Financial

Kata.ai, a conversational Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (NLP) startup, has secured an undisclosed amount in Series B funding, led by Taiwan-based Trans-Pacific...

Two of the major short video and livestreaming platforms, ByteDance and Kuaishou, are preparing an entry into the grocery group-buying sector, Chinese media outlet...

AQWIRE, a Philippine proptech startup, announced it has raised US$2.1 million in a Series A financing round, led by Spiral Ventures. Other notable investors in...

MadEats, a cloud kitchen startup headquartered in Manila, the Philippines, has received an undisclosed sum in pre-seed investment, led by Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen,...

Mumbai-based Pureplay Skin Sciences India, which operates vegan beauty products brand Plum, has raised Rs 110 crore (about $14.9 million as per current exchange...

As independent consortiums gear up to launch their own pan-India retail payment networks, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the player which currently dominates...

Cityflo, an app-based bus service provider, has raised ₹57 crore ($8 million) in Series A funding led by Lightbox Ventures along with existing investors...

Makkah-based ecommerce enablement platform Salla has raised $8.5 million in a Series A round led by STV with the participation of existing investors Vision...

Become, the leading online platform for small and medium businesses to find and optimize their funding solutions, announced today it has released a new...

Beijing-based consumer electronics and smartphone giant Xiaomi (HKEX: 1810) generated a record RMB 72.2 billion (USD 10.9 billion) in revenue during the third quarter,...

Cairo-based Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) platform Eksab has raised $500,000 from 4DX Ventures, a New York-based early-stage VC focused on African startups, it announced...

Dubai-based logistics startup Quiqup has raised $5.5 million in an investment round led by Delivery Hero, it announced today in a statement to MENAbytes....