Singapore-based unicorn rakes in additional funding:

Garena, a Singapore-based company that makes mobile gaming, e-commerce, and payment apps, announced this morning that it’s raised $170M in Series D funding at a $3.75B valuation. The round was led by the Khazanah Nasional Berhad (the Malaysian government’s strategic investment fund), which counts Skyscanner and WeLab among its recent big bets, and brings Garena’s total funding to $500M.

Startup studio and incubator Expa raises $100M.

Expa, the startup studio led by Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai and Uber co-founder Garrett Camp, announced the close of a $100M fund yesterday from investors including TPG’s David Bonderman, Sir Richard Branson and SV Angel. Part of the new fund will go toward Expa Labs, a new incubator that will offer six applicants $500K in funding and six months of office space in either SF or NY.

Mark Suster with the inside scoop:

Upfront’s Mark Suster walks us through the fundraising process as lived by Invoca, a call intelligence company that announced $30M in Series D funding yesterday. When they set out in September, a lot of VCs expressed interest, but as the venture market chilled (and public markets tanked) in late 2015, they started to see “the warning signs of a brick wall [they] were flying toward.”

New FinTech speakers announced for TC Disrupt NY:

Ellevest co-founder Sallie Krawcheck and Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt were recently announced as speakers for Disrupt NY. Save $1000 off tickets until April 8.

Recent Activity on CrunchBase

222

Funding Rounds Added

44

Acquisitions Recorded

$2.1B

Fundings
Captured

26,016

Entities
Updated
Advertise on CrunchBase
Access CrunchBase Data in Excel
Leverage the Daily Excel Export to track the latest fundings, investor details, and exits.
Get started

Recent Investments

Garena

$170M / Series D

Garena is a Singapore-based company that makes mobile gaming, e-commerce, and payment apps. Founded in 2009, the company previously raised capital from General Atlantic and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, neither of which participated in today’s round.

Categories:

Singapore SGP · Content Creators · Mobile · Payments · Messaging

Founders:

Forrest Li

Investors:

Khazanah Nasional Berhad

Asana

$50M / Series C

Asana is an enterprise task management and productivity app. This round values the company at $600M post-money, more than double its Series B valuation in 2012. Asana counts Slack as one of its customers, and says it is a customer for Slack as well.

Categories:

San Francisco · Task Management · Mobile Apps · Software · Collaboration

Founders:

Dustin Moskovitz, Justin Rosenstein

Investors:

Sam Altman (Lead), Andrew Mason, Aditya Agarwal, + 11 more

Mashable

$15M / Series C

Mashable is a millennial-focused news site that covers technology, entertainment and business topics. Founded in 2005, the company has secured $45M in total funding to date. Mashable and Turner plan to collaborate on video content marketing opportunities for TV and Web.

Categories:

New York · Digital Media · News

Founders:

Pete Cashmore

Investors:

Turner Broadcasting (Lead)

More Investments
Company Amount / Round Lead Investor
Airware $30M / Series C
Invoca $30M / Series D Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners
Cockroach Labs $20M / Series A Index Ventures
Home24 20M EUR / Venture Baillie Gifford
Frichti $13M / Series A
MapD $10M / Series A Vanedge Capital
Branch International $9.2M / Series A Andreessen Horowitz
PowerInbox $6.5M / Series A Battery Ventures
All Recent Funding Activity

Recent Acquisitions

Sharp Corporation

Acquired by Foxconn Technology Group for $3.5B

Parlio

Acquired by Quora

More Acquisitions
Company Acquired by Amount
Bluewolf IBM
Savaree Careem
Hello Flo SheKnows Media
All Recent Acquisition Activity
 

Upcoming Tech Events

NAB Show 2016

April 16-21, 2016 10:00am in Las Vegas

NAB Show is the only place to break free from conventional thinking and open your mind.
More Events
Start Date Event Location
Apr 16, 2016 #unit Festival 2016 Berlin
Apr 15, 2016 PyCon Italy 2016 Firenze
Apr 18, 2016 CSO50 Security Conference & Awards Arizona City
More Upcoming Events
Demo Days
Start Date Event Location
Apr 27, 2016 Starta Accelerator Demo Day New York
Apr 27, 2016 Global Insurance Accelerator Spring 2016 Demo Day Des Moines
Jun 28, 2016 Make in LA Class 2 Hardware Demo Day Chatsworth
More Upcoming Demo Days

Don’t see your event? Reach out to us at events@crunchbase.com.

Discover innovative companies and the people behind them.

Follow Us on CrunchBase View Jobs on LinkedIn Follow Us on Twitter Like Us on Facebook
410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2016 CrunchBase Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy | Terms of Service If you would no longer like email updates from CrunchBase, you can unsubscribe here.