INFOGRAPHIC: Top Asian Startup Funding—Week 35, 2025
Featuring TransBnk, Altum Credo Home Finance, Atlas Consolidated, Pintarnya, BIGC, CredRight, Palmonas, Enmovil, ZUZU Hospitality, Peeko, BOM BOM, Cashku, and Bluente.
Funding momentum across Asia stayed strong this week, with over $137 million flowing into startups across fintech, housing finance, AI, hospitality, and consumer brands. India, Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia, and Malaysia all featured prominently, showing the region’s diverse innovation landscape.
Leading the pack, India’s TransBnk, a banking infrastructure provider, secured a hefty $25 million in Series B funding. The fresh capital will help the company scale operations in Southeast Asia and the Middle East while also strengthening its core business in India.
Close behind, Altum Credo Home Finance, another Indian player focused on affordable housing loans, raised $19.5 million in equity funding to deepen its footprint across southern and western India.
In Singapore, Atlas Consolidated, a fintech company, closed a solid $18.1 million in Series B funding to accelerate regional growth and boost the worldwide use of its platform, HugoHub.
Indonesia’s Pintarnya, a jobs platform bridging employment and financial services, brought in $16.7 million through a Series A round to improve its technology and build more financial partnerships.
From South Korea, BIGC raised $14 million in Series A funding to expand its global all-in-one digital venue platform.
Back in India, CredRight, a non-banking financial company (NBFC) supporting nano and micro businesses, secured $10 million in Series B funding to boost loan disbursements, enhance its tech platform, and expand into tier-II to tier-IV towns.
Consumer brands also made noise this week. Palmonas, an Indian demi-fine jewellery startup, landed $6.2 million in Series A funding to expand its 9kt gold collection, launch new categories, and open 100 stores within the year.
Meanwhile, Enmovil, a supply chain intelligence startup from India, raised $6 million to strengthen its AI-driven tools, expand globally, and grow partnerships with consulting firms and multinational corporations.
In hospitality, Singapore-based ZUZU Hospitality closed a $5.9 million Series B extension round to enhance its AI-powered solutions for hotel partners.
Quick commerce also stayed hot, as India’s Peeko, a baby care startup, brought in $3.2 million in seed funding to improve products, scale supply, and grow its team.
Singapore’s BOM BOM, a pet nutrition company, added $2.72 million in Pre-Series A funding to automate production and advance nutrigenomics research.
Malaysia’s Cashku, a digital financial planning platform, raised $2.4 million to expand its offerings and become a one-stop shop for personal finance.
And finally, Bluente, a Singapore-based AI-powered document translation startup, secured $1.5 million in a seed-plus round to grow its six-person team and expand into the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, and the U.S.
