Tech in Asia

Potential investors in the round include insurers Prudential and AIA Group.

The woes of a Chinese electric vehicle firm and a potential exit for Oddle’s co-founders.

Its products assist in AI diagnosis and managing patient medical records, and are also used for insurance payment solutions.

Existing investors Tiger Global, General Atlantic, and Owl Ventures also participated in the US$500 million round.

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Pancare Foundation’s decision to become more tech-reliant couldn’t have come at a better time.

Other investors in the round include Jungle Ventures and SoftBank Ventures Asia.

Sometimes, it’s better to make big, bold moves than suffer a death by a thousand cuts.

Do Ventures said it has already raised more than half of its US$50 million target.

The start of an e-payments revolution in Vietnam and the proptech startup that helps people build their dream homes

TikTok's Chinese version, Douyin, accounted for about 85% of the app’s August revenue.

Its co-founders, Jonathan Lim, Pua Yong Xiang, and Jeremy Lee, have reached out to potential suitors to gauge interest, said the sources.

Covid-19 put a huge dent in China’s electric vehicle sector, but Byton is left behind in the dust. But does its answer to survivability lie closer to home?

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The startups that raised the most this week: PropertyGuru, Viva Republica, Unacademy, and more

These companies are most likely to redefine the status quo in Asia's financial system.

The company was valued at roughly US$530 million in the current round, according to Fintrackr estimations.

“It’s priceless, right? To have somebody who is willing to stand up for you.”

Below-the-radar Japanese startups with the biggest piles of cash and the Indian edtech startup that recently joined the unicorn club

It has identified countries in the Middle East and those such as Australia, Malaysia, and Indonesia in the APAC region as its next markets.