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Investments
- Adaptive Shield (IL) closed a USD 30M in Series A round
- Bites (IL) completed a USD 5M in a seed funding round
- China Immunotech (CN) raised an over RMB 200M Series B
- ElevateBio (HC) acquired Life Edit Therapeutics
- Licious (SEAI & Growth) raised USD 52M in Series G round
- Navina (IL) raised USD 15M in Series A
- Onato (SEAI) completed a USD 2.2M seed round
- Pingfeng Medical (CN) closed a RMB 300 Series A
- Recko (SEAI) joined hands with Stripe
- SemiDrive (CN & Growth) closed a round from HTPE
- Testlio (US) raised USD 12M in Series B
Partnerships
- Binance (CN & SEAI) partnered with music NFT platform Melos Studio to create an innovative music NFT platform within the Binance ecosystem, partnered with Lazio to tap on Binance’s digital presence and partnered with Coinsbee.com to make payments in over 40 different cryptocurrencies
- Geek+ (CN & Growth) partnered with DHL to showcase the future of robotics automation in DHL’s Asia Pacific Innovation Center
- Gitpod (US) partnered with Tabnine to deliver real-time AI in automated, remote developer environments
- Grab (SEAI) partnered with Mastercard to advance digital and financial inclusion in Southeast Asia
- Horizon Robotics (CN & Growth) partnered with Trunk. Tech for autonomous truck commercialization
- NIUM (SEAI & Growth) partnered with Orenda, to offer financial solutions to Orenda’s clients and joined HKSTP’s fintech community to accelerate Hong Kong’s booming fintech ecosystem
- Pace (SEAI) partnered with AsiaPay to offer Buy Now Pay Later option to more shoppers
- SemiDrive (CN & Growth) partnered with Neusoft for cockpit development
- Signzy (SEAI) partnered with Orbis Systems to automate customer onboarding
- Taranis (IL & Growth) partnered with Albo Climate to deliver satellite-based carbon credits verification
- Trigo (IL) partnered with TESCO to open its first fully autonomous checkout-free grocery store in London
Growth
- Axonius (IL) hired a first channel boss in APAC
- Bicycle Therapeutics (HC & Growth) announced interim BT5528 Phase I clinical trial results and preliminary results from ongoing BT8009 Phase I clinical trial, pricing of an upsized public offering of $175 million of American depositary shares, closing of public offering of American depositary shares, and expansion of genentech immuno-oncology collaboration
- Codefresh (IL) unveiled its next-generation software delivery solution and its new strategic vision
- DataRails (IL) hired a new CFO, VP of Sales, VP of Marketing, and VP of Product
- Desktop Metal (US) announced the qualification of Grade 420 stainless steel and nickel alloy for high-volume additive manufacturing with the production system
- Elevation Oncology (HC) announced the promotion of Valerie M. Jansen, from the position of head of Clinical Development to CMO
- Evisort (US) introduced first-ever intelligent dashboarding
- Geek+ (CN & Growth) launched the highest logistic robot in the industry to revolutionize warehouse storage and unveiled its ultimate high-density robot solutions at CeMAT Asia
- Kapiva (SEAI) announced model and television personality, Malaika Arora as its brand ambassador
- LeaseLock (US) released major innovation leveraging AI to completely eliminate security deposits
- Neiwai (CN) launched a sustainable capsule with Wolford
- NIUM (SEAI & Growth) launched a crypto product for financial institutions
- Obsidian Therapeutics (HC) appointed Maria Fardis, a Venture Partner at Frazier Life Sciences, to the board of directors at Obsidian
- Trigo Vision (IL) launched a new pilot project in the Netherlands with supermarket chain Aldi
- Validus (SEAI & Growth) acquired KlearCard’s business payments and expense management platform to bolster its upcoming SME Neobank offering
Recognition
- Boundless Bio (HC) presented data on extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) driven resistance to KRASG12C inhibitors at the AACR-NCI-EORTC Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics 2021
- Cymulate (IL & Growth) was awarded Gold by Cybersecurity Excellence Award
- Elevation Oncology (HC) announced Seribantumab was included as part of a case series presentation at the Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group 2021 Annual Scientific Meeting
- Evisort (US) selected for 2021 Spend Matters ‘50 Providers to Watch’ list and CEO and EVP returned to Harvard Law School to teach Legal Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Geek+ (CN & Growth) won European Product Design Award, and it was named the No.1 market leader according to the Mobile Robot Market Report for 2021 by Interact Analysis
- Hasura (US) announced the second annual enterprise GraphQL conference
- Licious (SEAI & Growth) was listed India's 1st D2C unicorn, CEO shared plans to launch new range for vegetarians and the “dreamy-eyed” culture, life in the unicorn club, and its IPO plans
- NIUM (SEAI & Growth) was interviewed by the Straits Times on how average people can find success and named to the 2021 CB Insights Fintech 250 list of top fintech companies
- Valtix (US), CTO shared the major security challenges and sponsored an episode in the series called “Day Two Cloud”
- Verbit (IL & Growth) CEO shared their model for the future of work by AI
- Very Good Security (US) was named Forbes’ 2021 Next Billion-Dollar Startups
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