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SoftBank’s Son to go unicorn hunting as company shifts focus

China: Tencent-backed education startup VIPKID bags $500m Series D+

Guggenheim said to mull stake sale for $250b asset management unit

Walmart borrows $16b to fund Flipkart buy in year’s second-largest bond sale

Private Equity

Centurium Capital’s debut China fund raises $925m in first close

Amicus Capital invests $10m in Sanjeev Kapoor’s cookware brand Wonderchef

Actis begins raising $750m fund to buy StanChart PE’s Asia realty portfolio: Report

US-based Colony Capital to buy Abraaj’s Latin America, Africa, Turkey funds

Venture Capital

Home decor startup Livspace in talks with Verlinvest, Ratan Tata’s fund to raise $50m

Shipment tracking firm Roambee raises $2m from MDI Ventures, set to enter Indonesia

Naspers, Russia’s DST lead $210m funding in Indian food ordering startup Swiggy

Fintech startup Drip Capital raises $15m from Accel, Sequoia and Wing VC

SE Asia turns new battle ground for food delivery as ride hailing apps step on gas

Vietnam’s soy beverage startup Soya Garden raises $880k from Egroup

Oyo reveals plans for China after establishing presence in 26 cities

Sequoia-backed education startup Byju’s targets $205m revenue this year

SAARC Fund to back 80 social enterprises in 8 member nations

AECS Thailand invests in Singapore-based healthcare startup GetDoc

IPOs & Markets

China’s Xiaomi secures 7 cornerstone investors including Qualcomm for $6.1b IPO

China’s Xiaomi plans to raise up to $6.1b in Hong Kong IPO

DFJ VinaCapital-backed Yeah1 to list at highest reference price ever in Vietnamese bourse

China’s PE-backed internet finance firm VCredit raises $152m in HK IPO

Mobile & Telco

Telenor shuffles Asia management team, names new CEOs for Myanmar, Thailand

Airtel’s Kenyan unit abandons plan to merge with Telkom

Military-backed Mytel becomes fourth telecom operator to launch services in Myanmar

India’s RCom plans $2.68b asset sale to Jio, Brookfield in next few weeks

Real Estate

SGX-listed Ho Bee Land acquires London office asset for $861m

Japanese Sumitomo-BRG Group JV to invest $1b for Hanoi smart city project

Singapore’s Ascendas Hospitality Trust acquires three hotels in Japan for $93m

Real estate investment manager AEW closes $1.12b third APAC fund

The core of our big picture is data, in future every “eye” is a wallet, says Alibaba’s Zhang

Toyota gains access to data on driving patterns across SE Asia with $1b Grab bet

Chinese internet giant Alibaba deepens Malaysia presence with office in KL

Grab closes $370m debt facility deal for vehicle fleet financing

Vietnam: ComfortDelgro Savico Taxi, Vinataxi merge to take on Grab

Uber says there will be no let-up in India investments

Q & A

Excited about permeation of artificial intelligence in SE Asia: Rina Lee, 33 Talent

Central Capital's Suteja bats for co-investment, collaboration among Indonesian bank VCs

India govt does not have fiscal space to spend too much: Sonal Varma, Nomura

Media and content will be the next big thing in Indonesia, says Stellar Kapital's Santoso

Grab Ventures will invest in the next generation of tech leaders: Grab CEO Anthony Tan

Opinion

Guest Post | How much is Grab worth, really?

China phone giant Xiaomi may be twice as expensive as Apple

Guest Post | Why JD.com and Thailand's Central might not succeed as partners

If not Flipkart, Amazon India's losses should trigger a warning at Walmart

Guest post: The rise of the new (and larger) seed round

People

Abraaj founder apologises "unreservedly" in memo to employees

Former Kudo executive Sukan Makmuri joins Indonesia's UangTeman as CTOO

Newcomer among Asia's largest private banks BOC Hong Kong on hiring spree

Deutsche Bank hires three for equity execution business in Japan

Telenor shuffles Asia management team, names new CEOs for Myanmar, Thailand

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