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Open finance startup Ayoconnect’s APIs enable financial inclusion in Southeast Asia

TechCrunch

It is also licensed by Indonesia’s central bank, enabling it to offer more services. The open finance startup announced today it has closed a $13 million Series B extension round led by SIG Venture Capital, with participation from CE Innovation Capital and returning investor PayU, the payments and fintech business of Prosus.

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Brick closes $8.5M seed to enable open finance across Southeast Asia

TechCrunch

This amount includes Brick’s previously undisclosed seed funding, which TechCrunch reported in May 2021 , but the majority of it is fresh capital, said co-founder and CEO Gavin Tan. Inside Plaid’s plans to build a new, global finance network.

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Virtual Data Rooms: The Unsung Hero of Biotech Financing

Andreessen Horowitz

But how can biotech teams effectively communicate to investors and partners how they will, with each round of financing, incrementally reduce the risks of discovering and developing successful new drugs? One of the most common questions we get from early stage founders is “what should I put in my data room?”

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Singapore’s KNN3 wants to enable social discovery for decentralized apps

TechCrunch

The blockchain data space is already quite crowded, co-founder Thomas Yu admitted, but there’s still room for more specialized services. One of KNN3’s better-known customers is Mask Network, which enables users to send cryptocurrencies on Web 2.0 In the U.S.,

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4 Ways Startups Can Empower Their Remote Finance Teams

StartupNation

Finance teams worldwide emerged as strategic leaders for startups with the onset of the pandemic by recognizing ways to efficiently manage remote teams, their finances, company operations and associated cost-cutting mechanisms. What challenges do remote finance teams face? 4 ways to empower remote finance teams.

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Banyan wants to unlock financing for a (more) sustainable future

TechCrunch

For one thing, the processes remain largely manual, with financing in this sector remaining reliant on emails, spreadsheets and documents in a variety of formats. For Banyan, these inefficiencies in communication and monitoring are pain points it wants to solve with its purpose-built project finance software.

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Indonesian Startup Finfra Secures $1M Funding to Fuel Expansion of Embedded Finance Solutions

AsiaTechDaily

Register Indonesian startup, Finfra, has secured $1 million in new funding to expand its embedded finance offerings. Finfra aims to address this gap by providing the necessary technology infrastructure for online businesses to offer embedded finance products.