Overseas:
2. ‘Alexa, how do I treat a migraine?’ Patients in the UK are using Amazon’s tech for aches and pains
3. Visa funds $40M for no-password crypto vault Anchorage
4. Remitly raises $220M to expand from money transfers to financial services, now at ~$1B valuation
5. Pipefy raises $45 million for process pipeline management software
6. Kyndi raises $20 million for explainable AI that analyzes documents
7. Dataform scores $2M to build an ‘operating system’ for data warehouses
China:
4. Honor 荣耀 to enter the television industry
Cross-Border:
1. Monaco has full 5G coverage using Huawei gear, first in Europe
2. Fintech in Latin America continues to draw big dollars as Softbank invests $231 million in Creditas
3. Samsung backs Indus OS and three other startups in first investments for its VC arm in India
6. Sequoia China co-leads $50m funding in Opera-founded startup OPay, African mobile payment service
7. Revolut opens tech hub in Berlin, to customize product for German market and rest of Europe
Emerging Market:
1. A91 Partners, a new VC fund from former Sequoia Capital India execs, closes $351M maiden fund to focus on startups in consumer, technology, financial services and healthcare
2. Binance Singapore partners with Vertex Ventures to set up fiat-to-crypto gateway
3. India’s edtech platform Byju’s raises $150 million to expand globally
4. Singapore’s logtech startup Ezyhaul closes US$16M Series B funding
5. VTC Pay joins hands with DOCOMO to boost Vietnam’s mobile commerce
6. Malaysia’s B2B marketplace Lapasar raises $500k, led by SG’s SeedPlus
7. Indonesia’s e-commerce unicorn Tokopedia said to close investment in agritech startup Sayurbox
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