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
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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