Funding across Singapore & Vietnam, Europe Quiet 😷
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Singapore’s startups received a lot of early-stage interest over the last few weeks and a first appearance for Vietnam on Seed Weekly.
Below are the Top 3 funding rounds of the last week:
- 🇬🇧 Oyster had their Seed Round led by Connect Ventures, and are looking to provide distributed and remote teams familiar benefits.
- 🇸🇬 Tinvio raised from Sequoia, Partech and GFC for their supply chain focused solution, connecting merchants and suppliers.
- 🇮🇱 Arti was my favourite startup featured this week, enabling anyone to deploy beautiful floating AR infographics to bring their presentations/broadcasts to life.
Figures this week:
Funding rounds covered:
8
Countries covered:
5
Largest round:
$10,000,000
Estimated funds raised:
~$31,500,000 (not all covered below)
Categories & countries:
Most rounds:
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Largest Round:
🇨🇠FoRx Therapeutics $4,100,000
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🇸🇬 Singapore — $10.3m
Tinvio
Raised: $5.5m (Seed)
Category: FinTech, Mobile
Description: Tinvio is a communications platform for supply chain merchants, centred around the idea that every merchant and supplier should be able to work smarter together. Tech Crunch has more here.
Investors: Surge (Sequoia Accelerator India), Partech and Global Founders Capital.
Location: Singapore.
Manabie
Raised: $4.8m (Seed)
Category: E-Learning, Education
Description: Manabie is an Education Technology start-up company on a mission to provide a new style of online & offline merged learning.
Investors: Genesia Ventures and multiple angels.
Location: Singapore.
🇨🇠Switzerland — $10m
FoRx Therapeutics: $10m (Seed)
Category: Biotechnology, Life Science
Description: FoRx Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing a new generation of cancer drugs focusing on novel DNA Replication Stress pathways.
Investors: Life Sciences Partners, M Ventures, Novartis Venture Fund, Omega Funds, Pfizer Venture Investments
Location: Basel, Switzerland.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom — $6.7m
Oyster
Raised: $4.2m (Seed)
Category: Software, Computer, HRTech
Description: Oyster makes it easy to hire, pay, and give great benefits to your distributed team around the world. Read about it here.
Investors: Connect Ventures, Kima Ventures, Taavet Hinrikus (CEO of Transferwise) and Sorenson Ventures.
Location: London, United Kingdom.
MicrofluidX
Raised: $1.4m (Seed)
Category: Medical Devices, Biotechnology
Description: MicrofluidX is tackling the problems of process control, scalability, and cost associated with cell bioprocessing, in particular for autologous cell and gene therapy.
Investors: Cambridge Angels group, Longwall Venture Partners, UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund
Location: London, United Kingdom.
Blueprint
Raised: $1.1m (Seed)
Category: E-Commerce, Internet
Description: Blueprint operates as a Whatsapp and SMS e-commerce platform. Blueprint enables your customers to purchase with 1 message, via SMS or WhatsApp. No changing channel, no friction.
Investors: Founders Factory, Hambro Perks and MAHR Projects.
Location: London, United Kingdom.
🇮🇱 Israel — $4m
Arti
Raised: $4m (Seed)
Category: Augmented Reality, Cloud Management, Content, Digital Media, Information Services, Media and Entertainment
Description: Arti.tv is a cloud-based solution that gives online storytellers the opportunity to create, design, and deliver augmented-reality stories. The company provides the ability to develop augmented-reality stories full of insights, data, and information.
Investors: Axon Ventures
Location: Tel Aviv, Israel.
🇻🇳 Vietnam — $2.5m
Buymed
Raised: $2.1m (Seed)
Category: B2B, E-Commerce Platforms, Health Care, Medical, Pharmaceutical
Description: Buymed is a B2B Healthcare and Personal care distribution platform in Vietnam. Techcrunch covered the round and more here.
Investors: Sequoia Capital India, Genesia Ventures and Cocoon Capital.
Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
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