Chinaccelerator Daily Digest 2020/04/23

CHINA:

7. Biotech firm APTBIO 中科新生命 gets nearly $28m in Series A round

8. Hong Kong-based private equity firm Gaw Capital Partners 基汇资本 has led a $5-million Series A2 round in proptech startup Switch Automation.

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MOBILE-ONLY MARKETS:

1. SoftBank-backed Oyo cuts salaries, furloughs employees

2. Singapore-based SensorFlow bags $8.3m in series A+ money

3. Former Lazada execs’ OnPoint snaps up $8m to double down on Vietnam

CROSS-BORDER:

1. China-based EV startup Byton 拜腾 furloughs half of its 450-person staff in the US

OVERSEAS:

1. AWS launches Amazon AppFlow, its new SaaS integration service

2. Digital Marketing Company TapClicks expands its marketing platform by acquiring AdStage

3. Zoom daily users surge to 300 million despite privacy woes

4. Google Meet launches improved Zoom-like tiled layout, low-light mode and more

5. Collaborative meeting notes platform Hugo nabs seed funding from Google, Slack

6. SpaceX successfully launches 60 more Starlink satellites as it continues towards 2020 service debut

8. New York payments startup Paay exposed millions of credit card numbers

9. Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator reboots its incubation program with 16-member cohort

10. Medallia, a customer experience platform acquires voice-to-text specialist Voci Technologies for $59M

11. Graduate H1 closes on $12.9M for its professional healthcare database

12. Fishtown Analytics raises $12.9M Series A for its open-source analytics engineering tool

13. Granulate announces $12M Series A to optimize infrastructure performance

14. Legal Tech Platform Bodhala Brings In $10M To Help Clients Streamline Spending

15. VR telemedicine platform XRHealth raises $7M

16. Comet.ml nabs $4.5M for more efficient machine learning model management

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