Overseas:
1. US companies raised $30B in Q1 2019, up 22 percent year-on-year
2. A record $2.5B went to US insurance startup deals in 2018, and big insurers are in all the way
3. Amazon wants you to use its AI assistant Alexa to track healthcare
4. WhatsApp’s Business app comes to the iPhone
5. TikTok’s next ambitious goal is to discover future music stars with Spotlight
China:
1. China’s US$10 budget phone maker seeks fortune in Belt and Road countries
2. Hong Kong IPO market delivering best returns in years
5. Tencent-backed live streaming platform Huya 虎牙 has filed to raise $550m in secondary offering
7. Chinese co-working space giant Ucommune 优客工场 raises $29.8m
8. Online learning platform tengyue360.com 腾跃校长在线 completed 41 million yuan Pre-B round of financing
Cross-border:
Blockchain:
1. Binance to launch a new fiat-to-crypto exchange in Singapore this month
Emerging Market:
1. Go-Jek becomes Indonesia’s first ‘decacorn’ company, with over US$10 billion valuation
3. Malaysian MyEG Capital injects US$1.5m in edtech startup Jingle Magic
4. Indonesian healthtech Medigo secures seed funding from Venturra Discovery
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