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Singapore-based healthtech firm Bot MD announced it has closed a USD 5 million Series A round led by Monk’s Hill Ventures, a VC firm with a focus on early-stage startups in Southeast Asia. Existing and new investors include SeaX Ventures, tech executives investment network XA Network, the Singapore government-owned SGInnovate, Biosensors International Group founder Yoh-Chie Lu, and Zilog founder Steve Blank. %

Healthcare startup Bot MD raises USD 5 million in funding round led by Monk's Hill Ventures | KrASIA

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Merger &amp; Acquisition

Venture capital is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth.

Venture Capital

Southeast Asia's unicorns are considering a merger with a SPAC as option to go public.

Patrick Grove files to raise USD 250 million through blank-check firm | KrASIA

Patrick Grove files to raise USD 250 million through blank-check firm

Creative

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. 

Entertainment

Disney+ Hotstar was launched in September 2020 after the Walt Disney Company acquired Star India’s parent company 21st Century Fox.

Disney+ Hotstar pulls in 2.5 million subscribers in Indonesia, surpassing Netflix | KrASIA

Disney+ Hotstar pulls in 2.5 million subscribers in Indonesia, surpassing Netflix

Digital Banks

Fintech is the new applications, processes, products, or business models in the financial services industry, composed of one or more complementary financial services and provided as an end-to-end process via the internet.

Fintech

Be says that it currently has over 10 million customers in 10 provinces.

Vietnamese ride-hailer Be’s parent group launches digital banking services | KrASIA

Vietnamese ride-hailer Be’s parent group launches digital banking services

Millennial investors make up 90% of the company's user base.

Indonesian investment platform Bibit bags USD 30 million in new money | KrASIA

Indonesian investment platform Bibit bags USD 30 million in new money

Lending

As of November, Funding Societies claims to have given out more than SGD 1.8 billion (USD 1.4 billion) across 3.3 million loans.

Singapore’s Funding Societies raises investment from Samsung’s VC arm | KrASIA

Singapore’s Funding Societies raises investment from Samsung’s VC arm

IHV’s Comprehensive Medical Information Exchange platform is used for diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine.

Singapore-based healthtech firm Claritas acquires teleradiology startup IHV | KrASIA

Singapore-based healthtech firm Claritas acquires teleradiology startup IHV

Social Impact

The event has been held in Hong Kong for five consecutive years.

RISE tech conference to move to Kuala Lumpur in 2022 with MDEC partnership | KrASIA

RISE tech conference to move to Kuala Lumpur in 2022 with MDEC partnership

Food Delivery

An on-demand service platform connects waiting-time-sensitive customers with independent service providers.

On-Demand Services

Vietnammm was one of the earliest players in Vietnam’s food delivery scene and has been the preferred choice of the expat communities in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.