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Qupital secures $2Mn from Alibaba to expand its SME financing platform

Qupital has secured $2 million in a seed round of funding led by…
paysense

PaySense secures $5.3 million in Series A funding to locally expand its digital credit platform

Finance technology startup PaySense, which runs a digital credit platform, has today…

Cyber security firm TAC Security appoints former IBM VP Willam May to its board

India-based cyber security firm TAC Security Solutions, has announced the appointment of…

Percipient ropes in ex-Citigroup International CIO to foray into the U.S.

Singapore-headquartered Percipient has appointed DK Sharma, former International CIO for Citgroup Global…

Social payments app Verse nabs $20.5Mn to extend its services beyond Europe

Verse, the social payments app, has managed to rake in $20.5 million…

London-based Appear Here raises $12Mn to expand to new locations

Appear Here, an online marketplace for short-term retail space, has managed to…

TransferWise achieves profitability, aims to hit £100Mn in revenue this year

UK FinTech startup TransferWise, incorporated in 2011 and unicornised rather recently, is…

Lazada Singapore shifts its operations to SingPost’s regional logistics hub

E-commerce platform Lazada Singapore has announced that it has shifted all its…

Malaysia’s Cradle Fund aims to help early-stage startups commercialise their products 

Cradle Fund, an agency under Malaysia’s Ministry of Finance, has launched a…

CCRManager unveils an electronic platform for distribution of trade finance assets

Singapore-based CCRManager has launched an innovative electronic platform for the distribution of…

Infogram gets acquired by Prezi, becomes its first wholly-owned subsidiary

Hungarian startup Prezi, which is quite famous for its presentation platform, has…
Snapdeal, flipkart

Flipkart-Snapdeal merger deal may need approval of Azim Premji and Ratan Tata: Report

Flipkart is very near to officially close its acquisition deal of Snapdeal…

Why Australia’s Shippit turned down a potential investment offer worth $2.8Mn

Incorporated in 2014, Shippit looks after logistics requirements of online retailers, enabling them to…

FinTech startup 4xLabs nabs $1.5Mn to focus on global growth and product development

Singapore-based 4xLabs has secured $1.5 million in pre-series A round of funding. Its…

Fashion discovery portal Fynd raises $500k in follow-up Series A funding round

Fynd, an e-commerce platform with real-time fashion discovery, has raised follow-up funds…

Multilingual AI platform for businesses Vernacular.ai gets seed funding from Kstart

Vernacular.ai, a multilingual artificial intelligence platform for businesses, has announced that it…
Alibaba

Nikhil Vora sells his full 0.35% stake in One97 Communications to Alibaba for ₹150 crores

Former IDFC Securities star equity analyst Nikhil Vora has sold his entire…

SAP.iO makes its first investment in Tata-backed startup Niki.ai

SAP, which launched a $35 million artificial intelligence fund SAP.iO in March…
snapchat, spectacles, snap

Snapchat launches three new ad products utilizing lenses and geofilters

In an attempt to move ahead in the quest of differentiating itself…

China-backed SILK Ventures raises $500Mn to invest in European and U.S. startups

UK-based SILK Ventures announced today that it has raised a $500 million…
uber

Court ruling stipulates that Uber can continue its self-driving work, as long as Levandowski is not involved with LiDAR

Uber and Waymo have been at loggerheads since the past few months…