Overseas:

1. RealWear raises $80M from Teradyne, Qualcomm, others for industrial augmented reality headset

2. MobiTV tunes into $50M for its set-top-box-free broadcast services for pay TV providers

3. Lightspeed invests $27M to Calm’s Series B to help you sleep and meditate using celebrity readings

4. Construction Tech: Bay Area Modular Home-Builder Factory OS Raises $22.7 Million

5. Cancer social network app Belong.Life raises $14 million in private funding

6. Tara.ai, which uses machine learning to spec out and manage engineering projects, nabs $10M

7. Ironhack Raises $4M to Provide Bootcamp for Present And Future Software Engineers

8. Aegis AI, a startup using computer vision to detect guns, raised $2.2 million in round led by Bling Capital

9. Flux, the digital receipts and rewards platform, signs up Just Eat, the online takeout marketplace 

 

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China:

1. Shanghai’s New Sci-Tech Exchange to Have Four Million Investors When Trading Starts, SSE Official Says

2. Alipay launches mini-programs to help Shanghai citizens sort trash as authorities get tough

3. Walmart to invest $1.2b in China to upgrade logistics

4. Suning partners with Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten to sell Japanese goods on its platform

5. Tencent becomes largest investor in LiuDuRenHe 六度人和 EC platform during 80M RMB C+ round

6. Huobi Group 火币 and Nervos aim to rival Facebook’s Libra with new financial blockchain

7. Suning.Com Opens China’s First 5G Experience Store in Shanghai

8. Alibaba-backed Hello Chuxing 哈啰出行 to complete 3-4M USD funding round

 

Cross-Border:

1. Nepal’s CG Group ties up with Huawei to launch 4G services

2. Uber acquires Dubai-based ride-hailing service Careem, which ends Sudan operations as part of the deal

3. Global infra group Lendlease investing $1b in APAC data centres

4. German Springer jobs portal buys US Appcast programmatic advertising service for 70 million euros

5. Contentsquare Acquires Rival Clicktale to Create the Definitive Global Leader in Experience Analytics

6. Spanish on-demand laundry startup Mr Jeff expands to Singapore

7. Chinese Noblelift Intelligent Equipment to Acquire French Automater Savoye

 

Emerging Market:

1. Indian AI startup Uniphore raising $38m Series C led by March Capital

2. Indonesian photography startup SweetEscape snags $6m Series A to build AI capabilities

3. Atlan raises $2.5M to stop enterprises from being so bad at managing data

4. SaaS platform Base.vn secures Series A funding from Nextrans

5. Vietnam’s Viettel Post launches ride-hailing services, eyes regional expansion this year

 

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