INFOGRAPHIC: Top Asian Startup Funding—Week 43, 2025
These are the funding deals we tracked in Asia this week—featuring Uniphore, Wonderland Foods, Hangry, Riverchain, Space Quarters Inc, and Ryder.
India led the funding charts again this week, keeping up the momentum from last week’s surge. But unlike the $627 million pulled in the previous round, this week’s total hovered around $300 million, a noticeable dip, though the energy across Asia’s startup ecosystem stayed alive.
The big story came from India’s Uniphore. The conversational automation platform pulled in a massive $260 million in its Series F round from heavyweights like NVIDIA, AMD, Snowflake, and Databricks. Existing backers NEA and March Capital also doubled down. Interestingly, the company’s valuation held steady at $2.5 billion, the same as its 2022 raise. That signals investor confidence in
Uniphore’s long-term play, even as the market cools on inflated valuations. The new funds will go toward strengthening global operations and expanding partnerships, with a focus on deeper automation and AI-driven data capabilities through acquisitions like Orby AI and Autonom8.
Meanwhile, in the consumer space, healthy-snacking brand Wonderland Foods made its debut on the funding map. It raised ₹140 crore (roughly $16 million) in a round led by Asha Ventures, with support from British International Investment, backed by the UK government. The company plans to use the funds to diversify its product line, boost processing power, and build stronger distribution and marketing channels. It’s a sign that India’s D2C and health food segment continues to draw steady investor appetite.
Outside India, the activity spread thin but steady across Southeast Asia and beyond. In Indonesia, Hangry, the cloud kitchen startup blending technology with food retail, closed a $10.5 million Series A5 round. Alpha JWC Ventures returned to lead the investment, signaling confidence in Hangry’s scalable model. The company’s hybrid approach, merging online delivery with physical storefronts, is reshaping Indonesia’s fast-growing F&B market.
In Hong Kong, Riverchain, a fintech tackling liquidity challenges in the construction industry, secured $5 million in Series A funding led by Betatron Venture Group. The capital will help expand its footprint across Southeast Asia while improving origination and distribution tech to bridge the working capital gap faced by subcontractors — a long-standing issue in the region’s construction ecosystem.
Tokyo also saw a spark. Space Quarters Inc., a deep-tech venture spun out of Tohoku University, raised $5 million in seed funding. The round, led by Frontier Innovations and joined by SMBC Venture Capital and Global Brain among others, will push forward its robotic space construction systems. The company’s tech aims to enable autonomous assembly of large structures in orbit and on the Moon, an early glimpse of how Japan’s space startups are positioning for the next phase of off-Earth infrastructure.
Finally, the web3 scene saw a familiar name. Ryder, the Singapore-based startup behind the Ryder One hardware wallet, raised $3.2 million in seed funding. The round was led by Draper Associates’ Tim Draper, one of crypto’s earliest and most consistent backers. Other participants included Borderless, Semantic, and Solana’s co-founder, Anatoly Yakovenko. Ryder plans to use the funding to push the boundaries of self-custody tech, bridging usability and security for everyday crypto users.
So, while India stole the spotlight with another strong funding haul, the rest of Asia kept the momentum alive from Indonesia’s kitchens to Japan’s orbit. The capital might be smaller this week, but the ideas shaping it are anything but small.
