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2Q analysis: Substituting China?

India and Southeast Asia come to the fore as China demonstrates weakness in both growth-stage investment and fundraising; exits continue to struggle amid reluctance from strategic buyers

  • Greater China
  • 12 July 2022
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Indonesia B2B agriculture marketplace gets $35m Series A

AgriAku, an Indonesia-based B2B marketplace that looks to improve agriculture supply chain efficiency for retailers of agricultural inputs, has raised USD 35m in Series A funding led by Alpha JWC Ventures.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 12 July 2022
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Prosus leads $25m Series B for India's Vegrow

Prosus Ventures, a technology investment business controlled by Naspers, has led a USD 25m Series B round for Vegrow, an India-based marketplace that helps farmers sell their fruit crops into organised distribution channels.

  • South Asia
  • 12 July 2022
China medical big data player Aden secures $30m

Aden Technology, a China-based medical big data company specialising in insurance, has raised an extended Series B round of CNY 200m (USD 30m) led by Haier Capital with participation from Xingtuo Capital.

  • Greater China
  • 11 July 2022
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Singapore blockchain gaming start-up gets $20m

Singapore’s Oasys, a blockchain technology developer focused on web3 gaming, has raised USD 20m from several specialist crypto investors.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 11 July 2022
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Korean GP backs $1.5b buyout of US-listed Meridian Bioscience

SJL Partners, a Korea-based private equity firm that specialises in cross-border transactions, has teamed up with domestic in vitro diagnostics business SD Biosensor to acquire US-listed peer Meridian Bioscience for USD 1.53bn.

  • North Asia
  • 11 July 2022
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India fintech player Cred closes $140m Series F

Cred, an India-based credit card rewards provider, has closed a USD 140m Series F round that includes a secondary component intended to facilitate exits for existing investors.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 08 July 2022
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Korea's Kakao considers partial divestment of mobility spin-out

South Korean internet giant Kakao has indicated it may sell around 10% of Kakao Mobility, its transportation division, which has several private equity backers.

  • North Asia
  • 08 July 2022
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Quadrant exits Australia underwear brand to Swedish strategic

Quadrant Private Equity has exited Australian hygiene apparel brand Modibodi to Swedish strategic Essity for AUD 140m (USD 96m).

  • Australasia
  • 08 July 2022
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Accel-KKR targets Australia-listed SaaS player Damstra

Damstra Technology, a listed Australian software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider specialising in worker safety and risk management, has received an unsolicited buyout proposal from Accel-KKR.

  • Australasia
  • 08 July 2022
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Government funds support China's Dark Matter AI

Dmai, a Chinese cognitive artificial intelligence (AI) platform also known as Dark Matter AI, has raised RMB 500m (USD 75m) in the first tranche of a Series B round from five state-backed investors.

  • Greater China
  • 07 July 2022
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Blackstone backs Australia, US clean commodities platform

The Blackstone Group has led a USD 400m investment in Xpansiv, an Australia and US-based marketplace for trading clean commodities such as carbon offsets, renewable energy credits (RECs), and low-carbon fuels.

  • Australasia
  • 07 July 2022
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Australian start-up wins backing for spider venom drug

Infensa Bioscience, a newly established Brisbane-based drug developer, has raised AUD 23m (USD 15.6m) in funding to support the licensing of a nascent treatment that uses spider venom to mitigate heart attacks and strokes.

  • Australasia
  • 07 July 2022
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Deal focus: Carlyle targets consumerism in ceramics

The Carlyle Group, like many investors, sees premiumisation as a natural outcome of the expansion of India’s middle class. It could be the first to test this thesis in the local building materials industry

  • South Asia
  • 06 July 2022
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Deal focus: India’s Shubham sees opening to accelerate

Shubham believes its long-curated datasets and institutional memory differentiate it from a growing pack of low-income housing lenders. Global impact investors appear convinced

  • South Asia
  • 06 July 2022
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Australia tech: Valuation conundrum

Valuation adjustments and down rounds are expected to proliferate in Australia’s technology sector in the next 12 months. Investors are busy scrutinising business models for signs of vulnerability

  • Australasia
  • 06 July 2022
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Deal focus: Novel angle on mobile adoption gains traction

Cashify is leveraging and propelling India’s mobile penetration narrative at the most fundamental level. Adding tech to the secondhand smart phone space has allowed it to create a first-of-its-kind brand

  • South Asia
  • 06 July 2022
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Legend leads $150m Series E for China CRO ClinChoice

US and China-based clinical contract research organization (CRO) company ClinChoice has raised a USD 150m Series E round led by Legend Capital.

  • Greater China
  • 06 July 2022
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Singapore blockchain player Rubix raises $100m

Singapore-based crypto transaction infrastructure provider Rubix has raised USD 100m from US-based LDA Capital to transition into a more web3-oriented and “green blockchain” model.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 06 July 2022
PAG launches Asia renewables platform

PAG plans to commit more than USD 1bn to renewables over the next several years with the launch of a platform dedicated to the development, construction, and operation of projects in Asia.

  • North Asia
  • 06 July 2022
China IC software player raises $81m

Semi-Tech, a China-based semiconductor manufacturing software provider, has raised CNY 540m (USD 81m) across two rounds - the second extended tranche of a Series A and a Series B.

  • Greater China
  • 05 July 2022
Sequoia, Dayone back China solid state battery developer

China-based Enpower Greentech, which claims to be a pioneer in next-generation all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs), has raised more than USD 20m in an extended Series A round led by Sequoia Capital China and Dayone Capital.

  • Greater China
  • 05 July 2022
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India start-up financier GetVantage raises $36m

GetVantage, a provider of revenue-based financing to Indian start-ups, has secured USD 36m in funding led by Varanium Nexgen Fintech Fund, DMI Sparkle Fund, Chiratae Ventures, and Dream Incubator Japan.

  • Early-stage
  • 05 July 2022
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Arpwood leads acquisition of India's Sterling Hospitals

Indian private equity firm Arpwood Capital has led the acquisition of Sterling Addlife India, operator of the Sterling Hospitals chain, for an undisclosed sum.

  • South Asia
  • 05 July 2022
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