Overseas:
1. US mobile bank MoneyLion raises $100 million at ‘near unicorn’ valuation
2. LinkedIn is moving to Microsoft’s Azure public cloud three years after $27 billion acquisition
3. CircleCI closes $56M Series D investment as market for continuous delivery expands
4. Analytics startup Heap raises $55M
6. Berlin’s Visionaries Club outs two new €40M micro funds for seed and growth-stage B2B
7. TrustRadius, a customer-generated B2B software review platform, raises $12.5M
8. Mixhalo raises $10.7M to bring better sound quality to live events
9. Legaltech startup Genie AI scores £2M seed for its ‘intelligent’ contract editor
China:
1. China fast-tracks development of national digital currency in response to Libra
2. China releases new cloud computing rule requiring safety assessment
3. Alibaba 阿里巴巴 and Tencent 腾讯-backed ride-hailing app T3 Chuxing goes live in China
4. Iqiyi.com 爱奇艺, video platform, launching new Vlog life sharing platform, called 爱奇艺时刻
Cross-Border:
1. Alibaba 阿里巴巴 is opening up to U.S. merchants for the first time
2. Bytedance 字节跳动 acquiring Jukedeck, British Music AI Startup
Emerging Market:
2. Indian fintech firm Zeta’s valuation climbs to $300M in its first external funding round
3. Indian SaaS unicorn Freshworks edges closer to a NASDAQ listing
4. Facebook-like local social network Gapo launches in Vietnam
5. Vietnam fintech Trusting Social bags $25m in early-stage rounds from Sequoia, others
6. Indonesian e-commerce giant Tokopedia partners with P2P lender Modalku to provide loans to merchants
7. Singaporean Co-living firm Hmlet raises US$40m to boost growth in Asia
9. Singapore fashion tech startup MadThread bags over $500k from AngelCentral
10. Cairo-based edtech startup Colnn raises $100k seed round
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