SoftBank leads $15M round for China’s industrial robot maker Youibot – TechCrunch

SoftBank has picked its bet in China’s flourishing industrial robotics space. Youibot, a four-year-old startup that makes autonomous mobile robots for a range of scenarios, said it has notched close…

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Juul inventor’s Myst lands funding as institutional investors turn to China’s e-cigs – TechCrunch

Over the past several years, institutional investors had largely shied away from China’s e-cigarette makers, an industry that was teeming with shoddy workshops and lacked regulatory oversight. But investors’ attitude…

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GajiGesa, a fintech focused on Indonesian workers, adds strategic investors and launches new app for micro-SMEs – TechCrunch

GajiGesa, a fintech startup that provides earned wage access (EWA) and other services for workers in Indonesia, has added strategic investors to help it launch new services and expand its…

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Indian Payment Tech Startups Brace For Transaction Behaviour Switch In the Wake Of Second Wave

Merchant onboarding for physical POS terminals likely to be hit by 50%Transactions have shifted to online channelsEven non-essential product merchants are enabling online transactions to keep the business runningAs the…

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