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Edtech

Edtech companies in the first half of 2020 received USD 795 million in funding, compared to USD 108 million it attracted in the same period last year.

Edtech firm Vedantu in talks with Coatue Management for a USD 100 million check | KrASIA

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Edtech firm Vedantu in talks with Coatue Management for a USD 100 million check

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I cover Indian tech, startup, venture capital ecosystems for KrASIA.

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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

Temasek Holdings Private Limited is a Singaporean holding company owned by the Government of Singapore.

Temasek

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

Food Tech

As its food orders plummeted, Zomato let go of 13% of its 4,000-strong workforce in May.

Food tech unicorn Zomato to raise USD 100 million from Temasek | KrASIA

Food tech unicorn Zomato to raise USD 100 million from Temasek

The latest deal is likely to be under USD 100 million and values the nine-year-old edtech firm at about USD 10.5 billion.

Edtech giant Byju's raises undisclosed amount from American VC firm Bond | KrASIA

Edtech giant Byju&#8217;s raises undisclosed amount from American VC firm Bond

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

Kwai is the second Chinese app to exit the Indian market. Earlier this month, ByteDance-owned Vigo Video also exited India market.

TikTok rival Kwai pulls out of India market | KrASIA

TikTok rival Kwai pulls out of India market

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Google

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

Lending

Indian digital lending market was USD 75 billion in size in 2018.

Indian central bank tightens regulations for digital lending startups | KrASIA

Indian central bank tightens regulations for digital lending startups

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

The entrepreneur-turned-investor has made early bets in over 70 startups from his family office.

How Anirudh Damani de-risked investing in startups with a self-sustainable investment model | KrASIA

How Anirudh Damani de-risked investing in startups with a self-sustainable investment model

Zomato

Zomato had announced it has raised USD 150 million in January from Ant Financial, Info Edge, Sequoia Capital, and Temasek Holdings.

Zomato awaits investment from Ant Financial amidst regulatory uncertainty | KrASIA

Zomato awaits investment from Ant Financial amidst regulatory uncertainty

In its five year journey, Milkbasket has raised a total of USD 38 million from an array of investors.

Grocery delivery startup Milkbasket raises USD 5.5 million from Inflection Point Ventures | KrASIA

Grocery delivery startup Milkbasket raises USD 5.5 million from Inflection Point Ventures

Reliance

Jio Platforms raised USD 1.5 billion from Public Investment Fund (PIF), the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia, for a 2.32% stake.