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Venture capital is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth.

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Bringing you the latest updates on funding deals and activities in the Asia Pacific.

Deals in brief: SeaTown to invest in Linnovate Partners, South Korea’s DeepX completes Series C round, Tjufoo and Sinbad set to merge, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: SeaTown to invest in Linnovate Partners, South Korea’s DeepX completes Series C round, Tjufoo and Sinbad set to merge, and more

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Bringing together the latest business insights and trends of China's tech ecosystem.

China Tech

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. 

Transportation

Chery

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Exeed

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new energy vehicles

Chery's chairman has promised a surge of electric vehicle models over the next 20 months, hinting at an ambitious expansion.

Chery unveils the Sterra ET, highlighting bold EV ambitions | KrASIA

Chery unveils the Sterra ET, highlighting bold EV ambitions

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network. Since 2010, 36Kr has been providing high-quality content around China’s innovation and new economy trends. With the traffic and network it has built, 36Kr has developed a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities of the technology landscape in China.

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Ant Financial Services Group, formerly known as Alipay, is an affiliate company of the Chinese Alibaba Group. Ant Financial is the highest valued fintech company in the world, and the world's most valuable unicorn company, with a valuation of US$150 billion. 

Ant Group

Insurance

Lending

An e-commerce payment system facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for online transactions. Read stories of Payment service providers, platforms or the trending of the Payment industry.

Payments

Security

WorldFirst's enhanced solutions underscore its commitment to facilitating international growth for businesses, irrespective of size, scope, or geographical location.

WorldFirst upgrades payment and financial solutions to better serve merchants venturing overseas | KrASIA

WorldFirst upgrades payment and financial solutions to better serve merchants venturing overseas

Tencent Holdings Limited is a Chinese multinational investment holding conglomerate whose subsidiaries specialize in various Internet-related services and products, entertainment, artificial intelligence and technology both in China and globally.

Tencent

KrASIA | Tencent Archives

ByteDance or Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd. is a Chinese Internet technology company operating several machine learning-enabled content platforms, headquartered in Beijing. It was founded by Zhang Yiming in 2012. ByteDance's core product, Toutiao, is a popular content platform in China.

Bytedance

Kuaishou (Chinese: 快手) is a platform for recording with millions of original fresh videos everyday.

Kuaishou

Content

With the spread of Internet global accessing (fastest Internet broadband connection TCP with accumulator cables and semi-fast connection), Short Video services have become very popular online. 

Short Video

Video

China bars most short video creators from using movie and TV content. Major tech companies have already clashed in court over clips from shows and games.

China bars most short video creators from using movie and TV content | KrASIA

China bars most short video creators from using movie and TV content

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Jiaxing Li

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is a Chinese multinational conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet and technology. 

Alibaba

E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. 

E-Commerce

The business of online marketing is ultimately all about traffic.

China's internet giants diversify revenue streams amidst ad market crunch | KrASIA

China&#8217;s internet giants diversify revenue streams amidst ad market crunch

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Hanlei Huang

Gig workers in China. Illustration by KrASIA.

Didi Chuxing Technology Co., formerly Didi Kuaidi, is a Chinese transportation network company, artificial intelligence and autonomous technology conglomerate.

Didi

ELEME Inc. is a platform that offers online food delivery service. It was founded in 2008 by Mark Zhang and Jack Kang in Minhang Campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Ele.me was acquired by the Alibaba Group in April 2018 and continues to operate independently.

ele.me

Meituan-Dianping is a Chinese group buying website for locally found food delivery services, consumer products and retail services. The company is headquartered in Beijing and was founded in 2010 by Wang Xing. The Meituan.com site offers deals of the day by selling vouchers on local services and entertainment.

Meituan

Food Delivery

Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations. 

Logistics

An on-demand service platform connects waiting-time-sensitive customers with independent service providers.

On-Demand Services

Ride-hailing encompasses a range of companies and services, including traditional taxis and car services. 

Ride-hailing

Social Impact

New regulations aim to improve gig workers’ pay and labor conditions. New regulations aim to improve gig workers’ pay and labor conditions.

Gig workers in China have better protections, but there's still a long way to go | KrASIA

Gig workers in China have better protections, but there&#8217;s still a long way to go

Wechat unblocks more links to rival apps and websites. It will soon allow users to share listings of goods on e-commerce sites run by other companies.

WeChat unblocks more links to rival apps and websites | KrASIA

WeChat unblocks more links to rival apps and websites

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Mengyuan Ge

Chinese regulator halts updates of Tencent’s apps for data protection inspections. This comes after China implemented stringent personal information laws.

Tencent app updates halted by regulator for data protection inspections | KrASIA

Tencent app updates halted by regulator for data protection inspections

NetEase, Inc. is a Chinese Internet technology company providing online services centered on content, community, communications and commerce. The company was founded in 1997 by Lebunto. NetEase develops and operates online PC and mobile games, advertising services, email services and e-commerce platforms in China.

NetEase

The game industry is the economic sector involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of games. It encompasses dozens of job disciplines and its component parts employ thousands of people worldwide.

Gaming

Game over? China hits developers with regulatory triple threat. License freeze, child gaming limits, and compliant app stores cloud industry.

Game over? China hits developers with regulatory triple threat | KrASIA

Game over? China hits developers with regulatory triple threat

As part of 36Kr’s ongoing partnership with Nikkei, you can read selected content from Nikkei Asia on KrASIA.

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Nikkei Asia

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. 

Entertainment

Metaverse

China’s most valuable company Tencent sees slower growth in profits. Regulatory changes are weighing down revenues for all major tech firms in China.

China’s most valuable company Tencent sees slower growth in profits | KrASIA

China’s most valuable company Tencent sees slower growth in profits

Music

Tencent Music Entertainment misses revenue estimates as users move to other platforms. TME lost a key advantage when it scrapped exclusive licensing.

Tencent Music Entertainment misses revenue estimates as users move to competing platforms | KrASIA

Tencent Music Entertainment misses revenue estimates as users move to competing platforms

Semiconductors

Tencent reveals new chips as China’s tech giants become semiconductor designers. The roadmap to mass production remains unclear.