| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.01.2024 | Deals in brief: Mesh Bio confirms completion of Series A round, ProcurePro and Alt.Leather secure funding, 16 recent China and India deals, and more | Mesh Bio confirms the completion of USD 3.5 million Series A round
Following initial reports of Mesh Bio, a Singapore-based health tech startup, raising an undisclosed amount of funding in October last year, the startup has released a state... |
| 29.01.2024 | Deals in brief: Krutrim and Elice secure funding, SoftBank Ventures Asia closes new fund, InnoVen Capital launches second China fund, and more | India’s Krutrim raises USD 50 million
Indian artificial intelligence startup Krutrim, founded by Ola co-founder Bhavish Aggarwal, has secured USD 50 million in funding, valuing the company at USD 1 billion. Matrix Partners India led the fun... |
| 25.01.2024 | SoftBank Ventures Asia changes name after closing $150m fund | InvestmentsNews
Gabriel Budi Sutrisno · 29 Jan 2024 · 1 min readSoftBank Ventures Asia changes name after closing $150m fund
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SoftBank Ventures Asia is changing its name to SBVA, the South Korea-headquartered VC firm s... |
| 28.05.2023 | SoftBank Ventures Asia led $9 M oversubscribed Series B funding raised by ZUZU Hospitality | ZUZU Hospitality Solutions Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-based provider of revenue platforms for independent hotels, announced the completion of a $9 million Series B round that was oversubscribed and was headed by SoftBank Ventures Asia.
Atinum P... |
| 26.05.2023 | TechCrunch+ roundup: South Korea investor survey, 1-hour board meetings, venture leasing basics | After sales software startup TigerEye closed its Series A and established a board of directors, its co-founders put them on notice:
One thing we’d like to never do is the three-hour, too-in-the-weeds, non-strategic board meeting.
“Every boa... |
| 25.05.2023 | Profitability over growth: 5 investors explain their mantra for South Korean startups | South Korea’s economic model has for decades leaned on export-led manufacturing operated by family-owned corporate giants. A 2015 report from McKinsey outlined how the country would need small companies to drive an innovative model in prepa... |
| 25.05.2023 | Singapore’s Zuzu Hospitality Secures $9 Million Funding and Eyes India Expansion | Zuzu Hospitality Solutions, a Singapore-headquartered revenue platform provider for independent hotels, announced the completion of a $9 million Series-B round of funding.
With the support of this funding round, the travel tech startup has ... |
| 13.04.2023 | As tech slumps, SoftBank sells VC unit to Singapore-based firm led by Masayoshi Son’s brother | SoftBank is selling one of its venture capital arms, South Korea-based SoftBank Ventures Asia (SBVA), to The Edgeof, a Singaporean investment firm, according to the two companies.
The deal’s financial terms have not been disclosed, but the ... |
| 23.05.2022 | SoftBank Ventures Asia Leads $5.8 Million Investment In Korean Autonomous Shipping Startup | SoftBank Ventures Asia, the venture arm of Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group, led a $5.8 million round in South Korean autonomous navigation startup Seadronix, bringing its total funding to date to $8.3 million.
The auton... |
| 13.05.2022 | Startup Wire | All Falls Down | Hi everyone. Taro here.
Our entire team was recently busy with organizing an event, and I wasn’t paying as much attention to the news for a few days. It was stunning to read about the recent TerraUSD crypto stablecoin depegging and the plum... |
| 10.05.2022 | SoftBank Ventures Asia Leads $5.8 Million Investment In Korean Autonomous Shipping Startup | COURTESY OF SEADRONIX |
| 09.05.2022 | Seadronix aims to reduce marine accidents at port and sea with AI | South Korean startup Seadronix wants to reduce the issue of marine accidents, 75% of which are caused by human error, according to a 2019 Allianz safety and shipping report. The company just secured a $5.8 million Series A extension to scal... |
| 23.09.2021 | SoftBank Ventures Asia led US $30 M raised by Oy! Indonesia in Series A funding round | SoftBank Ventures Asia led a $30 million (IDR 443.2 billion) Series A investment round for fintech startup Oy! Indonesia, the company said today.
MDI, Pavilion Capital, AC Venture, CCV, Wavemaker, PT SAT, Saison Capital Pte. Ltd., and Orion... |
| 22.09.2021 | June Homes Emerges From Stealth With $50 Million in Funding | We are glad to announce that our portfolio proptech company June Homes emerges from stealth mode with $50M in funding. June Homes is using technology to fix the antiquated apartment rental experience for both everyday consumers and mom-and-... |
| 11.08.2021 | Delivery experience platform Parcel Perform raises $20 million | Carrier independent parcel tracking service Parcel Perform has raised $20 million in a Series A investment round. The e-commerce focused “delivery experience platform” manages over 100 million parcel tracking updates on a daily basis, provi... |
| 11.08.2021 | Delivery Experience SaaS Leader Parcel Perform Secures US$20M Series A Investment Led by Cambridge Capital with Participation from SoftBank Ventures Asia | The already profitable e-commerce delivery experience SaaS leader has taken on a strategic investment from global blue-chip investors to drive continued expansion and technology innovation
The Series A funding round led by Cambridge Capital... |
| 11.08.2021 | Delivery Experience SaaS Leader Parcel Perform Secures US$20M Series A Investment Led by Cambridge Capital with Participation from SoftBank Ventures Asia | |
| 12.07.2021 | Ag commodities platform Tridge scores $60m Series C funding | South Korea’s Tridge has raised $60 million in a Series C round led by local private equity firm Forest Partners.
The Seoul-based startup describes itself as the “global sourcing hub of food and agriculture.” Its online platform connects su... |
| 30.03.2021 | Indonesian investment platform Ajaib secures US $ 65 million in Series A | Ajaib, a Jakarta ( Indonesia) based fintech startup, announced on 29th March 2021 that it has raised US $ 65 million in its Series A funding round. The round was led by Ribbit Capital along with participation from many other investors inclu... |
| 15.10.2020 | Singapore’s Carro raises US$ 110M in funding | Carro, founded in 2015, offers a buying, selling and a payment-based car service, wherein consumers can choose a suitable plan and get a car of their choice without the annoyance of traditional car ownership. The startup came up with this f... |
| 10.09.2020 | SoftBank-backed logistics platform Waresix raises $100m | Indonesian logistics startup Waresix has closed its Series B round, revealing that it has raised a total of $100 million since the start of the year.
In a statement, it said the investment came from new backers including local conglomerate ... |
| 20.04.2020 | Gojek acquires mPOS startup Moka for a reported $120m to boost its food merchant platform | Southeast Asian food delivery giant Gojek has agreed to acquire mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) startup Moka, according to a regulatory notice.
The Komisi Pengawas Persaingan Usaha (KPPU) – Indonesia’s competition regulator – published a notifi... |
| 24.01.2019 | Indonesian startup Ajaib opens up investment opportunities for millennials | Ajaib is an online investment platform that launched earlier this month. It offers easy access to investment opportunities for Indonesians, specifically targeting younger people.
The team behind Ajaib recognises that personal investments ar... |
| 16.01.2019 | SoftBank Ventures Asia Hires Seung Lee as CFO | Seung Lee, the new CFO of SoftBank Ventures Asia
SoftBank Ventures Asia, a Seoul, South Korea-based early-stage investment vehicle of the SoftBank Group, hired Seung Lee as a chief financial officer.
Seung Lee will be responsible for the ma... |
| 03.01.2019 | SoftBank Group’s early venture arm rebrands, to focus on AI startups in Asia | SoftBank Ventures Korea, the early venture arm of Japanese internet conglomerate SoftBank Group, has been renamed to SoftBank Ventures Asia and will focus on finding artificial intelligence-related startups globally, with an emphasis on Asi... |
| 09.08.2018 | Musical.ly investor bets on internet radio with $17M deal for Korea’s Spoon Radio | One of the early backers of Musical.ly, the short video app that was acquired for $1 billion, is making a major bet that internet radio is one of the next big trends in media.
Goodwater Capital, one of a number of backers that won big when ... |
| 19.03.2018 | Bioinformatics startup twoXAR bags $10M in Series A | JP Lee, managing director of SoftBank Ventures, will join Andreessen Horowitz general partner Vijay Pande on the twoXAR board of directors. Palo Alto, California-based twoXAR reached this next stage of growth thanks to $3.4 million in seed ... |
| 31.10.2017 | Samsung and SoftBank invest in Israeli lidar startup Innoviz Technologies | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Innoviz Technologies, a startup that’s building solid-state lidar technology for autonomous cars, has extended its previously announced... |
| 31.10.2017 | Samsung and SoftBank invest in Israeli lidar startup Innoviz Technologies | Innoviz Technologies, a startup that’s building solid-state lidar technology for autonomous cars, has extended its previously announced series B funding round to $73 million.
The Israeli startup announced a $65 million funding round just la... |
| 20.02.2017 | India: Softbank Korea, IMM Investment lead $15m Series B funding in True Balance | Premium
Mobile balance checking app True Balance has raised nearly $15 million (Rs 100 crore) in a Series B funding round led by Softbank Ventures Korea, the venture capital arm of Japan’s SoftBank, and IMM Investment, as per a report in Th... |
| 08.01.2016 | Daily funding roundup - January 8, 2016 | MyMusicTaste landed $10M; Zymeworks bagged $61.5M; Pierian closed a $9.25M funding
Blinkist, a Germany-based startup that gives you the gist of well-known nonfiction books in 15 minutes or less, has raised €4 million ($4.3 million) to accel... |
| 20.08.2015 | Daily funding roundup - August 20, 2015 | ZocDoc nabbed $130M; Carbon3D closed $100M; Grand Rounds bagged $55M
Chicago-based Kitchfix, which has a healthy food-delivery business in Chicago already by delivering 500 meals a week, just raised a seed round of $450,000 to open up a 1,4... |
| 26.02.2015 | Founders on a Mission | I’ve often repeated that the definition of entrepreneurship is “Insane perseverance in the face of complete resistance” (something I learned from my professor and mentor the late Jack Thorne). Put differently, there are some founders for wh... |
| 22.10.2014 | KnowRe Raises $6.8M to Grow Adaptive Math Platform in US, Korea | Among the things that South Korea takes seriously: gaming (which The New York Times recently dubbed a “national pastime”) and education, where the after-school tutoring is an estimated $17 billion market and tutors can earn $4 million a yea... |
| 26.08.2014 | Korbit Closes $3M Series A Funding | Korbit, a Korean bitcoin exchange, wallet and merchant processor, closed a $3m Series A funding round.
The round was led by SoftBank Ventures Korea and Pantera Capital with participation from BAM Ventures and previous investors Bitcoin Oppo... |
| 23.01.2013 | Korean Couples App Between Raises $3 Million To Expand Into Japan And Other Markets | There’s no shortage of apps out there to help couples communicate with each other, share messages and photos and whatever else. Here in the U.S., you’ve probably heard of Y Combinator-backed Pair, as well as Avocado and SimplyUs and maybe a... |
| - | Bioinformatics startup twoXAR bags $10M in Series A | Bioinformatics-based startup twoXAR has built some bank with $10 million in Series A financing from a trio of firms, the company announced Monday. Leading this Series A infusion is SoftBank Ventures, with Andreessen Horowitz and OS Fund rou... |
| - | Delivery experience platform Parcel Perform raises $20 million | Carrier independent parcel tracking service Parcel Perform has raised $20 million in a Series A investment round. The e-commerce focused “delivery experience platform” manages over 100 million parcel tracking updates on a daily basis, provi... |
