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Weekly funding: India lands on top with PhonePeās $350m round
There are so many startup funding activities in Asia that it’s hard to keep track of them. This is why we’ve come up with a

BEYOND Expo 2023 seeks speakers for four summits in Macao in May
The four summits at BEYOND Expo are among the most influential platforms in Asia and the world. They are key drivers of technological innovation due

The thing we thought was happening with robotic investments is definitely happening
There was a brief, beautiful moment for a few months in 2021 when it felt like robotic investments might be immune from broader market forces.

SoftBank resets India investment plan as valuations plunge
Sign up for the Daily Newsletter, sent exclusively to our premium subscribers. We break down the big and messy topics of Asia’s tech and startup

SoundHound Raises $25 Million After Laying Off Nearly Half Its Employees
SoundHound, a voice AI company that laid off 40% of its employees earlier this month, announced Tuesday that it had successfully raised $25 million in

Kind Snacks founder Daniel Lubetzky begins new ājourneyā with Camino Partners
After successfully building Kind Snacks into a multibillion-dollar company, Daniel Lubetzky and his team, including former Kind executive Elle Lanning, have unveiled Camino Partners, a

ChatGPT may charge $42/mo for a paid tier, as Microsoft invests again
Image: Mark Hachman / IDG Microsoft said Monday that it is entering a “third phase” of its relationship with ChatGPT developer OpenAI through a multibillion-dollar

Singapore PE firms join forces, close $700m tech fund
Capital Square Partners (CSP) and Basil Technology Partners (BTS), two Singapore-based private equity firms, have partnered to establish and close the US$700 million CSP Fund

KKR Follows Blackstone With REIT Withdrawal Cap and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
KKR co-founder and co-executive chairman Henry Kravis (Image: KKR) In today’s roundup of regional news headlines, buyout giant KKR limits withdrawals from a real estate

Kuaishou Chairman Reduces Shares for Charity and Cutting-Edge Technology
Su Hua, Chairman of Chinese short video streaming platform Kuaishou, reduced his holdings of 54,713,783 Class B company shares after the trading session on January

HashKey Capital closes third fund at $500m
Web3-focused asset manager HashKey Capital has closed its third fund at US$500 million, raising money from sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and corporations. Photo credit:

Hereās how Microsoft could use ChatGPT
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Microsoft is reportedly eyeing

China Property Investment Tumbled 10% Last Year and More Asia Real Estate Headlines
Property investment in China fell in 2022 for the first time since records began (Getty Images) In today’s roundup of regional news headlines, China reports

Marketing Briefing: For this yearās Super Bowl, marketers will seek to āstretch investmentā however they can
Even so, marketers and agency execs say that the importance of the Super Bowl remains high as it is one of the few events where

Large-Scale Investment in China Boosts Demand for Intelligent Translation
With the continuous opening of the Chinese market, investment from global sources is increasing, and demand for translation, especially AI-based machine translation, is also rising.
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