This Box is overflowing with fresh funds

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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 and M&As that recently took place.

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The biggest deals by market

🇸🇬 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.

🇨🇳 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.

🇻🇳 Be Group, the Vietnamese tech company behind multiservice consumer platform Be, has raised US$30.3 million in strategic funding from VPBank Securities.

🇮🇳 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.

🇯🇵 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.

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Startups that are raising funds

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Killer pitch decks

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