Jan 6, 2015 | News, Southeast Asia
TechCrunch TookiTaki, a Singaporean data analytics startup, announced today that it has raised $1 million in seed funding led by Jungle Ventures, with participation from Rebright Partners and Blume Ventures. The capital will be used to expand its service-as-a-software...
Jan 6, 2015 | India, News, South & Central Asia
TechCrunch Remember VYou? The video Q&A platform saw more than a million answers posted and raised $3 million in funding before shutting its consumer site down in March 2013 due to lack of user engagement. Now a new startup called Frankly has launched with a...
Jan 5, 2015 | News, North America
TechCrunch Facebook today acquired Wit.ai, a Y Combinator startup founded 18 months ago to create an API for building voice-activated interfaces. Wit.ai already has 6,000 developers on its platform who have built hundreds of apps. Wit.ai’s platform will remain open...
Jan 5, 2015 | Brazil, Latin America, News
SAO PAULO, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Mergers and acquisitions in Brazil should gain steam in coming months as a slumping currency and lower asset prices prompted foreign companies and investment funds to spend $33.1 billion on takeovers in Latin America’s largest...
Jan 5, 2015 | China, East Asia, News, Southeast Asia
TechCrunch Lalamove, an Uber-like service for logistics, has raised $10 million to expand its presence across Asia, where it already operates in six cities. The company, which began life in Hong Kong in December 2013, offers iOS and Android apps that allow customers...
Jan 5, 2015 | China, East Asia, News
TechCrunch China-based Wanda E-commerce, which hopes to position itself as a rival against Alibaba, has raised one billion RMB (about $161 million) in funding from investment funds Shengke Limited and Hong Kong Xu De Ren Dao E-commerce Investment Co. Wanda E-commerce...
