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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.

Venture Capital

Antler plans to invest in up to 40 companies in its first year of operation.

Urban Ladder co-founder to head Singaporean VC firm Antler's India operations | KrASIA

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Urban Ladder co-founder to head Singaporean VC firm Antler&#8217;s India operations

Spotlighting Asia&#039;s next wave of innovations.

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Q&amp;A

RTP Global has been investing in India since 2011 and entered Southeast Asia last year.

Investments in India's 'speedy' market are paying off: Q&A with Galina Chifina of RTP Global | KrASIA

Investments in India&#8217;s &#8216;speedy&#8217; market are paying off: Q&#038;A with Galina Chifina of RTP Global

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

Alibaba

BigBasket

Grofers

Paytm

Reliance

SoftBank Group Corp. is a holding company that engages in the management of its group companies which provides information technology and telecommunication services. It operates through the following segments: Mobile Communications, Sprint, Fixed-line Telecommunications, Internet, and Others. 

Softbank

Zomato

Grocery Delivery

Reliance also got into the online grocery market which is expected to reach USD 3.6 billion by 2024.

Paytm Mall looks to invest in Grofers to strengthen its grocery business | KrASIA

Paytm Mall looks to invest in Grofers to strengthen its grocery business

Ola Cabs, is an Indian origin online transportation network company developed by ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd. As of December 2018, Ola was valued at about $5.7 billion. A variety of venture capitalists including Softbank have large stakes in the company.

Electric Vehicles

Ola Electric competes with companies such as Bounce, Vogo, and Yulu, among others.

Ola Electric acquires Dutch startup Etergo BV in global e-bikes push | KrASIA

Ola Electric acquires Dutch startup Etergo BV in global e-bikes push

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

With a proprietary work collaboration tool, Joy Sharma says his company can deliver translated texts faster than any competitor.

How an Indian entrepreneur is changing translation in the Middle East: Startup Stories | KrASIA

How an Indian entrepreneur is changing translation in the Middle East: Startup Stories

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

Samsung

Swiggy

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

Food Delivery

The food industry is booming! Both traditional companies and startups are using technology to transform the dynamics of the food sector.

Food Tech

Swiggy has asked 1,100 employees to leave, giving them three months notice period and other severance packages.

Swiggy raises an additional USD 1.88 million from Samsung Ventures after recent layoff | KrASIA

Swiggy raises an additional USD 1.88 million from Samsung Ventures after recent layoff

Last week Zomato also announced cutting 13% of its total workforce.

Swiggy lays off 1,100 employees and shuts other businesses | KrASIA

Swiggy lays off 1,100 employees and shuts other businesses

Building a coherent narrative of India's rapidly changing tech ecosystem.

India Tech

Tiger Global

In January, Tiger Global raised a new fund of USD 3.8 billion which is meant to back startups in the US, China, and India.

Tiger Global co-leads USD 44 million Series C in SirionLabs | KrASIA

Tiger Global co-leads USD 44 million Series C in SirionLabs

Fintech is the new applications, processes, products, or business models in the financial services industry, composed of one or more complementary financial services and provided as an end-to-end process via the internet.

Fintech

According to the report, Ribbit Capital, Accel, and Sequoia Capital were the top five active funds who backed Indian fintech companies.