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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

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What's the life of a VC like? Paul Santos of Wavemaker Partners offers some candid answers

Video | KrASIA Debunks: Who works harder? VCs or entrepreneurs? 🤔 with Paul Santos | KrASIA

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Video | KrASIA Debunks: Who works harder? VCs or entrepreneurs? 🤔 with Paul Santos

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

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

Alibaba

JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.

Pinduoduo is an e-commerce platform allowing users to participate in group buying deals. It was founded by Colin Huang as Shanghai Dream Information Technology Co., Ltd. in September 2015.

Pinduoduo

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

E-Commerce

Chinese also love to shop online in other major shopping festivals such as 618 and Double 12.

Video | Singles' Day shopping bonanza? Yes, but there is more | KrASIA

Video | Singles&#8217; Day shopping bonanza? Yes, but there is more

KrASIA explores and debunks the various myths of venture capital.

Video | KrASIA Debunks: What is the best way to impress VCs in China? | KrASIA

Video | KrASIA Debunks: What is the best way to impress VCs in China?

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

On-Demand Services

2020 has been a tumultuous year for Luckin Coffee, which is holding on to a thread as an accounting scandal now threatens the firm with delisting.

Video | The rise and fall of Luckin Coffee, once China's most promising coffee startup | KrASIA

Video | The rise and fall of Luckin Coffee, once China&#8217;s most promising coffee startup

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

Grocery Delivery

New players are stepping up to bring groceries and fresh produce to customers across China.

Video | These are the challengers to Ele.me and Meituan's food and grocery delivery duopoly in China | KrASIA

Video | These are the challengers to Ele.me and Meituan&#8217;s food and grocery delivery duopoly in China

Bilibili

Read the stories about Augmented reality (AR), Virtual reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), know about the trendings and the future of VR/AR/MR industry. 

AR/VR

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

Entertainment

Live Streaming

Virtual idol Luo Tianyi has over 4.6 million followers and has "performed" in front of millions of live audiences.

Video | She is one of China's biggest celebrities—but she's not real | KrASIA

Video | She is one of China&#8217;s biggest celebrities—but she&#8217;s not real

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

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

Didi

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

Transportation

Planning on using a bike-sharing service in Beijing? Our guide can help you to pick the right one.

Video | The complete Beijing bike-sharing guide for 2020 | KrASIA

Video | The complete Beijing bike-sharing guide for 2020

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

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

YY's Likee already has over 115 million monthly active users worldwide and is growing fast.

Video | Is Likee becoming the next TikTok? | KrASIA

Video | Is Likee becoming the next TikTok?

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

Food Tech

The Internet of things (IoT) is the extension of Internet connectivity into physical devices and everyday objects. Embedded with electronics, Internet connectivity, and other forms of hardware, these devices can communicate and interact with others over the Internet, and they can be remotely monitored and controlled.

As coffee consumption increases in China, domestic brands compete to bring caffeination to the masses.

James Chan

Video | KrASIA Debunks: Who works harder? VCs or entrepreneurs? 🤔 with Paul Santos

Video | Singles’ Day shopping bonanza? Yes, but there is more

Video | KrASIA Debunks: What is the best way to impress VCs in China?

Video | The rise and fall of Luckin Coffee, once China’s most promising coffee startup

Video | These are the challengers to Ele.me and Meituan’s food and grocery delivery duopoly in China

Video | She is one of China’s biggest celebrities—but she’s not real

Video | The complete Beijing bike-sharing guide for 2020

Video | Is Likee becoming the next TikTok?

Video | Five local brands in China’s growing coffee market