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Send now pay later startup Pomelo lands 35M Series A from secretive Vy Capital Founders Fund

Tofino Capital reaches first close of 10M fund to back startups in frontier markets

ShopBack a cashback startup in Asia Pacific raises 45M from Rakuten and others

Lhoopa raises 80M to spur more affordable housing in the Philippines

Grab plans to raise 2B more this year to fund an acquisition spree in Southeast Asia

AI training and social network content moderation services bring TaskUs a 250 million windfall

Facebook is making twofactor mandatory for highrisk accounts

GoJek buys fintech startup Coinsph for 72M ahead of Philippines expansion

Komunidad a Philippinesbased environmental intelligence platform lands seed round

Led by exAmazonians Acquco raises 160M to buy and scale ecommerce businesses

Philippinesbased home services platform GoodWork gets 16 million to expand in Southeast Asia

Resurgent HappyFresh raises 20M for its online grocery service in Southeast Asia

Oriente raises 50 million to continue building its infrastructure for digital financial services

UK researchers develop new lowcost rapid COVID19 test that could even be used at home

Filipino live streaming app Kumu raises 5 million Series A led by Openspace Ventures

Egypts Pylon gets 19M to scale software for water and electricity distribution companies

Tala grabs 145M to offer more financial services in emerging markets

Grab raises more money again

How US national security agencies hold the internet hostage

Online university Nexford will use 8M to plug affordability and relevance gaps in education

Google has quietly added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users in 60 markets

Africa Roundup: Paga goes global and 4 startups raise 99M in VC

Southeast Asian payments infrastructure unicorn Xendit banks 300M

Financial comparison super app Jeff raises 15M seed extension

Snapcart raises 10M to shed light on consumer spending in emerging markets

Sweet Escape connects travelers to photographers for truly Instaworthy holiday pics

Manilabased payments processing startup PayMongo raises 27 million in seed funding

Rakutens Viber chat app plans to charge to operate chatbots in controversial move

Momo Vietnams top payment app lands big Series C investment led by Warburg Pincus

Topica raises 50M for its online learning services in Southeast Asia

Philippines startup Shoppable Business smooths bumps in the business procurement process

Philippines fintech business Voyager raises 215M in Tencentled round

Goldfinch raises 25M from a16z to power its DeFi lending protocol for borrowers in developing countries

Dear Sophie: Is there a way to keep working in the US after my J1 visa expires

With a 10 million round Nigerias Paga plans global expansion

Deliveree is smoothing Southeast Asias bumpy logistics landscape

Philippines startup Parallax removes the friction from crossborder payments

TNB Aura closes 227M fund to bring PEstyle investing to Southeast Asias startups

GrowSari a B2B platform for small stores in the Philippines adds investors like Temaseks Pavilion Capital and Tencent

Tencent backs fintech firm Voyager to set up battle with Alibaba in the Philippines

Masa Finance gets 35M preseed to build its decentralized credit protocol

ObserveAI raises 8M to use artificial intelligence to improve call centers

Philippines buy now pay later startup BillEase scores 11M Series B

Philippinesbased MSME platform GrowSari adds 775 million to its Series C

Trumps sudden reversal on student visas will be felt in Silicon Valley

Indias OYO enters Japan in partnership with SoftBank

The cyber libel trial against independent news startup Rapplers CEO and one of its former writers starts in Manila

Philippines payment processing startup PayMongo lands 12 million Series A led by Stripe

Grocery delivery startup Honestbee is running out of money and trying to sell

Tonik raises 21 million to launch digital bank in the Philippines