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Growth
- Active.ai (SEAI) partnered Talisma to integrate customer chatbot on their platform
- Axonius (IL) launched new business unit to create additional avenues of growth through innovation and announced addition of Jerry Raphael to its Executive Team
- ElevateBio (HC) welcomed Margo Roberts as Scientific Advisor
- Elevation Oncology (HC) announced Initial Public Offering pricing and appointed Joseph Ferra as CFO
- Geek+ (CN & Growth) announced potential listing plans on the Science and Technology Innovation Board
- Hasura (US) added new features for faster API access to soiled data
- Licious (SEAI & Growth) announced plans to open 30 stores in India by year-end
- Nium (SEAI & Growth) opened an office in Poland (one of Europe’s biggest economies) and announced US expansion plans ahead of potential listing
- Signzy (SEAI) welcomed VP of Partnerships and Alliances, Arghya Bhattacharya
- SmarterMicro (CN) provided the integrated 5G module for Samsung’s new Galaxy A22 (Article in CN)
- Palleon Pharmaceuticals (HC) appointed David Feltquate as Chief Medical Officer
Investments
- Bicochi Microelectronics (CN) raised a RMB 100M Pre- B round (Article in CN)
- Coinomo (SEAI) secured an undisclosed round of financing
- DataRails (IL) raised a USD 25M Series A
- Horizon Robotics (CN) raised a USD 1.5B Series C round
- Jiunuo Medical (CN) closed a Series C round
- Licious (SEAI & Growth) raised USD 65M for Series F
- NIUM (SEAI & Growth) acquired London-based B2B travel payment company Ixaris
- OwnBackup (IL) acquired California-based Nimmetry to expand its reach to India
- Ruike Biotechnology (CN) raised a RMB 1B Series C (Article in CN)
- RPG Commerce (SEAI) raised a Series A
- Soner Electronics (CN) closed a RMB 50M Pre-A round (Article in CN)
- Verbit (Growth & IL) raises USD 157M Series D aiming at USD 30B transcription market
- Zencity (IL) raised USD 30M from existing investors
- Zhongke Motive (CN) closed a Series A round (Article in CN)
Partnerships
- Active.Ai (SEAI) partnered with Glia to enhance customer experiences through conversational AI
- Ace Turtle (SEAI) partnered with Triumph International India to strengthen omnichannel presence
- Baoyuan Pharmaceutical (CN) partnered with Cinda Bio to jointly develop Taletrectinib
- EasySend (IL) partnered with Input 1 to provide added efficiency to their platform
- ElevateBio (HC) teamed up with Boston Children’s Hospital to accelerate hospital’s research by forming multiple cell and gene therapy companies and partnered with Abata Therapeutics to leverage ElevateBio BaseCamp
- Elevation Oncology (HC) collaborated with Caris Life Sciences to jointly identify oncogenic fusions and mutations alterations
- Evisort (US) partnered with BNY Mellon to digitize contract lifecycle management
- Geek+ (CN and Growth) and Circle K partnered to implement Asia's largest smart warehouse for grocery deliveries
- Grab (SEAI) partnered with Bux allowing merchants to accept GrabPay, SM markets to provide better online grocery shopping experience, Hyundai to accelerate EV adoption in South East Asia and Stripe to process off-Grab platform transactions
- Harbour BioMed (CN) and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute teamed up to co-develop various novel cancer biotherapies
- Hasura (US) partnered with Yugabyte to provide cloud elasticity
- LeaseLock (US) partnered with MRI software to further eliminate security deposits
- NEIWAI (CN) partnered with Banniu to customize a digital intelligent service solution (Article in CN)
- Nium (SEAI & Growth) partnered with Pelikin to issue global travel cards, Travelex to launch new digital remittance offering in Hong Kong and Tred to launch green debit card
- Warung Pintar (SEAI) partnered with Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Indonesia to digitize distribution channel
- Zencity (IL) partnered with Guernsey County commissioners to learn needs of residents
Recognition
- Evisort (US) CEO on contract management
- Geek+ (CN & Growth) on applying big data in supply chain
- Kapiva (SEAI) recognized by Forbes India as one of the highly-demanded Ayurvida startups
- LaunchDarkly (US) shared the complexities in developer’s workflow, software planning and deployment should anticipate failure and recognized as a leader in feature management and experimentation
- LOHO (CN) Co-founder on the cosmetic contact lens market (Article in CN)
- NEIWAI (CN) CEO shared their company’s international expansion plans
- Nium (SEAI & Growth) CEO announced plans to go public in the US within the next 2 years
- PerimeterX (US & Growth) named Best Security Solution in the 2021 SIIA CODiE Awards
- Validus Capital (SEAI & Growth) shared how the company thrived during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Valtix (US) CTO on navigating cybersecurity in a hybrid work environment
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