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Commerce Platform ShopUp Raises $75 Million in Largest Funding Round in the South Asian Market
ShopUp, a startup that is digitizing neighborhood stores in Bangladesh, has raised $75 million in a new financing round that is also the largest in the South Asian market.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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Village Commerce Startup 1Bridge Raises $2.5 Million From C4D Partners & Others
1Bridge is a village commerce platform that provides a wide range of aspirational products & digital services at the doorsteps of village consumers.
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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- e-commerce
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Pera Hub Teams up With Brankas To Introduce Digital Remittance Platform in Southeast Asia
The platform based in the Philippines will aim to offer tech services to an array of companies and businesses online remittance services.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Visa To Enable Deeper Financial Inclusion With Offline Payments in India
The technology will allow users to make transactions using chip-based Visa debit, credit, and prepaid cards even in places with low or no internet connectivity.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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India’s Largest Renewable Energy Producer Is Now a $4.5 Billion Company Listed on Nasdaq
Indian renewable energy company ReNew Power, among the country’s leading solar and wind energy producers, made it to the US exchange.
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- Energy
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- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: Spinning Green into Gold
ESG-focused fund inflows into Asia are growing, but investing is replete with risk given the region’s diversities and historical inequalities.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- ESG, governance, impact investing, SDGs
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Bangalore-Based Agritech Robotics Startup TartanSense Raises $5 Million in Series A Funding
TartanSense builds small agricultural robots equipped with AI-assisted computer vision to help small farms reduce their expenditures and improve their incomes.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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AgNext Technologies lands $21 million Led by Alpha Wave Incubation
AgNext Technologies has raised $21 million in its Series A round, led by Alpha Wave Incubation (AWI), in the largest Series A funding received by an Indian agri-tech startup so far.
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- Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- startups
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