CHINA:
1. Tencent-backed Meituan to raise $10b to enter groceries, ride-hailing
2. Chinese Delivery Giant Meituan Releases New Generation of Autonomous Delivery Vehicle
3. Tencent Announces 50 Billion Yuan Investment in Sustainable Innovation
4. Laiye, China’s leader in intelligent automation, closes USD 50 million Series C+ round
5. Risk management solution provider 数美科技ishumei.com raised $135million USD in Series D
6. HR SaaS service provider 鳄梨科技 raised Pre-A round
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MOBILE-ONLY MARKETS:
1. Indian SaaS unicorn Druva doubles its valuation with USD 147 million fresh funding
2. IFC mulls $150m loan to Indian consumer lending firm Bajaj Finance
3. Morgan Stanley-backed Indian telecom startup IBus acquires Ubico in $13.4m deal
4. Sequoia-backed MPL acquires Indian esports platform GamingMonk
5. Supscription billing platform Chargebee valued at $1.4 billion in new $125 million fundraise
6. Tiger Global leads $53m Series D funding in Indian healthcare startup Pristyn Care
7. Indian dating app TrulyMadly raises $2.1m in pre-series A round
8. Lazada, ComfortDelGro tie up to offer taxi booking within shopping app
9. CITIC Capital-backed entertainment firm Cityneon raises $177m
10. Eat Just, Foodpanda partner for home delivery of cultured meat in Singapore
11. Ex-Gojek execs’ edtech startup Binar Academy nets seed money from women-focused VC firm, others
12. Philippines-based Uploan bags $15m debt facility for providing employee loans
CROSS-BORDER:
1. Tesla to launch self inspection over services in China
OVERSEAS:
1. Apple packs iPad Pros with faster chips, slims iMacs and jumps into tracking tags
2. Netflix reports dramatic slowdown in subscribers
3. UiPath pursues one of the biggest software IPOs ever as investors rotate out of cloud stocks
4. Discord ends sale talks with Microsoft
5. Cusp Capital launches with a $361M fund for early stage startups in Germany and Europe
6. Israeli firm BioMilk is the first cultured milk firm to go public
7. Facebook-backed Diem aims to launch digital currency pilot later this year
8. Octopus Deploy, developer of a deployment automation tool, picks up $172.5M
9. Classy picks up $118M for nonprofit fundraising platform
10. BlaBlaCar raises $115 million to build all-in-one travel app
11. Dott raises $85M for e-scooters
12. FintechOS nabs $60M for a low-code approach to modernizing legacy banking and insurance services
13. MANTL Updates Legacy Banking Infrastructure With $40M Series B
14. ‘Bowl food’ startup Poke House closes $24M Series B led by Eulero Capital to expand in Europe
15.Payment processing platform Candex raised $20 million in Series A funding
16. Audible investor leads $18.5m round in Israeli financial planning startup DataRails
17. Catch&Release raises $14M to help marketers find and license content from across the web
18. Synthesia’s AI video generation platform hooks $12.5 million Series A led by FirstMark
19. Gaming infrastructure startup Pragma raises $12M from Greylock, Mark Pincus and others
20. Tom Brady and Salesforce Ventures pour millions into Class, a Zoom-friendly edtech startup
21. Injective Protocol raises $10M from Pantera Capital, Mark Cuban for its ‘DeFi Robinhood’
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