The new corporate structure can be used for a wide range of investment funds and provides fund managers greater operational flexibility and cost savings. Singapore is courting more funds to base themselves in the city-state with the launch of a new framework that caters to the needs of global investment funds and investors, and a grant scheme to encourage industry…
Capital markets platform iSTOX has closed an investment funding of $5 million from South Korean company Hanwha Asset Management. Singapore-based iSTOX is a capital markets platform for fundraising through the use of Security Token Offerings (STOs). The platform supports one-stop issuance, custody and trading of digitized securities. The company aims to allow investors and issuers to connect and transact directly…
StoreHub, which offers an omnichannel operating system for retail and F&B businesses across Southeast Asia, has raised US$8.9 million in a Series A+ round led by existing investor Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India. Tokyo-based Accord Ventures and an undisclosed private family office also participated in the round, which pushed the startup’s total funding to date to US$15 million, according…
DOMESTIC peer-to-peer (P2P) financing industry is expected to exceed RM1 billion in 2020, said the Funding Societies Malaysia. Co-founder and CEO Wong Kah Meng (picture) said with the total financing for the industry standing at RM521 million last year, 2020 poised to record more growth. “As the Malaysian government seeks to boost micro, small and medium enterprises’ (MSMEs) GDP contribution…
Hong Kong-based investment banking firm AMTD Group, Xiaomi consumer finance arm Xiaomi Finance, Singapore government-owned SP Group, and crowdfunding startup Funding Societies officially announced they have submitted an application for a digital wholesale banking license in Singapore. The consortium, led by AMTD, focuses its bid on small and medium-sized enterprises in all stages of growth in Southeast Asia and Greater…
2019 was a significant year for the Singapore startup scene for several reasons. On a positive note, Carousell’s merger with classified firm 701Search lifted its value to S$1.2 billion, showing that born-and-bred Singaporeans can grow unicorns – companies with a valuation of over S$1 billion - and can compete in the big league. On the downside, local grocery seller HonestBee…
MEDTECH startup eko.ai has raised US$4 million in a funding round co-led by Sequoia India and Singapore investment fund EDBI. Partech Ventures, SGInnovate and Startup Health also participated in the funding round, the heart disease detection firm said on Tuesday in a press statement. The funds will be used to grow eko.ai's development team and accelerate the firm's US and…
Tycoon Li Ka-shing, the former chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings, has led a new funding round for MioTech, a Hong Kong-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to generate data for investors. Li's investment company, Horizons Ventures, led MioTech's previous $7 million funding round in 2017. It was joined this time by a publicly listed media company, said Jason Tu, co-founder…
Singapore-headquartered venture capital firm EV Growth announced that it has made the final close of its reopened first fund at $250 million, exceeding the initial target of $150 million. DealStreetAsia reported in May that the firm, a joint venture between Sinar Mas, East Ventures, and Yahoo! Japan, has made a final close of the fund at $200 million. The firm,…
As the decade is coming to an end, it has seen an impressive 25x growth from a tiny $550 million in 2010 to $14.5 billion in 2019 in terms of the total funding raised by the start-ups. This year start-ups raised $14.5 billion in 1185 funding rounds out of which 459 were Series A and late-stage investments, according to the…