Busbud, the online marketplace that enables global travelers to shop for and book intercity bus tickets on over 2.3 million bus routes worldwide, announced the close of a US$11.5M Series C equity funding. This latest round brings total fundraising to date to US$30M.

Gut health startup Sun Genomics, which is developing a series of direct-to-the-consumer probiotics based on whole genome sequencing, has announced the final close of $9.25 million Series A fundraising. The round was led by Pangaea Ventures, with investments from Orion Fund, managed by K3 Ventures.

Through the Qapita platform, fast-growth private companies and startups can record and manage equity ownership and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). The platform can be accessed by different stakeholders such as investors, founders and employees, based on appropriate access levels ...

The Israeli company plans to test its plant-based alternative, which founder and CEO Eshchar Ben-Shitrit says looks, cooks and tastes like the real thing, in some restaurants this year.

Taranis raises $30 million from investors led by Kuok Group’s Orion Fund and Vertex Growth, a technology investment fund backed by Singapore’s Temasek Holdings ...

Palantir Technologies Inc., the secretive big-data firm, plans to file to go public in the coming weeks and could start trading as early as the fall, according to people familiar with the matter ...

This year has brought immense change, much of it immortalized in high-resolution images from space ...

MPOWER Financing, an innovative fintech platform for educational loans to high-promise international and DACA students, recently raised $9M from a consortium of investors including Breega, Potencia Ventures, AI8, Cometa, Zephyr-Peacock, 1776, Fresco Capital, 1994 LLC, and Goal Structured Solutions …

INTELLLEX, a Singapore-based legal AI knowledge management platform, has raised $2.1 million in its latest funding round led by venture capital firm Quest Ventures. In a statement, INTELLLEX said the funding round was also participated by Thomson Reuters, Insignia Ventures, K3 Ventures …

TikTok’s parent ByteDance Ltd. generated more than $3 billion of net profit on over $17 billion in revenue last year, figures that show the world’s most valuable startup is still growing at a brisk rate. K3 Ventures was an early foreign investor into ByteDance.

Wiz.ai, a Singapore AI startup that aims to digitize customer engagement, has raised US$6 million in a pre-series A funding round led by GGV Capital. Wavemaker Partners, ZWC Partners, Insignia Ventures, and Orion Fund, which is managed by K3 Ventures, also participated in the round …

Education technology company Enuma, best known for its children’s app Todo Math and as a winner of the Global Learning XPRIZE competition, closed its $9 million Series B round financing. Enuma is an education technology company that has drawn attention in the online education market …

Small- to medium-sized businesses are one of the most important parts of Southeast Asia’s economy, but many have trouble securing growth capital from traditional financial institutions. Validus wants to fix the financing gap with its peer-to-peer lending platform ...

As a 17-year-old trainee bellboy, Kuok Meng Xiong spent a summer opening doors at his family’s Island Shangri-La hotel in Hong Kong. It was here, sweating through back rooms and service corridors, that he started to learn the hard truths of running a business ...

字节跳动和Grab看起来似乎毫无联系？一个总部在北京，一个总部在新加坡。但是拉出它们的投资人名单后，你会发现它们有好几个共同股东，除了大名鼎鼎的软银，还有鲜为人知的K3 Ventures。K3 Ventures是一家年轻的马来西亚投资公司，但其背后却是马来西亚最富裕的郭氏家族。投资公司由郭孟雄领军，他的爷爷是郭鹤年，号称“马来西亚糖王”，96岁高龄，身价高达184亿美元 …

Two companies. One: China’s ByteDance, the SoftBank-backed parent to short-form video app TikTok, with an eye-watering $78-billion valuation, is the world’s most valuable startup. Two: $12-billion Singapore-headquartered ride-hailing firm Grab, another SoftBank portfolio company, is Southeast …

Hanoi-based logistics startup LOGIVAN has raised a US$1.75 million Series A round led by Ethos Partners, existing investor Insignia Ventures Partners and Vietnam-based VinaCapital Ventures. The company will use the newly-raised funding to expand ...

Cicil, the installment financing platform for Indonesian university students, announced today that it has secured a Series A funding round led by East Ventures and Vertex Ventures, which brings their total funding to over US$5 million ...

Moladin, an e-commerce platform for buying motorcycles in Indonesia, announced today that it has secured US$1.2 million funding from East Ventures, Malaysia-based Berjaya Group and Singapore-based Ethos Partners to expand its team and grow regionally …

Singapore-based smart lock maker Igloohome has closed a $4 million Series A round. The investment was led by Insignia Ventures, the new firm started by ex-Sequoia venture partner Yinglan Tan. Phillip Private Equity, X Capital Ventures, K3 Venture’s Kuok Meng Xiong, angel investor Koh Boon Hwee …

Online tour-booking platform BeMyGuest on Thursday (Jul 13) announced a total equity funding of S$11.5 million at the close of its Series A round of funding, with Raffles Venture Partners, travel agency Chan Brothers Group, as well as the investment arm of government agency SPRING Singapore ...