According to the state-owned Beijing Daily newspaper, Tesla Inc wants to invest up to 1.2 billion yuan to boost manufacturing capacity at its Shanghai factory, allowing it to hire 4,000 additional staff. The material was ascribed to a Shanghai government website for companies’ environmental information submissions, according to the newspaper. Tesla’s Shanghai factory was meant … Read more
iotechnology startup Tiamat Sciences today announced its $3 million seed financing round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm True Ventures with participation from Social Impact Capital and Cantos. Tiamat Sciences manufactures animal-free proteins using a proprietary plant molecular farming platform. By replacing costly bioreactors with plants, the company produces key reagents for biotechnology companies … Read more
Estonian start-up Gelatex has a bold vision of starting a new chapter in the futuristic story “Cell-cultured meat cheaper than ever: how did it happen?” Gelatex has found a solution to scale and enhance the production of nanofibrous material that could be used to grow cell-cultured meat. Within their innovative team composed of materials science … Read more
Welspun One Logistics Parks (WOLP), a pan-India integrated fund, development, and asset management platform, part of the USD 3.5 billion Welspun Group, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Guidance – the Government of Tamil Nadu’s nodal agency, for investment promotion and single window facilitation. This is towards setting up warehousing facilities across the state. The projects … Read more
Mindspace, the global flex office provider, secured a funding of $72 million. The investment round is intended to support the continuation of the company’s growth and its further expansion in Europe, the United States and Israel. The round was led by Harel Insurance Investments and Financial Services Ltd., More Provident Funds, Arkin Holdings and existing investors. Existing investors include: Yoav Harlap, Kobi … Read more
Pace, a Singapore-based fintech solution company that allows customers to ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ (BNPL), today announced that it has raised USD40 million in its Series A investment round. Investors that joined the round include UOB Venture Management (Singapore), Marubeni Ventures (Japan), Atinum Partners (South Korea), AppWorks (China Taiwan), and a series of family offices … Read more
Sparrow, a digital assets trading platform headquartered in Singapore, has raised US$4.4 million in series A funding led by its investor, Gain Loyal Pte Ltd. Gain Loyal Pte Ltd is a leading investment company focusing on real estate investments in Asia. With this investment, Sparrow aims to accelerate its business growth by investing in its … Read more
HAPPE Spine, an emerging leader in the development of next generation orthopedic and spinal implants enabled by the HAPPE™ material platform, announces that it has closed on a $3.35 million Series A capital raise. The oversubscribed funding was led by strategic investors from within the spine industry along with prominent and continuing investment by the … Read more
QI Tech, fintech that provides a range of financial services through APIs and the first SCD approved by the Brazilian Central Bank, announced today that GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, has invested $50M in one of the largest Series A in Latin America. QI Tech will invest in the construction of new products, focusing especially … Read more
Kebony, the leading environmentally friendly wood modification technology company, today announces a successful EUR 30 million funding round led by Jolt Capital and Lightrock. Kebony’s vision is to reduce CO2 emissions and tropical deforestation using its patented wood modification techniques, which produce superior wood in an environmentally friendly way. The key disruptive trends in the construction industry … Read more
Herbolea, an Italian company who develops and licenses proprietary, solventless technologies to transform botanicals into superior quality products, is happy to announce the closing of its 5m EUR Series A round, of which 2.5m EUR conditioned to milestone achievement, led by the European medical and pharmaceutical cannabis specialist fund, Óskare Capital. The funds will be used to accelerate growth, expand the team … Read more
SelfDecode – an integrated AI platform providing personalized health recommendations based on DNA, labs, and environmental factors – has raised more than $1 million through crowdfunded investments. The ongoing investment round is being run through WeFunder, a leading securities platform that makes angel investing available to average investors, offering opportunities to build a portfolio of … Read more
