India

Over the next three years, WHJ aims to reach one in three kids in the world and create 100,000 teaching jobs from the current 11,000.

Last year, 11 Indian startups from assorted areas — ranging from fintech to edtech — became unicorns, i.e. private startups valued at more than USD 1 billion.

GrowFix launched its first asset in December 2020–a pool of gold-backed loans where retail investors could invest in and get an 11 % fixed interest rate.

In the second half of last year, India banned over 250 Chinese apps including TikTok, Vigo, Likee, and PubG citing cybersecurity concerns.

BeatO is creating a digital care ecosystem for chronic condition management powered by AI to proactively intervene and provide actionable insights to users in real time.

Picus will invest up to USD 75 million in Asia’s early-stage tech startups.

This comes barely a month after the ten-year-old firm announced closing a USD 660 million round at USD 3.9 billion valuation.

WhatsApp’s updated privacy policy revealed it had been sharing user data with Facebook all along.