After five years in corporate venturing at Siam Commercial Bank, Sea has hired 2020 GCV Rising Stars winner Jaytiya Ngam-maykin as head of corporate development.

SoftBank’s Opportunity Fund took part in blockchain payment network Paystand's $50m series C round while Flipkart co-led consumer brand builder G.O.A.T Brand Labs' $36m series A.

SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 has backed the life insurance platform developer at a $2.7bn valuation, taking its overall funding to over $400m.

Goldman Sachs' digital wealth management spinoff has six other banks as backers and has reached a WestCap-led first close of its series B round.

Branding services provider Tailor Brands raised $50m in a GoDaddy-led series C round while Orix is set to exit hiring software developer PandoLogic in a $150m acquisition.

The NFT marketplace, which counts Stanford-StartX Fund as an investor, has raised series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.

BNP Paribas, SBI Group, Siam Commercial Bank, GV and Rakuten are set to exit the cross-border payment platform in a $963m acquisition by Visa.

Coupa’s recently launched venture capital fund has contributed to a series D round for FloQast that valued the accounting software provider at $1.2bn.

First American Financial invested in the repossession real estate marketplace through a series C round increasing its overall funding to more than $132m.

Several corporates backed a $68m series D round for microbiome drug developer Vedanta Biosciences while grooming brand owner Pangaea raised the same amount from investors including Unilever.