CHINA:
2 Taiwan asks TSMC and other chipmakers to help ease global crunch
3 Tencent Market Value Near $1 Trillion
4 Huawei ramps up wearables effort with focus on health care amid push into new growth areas
5 Chinese Self-Driving Startup Uisee Raises RMB1 Billion
6 Chinese edtech firm Huohua Siwei 火花思维 nets over $400m in Series E round
7 SoftBank-backed travel platform Klook raises $200M amid COVID-19
8 WeNext supply chain service platform bags over $15m
9 EDA Startup X-Epic Secures Financing As China Seeks Tech Self-Sufficiency
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MOBILE-ONLY MARKETS:
1 India Permanently Bans 59 Chinese APPs Including Tech Giants TikTok and Wechat
2 Indian social commerce app Kiko TV scores SOSV backing
3 Blackstone-owned Aadhar Housing Finance files draft papers for its $1b Indian listing
4 Indian mortgage financier Home First Finance’s IPO subscribed 27 times on final day
5 India’s fintech Ruptok gets funding from Canada’s Wurk
6 Vietnam’s Vingroup to raise $304m via bonds for phone, auto units
7 Grab to raise $2b in US IPO in second half of 2021, picks bankers: Report
CROSS-BORDER:
1 SEA group’s Shopee scales up Brazil ops, evaluates Latam potential
2 Blackberry and Baidu deepen autonomous, connected car partnership
OVERSEAS
1 Amazon Union Drive in Alabama Warehouse Gains Momentum
2 Wolt closes $530M round to continue expanding beyond restaurant delivery
3 Melio raises $110M on a $1.3B valuation to bring B2B payments for SMBs into the 21st century
4 Alma raises $59.4 million for its Klarna-like payment option
5 BlackCart raises $8.8M Series A for its try-before-you-buy platform for online merchants
6 Amber Raises $8.5M Series B For ‘Second Electrical Revolution’
7 Proving voicemail doesn’t have to be wack, the Slack-backed startup Yac raises $7.5 million
8 Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa
9 Goalsetter raises $3.9 million to teach financial literacy to kids
10 Cybersecurity startup SpiderSilk raises $2.25M to help prevent data breaches
11 SafetyWings travel medical insurance start up Lands Series A
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