CHINA:
1. China’s DT Capital Partners raises $285M for latest RMB fund
2. China’s VIA Capital gathers $100m for debut fund, to back high-tech startups
3. Huawei VR glasses on sale tomorrow, industry optimistic about pan-entertainment applications
4. Tencent starts live-streaming service, targets USD1.4 Billion in e-commerce sales
5. Tencent boosts its stake in discount retailer Vipshop to 9.6%
6. Tencent Video, iQiyi 爱奇艺 blasted on Weibo for levying extra fees on VIP members
7. SoftBank-backed Guazi 瓜子 pledges profits in Q4 as China pushes used car sales
8. Chinese low-code development platform ClickPaaS completes $10M Series A and A+
9. AR firm Nreal seeks to dismiss US-based Magic Leap lawsuit
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MOBILE-ONLY MARKETS:
1. Indian B2B food tech startup HungerBox raises $12M from Paytm and others
2. Indian education startup Byju’s turns profitable
CROSS-BORDER:
1. DiDi partners with NVIDIA for autonomous driving and cloud computing
2. Temasek-backed video streaming service Viu quits India market
3. Russia’s Alrosa opens WeChat mini app to sell blockchain-tracked diamonds
OVERSEAS:
1. The top mobile apps and games of 2019: Facebook and Whatsapp takes the lead
2. Domio raises $100M in equity and debt to take on Airbnb and hotels with its curated apartments
3. Gloat raises $25 million to provide employees with professional development
5. Hugging Face raises $15 million to build open source community for cutting-edge conversational AI
7. Skyryse raises $13 million to launch an autonomous helicopter platform
9. Voximplant raises $10 million to automate call campaigns with AI
10. Operations procedure startup Scottsdale’s Trainual lands $6.75M Series A
11. San Diego’s Trust & Will raises $6 million for online estate planning
12. Pepper, founded by five Snap alums, has raised $5.6 million to help startups analyze their spend
13. Oto raises $5.3 million to improve speech recognition with intonation data
14. Satori Cyber raises $5.25M to help businesses protect their data flows
15. Crowdfunding platform WeFunder gets $5.1M to be the ‘Kickstarter For Investing’
16. Ryff raises $5 million for virtual product placements
17. Rebank raises $2.8M to build a better banking experience for high-growth companies
19. Singapore’s plastic-free home goods brand Bambooloo raises seed funding
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