CHINA:

1 Didi Chuxing Rolls Out World’s First Custom-Built EV for Ride-Hailing

2 Jack Ma’s Investment Firm Raises $3 Billion as Foreign Capital Chases China

3 Alibaba To Invest In Mango Media, JD And Baidu Report Earnings

4 Baidu App MAU grew to 544 million in Q3 2020; mini program platform MAU up 22%

5 China’s smartphone giant Oppo ratchets up AR push

6 China health tech Unicorn, Medlinker launches $76m fund & Precision medicine startup, Gene+ raises $38m

7 Temasek-backed Chinese ed-tech firm, 17 Education & Technology Group looks to raise $100m in US IPO

8 Chinese biotech startup D3 Bio raises $200m in Series A round

9 Mech-Mind Robotics Completes RMB100M New Round

 

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MOBILE-ONLY MARKETS:

1 Indonesian telcom operator Telkomsel invests $150m in Gojek

2 Indonesian dental startup Rata in talks to raise pre-Series A round, launches new app

3 Indian insurance platform Turtlemint raises $30m led by GGV Capital

4 Reliance Retail acquires Indian online furniture retailer Urban Ladder in $24m deal

5 India’s Flipkart acquires augmented reality startup Scapic with eye on immersive shopping

6 Singapore’s Mednefits concludes $5.95m Series A funding led by Berjaya’s unit

7 Singapore mental healthcare startup Safe Space bags $250k in seed round

8 Shopee hits profitability milestone

9 Gaming and e-commerce titan Sea’s revenue nearly doubles in Q3 2020

10 Food Market Hub lands US$4M Series A to grow its cloud-based F&B management biz beyond Malaysia

11 Philippines e-commerce startup Resellee raises $1m

12 Thai bank & Lufax arm launch FinVest, a wealth management platform

 

CROSS-BORDER:

1 India may allow up to 26% FDI from neighbouring nations, including China

2 India’s Embassy REIT to buy Embassy Tech Village from Blackstone, others for $1.3b

3 Blackstone arm GSO Capital Partners sells 11% in Indian Tanla Platforms for $78.5m

4 US SEC pushes urgent plan that could delist Chinese companies

5 US-based Lila Games to expand in India

6 China-Singapore game publisher went from making $1m to $181m within a year

 

OVERSEAS:

1 Armed with huge cash pile, SoftBank’s Son wants to stick to tech bets

2 Russian online retailer Ozon targets to raise up to $825m in US IPO

3 Unity game developer will groom 80,000 game developers with education initiative

4 US-based enterprise software firm PingCap nets $270m in Series D round

5 Enterprise AI Platform DataRobot Lands $270M At $2.7B Valuation

6 Israeli startup Cato Networks bags $130m funding round

7 Israeli content discovery app Listory launches out of stealth mode with $4m seed round

8 EdgeQ Emerges From Stealth With $38.5M Series A For 5G Chipsets

9 OpenPhone raises $14 million to replace antiquated business phone systems with an app

10 ‘Making Philanthropy As Easy As Banking:’ Amicus.io, a fintech firm Raises $8.7M Series B

 

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