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Smart contact lens startup Mojo Vision partners with Adidas and other sports brands Jan 04, 2022

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For the past few years, Mojo Vision has had a small presence at CES, offering up glimpses into the potential of its augmented reality contact lenses. Every year, the picture seems a little closer, if still far away.

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Smarter Health gets $5.15M SGD to reduce healthcare costs in Southeast Asia Jan 04, 2022

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Organizing information from providers, insurers and patients not only takes a lot of time, but increases private healthcare costs.

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AIMMO bags $12M Series A to advance data labeling technology Jan 03, 2022

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Most artificial intelligence models are trained through supervised learning, meaning that humans must label raw data. Data labeling is a critical part of automating artificial intelligence and machine learning model, but at the same time, it can be time-consuming and tedious work.

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Southeast Asian startups to watch in 2022 Jan 03, 2022

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As someone who covers Southeast Asia startups and funding stories, the best word I can think of to describe 2021 is “whoa!”

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Voyant raises $15M to scale production of its tiny, inexpensive lidar tech Dec 31, 2021

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The future of lidar is uncertain unless, as Voyant hopes to do, its price and size are reduced to fractions of their current values.

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Tech-led biofuel startup Koko Networks launches new consumer goods business in Kenya Dec 30, 2021

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Koko Networks, a Kenya-based bio-fuel technology enterprise has extended its business to cover other fast-moving consumer goods, through a new tech platform that will capitalize on its established distribution networks in low-income neighborhoods.

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TuSimple completes its first driverless autonomous truck run on public roads Dec 30, 2021

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Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple has completed its first autonomous truck run on open public roads without a human in the vehicle, according to the company.

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India’s GlobalBees joins unicorn club for its Thrasio-like house of brands Dec 29, 2021

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GlobalBees, which raised one of the largest Series A financing rounds in India earlier this year, has entered the unicorn club as the New Delhi-headquartered firm scales its Thrasio-like house of brands.

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Nigerian edtech startup Teesas secures $1.6 million in pre-seed round, to launch tutor marketplace, expand in East, Southern, Francophone Africa in 2022 Dec 29, 2021

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After seven years in the production of electronic gadgets, under his company Imose Technologies, Osayi Izedonmwen took leave to explore an idea that he had toyed with for some time.

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Indian neobank Jupiter raises $86 million to launch lending and wealth management services Dec 28, 2021

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Industry veteran Jitendra Gupta’s consumer-focused neobankÂ Jupiter has raised about $86 million in a new financing round as the Bangalore-based startup gears up to offer its customers lending and wealth management services.

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