Google Pay, PhonePe Lead Indian UPI Market in November, Drive 82% of All Transactions

Google Pay, PhonePe Lead Indian UPI Market in November, Drive 82%...

Digital payment platforms PhonePe and Google Pay have emerged as leaders in the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) segment for the month of November. The two...
No Bull: Israel’s Remilk Raises  Million for Animal-Free Dairy Products

No Bull: Israel’s Remilk Raises $11 Million for Animal-Free Dairy Products

Israeli animal-free dairy startup Remilk, incorporated as Re-Milk Ltd., announced Wednesday that it has completed an $11.3 million funding round. The series A round...
Amazon Mulls USD 100 Million Investment in Indian Pharmacy Chain Apollo

Amazon Mulls USD 100 Million Investment in Indian Pharmacy Chain Apollo

Amazon India is mulling over writing a USD 100 million check for Indian pharmacy chain Apollo Pharmacy as it looks to level up its...
SG’s C-suite Raises Six-Figure Seed Funding to Expand Its Learning Platform for Executives in Asia

SG’s C-suite Raises Six-Figure Seed Funding to Expand Its Learning Platform...

C-suite, a Singapore-based O2O learning platform for current and aspiring executives, announced today it has secured a “six-figure USD” in a seed funding round...
Malaysia’s WISE AI Secures Pre-Series A from Sun SEA Capital

Malaysia’s WISE AI Secures Pre-Series A from Sun SEA Capital

WISE AI, an electronic know your customer (eKYC) startup based in Malaysia, announced today it has raised an undisclosed amount in pre-Series A funding,...
China’s GDP Growth Expected to Be 8.8% in 2021

China’s GDP Growth Expected to Be 8.8% in 2021

China's GDP growth rate is expected to touch 8.8 percent in 2021, thanks to the robust recovery momentum seen in major economic sectors, global...
Rely Secures USM Credit Facility to Expand Its BNPL Services in S’pore, Malaysia, Korea

Rely Secures US$75M Credit Facility to Expand Its BNPL Services in...

Rely, a Singapore-based buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) services provider, announced today it has secured a S$100 million (US$74.8 million) credit facility from Polaris, the strategic partnerships...
Malaysian Carsome Snags USM Series D to Strengthen Its C2B And B2C Offerings

Malaysian Carsome Snags US$30M Series D to Strengthen Its C2B And...

Carsome, a leading integrated car e-commerce platform in Malaysia, announced today it has raised US$30 million in Series D funding. The round was led...
Indian Conversational AI Startup Mihup Raises .5 Mn as It Eyes Hiring, New Markets

Indian Conversational AI Startup Mihup Raises $1.5 Mn as It Eyes...

Mihup Communications, operator of an eponymous artificial intelligence-based speech recognition platform for vernacular languages, on Wednesday said it has raised $1.5 million (Rs 11...
Chinese Baidu Gets Nod for Fully Driverless Vehicle Tests

Chinese Baidu Gets Nod for Fully Driverless Vehicle Tests

Online search engine giant Baidu Inc has received permission from transport authorities in Beijing to conduct road tests for five fully driverless vehicles, marking...
Google-Backed Indian Edtech Startup Cuemath Raises USD 40 Million from Lightstone Aspada And Alpha Wave Incubation

Google-Backed Indian Edtech Startup Cuemath Raises USD 40 Million from Lightstone...

Bengaluru-based edtech startup Cuemath has raised USD 40 million in Series C round co-led by LGT Lightstone Aspada and Alpha Wave Incubation (AWI), a...
Singapore’s Shopavision Rolls Out Live Streaming Shopping Platform in S’pore with A US4K Seed Funding

Singapore’s Shopavision Rolls Out Live Streaming Shopping Platform in S’pore with...

Shopavision has announced the launch of what it claims to be Singapore’s first live-streaming e-commerce platform, with a S$500,000 (US$374,000) in seed funding from...