time to be proud to be Americans, and six Taiwan startups were invited by SelectUSA Investment Summit to consider investing in the U.S. Followed by the summit, they are visiting the Bay Area during the Independent Day weekend to exchange ideas with Silicon Valley startups, including
Transporta, an Indonesian tech startup, was recently selected as one of the 15 startups, out of thousands of applicants, to participate in the Startup Studio Indonesia Batch 4. The initiative by the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Informatics' aims to facilitate startups to accelerate their
Flow, the Hong Kong-based leading marketplace for timeslot hotels and workspaces, today announced that it has successfully raised over US$1 million in Series Pre-A to further accelerate expansion in Southeast Asian markets for hotels and travel experiences. The round was led by family office Millard
Houze, a proptech startup based in Vietnam that offers a fully integrated real estate ecosystem for agents and customers through its offline-to-online platform, has raised a $2 million of funding led by DKRA Group, giving the company resources to continue expanding its services and growing its team
SLINGSHOT powered by Startup SG returns for its sixth year. A new immersion programme for the top 50 global startups to explore growth opportunities in Singapore, as well as an exclusive collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) which offers access to cloud expertise, mentorship and its global co
Ubie, Inc., a healthcare AI startup with the mission "To develop a healthcare guide for everyone," has launched in the United States an "AI-powered symptom checker" that allows users to enter symptoms and discover related diseases.Ubie, founded in Japan in 2017 by a physician and an engineer, is now
◇Earth Venture Capital launches its debut fundAt the beginning of 2022, right in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, EVC announced that it had successfully closed its first fund and initiated an investment period. The fund is building a pipeline of early-stage startups which align with its investmen
GoKampus, Indonesia's biggest education and study program marketplace, recently partnered with globally recognized Martech SaaS giant, Netcore Cloud to join forces to enhance the quality of user engagement thereby offering premium value to consumers and increasing overall conversions. This agreement
Japan's leading data empowerment and software firm, WingArc1st Inc, launched its second round of the WingArc Data Empowerment Accelerator to enable startups to leverage the use of data through the right platforms and tools, enhancing their products capabilities to reach a larger industry audience. W
Microsoft Asia and She Loves Tech – a global platform committed to closing the funding gap for women entrepreneurs – today announced a multi-year partnership which spans 15 countries in Asia to contribute towards inclusive economic growth.The partnership will see Microsoft support an Azure-powered d
Poladrone, an end-to-end drone solutions provider headquartered in Malaysia, has raised US$4.29 million (RM18 million) in a Seed round led by Wavemaker Partners, one of Southeast Asia's leading venture capital firms.Other investors that participated in the round include the Malaysian Technology Deve
WeRide, a world-leading autonomous driving company, has been named "AutoTech Startup of the Year" in the annual AutoTech Breakthrough Awards conducted by leading market intelligence organization AutoTech Breakthrough. The awards program recognizes innovation in automotive and transportation technolo
Next Gen Foods, Asia's leading food tech startup, will provide an exclusive sneak peek of TiNDLE, the first chicken from plants designed specifically for chefs, at The Food Network & Cooking Channel New York City Wine & Food Festival taking place Oct. 14-17. U.S. consumers and chefs will have an opp
Korean AgriTech startup N.Thing, has raised $21 million in series B fundraising that is up from a $5 million in previous series that is secured $26 million in total. This has been runned as an additional round of series B funding, led by InterVest and Kiwoom Investment where are the follow-on invest
Advance Intelligence Group ("the Group"), a Singapore-headquartered AI-driven technology company today announced the closing of its USD400M+ Series D round financing from an investor consortium led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2* and Warburg Pincus. Other key investors include Northstar, Vision Plus Capi
The largest global innovation platform for industry accelerators, Plug and Play, has partnered with Enterprise Singapore, the Singapore government agency championing enterprise development, in running the Global Innovation Alliance (GIA) program. The GIA is a joint initiative between Enterprise Sing
그야말로 미국은 스타트업 최대 호황기다. 벤처캐피털(Venture Capital), 사모펀드(Private Equity), 인수합병(M&A)을 아우르는 사적자본시장(Private Capital Market) 전문 리서치 기관인 피치북(Pitchbook)에 따르면, 2021년 상반기 미국 내 스타트업 투자는 약 1500억 달러 규모로 역대 최고치를 기록했다. 이는 2020년 이전의 연간 투자액을 모두 경신한 기록으로, 그 배경에는 헤지펀드, 뮤추얼펀드, 연금, 국부펀드 등 소위 ‘비전통적 투자자(Nontraditional Invest
I Peace, Inc. (CEO: Koji Tanabe), a Palo Alto-based biotech startup focusing on Nobel Prize-winning technology of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) expands its personalized iPSC banking service. I Peace launched its clinical-grade personalized iPSC banking service in 2020 in Japan and has alrea
Wild Digital, the region's premier tech conference powered by Catcha Group, is bringing back Wild Digital Indonesia 2021 for its 4th edition. Part of their conference series, the event is happening virtually on 8-9 September 2021, and will be expecting 80+ speakers, 20+ live sessions and 800+ attend
Every Partner Matters! YAS MicroInsurance, a leading microinsurance innovative startup headquartered in Hong Kong, has partnered with and closed a Pre-Series A funding led by 500 Startups, a reputable global venture fund and seed accelerator for early-stage startups supporting their access to capita