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.
Ping An Ventures, Lilly Asia invest in US Tmunity Therapeutics’ $100m funding round
Also participating in the latest financing round were Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Gilead Sciences, Be The Match Bio Therapies, and seed
Singapore’s Temasek joins $80m round of US-based AI energy storage firm Stem
Temasek joins Activate Capital and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in the latest round of Stem.
Car classifieds startup Carmudi secures $10m to expand SE Asia ops
The bulk of the fund will go to Carmudi's Philippine operations.
Philippine Digest: Landbank gets nod to buy PDS Holdings, Shenzhen’s investment in PSE faces hurdles
Land Bank of the Philippines has received approval from its board to go ahead with the plan to acquire at least 66.67% stake in PDS Holdings.
500 Startups leads $13.3m Series B in Tokyo startup SmartHR
This is the first Series B investment made by 500 Startups anywhere in the world.
China’s eCargo to acquire 45% of Australian e-commerce firm Jessica’s Suitcase
eCargo will acquire 45% of Jessica's Suitcase in exchange for CHESS Depository Interests (CDIs) equal to 15% of eCargo.
SoftBank, Sequoia China invest $50m in selfie app developer Snow
Snow wants to use the fresh funds to develop its augmented reality and facial recognition technologies as well as build more partnerships and localize
Philippine Digest: Kombi Land sells 19.68% stake to Baesa, PAL denies re-IPO report
Baesa Redevelopment is paying $1.2 million for a 19.68% stake in Kombi Land.
Japan’s JAFCO launches fund management firm in Shanghai
With the appropriate approval, JAFCO Asia will start to make investments in China in RMB via an RMB Fund.
Merger of Asian co-working space operators JustCo and naked Hub falls through
The two co-working space operators earlier announced plans to merge to compete with industry leader WeWork, whose operational footprint in Asia extend
