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Ninja Van Group, a Singapore-based tech-enabled express logistics company, is investing $50 million in automation technology and systems to enhance its parcel processing capabilities across its key parcel sorting hubs.

Pos Malaysia Berhad, a postal delivery service provider in Malaysia, issued the country’s first non-fungible token (NFT) stamps, making it the second postal service provider in Southeast Asia to do so after Thailand.

Alima, a Mexico-based supply chain startup, raised $1.5 million in new funding to continue developing data-driven tools for businesses to source the produce they need and have it delivered directly to them. Alima grew revenue 10x since January and continues to grow each month in double digits. It currently works with 600 customers, and expects to nearly triple the number of customers by the beginning of the year.

Houm is a proptech that delivers an end-to-end service to be everyone’s partner at every stage of their real estate cycle. It is a real estate accelerator that allows you to rent, buy, manage and sell properties through a digital technology platform quickly and easily. It comes to democratizing the industry by eliminating paperwork, bureaucracy, and slow processes and embracing the technological, digital, fast, and ecological.

The UK government’s development finance institution (DFI) British International Investment (BII), formerly known as CDC Group, has announced its plan to invest US$100 million in Egyptian startups over its current strategy period.

Kippa, the Nigerian startup improving the lifecycle of small businesses across the country with its financial management and payments platform, has raised $8.4 million in an oversubscribed seed round.

DLF, India’s biggest listed real estate company, is set to construct a second data centre in Noida that has been pre-leased to Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centres. The developer will invest about Rs 135 crore (US$17 million) to build the centre, which will be spread over 364,000 square feet. The facility is expected to be ready in two years.

LeadSquared, a Bengaluru-based leader of end-to-end sales, marketing, and onboarding automation solutions, has the opened a new office in Melbourne, Australia. As they expand internationally, Melbourne’s innovation culture, technology infrastructure, and talent will play a key role in supporting their efforts, not just from a market expansion perspective in the Oceania and APAC region, but also in leading their go-to-market training efforts globally.

Indonesia e-commerce firm Bukalapak and Standard Chartered have launched BukaTabungan, a digital banking service that leverages the reach of Bukalapak’s all-commerce platform and Nexus technology, which is Standard Chartered’s Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) solution.

Naver Z, affiliate of South Korea-based internet giant Naver Corp., announced Thursday that the company has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Thailand’s biggest communications conglomerate True Corporation to build a global metaverse hub for creators.

Plerk, a Mexican startup offers companies a set of benefits for their workers. It is a platform of benefits that companies can flexibly give to workers ranges from gym passes telemedicine to grocery vouchers. Plerk serves 300 businesses and 40,000 thousand employees, including in Mexico, Colombia, and Chile.

MEDU Protection is a Mexican startup that develops sustainable medical apparel to reduce environmental impact, reducing up to 25 kg of waste per garment in an industry that generates up to 5 million tons annually. MEDU Protection’s business model has been based on creating gowns, surgical hoods, and coveralls with a resistant fabric that protects against 99.9% of viruses and bacteria. Each product has an integrated chip with NFC (Near Field Communication) technology.