And, SG’s Quest Ventures completed the first round of financing of 50 million US dollars; General Atlantic led the Indian real estate platform NoBroker 30 million US dollars of D round of financing.

India

Rumor Facebook plans to launch a super app with Reliance. According to ET Tech reports, people familiar with the matter revealed that Facebook and Indian conglomerate Reliance are planning to develop a WeChat-like super application that combines social, digital payment, games, airline tickets and hotel reservations.

General Atlantic led a $ 30 million Series D round of financing for Indian real estate platform NoBroker. According to DealStreetAsia, NoBroker has so far raised US $ 151 million from investors. The Bangalore-based company said it has registered more than 3.5 million properties on its platform and has operations in six cities including Mumbai and Bangalore. The company’s co-founder and chief technology officer Akhil Gupta said that they will further invest in their financial services so that more people can use these services.

India AI startup Yellow Messenger received $ 20 million in Series B financing. According to DealStreetAsia, the US Lightspeed is the lead investor in this round of financing. Yellow Messenger has entered Southeast Asia through multilingual AI robots. The Series B financing will enable it to enter Europe, Latin America and the United States more actively.

OYO Japanese subsidiary seeks SoftBank assistance and transfers some employees to the latter. According to foreign media reports, Indian startup OYO is planning to transfer some employees from the company ’s payroll to the largest investor Softbank ’s employee list. This sign indicates that SoftBank is helping OYO, one of the most important portfolio companies, at a critical juncture.

Southeast Asia

Quest Funds Asia Fund II completed the first round of fundraising, raising a total of US $ 50 million . According to DealStreetAsia, Temasek ’s Pavilion Capital and Kazakhstan ’s sovereign wealth fund subsidiary QazTech Ventures led the round. Quest Ventures targets early-stage startups in Southeast Asia and plans to enter markets such as Indonesia, Myanmar and the Philippines.

Singapore Keppel Capital ’s Asian Infrastructure Fund has been completed US $ 570 million second round of financing. According to DealStreetAsia reports, The Asian Investment Bank has committed 1 100 million US dollars, and provide up to 50 million US dollars of joint investment. The fund will invest in projects in the fields of electricity, renewable energy and energy efficiency, telecommunications, transportation and logistics, and social infrastructure.

Singapore construction engineering software provider Novade raised a Series B financing led by SIG and Vulcan Capital. According to DealStreetAsia, existing supporter Wavemaker Partners also participated in this round of financing. Novade said it will use the new funds to accelerate the global expansion in the construction industry, at the same time conduct market penetration in Europe, China and Japan and strengthen cooperation with global companies in the industry.

Latin America

Argentine fintech company Mercado Pago will provide US $ 114 million in loans to small businesses in Brazil. According to Labs, these loans will help sellers on the Mercado Pago platform, mainly among them Small company.

Netflix established a $ 1 million fund to help Brazilian workers. According to Labs, Netflix announced on Thursday that it will set up a $ 1 million aid fund to help Brazil ’s freelance creative community, such as participating in production tasks, film photography, sound effects, designers, makeup, stage design and Logistic personnel. It is reported that in March, Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos (Ted Sarandos) announced a $ 100 million fund to help its global creative community to provide Brazil with a $ 1 million aid fund Is part of this global measure.

Africa

The African Enterprise Fund led by women Alitheia IDF has raised US $ 75 million. According to Tech Cabal, the fund mainly invests in small and medium-sized enterprises with high growth potential in Africa. The fund invests in companies that are controlled, operated or primarily served by women. The fund was established in 2014 by the Nigerian private equity investment and consulting firm Alitheia Capital and South African IDF Capital.

Other

Zoom competitor BlueJeans was acquired by Verizon for less than $ 500 million. American operator Verizon announced that it will acquire BlueJeans, a video conferencing platform. During the outbreak of the new coronavirus, employees increasingly rely on network tools for communication. It is reported that Verizon will acquire BlueJeans for approximately US $ 400 million. According to Verizon CEO Wei Hansi, BlueJeans has more than 15,000 customers, including Facebook, LinkedIn andRed Hat (RedHat) and so on.

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