Mars Mosqueda Jr.
Mars is the Cebu-based Philippine correspondent at DealStreetAsia, covering startup funding, deals, and public listings across Southeast Asia. He was earlier the Cebu news bureau chief for Manila Bulletin and worked at Rappler, Business Mirror, and Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Stories by Mars Mosqueda Jr.
China’s Sinovation Ventures eyes $500m for fourth fund
Sinovation Ventures, the Chinese venture capital firm founded by former Google Inc executive Kai-Fu Lee, is raising its fourth fund to continue invest
Kakao Ventures-backed Watcha Inc raises $12m in Series C round
Watcha Inc, formerly known as Frograms Inc, announced that the latest funding round brings its total fundraising to $21 million.
Philippines: Metro Pacific acquires 49% stake in Vietnam’s Tuan Loc Water
The transaction allows Metro Pacific to expand into Vietnamese industrial water concessions.
PH Digest: AboitizPower in roof top solar venture; BPI prices $960m rights offer
AboitizPower has launched AboitizPower Distributed Energy (APX) that will focus on the rooftop solar sector.
Horizons Ventures joins Google’s VC arm in backing Scotty Labs’ $6m round
Scotty is focused on accelerating the safe deployment of autonomous vehicles. Its first product is a teleoperations platform that enables humans to v
Beijing-based ZhenFund eyes $190m fifth venture fund
ZhenFund was founded by New Oriental co-founders Bob Xu and Victor Wang in 2011 in collaboration with Sequoia Capital China.
Hong Kong family backs $5m Series A in Italy’s e-commerce startup Artemest
he Milan-based company was launched by the jewelry designer and entrepreneur Ippolita Rostagno and Credendino in October 2015.
Vertex Ventures Israel co-leads $11m round in transcription startup Verbit
Verbit combines software with human transcribers to improve quality, speed, and price of transcription services.
PH-listed Basic Energy Corp to acquire 15% stake in two Thai firms
The total consideration for the two acquisitions is about $3.4 million.
Three new ride-hailing startups to challenge Grab’s ‘monopoly’ in PH
The three local ride-sharing companies are already in the process of complying with the necessary accreditation.
