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VC-backed streetwear retailers Kream, Soda to merge

Korean streetwear retailer Kream has paid KRW 97.6bn (USD 72.1m) for a 43.6% stake in Japanese counterpart Soda as part of a merger of the two VC-backed businesses.

  • North Asia
  • 05 October 2023
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Weekly digest - July 26 2023

  • Region
  • 26 July 2023
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Weekly digest - April 19 2023

  • Region
  • 19 April 2023
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Deal focus: The SoftBank effect, one step removed

The new owners of SoftBank Ventures Asia are cut from the same cloth – and even come from the same family – as the VC firm’s corporate parent. They aspire to reconfigure Asia’s tech ecosystem

  • North Asia
  • 18 April 2023
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Mistletoe founders to acquire SoftBank Ventures Asia

SoftBank Group has agreed to sell its captive VC unit, SoftBank Ventures Asia (SBVA), to a newly formed entity led by the team behind Japan-headquartered start-up incubation and investment platform Mistletoe.

  • North Asia
  • 13 April 2023
Korea's Google-backed Mathpresso raises $70m

Seoul-based education technology start-up Mathpresso has closed its Series C round on USD 70m following an investment of undisclosed size last year from Google.

  • North Asia
  • 13 December 2022
Korea laundry start-up gets $36m Series C

H&Q Korea has led a KRW 49bn Series C round for Korean laundry app provider Laundrygo with support from SoftBank Ventures and Altos Ventures.

  • North Asia
  • 23 November 2022
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PE-backed Korean ride-sharing player Socar drops on debut

Socar, a Korea-based car-sharing business backed by the likes of Bain Capital, IMM Private Equity, and SoftBank Ventures Asia, traded down on debut following a KRW 101.9bn (USD 76m) IPO.

  • North Asia
  • 23 August 2022
Indonesia social commerce player Super raises $70m

NEA has led a USD 70m Series C round for Super, an Indonesia-based social commerce platform that targets the country’s lower-tier cities and rural areas.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 06 June 2022
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Korean home interiors start-up gets $182m Series D

OHouse, a consumer-facing platform in South Korea used for sourcing materials and services relating to home furnishing and interior decorating, has raised USD 182m in Series D funding.

  • North Asia
  • 10 May 2022
AVCJ Awards 2021: Deal of the Year – Mid Cap: Danggeun Market

A social, hyperlocal overlay has made Korea’s Danggeun Market a subversively complex e-commerce play. As the company scales and experiments, it reflects new confidence in its home market

  • North Asia
  • 09 March 2022
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AVCJ Awards 2021: Deal of the Year – Small Cap: Ajaib

Having spent more than a year perfecting its product, Ajaib turned Indonesia’s brokerage industry on its head in six months. Emphasis on product and customer engagement have paid dividends

  • Southeast Asia
  • 16 February 2022
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Deal focus: Digital brokerage Ajaib finds the right fit

Ajaib grew from nothing to become Indonesia’s fifth-largest stockbroker by volume in the space of six months. The newly appointed unicorn is now raising capital just as quickly

  • Southeast Asia
  • 12 October 2021
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Indonesia fintech start-up Ajaib achieves unicorn status

Ajaib, an online stock-trading platform in Indonesia, has raised $153 million in a Series B funding round led by DST Global at a valuation of $1 billion.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 07 October 2021
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Deal focus: Vision Fund throws its weight behind Opay

An introduction from SoftBank Ventures Asia prompted Vision Fund 2 to lead a $400 million Series C for Nigeria-based Opay, creating Africa’s newest technology unicorn in the process

  • Greater China
  • 07 September 2021
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Korea's Danggeun Market raises $162m at $2.7b valuation

DST Global has led a $162 million Series D round for Danggeun Market, operator of Korean flea market app Karrot, at a valuation of $2.7 billion.

  • North Asia
  • 20 August 2021
Japan sneaker marketplace raises $56m

SoftBank Ventures Asia has led a JPY6.2 billion ($56.4 million) Series C round for Japanese sneaker marketplace and e-commerce start-up Soda.

  • North Asia
  • 30 July 2021
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Deal focus: Carro prioritizes car financing as ecosystem enabler

Southeast Asia’s Carro has achieved critical mass as a used car trading platform, but the start-up regards financial services as the key growth area. It is now backed by SoftBank Vision Fund’s considerable heft

  • Southeast Asia
  • 30 June 2021
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Korea's Kakao acquires VC-backed storytelling platform

Radish, a Korea and US-based mobile fiction platform, will be acquired by a unit of Kakao Corporation for $440 million. Its backers include SoftBank Ventures Asia and Kakao.

  • North Asia
  • 13 May 2021
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Indonesia social commerce start-up raises $28m

SoftBank Ventures Asia has led a $28 million Series B round for Aplikasi Super, which claims to be Indonesia’s first and leading social commerce platform.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 01 May 2021
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China mobile charging business targets US listing

Energy Monster, China’s largest mobile device charging service provider by gross revenue, has filed for a US IPO.

  • Greater China
  • 15 March 2021
SoftBank Ventures backs Japanese sneaker marketplace

SoftBank Ventures Asia has led a JPY2.2 billion ($21.2 million) Series B round for Japan’s Soda, operator of the online sneaker marketplace Snrk Dunk.

  • North Asia
  • 15 January 2021
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SoftBank joins $60m Series B for Korean payments player

SoftBank Ventures Asia has joined a $60 million Series B round for Korean payments technology start-up Chai.

  • North Asia
  • 11 December 2020
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China retail SaaS provider Huice secures $100m Series C

Huice, a China-based provider of software for retailers, has raised nearly $100 million in Series C funding led by Singapore’s GIC. GL Ventures, Legend Capital and SoftBank Ventures Asia also participated in the round.

  • Greater China
  • 09 December 2020
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