Juliet
Correspondent, Myanmar Email: jshwegaung@dealstreetasia.com
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Gaw Capital backs Series C investment in Tencent Trusted Doctors
Tencent Trusted Doctors recently announced raising a $250-million funding led by Country Garden Holdings, Tencent Holdings and Sequoia Capital.
SGX-listed Memories Group acquires stake in three Yangon hotel assets
Memories Group has acquired 15.28% in Strand Hotel that has interests in three hotels and The Strand Cruise in Yangon.
SG Digest: Five investors join startup scheme; ONE Championship launches studio
The Startup SG Equity scheme aims to accelerate private investment into Singapore-based technology startups.
India’s Nexus Venture Partners leads $10m investment in NZ startup AskNicely
Post investment, Abhishek Sharma, principal, Nexus Venture Partners, will join the AskNicely board.
Malaysia’s MaGIC to admit 30 startups in third cohort of GAP
MaGIC's four-month Global Accelerator Programme aims to help startups scale up across the ASEAN countries.
Myanmar’s Rent 2 Own raises $3m debt from impact investor Incofin
This comes six months after Rent 2 Own raised $6 million from investors including agRIF, a fund managed by Incofin.
Chinese tech major ByteDance invests in talent agency Mountain Top
Mountain Top manages actors, singers, idols, and key opinion leaders (KOLs) in the country. Its roster includes celebrities such as Angelababy and Zho
Yangon financing platform Daung Capital raises capital for ongoing Series A round
Daung Capital extends credit for the purchase of products like motor vehicles or electronics through a rent-to-own model.
Japanese VC firm Globis makes first close of latest fund at $321m
The fund plans to make investments primarily in the digital sector and tap opportunities in new technologies such as AI, IoT and blockchain.
Dutch chipmaker NXP makes strategic investment in China’s Hawkeye
The partnership will enable NXP and Hawkeye to work together to create reference designs to expand their operations in the Chinese market.