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Smartkarma Co-founder Jon Foster pointed to the Sequoia investment as a big deal in an industry that rarely attracts VC attention     Smartkarma, a Singapore-based investment research startup, has raised a US$13.5 million Series B round led by Sequoia Capital. Existing investors Wavemaker Partners, Jungle Ventures and Spring Seeds also participated in the round. The round […]

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Cyber criminals tend to avoid messing with blockchains the way they are willing to hack into other payment systems, especially in e-commerce Bitcoin — it has gone from being deemed a “crazy and worthless fad” to a mainstream method of financial transactions. And its exchange value as of publication is around US$7,200 per BTC. No one […]

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 Mojiworks, the U.K. startup building games for messaging apps, has raised £2.1 million in Series A funding. The round is led by Balderton Capital, with participation from previous backers Lifeline Ventures and Sunstone Capital, and will be used b...

There has been a lot of noise about Fintech the last few years, but how exactly is it faring now? With over 5,000 new fintech companies and US$60 billion fintech venture funding over 10 years, the finance and banking industry has been (and is still being) shaken up by innovation. Traditional institutions are facing the reality that fintech […]

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While Singapore may seem like a business paradise, it has a few typical potholes, which can be avoided with help from experts With a robust economy and a politically stable landscape, Singapore has built a reputation as having one of the most business-friendly environments in the world. Many renowned global companies, including Google, Apple, Airbnb […]

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This new round of funding brings the total funds raised by the Hong Kong-based company to US$6.4 million Hong Kong-based startup BottlesXO has raised a US$3.4 million Pre-Series A round from an undisclosed private equity firm in Singapore, bring its total funding to date to US$6.4 million. It will use the newly-raised financing to upgrade its […]

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