Daily Database
The SEA deal database.
Every funding round, exit, partnership, and corridor move the daily ticker has tracked since 22 Jun 2026 — 96 deals, filterable by country, updated each evening at 18:00 SGT.
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The bancassurance engine was only 69% owned: Maybank pays $1.18B for the rest of Etiqa
Maybank agreed to buy Ageas' remaining 30.95% of Maybank Ageas Holdings, which owns Etiqa's Malaysian and Singaporean insurance and takaful businesses, for RM4.83 billion. Bank Negara Malaysia must approve.
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Indonesian payment licences take years: an Australian fintech buys Brick's instead for up to $20M
Brick is in final talks to sell a majority stake for $10-20 million. Its Bank Indonesia payment-provider licence came from buying PT Eastern Transglobal Remittance in 2023.
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Temasek Financial (I) opened books on a fixed-rate note due 2036 under its $30 billion global medium-term programme. Moody's rates it Aaa and S&P AAA. Size and final coupon are not set.
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A Singapore firm just bought its way into 400 global brands: ADA acquires India's Algonomy
ADA, headquartered in Singapore and Malaysia with 1,300 staff and 1,500 clients, takes Algonomy's real-time retail decisioning and its 400 brands. The combined group sells across 34 markets. Terms undisclosed.
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OCBC arranged MYR 325 million ($79.5M) for ESS Bahau's 100MW/400MWh system, the first project financed under MyBeST, the Energy Commission's competitive tender for grid-scale storage. Operation targets July 2027.
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Indonesian logistics is buying Australian ports, not the other way round: ABL takes Engage Marine
Asian Bulk Logistics closed its purchase of Engage Marine, which runs harbour and terminal towage at Australian ports for vessels up to Capesize. It is ABL's fourth Australian acquisition since 2023.
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Remittance apps have always stopped at the bank account: Wise plugs into Malaysia's DuitNow
Wise gained direct access to PayNet, letting users scan DuitNow QR codes and send ringgit to a mobile number. Malaysia becomes the ninth market worldwide where Wise holds domestic payment-system access, and the fifth in APAC.
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Only three firms in Singapore both list and clear: HashKey moves on APEX
Hong Kong's HashKey signed a non-binding framework agreement to buy Singapore's Asia Pacific Exchange outright. APEX holds both an MAS Approved Exchange and Approved Clearing House licence, a pairing only three firms carry, and the deal awaits MAS approval.
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Manila built the AI delivery bench Singapore needed: Temus takes a stake in Thinking Machines
Temasek-backed Temus invested an undisclosed sum in Thinking Machines, OpenAI's first services partner in Asia Pacific. The Manila firm has served over 110 clients since 2015 and trained more than 10,000 professionals.
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Ageing is becoming an investable platform: Singapore's iWOW raises S$15M from nine institutions
iWOW placed 66.67 million shares at S$0.225 each, drawing UOB Asset Management, Lion Global, Tokio Marine and Value Partners. Proceeds shore up the balance sheet after its acquisition of The Gentle Group.
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Malaysia's data-centre boom needed lenders, not landlords: AirTrunk raises $2.33B for 420MW in Johor
IFC and DBS anchor $2.325 billion of green project financing for the JHB2 campus, AirTrunk's largest single-asset raise and the biggest for one Malaysian data centre. Design power usage effectiveness is 1.37.
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The US manufacturer takes full ownership of foundational TOPCon cell and module patents it previously licensed from Evervolt Green Energy Holding, paying $2 million upfront and $133 million across four instalments due October.
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Japan's Cool Japan Fund leads the Series C alongside Khazanah Nasional, BlueOrchard, Altara Ventures and Gobi Partners. The embedded-insurance platform serves over 5 million customers and more than $10 billion in sum insured.
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Apollo-managed funds anchor the S$3.7 billion programme. Keppel divests six operational rigs in 2026 for S$1.2 billion and four more through 2028, lifting funds under management by S$3.9 billion.
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A hyperscale data centre funded by Islamic bonds: Sime Darby Property opens a $640M green sukuk
The MYR 2.6 billion programme funds a hyperscale data centre in Elmina Business Park, due end-2027 and pre-let for 20 years to a multinational technology tenant, plus build-to-suit warehouses.
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Cicor pays $15 million to $20 million for EDMI Electronics in Johor, which handles final assembly for Asia-Pacific, and takes a long-term contract to build most of EDMI's smart meters.
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Vietnam's engineers now run a Japanese trading house's AI: ITOCHU and FPT open a tech centre
The virtual joint venture runs through ITOCHU's Hong Kong subsidiary CISD Asia and scales the CISD AI Agent, a multi-agent platform already deployed across more than 100 ITOCHU business units.
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Danantara Asset Management signed share purchase agreements for controlling stakes in the investment arms of Mandiri, BRI, BNI and PNM, which together managed IDR 170 trillion ($9.43 billion) as of June. They merge within a month.
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Geothermal's hard part is the decade before the steam: Mizuho hands Pertamina a $75M trade facility
Bank Mizuho Indonesia provided an unsecured non-cash facility spanning bank guarantees, standby and import letters of credit, payables financing and a revolving loan. PGE targets 1 GW of self-managed capacity by 2028 and 1.8 GW by 2034.
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Renewables need operators, not just cheques: Temasek's GenZero anchors PCG Global's pre-Series A
The Singapore firm develops and operates renewable projects and manages carbon assets. Sources put the round in the tens of millions of dollars; parent PCG Power runs over 2 GW in China with 1.8 GW in development.
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HSBC is selling the Singapore business it spent decades building: Allianz pays S$2.7B
Allianz acquires HSBC's Singapore life and health insurance arm for S$2.7 billion ($2.09 billion), handing the bank a $1.8 billion pre-tax gain and up to 15 basis points of CET1 capital.
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A direct acquiring partnership puts JCB cards on Fiuu's online and offline merchant rails in Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines, with Thailand next. Fiuu processed over $13 billion in payment volume in FY2025.
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The Asia Climate-smart Landscapes Fund lends to underbanked SMEs across Indonesian agriculture, forestry and aquaculture supply chains, backed by $8 million from Australian Development Investments and a 50% asset-level guarantee from the US DFC.
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The Alipay+ and Antom parent, backed by Ant Group and Alibaba, will fund cross-border-payment and agentic-commerce expansion across four business lines reaching 150 million merchants and two billion accounts.
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The Series A, led by Kantharos Capital, funds IND-enabling work on an off-the-shelf cell therapy for B7-H3-positive solid tumours, with a regulatory submission planned for year-end 2026.
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The five-year tie-up pairs CuspAI's AI discovery platform with A*STAR's autonomous labs — including Southeast Asia's first fully autonomous MOF lab — across semiconductors, carbon capture and advanced electronics.
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Grab took a strategic stake in Hanoi charging network EBOOST, folding its 2,500 existing points into the Grab app and targeting 6,000+ ports — nearly 3,000 in Hanoi — by early 2028.
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The Jakarta company is raising up to $7 million in a bridge round to expand its commercial electric-vehicle fleet business across Indonesia.
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Nasdaq-listed Gorilla raised $232M in bonds, sending $125M to Indonesia's NeutraDC Batam build-out — backing a five-year, $2.5B contract — while advancing a 200MW GPU campus in Thailand's Korat.
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Taiwan's Powertech will invest $400M in a Singapore joint venture with Broadcom to build fan-out panel-level packaging — the fine-geometry routing behind Broadcom's and AMD's AI chips. The deal is pending Taiwan regulatory sign-off.
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EQuest, the KKR-backed education group, and developer Phu My Hung will co-develop a $40M K-12 complex in Bac Ninh's Hong Hac City — 22,000 sqm for 2,500 students, piling begun 18 July, first intake targeted 2028.
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The Singapore-headquartered exchange took its first institutional round in ten years, earmarking the capital for tokenised securities and derivatives.
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The seed round, co-led by SGInnovate and Lotus One, follows $2.8M raised in 2022 and funds integrations already running with Thales, Microsoft and PQShield.
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The REIT sold the Kim Chuan Telecommunications Complex for 32% above its S$151.8M June valuation, with roughly S$180M in net proceeds trimming leverage toward 41.4%.
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Rice paddies emit 12% of the world's methane: Singapore's Rize raises $31M to drain 50,000 hectares
The Series B splits $20M equity and $11M debt, led by BNP Paribas Asset Management Alts with Temasek and the Rockefeller Foundation. Rize farms 50,000 hectares with 17,000 smallholders across Vietnam and Indonesia.
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Terms undisclosed. Winnow tracks waste across 3,500 kitchens in roughly 100 countries and says clients avoid 128,000 tonnes of CO2e a year; Lumitics customers move onto its automated Throw & Go system.
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AI spend moves to the edge: Singapore's Whale adds $40M, taking its Series C to $100M
CMB International and SMBC Asia Rising Fund led the extension, with Singtel Innov8, Hyundai Motor Group and Krungsri Finnovate joining. Whale manages 600,000 edge AI nodes for 1,600 enterprise customers across 45 countries.
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Asset-light firms cannot pledge collateral: MDEC and CapBay open a RM200M ($49M) credit pool
The MD Technology Financing Program lends Malaysia Digital status companies up to RM3M each over 60 months from about 6% annually, underwriting on business fundamentals through CapBay's AI credit assessment rather than physical collateral.
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Singapore's PixVerse extends Series C to $439M and crosses a $2B valuation
The AI video platform closed a Series C extension lifting total Series C to $439M, with Alibaba, Mirae Asset and OCBC's LionX Ventures joining. It counts 150M users across 177 countries.
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The World Bank's IFC lines up $175M for AirTrunk's Johor data-centre campus
IFC proposes up to $175M to back the Blackstone-owned operator's JHB1 campus in Johor Bahru, adding development-bank money to a Malaysian data-centre build-out already drawing multibillion-dollar syndicated loans.
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Vietnam's café boom goes venture-scale: Every Half pours an $8M Series A from Openspace and DSG
Ho Chi Minh City specialty chain Every Half raised an $8M Series A led by Openspace Ventures and DSG Consumer Partners — roughly triple its earlier $3M — to add outlets and deepen its bean supply chain.
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Singapore's dentist goes shopping in Bangkok: Q&M buys 51% of Thailand's 33-clinic Deezy for ~$39M
Q&M Dental Group will pay THB994.5M (~$39M) — THB700M cash plus new shares — for a controlling 51% of Deezy Dental Home, adding 33 clinics across Bangkok and the northeast under a six-year, THB1.25B profit guarantee.
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Schroders-owned impact manager BlueOrchard invested $5M via its InsuResilience strategy, extending Malaysian insurtech PolicyStreet's Series C to $26M. The firm has served over 10M customers across gig workers and SMEs.
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A right-of-use deal for the final pair brings the 20,000km Singapore–US cable to $1.3B across five pairs, carrying 240+ Tbps. Keppel projects ~30% IRR via its 40-60 co-investor JV.
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Seviora and Nuveen's Churchill closed a $400M collateralised fund obligation split 50-50 across Asian private credit and US junior capital, oversubscribed by US insurers hunting rated yield.
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Atome Philippines secured a 5-billion-peso ($81M) wholesale facility from Asia United Bank to expand its PayLater Anywhere Card, which serves over 3 million users.
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SimpleAI raised a $5M seed plus a $10M debt facility to acquire accounting and fund-admin firms across APAC, with $25M+ of deals under review and an IPO targeted within 24 months.
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A celebrity brand goes public: RANS jumps 34% on Jakarta debut after a million retail orders
PT RANS Entertainment Indonesia, founded by Raffi Ahmad and Nagita Slavina, raised Rp429 billion (~$26M) selling 20% of its capital; the stock closed its IDX debut up 34.12%, tripping the exchange's volatility halt.
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The B2B 'revenue agents' startup raised $9M in a pre-Series A co-led by Singapore's True Global Ventures and Accel, with Philippines' Kickstart Ventures joining — lifting total funding to $14M.
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Danantara's investment arm and Denera broke ground on a Rp3-trillion ($167M) plant that will process 500,000+ tonnes of Bali's municipal waste a year and sell power to state utility PLN under a signed PPA.
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Thailand buys into the AI supply chain: BOI clears $1.99B, led by a Japanese GPU-hosting build
Thailand's Board of Investment approved nine projects worth $1.99B, led by Japan's Datasection committing $235M to GPU-server infrastructure in Bangkok, plus $370M of printed-circuit-board plants from Taiwan's TUC and Korea's Doosan feeding AI-server demand.
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The integration opens 100-plus payment methods to Dragonpay's 905 merchants and wires them into cross-border rails now spanning Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore and Hong Kong.
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Singapore's Nium is buying its way on-chain: it acquires YC-backed Cypher for stablecoin rails
The Temasek-backed payments firm — already moving money across 100 currencies and 190-plus countries — absorbs Cypher's non-custodial wallet and engineering team to build settlement rails for stablecoin and agentic payments.
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$500M and oversubscribed: B Capital's Ascent Fund III nearly doubles its last fund
The early-stage fund nearly doubled its $254M predecessor, targeting seed-to-Series-B rounds in AI infrastructure, robotics, healthcare and energy across North America and Asia.
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The infrastructure fund's stake bankrolls nationwide expansion in cold chain, air cargo and contract logistics, days after AC Logistics bought 84% of cold-storage operator Glacier Megafridge.
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Australia's Lynas and Korea's JS Link commit to a rare-earth magnet plant in Malaysia
The pair will build a 3,000-tonne-a-year sintered NdFeB magnet factory in Kuantan, with Lynas investing A$50M ($34.7M) for a 4.58% stake in JS Link and up to 400 jobs created.
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Denmark's A.P. Moller Capital completes 40% buy-in of Ayala's AC Logistics
The Danish infrastructure fund closed its 40% stake after merger clearance, backing AC Logistics across cold chain, air cargo, contract logistics and project cargo in the Philippines.
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Indonesia's Xendit folds Philippines' Dragonpay onto its regional payments rail
Dragonpay's 905 merchants and 44 partners migrate onto Xendit's stack, gaining 100-plus payment methods plus payouts and cross-border settlement, following Xendit's 2025 Payex acquisition.
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ADB signs a $100M loan with Vietnam's HDBank to widen MSME finance
The facility on-lends to micro and small enterprises; alongside Standard Chartered, ADB rallied 29 banks to mobilise a further $621M for HDBank's sustainable-finance book.
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Korea's LG Innotek to build $1B semiconductor substrate plant in Vietnam's Hai Phong
The Q3 2026 groundbreaking anchors a 323,812-sqm plant making RF-SiP and FC-BGA packaging substrates — part of LG Group's $10.6B, seven-project push into Hai Phong.
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Singapore's M-DAQ integrates Vietnam's PayME rails to build an ASEAN payment network
The tie-up with METech gives M-DAQ direct dong collection and payout access — its first Vietnam presence — lifting it to five regulated licences across four ASEAN markets.
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Singapore's ESR and Mitsubishi's MCUDI develop $80M logistics assets in Greater Jakarta
The two Grade-A warehouses in Karawang and Cikarang add roughly 111,000 sqm of leasable space, breaking ground now for Q3 2027 completion.
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Singapore's Timah Partners launches a waste-management rollup with its first acquisition
The $50M-backed holding company signed its first deal in Singapore's roughly S$400M ($309M) specialised-waste sector — grease-traps, drainage, sanitation — buying an established operator to consolidate a field of aging, owner-run firms.
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India's AscentHR acquires Malaysia's OS HRS to build a unified APAC payroll stack
AscentHR absorbed OS HRS's payroll operations across Malaysia, Japan and India, forming a combined compliance-and-payroll platform serving multinationals across seven APAC markets from Singapore to Korea.
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B2B payments platform XTransfer opens a Kuala Lumpur office as its Southeast Asia hub
Holding conditional Bank Negara Malaysia approval for payment licences since February, the cross-border trade-payment platform will route SME import-export flows through Kuala Lumpur, with Maybank, CIMB and OCBC present at the launch.
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Singapore's Seraya Partners commits $500M to launch Faraday Energy with Schneider
Seraya will deploy up to US$500M of equity into Faraday, a distributed-energy platform building customer-sited power and decarbonisation infrastructure for data centres and industrial sites across Asia-Pacific and the Gulf, with Schneider Electric as principal technology partner.
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Temasek-backed Azalea launches Azalea All Access, its first evergreen PE fund at $350M
The Astrea sponsor opened its first evergreen private-equity fund with US$350M in anchor commitments, giving accredited Asian investors day-one, monthly-subscription access to a diversified portfolio of PE secondaries and co-investments.
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AnyMind opens 20-studio Bintaro hub to scale Indonesia's live-commerce economy
AnyMind Group opened a Bintaro hub with roughly 20 fully equipped studios — its largest Indonesian live-commerce base — lifting the group to 85 studios across Asia-Pacific and offering brands end-to-end production and real-time broadcasting.
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Singapore's dConstruct raises $125M Series A for GPS-denied autonomous robots
The RoboNexus accelerator's breakout closes one of Singapore's largest deep-tech Series A rounds, funding a 42,000-sqm Punggol headquarters and robots built for GPS-denied sites in security, inspection and logistics.
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Thailand's Amity moves its global AI hub to Singapore, adding 60 roles
Backed by a $100M EDBI-led Series D, the Bangkok enterprise-AI firm makes Singapore its regional headquarters and AI research centre, hiring 60 over three years while targeting $200M annualised revenue in 2026.
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Wesco buys Singapore's Newark Engineering for $136M to own data-centre cooling
The Fortune 500 distributor acquired Newark, a $60M-revenue thermal-management firm with offices in Malaysia and Indonesia, to build a regional data-centre cooling platform.
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Ant International opens Kuala Lumpur global centre, seeding 1,500 fintech jobs
The Alipay+ operator's new TRX development centre will staff 1,500 fintech roles, more than half technical and about half filled by recent Malaysian graduates.
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Vietnam's G-Group commits $300M to a Hanoi AI data-centre campus
G-Group will build G-Campus Hoa Lac across 38,000 sqm — a Tier III data centre opening at 20MW, expandable to 30MW, with adjacent AI, HPC and cybersecurity research zones.
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Singapore's UOB breaks ground on $450M Ho Chi Minh City headquarters
UOB becomes the first foreign bank to build a headquarters in Ho Chi Minh City's new International Financial Center — a $450M tower due for completion in 2030.
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Bangkok's Amity Robotics raises $7M seed to scale AI concierge robots across Asia
East Ventures led the equity with AlteriQ Global on the debt and 500 Global joining; the ARC Base robot is now live across 30-plus properties in seven markets.
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Singapore's Acti raises $5.3M seed to turn the keyboard into an agentic context layer
US fund BITKRAFT Ventures anchored the round; early-access users built more than 1,000 Skills in under two weeks on a keyboard that carries AI context across every app.
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Tata Communications commits $152M to subsea cables widening the India–Singapore corridor
Two new systems linking Mumbai and Chennai to Singapore add roughly 98 Tbps of capacity, with $63M going to the Mumbai–Singapore MIST cable due in service by Q4 FY27.
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Singapore's Qashier raises $6.1M Series A+, profitable on $1B annual payment volume
The merchant-OS startup, now profitable across four markets, processes $1B in annualised payments for 20,000-plus merchants in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. Cocoon Capital led the equity-and-debt round.
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Singapore's Biobot Surgical raises $15.5M led by ClavystBio to enter the US market
The surgical-robotics firm raised S$20M from Temasek-backed ClavystBio and ZIG Ventures to scale its Mona Lisa prostate-cancer platform, which has deployed 80-plus systems and treated over 30,000 patients across Europe and Asia.
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Manila's Mynt files for a $1.5B IPO, the Philippines' largest ever
GCash's parent will sell up to 9.23 billion shares at ₱10 apiece, targeting ₱92.3 billion ($1.5B) and a Q4 listing — eclipsing Monde Nissin's 2021 record.
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Merdeka Gold debuts on HKEX — Indonesia's first dual listing in two decades
The Pani gold miner raised up to HK$2.4 billion ($306M) via depositary receipts priced at HK$26.60, drawing cornerstone backers including Glencore and UOB Kay Hian.
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Airwallex raises $320M Series H at an $11B valuation, eyeing Southeast Asia
Addition led the round, lifting the cross-border fintech's valuation from $8B in December; it now runs $1.3B in annualized revenue and went live commercially in Malaysia in April.
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Sweden's Swedfund commits $15M to Navegar Fund III, backing mid-sized Philippine companies
The Swedish development financier anchored Navegar's $250M third fund, which writes cheques into consumer and business-services firms across healthcare, food distribution and logistics.
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Playground Global and Matter Venture join NUS's $117M deep-tech VC program
The two US funds joined NUS Enterprise's $117M vehicle targeting AI, biotech, quantum and advanced materials; NUS will open its first global outpost inside Playground's 70,000-sq-ft Silicon Valley incubator.
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Lion Group takes 10% of Indonesia's Nusantara Bumi Sangkara in $12M deal
The Nasdaq-listed firm took a 10% indirect stake via a $12M share issuance in PT Nusantara Bumi Sangkara, builder of the rupiah-pegged NIDR stablecoin and low-cost cross-border transfer rails.
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Singapore's DBS extends $210M facility to Asia's energy-transition vehicle ETAFCo
DBS becomes the first commercial bank to fund ETAF — a blended-finance partnership under MAS's FAST-P initiative, managed by Clifford Capital — bankrolling coal phase-outs, renewables, grids and storage across Asia.
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Singapore's SuperX AI plans phased 1GW data-centre cluster in Kazakhstan
Chairman Huang Chenghong pitched the AI computing park to Kazakhstan's prime minister at Summer Davos — campus, power and server supply rolled out in phases from 2026 to 2029, marking SuperX's entry into Central Asia.
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AMC Robotics commits $3.5M to a Bắc Ninh factory for robotic arms
The US firm's wholly-owned subsidiary AMCV leased a 6,150 sqm plant in Bắc Ninh to build its NovaArm warehouse robot and Kyro robotic dog, with production targeted for the second half of 2026.
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Singapore's Libeara raises $14M to scale regulated-asset tokenization rails
The Standard Chartered-incubated platform's GSR-led strategic round drew Kyobo Life, Monk's Hill, Openspace and others, funding tokenization infrastructure for institutions issuing regulated digital assets across Asia.
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Singapore's H3 Zoom closes oversubscribed $3.6M Series A for inspection AI
JRE Ventures — East Japan Railway's venture arm — led the round with SGInnovate and M7 Holdings, backing AI that inspects buildings and critical infrastructure across Japan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.
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Singapore's ChemT raises $4M seed to bring AI to biomanufacturing
Wavemaker Ventures led the seed with Seeds Capital and Temasek Life Sciences Accelerator, taking ChemT to $5M in 18 months to build its CelMo virtual-cell platform for bioprocess optimisation.
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Singapore's Temasek joins Nearfield's $380M Series D, backing chip-metrology tools
Temasek invested in the Dutch metrology firm's $380M round at a $1.6B valuation, alongside Fidelity and Qatar's QIA — the largest deep-tech raise in Dutch history.
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Upscale AI raises $190M with Temasek aboard to wire AI clusters
Premji Invest led the Series A-1; Nvidia, Salesforce Ventures and Temasek joined, lifting the cluster-networking startup to a $2B valuation and $500M raised in 18 months.
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Manila's Harlan + Holden nears $12M round to grow its coffee retail
The Manila-born coffee-and-lifestyle brand is finalising a $12M raise — backed by AC Ventures co-founder Michael Soerijadji and ex-Bukalapak chief Willix Halim — to widen its Indonesia and Philippines stores.
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Jakarta Eye Center operator files for up to $38M IDX listing
PT Nitrasanata Dharma, operator of Indonesia's Jakarta Eye Center network, is offering 488 million shares to raise up to 683 billion rupiah ($38 million); bookbuilding runs June 22-24 ahead of a July 7 debut under ticker JECX.
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Medical-supply distributor Esa Medika seeks $15M in IDX IPO
PT Esa Medika Mandiri, which supplies labs and hospitals with equipment and pharmaceuticals, is selling 30% of its enlarged capital — up to 522 million shares — to raise 269 billion rupiah ($15 million), listing July 8 under EMMI.
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Minority partners get bought out; the licence sets the price.
The joint-venture decade is closing across ASEAN. Whoever holds the licence, not the capital, now sets the price of control.
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Southeast Asia stops being the target and starts writing cheques.
Regional private equity fell 58% last quarter while exits more than tripled; the capital freed at the top is shopping abroad rather than waiting at home.
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Four deals buy access to rails someone else already built.
The premium has moved from the product to the permission: licences, national rails and trained delivery benches are the scarce assets, and none of them can be shipped overnight.
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Outside capital prices SEA's power, its patents and its risk.
Note who is lending and who is selling: Malaysia is financing assets it intends to keep, while Singapore is banking intellectual property it no longer needs to manufacture.
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Rigs, data centres, factories: SEA's hard assets find outside owners.
The pattern is a balance-sheet trade: SEA operators are swapping ownership of physical assets for other people's capital, and keeping the operating contract instead.
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Sovereign money moves: Jakarta consolidates managers, Temasek and Pertamina fund power.
This week's cheques came from state balance sheets, not venture funds: patient money that answers to governments is buying SEA's energy build.
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Singapore sheds an insurer; payments and farm credit find specialist owners.
Three deals, one pattern: generalists are handing infrastructure to operators who will actually run it, and pricing that focus at a premium.
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Singapore banks the day: a payments mega-round, cancer biotech, an AI-materials lab.
The through-line today isn't a sector — it's a domicile. SEA's deepest capital keeps clearing through Singapore, whether the asset is payments, medicine, or materials.
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Capital chases SEA's hard infrastructure: EV charging, fleets and AI compute.
SEA's inbound capital keeps skipping the app layer for the physical one — chargers, trucks and GPU campuses, all built in-region and hard to replicate.
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Capital lands on SEA's physical layer: Singapore's chips, Vietnam's classrooms.
SEA's inbound capital is skipping the app layer for the physical one — advanced packaging and classroom seats, both built in-region, both hard to replicate.
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Singapore takes all three tickets: institutional crypto, quantum-safe rails, a data-centre exit.
Singapore absorbed roughly 98% of SEA's recorded deal value in H1 — today's ticker is less a coincidence than a read on where the region's liquidity now sits.
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Singapore banks the climate and edge-AI trade; KL opens a credit line.
Three of today's four deals move money into infrastructure that already has customers, not into a category still waiting for one.
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Capital lands on both ends of SEA's AI stack: model and megawatt.
One cheque funds the thing that makes the video; the other funds the hall that renders it. Southeast Asia is being capitalised at both ends at once.
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Institutional money reaches SEA's everyday economy: coffee, clinics, cover.
Today's cheques skip the frontier and land in the everyday — cafés, dental chairs, insurance apps. SEA's next compounding story is unglamorous, and closer to the consumer.
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Singapore stacks the AI-era rails; Manila draws a peso credit line.
The through-line is infrastructure over apps — subsea capacity, packaged credit, local-currency rails. SEA is building the plumbing that compounds under everyone else's growth.
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Jakarta's retail crowd floats a celebrity IPO; SEA capital backs sales-AI.
Two signals from a quiet week: Indonesia's retail base can float its own brands, and SEA funds are underwriting the sales-AI their portfolios will run next.
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Foreign tech, local ground: Bali burns waste, Thailand builds AI boards.
This week's capital into SEA isn't chasing apps — it's pouring concrete and buying substrates, the unglamorous base layer that compounds for a decade.
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SEA's payments rails consolidate as fresh infrastructure capital lands.
SEA's money and goods are both moving onto shared rails this week — payments networks merging, logistics rolling up, fresh early-stage capital lining up behind the next builders.
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Cross-border capital wires Southeast Asia's magnets, logistics and payment rails.
The through-line is plumbing over hype — magnets, a logistics stake, payment rails and MSME credit are the unglamorous infrastructure the region's next decade runs on.
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Capital pours into Southeast Asia's cross-border rails and factory floors.
This week's money isn't chasing apps — it's laying the substrate, the warehouses and the payment pipes the next decade of SEA commerce will run on.
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SEA capital buys the plumbing — rollups, payroll stacks, trade rails.
This week's money isn't chasing frontier bets — it's buying the plumbing: rollups of boring cashflow, regional payroll stacks, trade rails. Boring compounds.
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Singapore anchors two big capital platforms; Jakarta builds live-commerce rails.
SEA's money is going structural — energy and private-equity platforms in Singapore, creator-commerce infrastructure in Jakarta — rails others compound on, not another app.
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Singapore pulls Southeast Asia's deep-tech capital and AI headquarters.
Two moves, one gravity well: the region's hardest technology — autonomous robotics and foundational AI — is choosing to headquarter and raise in Singapore.
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Foreign capital anchors Southeast Asia's data-centre and finance buildout.
The day's deals cluster on the physical layer — cooling, campuses, headquarters — the unglamorous infrastructure that decides whether the region's AI and finance ambitions actually run.
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Bangkok's robots and Singapore's keyboard raise; a subsea cable widens the India corridor.
Two seed rounds and a cable: SEA's evening signal is capacity — for robots, for context, for the bandwidth beneath both.
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Singapore's quiet engine: a merchant-OS turns profitable, a surgical robot heads west.
Two Singapore raises, no hype round in sight — both firms sell working product to paying customers, a reminder that boring profitability still clears the bar.
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Manila's record IPO and Jakarta's HKEX debut headline a capital-markets thaw.
After a thin first half, SEA capital is flowing back into listings and payment rails — the exits, not just the raises, are finally moving.
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Outside capital reaches in: Stockholm to Manila, Silicon Valley to Singapore, New York to Jakarta.
Three inbound bets — Stockholm, the Valley, New York — landing on Philippine SMEs, Singapore deep tech and Indonesian payment rails. The region is importing capital, not just talent.
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Singapore exports its infrastructure capital; Vietnam imports the factory floor.
Three outbound bets — climate finance, AI compute, robot assembly — show the region's infrastructure layer being built by capital that crosses borders, not capital that stays home.
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Strategic capital backs Singapore's deep-infrastructure layer — assets, buildings, bioprocess.
Three cross-border backers — a global market-maker, a Japanese railway, a US-Asia syndicate — all picked Singapore's hard-tech rails over another consumer app.
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Temasek stakes AI's chokepoints; Manila's coffee brand raises to expand.
Two flows in one day — SEA sovereign capital pushing outward into the AI supply chain, and homegrown consumer brands compounding inward across the region.
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Indonesia's IPO window cracks open: two healthcare names file on the IDX.
After the IDX's quietest first half in years, healthcare is leading the listings back — domestic demand, not frontier tech, is reopening Indonesia's public market.