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A growing roster of vertical AI startups is emerging in Southeast Asia to serve sectors ranging from seafood to finance. Singapore-based venture capital firm Antler recently made a bet on 37 of them, investing $5.1 million in total for pre-seed deals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After years of copying and pasting shopping links into spreadsheets and taking screenshots of products to share with her friends and family, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a role reversal, Xalts, a Singapore fintech startup founded 18 months ago, has acquired Contour Network, a digital trade platform set up by eight major banks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you’ve ever traveled in rural areas in France, you may have realized a French peculiarity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whenever you go to a conference, whether as a sales and marketing exercise, or an executive is speaking, there is a cost associated with that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1Password, the AgileBits-owned password management software developer, today announced that it has acquired Kolide, an endpoint security platform, for an undisclosed amount. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The company made advancements in its proprietary dairy seed system to leverage interactions between recombinant dairy casein and native plant proteins, with or without improved fatty acid profiles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Few categories are as ripe for automation-fueled disruption as construction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Anthropic, the well-funded AI startup, is testing a technology to detect when users of its GenAI chatbot ask about political topics and redirect those users to “authoritative” sources of voting information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The company's fermentation process involves the cultivation of multiple microorganisms, including mycelium, to provide nutrition, flavor and texture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The material could drastically improve the durability of existing fuel cell designs while also improving the efficiency of hydrogen production by 15%-20%. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When looking at startups within healthcare, data and AI and cybersecurity, the firm considers a number of factors like the plan for infrastructure, especially now that AI is everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices