LG and Hana Financial are anchoring the venture capital firm’s sophomore vehicle as it gets set to deploy capital across Asia and North America.

The joint initiative formed by digital product provider Miaki, SOSV and SBK will target Bangladesh-based seed-stage tech startups, having already chosen three candidates for a maiden cohort.

Fubon Financial Holdings' insurance subsidiary is investing $20m in return for a 2.4% stake in BlueRun Ventures' BRV Lotus Fund III.

Conglomerate Sunway helped establish venture capital vehicle Orbit Malaysia, which has secured the state-owned Mavcap as anchor investor.

Krafton is among the limited partners in the venture capital firm's latest fund, which has just has its targeted close doubled.

Catapult Capital Partners will invest in consumer-minded startups, having already backed Simply Protein and Target 100 and secured an exit through the TSX-listed Flow Water.

Oncology therapy developer Recludix Pharma raised $60m in an Access Biotechnology-backed round while Stripe took part in digital payment technology developer Imprint's $38m series A.

Deep Nishar has departed from his SBIA senior managing partner role to help develop enterprise software, biotech and life sciences pipelines at the venture firm.

Solana and FTX are among the founding partners of the fund, which will focus on blockchain-based gaming investments.

The venture firm has hired Jayson Punwani a year after he left his partner position at corporate venturing unit Takeda Ventures.