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Investments
- Ambi Robotics (US) secured USD 26M Series A
- ArrayComm (CN) raised over RMB 100M Series A (Article in CN)
- Ayu Health (SEAI) raised USD 6.3M Series A
- Desktop Metal (US) acquired Aidro
- EverAfter (IL) closed USD 13M in seed funding
- GrowthSpace (IL) raised USD 15M Series A
- Juno (US) raised USD 20M in Series A
- LaunchDarkly (US) raised USD 200M Series D
- LUCY LEE (CN) raised Series A (Article in CN)
- Obsidian Therapeutics (HC) raised USD 115M Series B
- Pronto (US) raised USD 4M in seed funding
- SCB Abacus (SEAI) raised USD 12M Series A
- Sunday (SEAI & Growth) raised USD 45M Series B
- Vintra (US) secured USD 9.125M
Partnerships
- Atidot (IL) collaborated with Health Gorilla to focus on providing data access and management tools
- Binance (SEAI & CN) announced a strategic partnership with Blockchain Centre
- Geek+ (CN & Growth) partnered with FDL Group to deploy smart sorting robots in the warehouse of Athinaiki
- Grab (SEAI) Philippines partnered with Motorcycle taxi company MOVE IT to offer its motorcycle taxi hailing services to more commuters
- Horizon Robotics (CN & Growth) partnered with HOZON Auto to build smart cars and teamed up with Continental to set up an intelligent driving joint venture
- NIUM (SEAI & Growth) teamed up with Weavr to avail their BaaS API suite to clients, and partnered with Bano to enhance digital payments for international students in Australia
- Semidrive (CN) collaborated with Wutong Automobile Association to build smart cockpits
- Signzy (SEAI) partnered with Seed Grooup to enter the UAE market
- Yotpo (IL) partnered with Shopify on a multi-year platform collaboration to boost its growth and product development
Growth
- Ayu Health (SEAI) aims to expand its services to six cities by the end of 2022
- Binance (SEAI & CN) appointed an ex-facebook executive as investment director
- Cymulate (IL & Growth) launched two new solutions -Attack Surface Management (ASM) and Vulnerability Prioritization Technology (VPT)
- Gitpod (US) released the open-source OpenVSCode Server, which lets developers run upstream Visual Studio Code (VS Code) in the browser
- Guangli (CN) released a new AR product - HoloswimTM holographic smart swimming goggles (Article in CN)
- LaunchDarkly (US) added Workflows and ServiceNow integration to enterprise grade feature management platform
- Valtix (US) delivered multi-cloud security across all major cloud platforms
- Vintra (US) announced new features for its purpose-built intelligence solution that makes existing cameras smarter
- 17Live (SEAI & Growth) revealed new branding, mission statement, and global HQ in Japan
Recognition
- Binance (CN & SEAI) CEO shared his experience and plans for Binance Singapore
- Boundless Bio (HC) presented at the 2021 Cantor Fitzgerald Virtual Global Healthcare Conference
- Dedoco (SEAI) Co-founder Daphne Ng recognized as A woman among women: the 27 female-led startups in SEA
- EarLens (HC) was recognized as the contact lens for the ears
- ElevateBio (HC) won the 2021 Facility of the Year Awards for Operational Excellence
- EverAfter (IL) CEO shared how the company is reimagining customer onboarding and retention
- Evisort (US) was recognized as the Overall Leader for Contract Management and CLM in G2 Crowd’s Fall 2021 Report and CEO shared 5 things I wish someone told me before I became a founder
- LeaseLock (US) CEO shared his entrepreneural journey
- Licious (SEAI & Growth) was named as one of the inaugural Hurun India Future Unicorn List
- NIUM (SEAI & Growth) CEO shared his thoughts on the company's billion-dollar valuation and purpose and recognized as one of the top 5 unicorn founders on the Gen.T 2021 List. Nium CRO, Frederick Crosby, was featured in Sifted.
- NIUM and Validus (SEAI & Growth) recognized as LinkedIn Top Startups 2021 in Singapore
- Obsidian Therapeutics (HC) presented preclinical data from cytoTIL15 program at the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress 2021
- Semidrive (CN) CEO shared the company’s strategy and its future plans
- Zencity (IL) shared its new offering - Zencity NextGen Community Survey tool
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