CHINA:

1. China’s food delivery growth slows to four-year low: report

2. China could see smartphone shipments grow in 2020 amid 5G push

3. Chinese courts freeze Bitmain‘s assets worth over $1 million

4. China’s Ping An Capital closes second consumer tech fund at over $786m

5. China’s DNV Capital closes new RMB fund at $87m for AI, big data investments

6. Tencent launches anonymous social app Dengyu Jiaoyou 灯遇交友

7. SOSV-backed TravelFlan bags $7M to enhance IT, expand to new markets

8. Hong Kong proptech firm Spacious eyes overseas expansion

 

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MOBILE-ONLY MARKETS:

1. Indonesian VC firm Alpha JWC raises $123m for its second fund

2. Ruangguru, edtech startup based in Indonesia, to raise $100m in General Atlantic-led round, source says

3. Israeli radar technology developer Arbe raises $32m led by Catalyst CEL Fund

4. Licious raises $30M to grow its meat and seafood e-commerce platform in India

5. Food tech startup HungerBox raises $12m from Paytm, others

6. Payment startup Chipper Cash raises $6M for Southern Africa expansion

 

CROSS-BORDER:

1. Singapore fashion platform Zilingo acquires Sri Lankan SaaS startup nCinga for $15.5M

2. China’s parenting community and e-commerce platform Babytree Group and Tokyo MX set up Japan Joint Venture

 

OVERSEAS:

1. Instagram uses AI to warn users before they post offensive captions

2. Fabric’s Tel Aviv robot-powered microfulfillment center begins grocery delivery

3. Intel acquires AI chip startup Habana Labs for $2 billion

4. CallMiner, provider of artificial intelligence-enabled speech and customer interaction analytics, raises $75M from Goldman Sachs

5. Gecko Robotics raises $40 million for industrial inspection robots

6. Arbe raises $32 million to bring its high-resolution radar to autonomous vehicles

7. Solve, the startup creating an interactive ‘Law & Order’ for social media, raises $20 million

8. French startup EfficientIP secures $11M from Jolt Capital to fight DDoS attacks

9. Terradepth raises $8 million to build a fleet of autonomous deep-ocean data robots

 

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