CHINA:
1. Chinese people watch short videos for 110 minutes per day
2. Trillion-RMB Market for E-commerce Livestreaming in China: Report by KPMG and AliResearch
3. Greater China firms continue upward trend to raise $14.3b in Q3
4. Huawei in talks to sell parts of its Honor smartphone business
6. China’s Retail Giant Meituan Launches First AI Smart Store, Realizing a New Retail Experience
7. Alibaba and Dufry, a global duty free shop operator, to set up joint venture in China
8. China’s Sinovation Ventures seeks $1b for new VC fund
9. Safe Driving Systems Startup Tsingtech Microvision Raises RMB100M
10. Chinese New Energy Car Startup Enovate Raises New Round
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MOBILE-ONLY MARKETS:
1. Singapore’s Carro secures $110m in debt financing, additional equity
2. Singapore-based supply chain startup Tramés bags seed money to fuel its expansion plans
4. India on path to have 100 unicorns by 2025 despite covid impact: TiE report
5. Indian conglomerate Tata Group eyes 20% stake in Alibaba-backed e-grocer Bigbasket
6. Indonesia’s Gojek seeks to grow third-party platforms business
CROSS-BORDER:
1. Trump administration to consider adding China’s Ant Group to trade blacklist – sources
2. EU antitrust regulators may narrow Amazon investigation
3. Google to provide Mideast grants, loans to train digital skills
OVERSEAS:
1. Khosla Ventures seeks $1.1 billion for its latest fund
2. Brighteye Ventures sees $54M first close of its second fund to back edtech startups in Europe
3. Plenty has raised over $500 million to grow fruits and veggies indoors
4. BlackRock invests $118 million in UK electric vehicle startup Arrival
5. SoftBank and Nippon Express to launch fleet management service
6. Zoom launches its events marketplace
7. Peer-to-peer carsharing marketplace Getaround driving growth with $140M Series E
9. Menlo Microsystems closes $44M Series B to make electronic switches smarter
10. Ori Biotech To Use $30M Series A On Cell, Gene Therapy Manufacturing Platform
11. Vivun, AI-powered platform for presales, announces $18M Series A to keep growing pre-sales platform
13. Dataloop raises $11M Series A round for its AI data management platform
14. Australian insurtech startup Cover Genius banks $11m in new funding
16. Playbook, a fitness platform that puts creators first, raises $9.3 million
18. Frontegg raises $5M to help SaaS companies build SaaS faster
19. Osmind Inks $2M To Improve Care Delivery, Treatment For Mental Health
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