This Box is overflowing with fresh funds

Silicon Box, Shaanxi TianCheng Aerospace, Be Group, and more raised funds this week. [Read from your browser]( FOMO Saturday Welcome to Tech in Asia's free Saturday VC newsletter! Get full access to our subscribers-only premium content and other insightful analysis on the big and messy topics of Asia’s tech and startup community by [registering here](.  --------------------------------------------------------------- Hello {NAME} This is a bit of a spoiler for this newsletter, but we rarely see a Singaporean company lead the weekly funding boards. Silicon Box’s US$200 million series B round puts it top of the pops today, and is it any surprise that it’s in the semiconductor industry? Anyway, here’s hoping the start of your 2024 has been fruitful - January is already half in the books. Where does the time go? You can find all other important investment deals that happened in the last few days in our [weekly funding news wrap-up]( Let’s dive into the biggest deals that recently took place. -- Winston  --------------------------------------------------------------- THE BIGGEST DEALS BY COUNTRY  SG Silicon Box is a Singaporean advanced semiconductor packaging company. It [closed a US$200 million series B round]( with BRV Capital Management, Event Horizon Capital, and Maverick Capital among the participating investors. CN Shaanxi TianCheng Aerospace, a Chinese high-tech enterprise specialized in the production and research of titanium alloy materials, received US$84.5 million in funding from ABC Capital, CCB International, and CNBM New Materials Fund. VN Be Group, the Vietnamese tech company behind multiservice consumer platform Be, has [raised US$30.3 million in strategic funding]( from VPBank Securities. IN India-based foodtech startup Country Delight has closed US$20 million in series E funding. Seviora Capital, Temasek Holdings, and Venturi Partners participated in the round. JP Japan-based Social Interior offers a furniture subscription service. It received US$16.8 million in series D money from AG Capital, JIC Venture Growth Investments, and Lotte Ventures Japan, among others. Here’s the complete list of this week’s funding chart: [58 deals worth over US$590 million](.  ---------------------------------------------------------------  STARTUPS THAT ARE RAISING FUNDS Fundraising is hard. To make things slightly easier, we’ve compiled this list of fundraising startups for our subscribers. Do you run a startup that’s raising at the moment or know someone who does? Sign your company up for listing [here]( IN Studymitr AI is an Indian firm that uses AI to optimize resumes, tailor learning paths, verify job readiness, and connect job seekers and job creators. SG Singapore-based Evren helps enterprises improve productivity by simplifying IT and cybersecurity processes for their workforce. SG Based in Singapore, Ecos Energy Platforms offers an institutional DeFi-powered ecommerce solution that provides energy management as a service to global enterprises. You can find the full list of fundraising startups in Asia [over here](.  ---------------------------------------------------------------  KILLER PITCH DECKS 1️⃣ The pre-series A pitch deck of a Pakistani health super app Find My Doctor provides a one-stop, at-home solution for all medical needs. It used [this pitch deck]( to raise pre-series A funding in 2022. The deck is concise and well designed, looks professional, and balances words and visuals. It begins with an introduction of the team, followed by key information on Find My Doctor’s growth and services. 2️⃣ A Brazilian startup secured US$200,000 in seed money via this pitch deck Mandae, a logistics platform for packing and delivery, used [this pitch deck]( to secure US$200,000 in seed funding in 2014. The presentation starts by explaining what services Mandae provides and goes on to introduce its key team members. It also states how much the company wants to raise, along with details about the fund allocation and execution plan. 3️⃣ This Vietnamese fintech firm’s pitch deck helped it bank US$10 million in debt funding F88 is a secured lending firm that aims to bring affordable and instant access to financial services MSMEs as well as the unbanked and underbanked. It used [this pitch deck]( to obtain debt funding in 2022. The deck starts with a business highlights slide that explains the company’s key details. It then goes through F88’s corporate culture, values, and mission, plus the track record of its corporate development and product offerings.  --------------------------------------------------------------- EXCLUSIVE LISTICLES Lists of most active investors in the region [China]( | [India]( | [Indonesia]( | [Japan]( | [Singapore]( | [Southeast Asia]( List of top-funded startups in Asia [China]( | [India]( | [Indonesia]( | [Israel]( | [Japan]( | [Hong Kong]( | [Singapore]( | [South Korea]( | [Vietnam](  ---------------------------------------------------------------  THOUGHTFUL READS  1️⃣ Bringing good tips into 2024 The best advice remains relevant no matter how much time passes. Hopefully, some of these [top tips for entrepreneurs in 2023]( can also carry forward in that timeless manner. 2️⃣ Expertise-based publicity Founders tend to default as the face of their startups; when I say Facebook, you immediately think of Mark Zuckerberg, right? However, it’s apparently not a strict necessity for success. Just ask Swedish infrastructure startup Ingrid Capacity, which has [raised US$100 million in just one year]( despite having highly media-shy co-founders - there’s not a single mention of the company’s founders in any of its 17 press releases since 2022. 3️⃣ I'm not a businessman; I'm a business, man The reflective time of the year continues (maybe for another week or so) - maybe you could apply some business principles to strategize your own life? [This Harvard Business Review article]( certainly thinks so, even providing a little worksheet to fill in. Could be useful. 4️⃣ Chip’s Challenge Before joining the tech news industry, I never knew just how essential semiconductor chips are. Their shortage seems like the core part of almost every tech industry issue - find out [what the plan is in Europe]( as trade with China continues to be consistently inconsistent. 5️⃣ Looking back to look ahead We’ve featured the Masters of Scale podcast fairly frequently in this newsletter. [Here’s an episode]( that wraps up the highlights from its guests in 2023 that can hopefully jumpstart your 2024.  --------------------------------------------------------------- [ADVERTISE]( | [SUBSCRIBE]( | [HIRE]( | [FIND JOBS]( P.S. Don't miss out on the biggest tech news and analysis. Add newsletter@techinasia.com to your address book, contacts, or safe sender list. Or simply move us into your inbox. Too many emails? Switch to a different frequency or get new content through our [preference center]( or [unsubscribe](. 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