CHINA:
1 China launched its national carbon trading market yesterday
4 Short video app Douyin sues Tencent alleging monopolistic behaviour
5 JD Logistics To File for Hong Kong IPO This Month: Reports
6 GL Ventures, others back gene therapy company Exegenesis Bio
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MOBILE-ONLY MARKETS:
1 India’s B2B marketplace Zetwerk raises $120m from Greenoaks, Lightspeed
2 IFC proposes to invest $3m in Bangladesh’s digital trucking platform Truck Lagbe
3 Indonesian startup Green Butcher closes seed round led by Teja Ventures, Unovis
4 Indonesia’s BukuWarung, an accounting app start-up, raises funding from Rocketship.vc, others
5 Monk’s Hill Ventures leads $5m series A round in Singaporean healthtech firm, Bot MD
6 Qapita secures investment from East Ventures to further develop digital equity management platform
CROSS-BORDER:
1 Newcomer Clubhouse Could Face Tough Competition from Chinese-backed Social Audio Apps
2 Amazon scores Indian win as court freezes Future’s $3.4b retail deal
3 Temasek leads $75m Series D funding in Canadian carbon capture firm Svante
OVERSEAS
1 Britain is cracking down on the $3.7 billion ‘buy now, pay later’ industry
2 Bezos to give reins to cloud boss Jassy as Amazon’s sales rocket past $100b
3 Google Cloud lost $5.61 billion on $13.06 billion revenue last year
4 Alphabet revenue up 23% as core advertising business shows strong growth
5 UPS shares jump on strong fourth-quarter earnings as Covid drives online shopping
6 Global PE consortium to buy US chemicals firm DuPont Clean Technologies for $510m
7 Rent-To-Own Startup Divvy Homes Raises $110M
8 Omnispace raises $60M to fuse satellites and 5G into one ubiquitous network
9 Valon closes on $50M a16z-led Series A to grow mobile-first mortgage servicing platform
10 Alma Expands Mental Health Network Buoyed By $28M Series B
11 Oyster Raises $20M To Allow Companies To Hire Anywhere
13 TrustLayer raises $6M seed to become the ‘Carta for insurance’
14 Alloy raises $4M to build out its e-commerce automation service
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