Redefining itself as a venture capital firm, Innovatube, a startup incubator with branches in Vietnam, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom, has initiated...

International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private lending arm of the World Bank, has made an investment of RMB130 million (about US$20 million) in China’s...

China's JoyMe and Kee Ever to set up a US$360 million investment fund to acquire oversea game companies.

Japanese peer-to-peer marketplace, Mercari has announced that it has acquired Zawatt which operates Smaoku as its wholly owned subsidiary. The financial terms of the deal was not revealed.

Chinese COCLEAN Technology, a developer of indoor air purification systems has recently announced a 20 million yuan (about US$2.9 million) series A round of investment led by Zhen Fund.

Operating Sendah and Sendah Direct, Philippines financial technology startup Ayannah has upsized its financing round to US$5 million which is slated to close by April 2017.

One Tap Buy, a Tokyo-based startup developing a mobile trading brokerage application has on 14 February announced its fundraising worth US$13.3 million from Mizuho Securities, Mizuho Capital, and Mobile Internet Capital.

Chinese mobile game developer ShineZone has recently completed a RMB400 million (about US$58 million) series B round, and is looking to go for an IPO listing.

Indian packaged food startup Sattviko has acquired StylSpot., a fashion stylist curation platform in order to scale up their product discovery platform.

Singapore's CapBridge and Gordian Capital has formed a partnership to launch CapBridge Investment Trust (CIT), a rules-based investment trustr for private securities that has just launched.