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Plant-based chicken maker Next Gen Foods has closed a $10 million seed round co-led by Temasek International, a rare early-stage bet by Singapore’s state-owned investor. The funding round was also backed by family office K3 Ventures, the Economic Development Board of Singapore’s New Ventures ...

Chief Executive Officer Timo Recker speaks with Shery Ahn and Haidi Stroud-Watts on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia."

Zash Global Media, which is backed by Farnsworth, Ma and Vincent Butta, have agreed plans to acquire Lomotif, a Singapore-based music video sharing firm ...

The company has raised $29m in financing from Happiness Capital, the investment arm backed by the family fortunes of Hong Kong’s Lee Kum Kee condiment dynasty, and Hanaco Ventures. Backing Redefine’s path to market are a host of other investors, including Losa Group, Sake Bosch and K3 Ventures ...

Singapore based start-up, Wiz.AI, is proud to announce its latest partnership with Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), Zero1. The implementation of Wiz.AI's conversational Talkbots has allowed Zero1 to not only automate outbound calls from their call centre ...

Grab Financial Group said today it has raised more than $300 million in Series A funding, led by South Korean firm Hanhwa Asset Management, with participation from K3 Ventures, GGV Capital, Arbor Ventures and Flourish Ventures. Both K3 Ventures and GGV Capital were early investors in Grab ...

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 round brings total fundraising to date to US$30M, with new investors like K3 Ventures...

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...

QAPITA, a Singapore-based startup that provides software to manage a company's equity, has raised US$1.8 million in seed funding. The round was led by Vulcan Capital, the investment arm of Vulcan Inc and other investors include Alto Partners Multi Family Office & Kuok family office K3 Ventures...

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. "MPOWER has what it takes to thrive in this new environment," added Meng Xiong Kuok, Managing Partner of K3 Ventures...

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 …

Validus wants to fix the financing gap with its peer-to-peer lending platform, which connects accredited lenders with SMEs. The funding was co-led by Vertex Growth fund and Kuok Group’s Orion Fund, which is managed by K3 Venture Partners...

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 …

Investment firm K3 Ventures, a family office offshoot, has invested in 38 companies to date, including the likes of ByteDance and Grab. Venture and growth-oriented tech investments have received enormous attention from wealthy Southeast Asian families of late...

Hanoi-based logistics startup LOGIVAN has raised a US$1.75 million Series A round led by Ethos Partners. “LOGIVAN is in an exciting position and is poised to disrupt the trucking industry in Vietnam,” said Kuok Meng Xiong, Managing Partner at Ethos Partners...

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 also took part...

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, including investors from the travel industry Mr Meng Xiong Kuok and Mr Leland Kwee...