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SBI Holdings

SBI backs $18m round for Japan bio-robotics start-up

SBI Investment has joined a $17.7 million funding round for Meltin, a Japanese company focused on combining robotics with bio-signal processing.

  • North Asia
  • 19 October 2018
GMR reaches settlement with investors in airport business

Private equity investors in India’s GMR Airports (GAL) will receive INR35.6 billion ($481.3 million) in cash plus additional equity in compensation after the company failed to deliver a liquidity event within an agreed timeframe.

  • South Asia
  • 09 October 2018
Japan payments player Origami raises $60m Series C

Origami, a Tokyo-based mobile payments platform, has raised JPY6.6 billion ($60 million) in Series C funding from investors including SBI Investment, Union Pay International, Mitsui Sumitomo Card, and Credit Saison.

  • North Asia
  • 24 September 2018
Japan hotel-booking start-up raises $6.3m

Metro Engines, a Tokyo-based start-up that provides pricing tools for online hotel booking sites, has raised JPY700 million ($6.3 million) from a group of Japanese venture capital and strategic investors.

  • North Asia
  • 28 August 2018
Deal focus: Vietnam’s Sendo embraces B2C

A number of Japanese investors are supporting Vietnamese C2C e-commerce player Sendo as it diversifies operations with a B2C marketplace and mobile payments platform

  • Southeast Asia
  • 22 August 2018
Vietnam e-commerce player Sendo gets $51m Series B

Sen Do Technology (Sendo), a Vietnamese e-commerce company that operates a C2C platform and payment service, has secured $51 million in Series B funding led by Japan’s SBI Group.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 17 August 2018
SBI leads $15m Series A for Singapore's AntWorks

SBI Investment has led a $15 million Series A funding round for AntWorks, a Singapore-based supplier of enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) and smart automation products.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 01 August 2018
Malaysia’s Jirnexu receives $11m Series B

Malaysia-based financial technology start-up Jirnexu has received an $11 million Series B funding round led by Japan’s SBI Group.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 17 May 2018
Deal focus: SBI helps Japan AI player smarten up the road

SBI Investments backs a Japanese start-up focused on improving decision-making technology in self-driving cars

  • North Asia
  • 28 March 2018
SBI backs Japan autonomous driving start-up Ascent

SBI Investment has made the first investment from its artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology fund, leading a JPY1.1 billion ($10.3 million) round for Japan’s Ascent Robotics.

  • North Asia
  • 21 March 2018
Atinum leads $9m round for Korean fintech player

Korean venture capital firm Atinum Investment has led a KRW10 billion ($9.4 million) funding round for domestic financial technology company Tera Funding.

  • North Asia
  • 25 January 2018
Japan's SBI sets up $450m AI-blockchain fund

SBI Investment, the VC arm of Japan’s SBI Holdings, has launched a JPY50 billion ($450 million) fund that will focus on artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology.

  • North Asia
  • 19 January 2018
Philippines confidence endures political strife – AVCJ Forum

The Philippines was praised for its political stability as investor wariness around President Rodrigo Duterte’s crackdown on drugs became a recurring talking point at the AVCJ Philippines Forum.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 12 October 2017
Token sales: Cryptic beginnings

The sale of digitized contracts known as tokens has become a dominating force in early-stage start-up funding. Venture capitalists are beginning to cautiously participate as the phenomenon matures

  • North America
  • 16 August 2017
SBI invests Indian fintech player

Indian payments technology service Innoviti Embedded Solutions has raised a INR1.2 billion ($18.6 million) funding round led by SBI-FMO Fund.

  • South Asia
  • 12 July 2017
Hong Kong's CompareAsiaGroup gets $50m Series B

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has led a number of venture capital firms in a $50 million Series B funding round for Hong Kong-based financial comparison platform CompareAsiaGroup.

  • Greater China
  • 11 July 2017
Japan's Floadia closes $14m Series B

Floadia, a Japan-based company specializing in microchip memory technology, has closed a JPY1.6 billion ($14.1 million) Series B fund round from a number of Taiwanese, Japanese and US venture capital firms.

  • North Asia
  • 07 July 2017
PE and Islamic finance: Underlying themes

Encouraging trends in population, social mobility, commodities, technology, and governance standards are converging on Islamic finance. PE plays a small role with strong upside in Asia

  • Southeast Asia
  • 06 June 2017
VCs back South Korean biopharma player ExoCoBio

South Korean biopharmaceutical developer ExoCoBio has raised an $11 million Series A round from investors including SBI Investment, Atinum Investment, ID Ventures, and Dt&Investment.

  • North Asia
  • 05 May 2017
Beyond Next Ventures leads $3.4m round for Japan's CureApp

Japan-based investor Beyond Next Ventures has led a JPY380 million ($3.4 million) round for domestic healthcare software developer CureApp.

  • North Asia
  • 09 February 2017
Japan VCs back domestic fintech start-up

Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ), SBI Investment and Dentsu Digital Holdings have contributed to a JPY800 million ($7.1 million) funding round for Tokyo-based financial technology company Coiney.

  • North Asia
  • 07 February 2017
Japan's Seven Dreamers receives $60m Series B round

Seven Dreamers Laboratories, a Japan-based manufacturer of personal-use devices, has raised a $60 million Series B round of funding from Panasonic, SBI Investment and construction company Daiwa House Industry.

  • North Asia
  • 18 November 2016
Deal focus: VCs back Japan’s fintech underdog

As Japan's traditional financial institutions take time to address demand for online payment services, start-ups are trying to corner the market. Exchange Corporation's Series B round is intended to make sure it is one of them

  • North Asia
  • 03 August 2016
Japan Industrial Partners buys Narumiya from SBI

Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) has acquired children’s clothing retailer Narumiya International from SBI Holdings for an undisclosed sum.

  • North Asia
  • 01 August 2016
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