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