CHINA:
1. JD.com to spin off its shipping arm through a Hong Kong listing
2. China’s Huawei willing to transfer 5G technology globally
3. Beijing Universal Resort Partners With Tencent, League of Legends Wild Rift Receives Game Approval
4. Chinese e-commerce platform Dmall said to plan $500m US IPO this year
5. Tea brand Nayuki 奈雪的茶 said to go IPO in Hong Kong this year
7. Qiming Venture Partners leads $15.5m Series C round in healthtech startup Liangyihui 良医汇
8. Chinese precision medicine firm Chigene closes $15.5m Series B round
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MOBILE-ONLY MARKETS:
1. India, SEA-focused VC Avatar Ventures raises $100m in final close of new fund
2. India Deal Review: Startups raise $1b across 89 deals in January
3. Tata Group strikes a deal to acquire majority stake in BigBasket
4. India’s decacorn Byju’s to acquire rival Toppr for US$150M
5. Indian edtech unicorn Unacademy buys networking platform TapChief
6. Prosus Ventures in final stages to invest $200m in Indian online pharmacy platform PharmEasy
7. India-based neobank Zolve nets $15m in Accel, Lightspeed-led round
8. India’s cybersecurity startup 1Kosmos raises $15m
9. Indian edtech firm Pariksha bags $2m in pre-series A round
10. India-based edtech startup WizKlub nets $825k in pre-series A round
11. Thai insurtech firm AppMan lands $4.6m in series A round
12. Indonesian government threatens ban on popular Clubhouse app
13. Indonesian early-stage VC firm SALT Ventures begins raising $20m second fund
14. East Ventures, Traveloka join $1.1m round in Indonesian martech startup Member.id
15. Singapore govt sets aside $22.7m for electric vehicles
16. Grab teams up with UniPin, Yummy Corp in Indonesia
CROSS-BORDER:
2. Willis Towers Watson acquires Hong Kong’s HR tech startup Jobable
3. Amazon partners with Foxconn to make Fire TV Sticks in India
OVERSEAS
1. Tech investor Klaus Hommels launches $332 million SPAC in Europe
2. Elon Musk’s SpaceX raised $850 million, jumping valuation to about $74 billion
3. Amazon acquires Selz, a Shopify competitor that helps small businesses build online stores
4. Sinch acquires Inteliquent for $1.14B to take on Twilio in the US
5. Investing social network Public.com gets its horn after $220M Series D
6. Locus Robotics has raised a $150M Series E
7. Low-code focused OutSystems raises $150M at a $9.5B valuation
8. Crypto wallet and exchange company Blockchain.com raises $120 million
9. TigerGraph Raises $105M To Help Companies Better Understand Data
10. Leveraging R&D Tax Credits: Boast.ai Inks $100M To Front Tax Credits
11. Cloud data integration platform Matillion Closes $100M Round To Make Data Useful
12. Spain’s Copado lands $96M for devops platform
13. Personetics lands $75M for AI-driven finance
14. SeedFi Banks $65M To Help Americans Build Credit, Savings
15. Ally.io Helps Connect Employees With OKRs After $50M Raise
16. Fictiv raises $35M for digital manufacturing
17. Unybrands Closes $25M Seed To Acquire, Scale Online Brands
18. Peak raises $21M for enterprise AI
19. Sequoia-backed marketing analytics startup Oribi nets $15.5m in series B round
20. Strata Identity Raises $11M Series A For Multicloud Identity Management
21. Founderpath Raises $10M To Expand SaaS Lending Platform
22. Artie raises $10M for app-less mobile games
23. Edgybees raises $9.5M Series A for its aerial video augmentation service
24. Gravy raises $4.5M for its service that helps subscription businesses recover failed payments
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