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Tembusu Partners joins forces with IT billionaire Pang Shengdong for closer SEA, China collaboration

Pang Shengdong, Founder of 2345.com, is set to invest ‘seven digit’ in the VC firm’s ICT Fund I Singapore-based Tembusu Partners today announced a new partnership with Chinese IT billionaire Pang Shengdong to forge collaboration between Chinese and Southeast Asian startups. Under the new partnership, Pang is set to invest a ‘seven digit’ amount into...

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Coworking startup naked Hub to add up to 30 new locations with fresh funding

This round of funding is the first tranche in their Series B round naked Hub, a Shanghai-based network of coworking spaces, announced today an undisclosed amount for the first tranche in their Series B round. This round of funding comes from a fund managed by Gaw Capital Partners, an investment company focussing on real estate markets. According...

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Care/of takes on the vitamin industry with customized nutrition packs

Craig Elbert and Akash Shah There’s no end to the bottles, packs, and pills of various nutritional supplements out there, but vitamin startup Care/of plans to stand out by tailoring the vitamins you pop to your specific needs. The startup joins a growing number of others in tech hoping to cash in on the lucrative vitamin industry. Elysium offers pills they say will boost longevity, Ritual makes vitamins for… Read More

Gong says it’s cracked news personalization

Gong If you’re a little skeptical about trying out another news aggregator, Gong CEO Itzik Ben-Bassat knows what you’re probably thinking — after all, he heard the same thing when he was pitching investors. “They all kind of looked at me and said, ‘Not again,'” he recalled. But it seems like Ben-Bassat (who was previously an executive at Blizzard Entertainment and… Read More

Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures back Apptopia’s next-gen app intelligence platform

apptopia-macbook Apptopia, a startup that began its life as a marketplace for reselling apps before morphing into the app intelligence provider that’s now used by Google, Facebook, Pinterest, NBCU, and others, has closed on a second seed round of $2.7 million. The round, which was led by Ashton Kutcher’s and Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures, brings Apptopia’s total raise to date to $5… Read More

Security researchers can turn headphones into microphones

eavesdropping-danger Security researchers at Israel’s Ben Gurion University have created a proof-of-concept exploit that lets them turn headphones into microphones to secretly record conversations. The PoC, called “Speake(a)r,” first turned headphones connected to a PC into microphones and then tested the quality of sound recorded by a microphone vs. headphones on a target PC. In short, the… Read More