{"id":962198,"date":"2025-09-17T09:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T03:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962198"},"modified":"2025-09-17T09:22:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T03:52:53","slug":"sequoias-asia-spinoffs-bet-on-ai-startup-fighting-online-fakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/17\/sequoias-asia-spinoffs-bet-on-ai-startup-fighting-online-fakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sequoia\u2019s Asia spinoffs bet on AI startup fighting online fakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sequoia Capital\u2019s former Asian arms are investing in a little-known startup that hunts and helps take down unauthorised sales listings of AI chips, drugs, games and luxury products. <\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles-based Marq Vision Inc. raised $48 million in a Series B round led by Peak XV Partners, formerly Sequoia\u2019s India and Southeast Asia business, with participation from HSG, formerly Sequoia China. Salesforce Ventures and Tokyo-based Coral Capital Inc. also participated alongside existing investors Y Combinator, Altos Ventures Management Inc. and Atinum Investment Co., lifting the total amount raised for the company to $90 million, according to a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sequoia Capital\u2019s former Asian arms are investing in a little-known startup that hunts and helps take down unauthorised sales listings of AI chips, drugs, games and luxury products. Los Angeles-based Marq Vision Inc. raised $48 million in a Series B round led by Peak XV Partners, formerly Sequoia\u2019s India and Southeast Asia business, with participation from HSG, formerly Sequoia China. Salesforce Ventures and Tokyo-based Coral Capital Inc. also participated alongside existing investors Y Combinator, Altos Ventures Management Inc. and Atinum Investment Co., lifting the total amount raised for the company to $90 million, according to a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}