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Vietnam's gene-testing lab gets Temasek money: Vertex said to lead US$40M for Gene Solutions
Vertex Ventures, the venture arm of Singapore state investor Temasek, is reported to be leading a US$40 million round in Gene Solutions, a Vietnamese genetic-testing company. Mekong Capital first put in US$15 million in 2021.
Japan's SBI is buying into stablecoin rails, not tokens: dtcpay's Series A extends to US$25M
The Singapore payments firm moves stablecoins, digital tokens pegged to the dollar, for merchants under a local licence. SBI Group, Genedant Capital and existing backer Kwee Liong Tek joined the round Vertex Ventures led in April.
Cleaning is where wages rose and workers vanished: Singapore's Hivebotics raises $6M for a restroom robot
Vertex Ventures led a $6 million Series A into the NUS spinoff, whose Abluo arm has logged nearly 10,000 operating hours across more than 20 hospitals, airports and malls on four continents.
Acrab raised US$130m for custom AI silicon, and expects its first revenue only later this year
Vertex led the round in a region where venture money has stayed scarce for three years, and it went to the slowest, most capital-hungry layer on the menu: silicon a competitor cannot re-price by press release.
Running a 100-billion-parameter model may need no cloud at all: Singapore's Acrab adds $130M
Vertex Ventures SEA & India and Vertex Growth led the Series B extension, weeks after a $350M round. Acrab's GΞLIX 1 chip runs inference on the device; revenue is expected within 2026.
Harry Stebbings turned 2,750 podcast interviews into a US$400m fund.
A podcast just financed a US$400 million venture fund. In a region where trust outranks capital, the case for founders owning their own press writes itself.