INFOGRAPHIC: Top Asian Startup Funding — Week 20, 2025
These are the funding deals we tracked in the Asian region this week — featuring IKF Finance, Sirius Therapeutics, VFlowTech, Complement 1, Avammune, 1-India Family Mart, Hocco, Hyperbots, BrioHR, Biryani Blues, Rently, and ReelSaga.
Asia’s startup and growth-stage funding surged to $323.6 million this week, spanning 12 deals in the fintech, biotech, AI, and consumer brands industries, reflecting the continent’s increasingly nuanced investment landscape.
India’s IKF Finance pulled in $172 million to expand its lending portfolio and deepen its reach among underserved communities, positioning itself as a key player in India’s rapidly growing non-banking finance space.
Biotech saw a major push as China’s Sirius Therapeutics raised $50 million in a Series B2 round. The company will use the funds to advance its clinical pipeline for immune-related therapies and boost its regional footprint in Asia-Pacific.
In the cleantech sector, Singapore-based VFlowTech secured $20.5 million in Series B funding to scale up manufacturing of its vanadium redox flow batteries and push global deployments in grid-scale renewable energy storage.
On the AI front, India’s Complement 1 closed an oversubscribed $16 million seed round, using the capital to expand its AI-native enterprise software platform, build out its team, and prepare for international scaling.
Meanwhile, Avammune, an Indian healthtech startup focused on AI-driven immunotherapy for autoimmune conditions, landed $12 million in a Series A round to accelerate R&D and move its treatments closer to clinical trials.
Retail expansion continued as 1-India Family Mart raised $12 million in Series D funding to grow its offline value store chain in India’s Tier 2 and 3 cities, enhance backend operations, and improve supply chain efficiency.
On the consumer product front, Indian ice cream brand Hocco secured $10 million in Series B funding to boost its manufacturing capacity and expand its nostalgic, regional product lines across metro markets.
AI-powered enterprise automation got a boost with Singapore’s Hyperbots, which raised $6.5 million in Series A funding to scale its smart workflow bots and enter the US market.
Also bringing in $6.5 million in a Series A was BrioHR, a Singapore-based HR tech platform aiming to digitize core HR operations, which plans to invest in product development and Southeast Asian expansion.
In the fast-casual dining sector, an Indian biryani restaurant chain, Biryani Blues, closed $5 million in pre-Series C funding to ramp up outlet expansion and invest in cloud kitchen infrastructure to fuel national growth.
From Singapore, proptech startup Rently secured $3 million in a pre-Series A round, aiming to simplify the rental experience by improving property listings, virtual tours, and lease management for both agents and tenants.
Closing the week, Mumbai’s interactive entertainment startup ReelSaga raised $2.1 million in seed funding to develop its gamified storytelling platform and attract a new generation of creators and mobile-first audiences.
With funding flowing across every stage, this week showed that Asia’s startup ecosystem isn’t just thriving, it’s adapting and scaling with remarkable precision.
