FundingIndia
Kirana OS raises $42M Series B to digitise 300,000 neighbourhood stores
The Bengaluru B2B retail platform will expand working-capital credit for shopkeepers in tier-2 and tier-3 cities.
AIJapan
Kaizen Motion unveils a warehouse picking arm priced for small logistics firms
Inside the Gurugram venture studio building D2C brands for small-town India
How three Indian fintechs are pricing small-ticket credit on UPI
ClimateSoutheast Asia
SunIsla’s solar microgrids now power 40 island villages in the Philippines
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Shenzhen relaxes data-export rules for cross-border SaaS pilots
Selected startups can now sync customer data with overseas servers under a regulatory sandbox.
E-commerceMiddle East
Thrift Souk crosses one million listings as Gulf shoppers embrace resale
Pre-owned luxury now makes up a third of the Dubai platform’s sales.
FundingKorea
Farmcube raises $11M to take vertical farms from Seoul to Japan
The round brings the agritech startup’s total funding to $26 million.
Why Japanese corporates are finally writing bigger cheques to founders
Corporate venture arms invested at a record pace this year. We asked three founders what changed.
HealthIndia
Nidaan’s AI chest X-ray tool gets approval for a TB screening pilot in Telangana
The Hyderabad startup’s software will run in 60 public clinics.
FintechSoutheast Asia
Duitku adds Islamic savings pots as its user base doubles to 2.4 million
Most of the Malaysian app’s users are under 30.
WorldGlobal
Global VC funding steadies as AI deals crowd out the rest of the market
Fresh data shows Asian startups are getting a smaller share of a stable pie.
HealthSoutheast Asia
Medoc Health raises $9M to bring home diagnostics to Indonesian cities
Nurses on motorbikes collect samples within two hours of a booking.
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StartupsKorea
Glowmap turns profitable two years after launch
The Seoul K-beauty marketplace credits cross-border shipping to Japan and the US for the turnaround.
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AISoutheast Asia
Lexa Labs launches a Bahasa-first language model built for regional banks
The Singapore startup says local-language accuracy, not model size, is what lenders in Indonesia and Malaysia asked for.
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FintechMiddle East
Sanad Pay wins Saudi payments licence and plans a Gulf-wide BNPL rollout
The licence clears the way for merchant partnerships across Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
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ClimateIndia
CellCycle bags $8M to recover lithium from India’s EV battery waste
The Pune recycler extracts lithium, cobalt and nickel from two-wheeler packs at its new Chakan plant.
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