DeepMind’s Drug-Discovery Spinout Just Raised the Biggest Round in AI Biotech History
Isomorphic Labs closed a $2.1 billion Series B led by Thrive Capital to scale an AlphaFold-derived drug design engine already…
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A Startup Is Offering Bitcoin Bounties to Prove Quantum Computers Can Already Break Crypto Keys
A researcher used publicly accessible quantum hardware to break a toy-scale elliptic curve key in April and collect a Bitcoin…
Salmon Just Raised $100 Million. The Structure Behind It Matters More Than the Number.
Salmon Group closed a $100 million equity-and-bond round in April, the largest single funding event for a Philippine startup in…
Grab Just Folded a $1.6 Billion Indonesian Bank Into Its Singapore Digital Banking Arm
Grab is consolidating its stake in Indonesia's publicly-listed Superbank into GXS Bank, its Singapore digital banking venture with Singtel, combining…
North Korea Spent Six Months Building Trust With a Solana DeFi Team. Then It Took $285 Million in 12 Minutes.
A Solana-based DeFi protocol lost $285 million in 12 minutes on April 1 after North Korean state-linked hackers spent six…
DTI Wants a $10 Billion Startup Ecosystem by 2028. Here’s What Would Have to Be True.
DTI's target of a $10 billion Philippine startup ecosystem by 2028 requires nearly tripling the 2023 Startup Genome baseline, a…
A Philippine VC Firm’s New Report Says Private Capital Grew 34 Percent Last Year. Here’s the Catch.
Foxmont Capital Partners is targeting up to 4 billion pesos for Philippine startups and reports private capital deployment hit a…
The Philippines’ Agritech Grant Pipeline Actually Works. It’s Also Barely Funded.
A government grant window and a new agri-focused startup competition are surfacing real Philippine agritech ideas, but the entire sector…
The Philippines Is Actually Enforcing Its Crypto Exchange Rules Now, and Bybit Just Found Out
The Philippines' year-old crypto exchange licensing framework moved from paper to enforcement in March, when regulators ordered Bybit's app pulled…
A Filipino-Owned Startup Is Already Doing What the Global Stablecoin Hype Promises
BCRemit and Coins.ph are moving OFW remittances through USDC stablecoin rails at roughly 1 percent cost against a 6.4 percent…
Indonesia’s Biggest BNPL Player Just Bought a Vietnamese Digital Bank
Kredivo Group finalized its acquisition of Vietnam's Timo digital bank in March 2026, extending a BNPL and lending platform already…
The Philippines Built a Front Door for AI Research. The Real Test Is Who Gets Through It.
DOST's newly launched National AI Center for Research and Innovation consolidates the country's fragmented compute and research infrastructure, and is…