INFOGRAPHIC: Top Asian Startup Funding — Week 50, 2025
These are the funding deals we tracked in Asia this week—featuring D3 Bio, Fibe, Validus, Inito, Notta, RockFlow, Smart Joules, and Knot.
It’s clear why Asia’s innovation scene keeps growing even amid global uncertainty. This week alone, startups secured $203 million across biotech, fintech, and AI, highlighting both the region’s resilience and the diversity of opportunities investors are pursuing. From breakthrough therapies in Shanghai to AI-powered fintech solutions in Singapore and India, companies are laying the groundwork to scale operations, push technological boundaries, and tackle pressing challenges across healthcare, finance, and consumer services.
With that momentum in mind, here’s a closer look at some of the most significant rounds shaping the week:
Shanghai-based biotech firm D3 Bio leads the pack with a $108 million Series B, backed by IDG Capital and SongQing Capital, along with existing investors WuXi AppTec's Corporate Venture Fund, Temasek, HSG, MPCi, and Medicxi. The funds will support late-stage clinical trials for its flagship drug, elisrasib, which targets KRAS G12C-mutated cancers across the US, China, and the EU.
In fintech, India’s Fibe (formerly EarlySalary) secured $35 million in a Series F led by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), marking a major step in providing accessible financial solutions to underserved middle-income households. Singapore-based Validus raised $30 million in Series D funding led by Malaysia’s Khazanah Nasional to expand operations in Thailand and Indonesia, with plans to invest in technology and talent.
Health-tech also drew attention, with Indian home diagnostics startup Inito closing a $29 million Series B led by Bertelsmann India Investments, further cementing confidence in India’s emerging deep health-tech segment.
AI-powered services saw notable deals as well. Notta, a voice AI startup operating from Singapore and Japan, raised $15 million in Series B led by Granite-Integral to enhance AI features and integrations with platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, Salesforce, and Slack. Likewise, Singapore-based AI-native fintech RockFlow completed a multimillion-dollar round led by Ant Group to accelerate global expansion and advance its proprietary financial AI agent, Bobby.
India's energy and consumer-focused startups were not left out either, with India’s Smart Joules, a provider of energy efficiency solutions, raising $10 million Series B led by SVL SME Negev II Fund to scale operations across manufacturing, building automation, and district cooling. Meanwhile, instant fashion delivery startup Knot secured $5 million within three months of its Pre-Series A to expand 60-minute delivery services, micro-warehousing, and AI-based virtual try-on features nationwide.
Across Asia, these rounds illustrate a clear trend that investors are betting on innovation that blends high-tech solutions with consumer and industrial impact, signaling strong confidence in the region’s growing startup ecosystem.
