An aerial view of Lau Pa Sat, Singapore. Photo by Fahrul Azmi on Unsplash
May 19, 2021
Southeast Asia-based venture capital firms held a final close for five funds in the first quarter of this year, raising $694 million in total proceeds. The number of funds closed was the highest in a quarter since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the region at the start of 2020, shows DealStreetAsia’s latest report.
There was also a quarter-on-quarter jump in new capital raised in Q1 this was calculated by deducting the capital raised for previous interim closes from the five final closes and adding two interim closes reported in the first quarter. The seven fundraising milestones gathered $535 million in total. In comparison, there were three closes – interim or final – and $77 million in new capital raised in Q4 2020.
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SG fintech startup Qapita raises $5m in MassMutual-led funding round
Co-founders of Qapita: (L-R) Vamsee Mohan, Ravi Ravulaparthi and Lakshman Gupta.
April 20, 2021
Qapita Fintech, a Singapore-headquartered fintech and legal-tech startup, announced raising $5 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by US and Singapore-based venture capital firm MassMutual Ventures.
The startup, which provides employee stock ownership plans (ESOP) and capitalisation tables (CapTables) management SaaS solutions, said the funding round also saw the participation of India-based VC Endiya Partners and existing investors Vulcan Capital and East Ventures.
Angel investors, including Anjali Bansal (founder of Avaana Capital), Sujeet Kumar (co-founder of Udaan), and the CEO of an India-based decacorn, also backed the fundraise.