Overseas:

1. Amazon Sidewalk is a wireless protocol that can reach up to a mile away

2. Google launches Firebase Extensions and Analytics integration for app developers

3. Enterprise SG to help Singapore tech firms enter the US with 500 Startups tie-up

4. Beyond Pricing raises $42M to tell you what to charge on Airbnb

5. Mercury raises $20 million to offer bank accounts tailored to startups

6. Terminal raises $17 million to help startups build remote engineering teams

7. Gatsby raises $15 million for website and web app development tools

8. Tribe leads $12M Series A into Teampay to make managing employee expenses painless

9. Honeycomb.io raises $11.4M to help developers observe and debug their apps

10. Summer wants to vanquish student loans for borrowers, and now has $10M to do it

11. Paro raises $10 million to offer corporate finance expertise on demand

12. Using AI to improve dentistry, VideaHealth gets a $5.4 million polish

13. Package Free picks up $4.5 million to scale sustainable CPG products

 

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China:

1. Baidu begins robotaxi pilot service in Changsha

2. Alibaba’s AI beekeeping system to improve honey production by 20%

3. Huawei May License 5G Tech Exclusively to a US Firm

4. Short video platform Kuaishou widens its influencer crackdown

5. Alibaba-backed Chinese unicorn DT Dream hits $1.5b valuation after Series B round

6. Chinese cybersecurity major Qi An Xin nets $210m in pre-IPO round

7. a1 Ling Shi 零食研究所, a snack lab that focuses on R&D in food taste, receives 100m RMB in Series B round, and plans to open 100 outlets in 2020

 

Cross-Border:

1. Alibaba-backed Indian e-grocer BigBasket merges two arms to decrease delivery time

2. Luckin launching juice business in China with European partner, LDC

3. True Digital Park announces TechNode as go-to China partner

 

Emerging Market:

1. India: Vivriti Capital to raise $70m debt fund

2. General Atlantic pledges USD 100 million for Karvy Fintech’s drive into Southeast Asia

3. India-based employee transport company WhistleDrive banks $10m from Colosseum

 

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