How Did Shisa.ai Create the Most Japanese-Proficient Large Language Model with Just a Three-Person Team? Interview with Founder Jia Shen
In a restaurant on a Tokyo street, a foreign traveler points at the menu, trying to inquire in English: “Hi, ...
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Gobi Partners Backs Malaysia’s Deep Tech Startup nSWX to Drive Global Innovation
Gobi Partners, a venture capital firm with a focus on Asia, has invested in NanoSkunkWorkX (nSWX), a Malaysian deep tech ...
Biotech Startup Pahr Therapeutics Raises $14M to Advance Clinical Programs for PAH
Pahr Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotech company with operations in Boston, MA, and Osaka, Japan, has secured $14 million in seed ...
DGGF Commits $170K to Boost Foxmont’s Startup Support in the Philippines
The Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF) has pledged $170,000 in fresh support for Foxmont Philippine Ventures Fund III, managed by ...
OmniWave Fintech Aims to Modernize WealthTech with Plug-and-Play AI Platform
OmniWave Fintech, a startup building AI-driven wealth management technology, is gaining attention for its integrated platform that combines real-time sentiment ...
Southeast Asia Fintech Funding Rebounds in H1 2025, But Early-Stage Crunch Persists
After a turbulent two-year funding slump, Southeast Asia's fintech sector is cautiously turning a corner. According to the SEA FinTech ...
LegalOn Raises $50M Series E to Expand AI Legal Tools, Partners with OpenAI
Legal AI startup LegalOn Technologies, headquartered in Tokyo and San Francisco, has secured $50 million in Series E funding to ...
SK Telecom Selects Starseed’s Pulitzer AI for Its 3rd AI Accelerator Batch
Starseed Co, the developer and operator of the global PR automation platform Pulitzer AI, announced on the 28th that it ...
Indonesia Sets Sights on AI Ecosystem to Compete with Regional Peers
Indonesia is preparing to finalize its first national artificial intelligence (AI) strategy by August 2025, aiming to draw foreign investors ...
Alpha JWC Ventures Launches Southeast Asia’s First Whistleblowing Platform for Startups
In a first for Southeast Asia’s startup scene, Indonesia-based venture capital firm Alpha JWC Ventures has introduced SpeakUp, a dedicated ...
NUS Launches S$150M VC Programme to Boost Deep Tech Start-Ups
The National University of Singapore (NUS) has launched a new S$150 million (US$116 million) venture capital initiative to strengthen the ...
SeaX Ventures’ Dr. Supachai Kid Parchariyanon: Navigating U.S.–China Tensions and Betting Big on Southeast Asia
The 90-day tariff suspension between the U.S. and China may have calmed markets temporarily, but it hasn’t calmed investor nerves. ...
Accenture Acquires Aristal to Boost Southeast Asia Banking Capabilities
Accenture has taken over Aristal, a consulting and digital transformation company based in Malaysia that specializes in serving the financial ...
Citi and Ant International join forces to provide enhanced FX payment solutions for airlines
Citi and Ant International have partnered on an AI-powered solution to enhance FX transactions for corporate customers in the airline ...
Singapore’s PDG Lands $1.3B from Stonepeak to Scale Data Center Growth
Singapore-based data center firm Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has raised $1.3 billion in preferred equity from Stonepeak, a New York-headquartered ...
Stablecoin Platform KUN Closes Series A Round, Eyes Global Expansion
KUN, a Hong Kong-based stablecoin payments and embedded finance platform, has closed its oversubscribed Series A funding round. The company ...