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Nathaniel Fetalvero · · 5 min read

Startups thrive on feedback and so do we

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Like we say in the journalism industry, there’s no such thing as a publishable first draft – and that can hold true for the startup scene too. It’s a rare occurrence for the first iteration of a product to be the best version of it.

For that reason, startups thrive on feedback. It’s impossible to improve your product or service if you don’t know what your users like and dislike about it. Without getting users to chime in, any improvements you make are based on your own biased opinions as the provider of those products or services.

Personally, I live for feedback. I can’t get enough of it. So I’d like to humbly ask you to let me know what you think of our FOMO Saturday newsletters. You can either hit us up at newsletter@techinasia.com or fill in this web form.

Be brutal, be honest. And thank you for reading our newsletters.

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.


BIGGEST DEALS BY COUNTRY

🇨🇳 Horizon Robotics: The Chinese AI chip designer raised US$1.5 billion from undisclosed investors in its series C funding round.

🇸🇬 Carro: The online car marketplace’s US$360 million series C round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 saw it race past the US$1 billion valuation mark to become Singapore’s newest unicorn.

🇮🇳 Byju’s: The Indian edtech giant scored US$340 million in series F funding from ADQ, Blackstone, and Zoom founder Eric Yuan, becoming India’s most valuable startup at a reported valuation of US$16.5 billion.

🇮🇱 Bringg: The Israeli logistics cloud platform provider got US$100 million in a series E funding round from Cambridge Capital, Insight Partners, Next47, Pereg Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Viola Group.




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Nathaniel Fetalvero

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