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.
Geely-backed EV startup Caocao Zhuanche raises $156m Series A at $1.6b valuation
The two-year-old Huangzhou-based firm's Series A round was participated by various unnamed domestic and overseas investors.
Philippine Digest: Metrobank, SM Prime to raise fresh funds
Banking giant Metrobank is raising fresh capital through a stock rights offering while SM Prime is offering as much as P20 billion in new bonds.
TCS sells PDS Holdings stake to Philippine Stock Exchange for $3m
The acquisition of the 500,000 common shares of stock of TCS in PDS Holdings gives PSE a total of 69.03 per cent ownership in the fixed-income exchang
Mercer acquires Japan’s BFC Asset Management
Mercer said the acquisition is part of efforts to capture growth in Japan’s alternative investments market.
Taiwan’s Aprinoia Therapeutics raises $11m co-led by KTB Network, DCI Partners
Aprinoia Therapeutics said it will use the proceeds of the funding to finance preclinical and clinical development.
China Digest: Aibee, Ms.Onion, OneSpace, Tsufort.com secure fresh funds
Kinzon Capital has led an RMB165 million ($25 million) angel round in Aibee, an AI solutions provider founded by former Baidu exec Lin Yunqing.
Self-driving car startup Pony.ai raises $112m led by Legend Capital, Morningside
Pony.ai is headed by co-founder and CEO James Peng, who was previously chief architect at Baidu.
S Korea still considers shutdown of virtual currency exchanges
South Korea is drawing up measures to control the investment craze for cryptocurrency.
Japan’s GPIF picks StepStone as global infrastructure fund-of-funds manager
GPIF awarded the global infrastructure core strategy mandate to StepStone after launching an RFP in 2017.
Malaysian startup Zoom raises $1m in Gobi Partners-led pre-Series A
The latest funding round was joined by Cana Asia Limited, Spiral Ventures, and Cradle Fund.
