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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

Early-stage (Angel/Pre-Series A) investors committed USD 97.1 million in 2019, more than twice of USD 46.8 million in 2018.

Early-stage investments doubled in India in 2019: Innoven Capital report | KrASIA

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Early-stage investments doubled in India in 2019: Innoven Capital report

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

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

Alibaba

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

The Chinese internet giant had picked up a stake in Xpressbees with USD 35 million Series D investment in December 2017.

Alibaba infuses USD 10 million in portfolio company Xpressbees | KrASIA

Alibaba infuses USD 10 million in portfolio company Xpressbees

Homegrown apps have fared better than Chinese apps this year that took over the Indian market in 2018.

Indian mobile apps take back the throne from their Chinese peers in 2019 | KrASIA

Indian mobile apps take back the throne from their Chinese peers in 2019

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services. It is considered one of the Big Four of technology along with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

Apple

Oppo is a Chinese consumer electronics and mobile communications company headquartered in Dongguan, China, known for its smartphones, Blu-ray players and other electronic devices.

OPPO

Samsung

Hardware, in the context of technology, refers to the physical elements that make up a computer or electronic system and everything else involved that is physically tangible. 

Hardware

An Indian policy think tank is making plans to build a USD 110-billion mobile phone export business in the country.

India may offer new incentives to woo smartphone manufactures in 2020 | KrASIA

India may offer new incentives to woo smartphone manufactures in 2020

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

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

Social commerce, gaming, local language-based businesses are a few spaces that investors can't miss in 2020.

Five new sectors that shined in India in 2019 | KrASIA Year in Review | KrASIA

Five new sectors that shined in India in 2019 | KrASIA Year in Review

Japanese investors have landed in India with a long term view, bringing expertise, discipline, and patience along with the capital.

Japan finds its second chance in Indian startups after missing the China market | KrASIA

Japan finds its second chance in Indian startups after missing the China market

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

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

E-Commerce

This is SoftBank Vision Fund II's maiden investment in India.

Lenskart becomes 25th Indian unicorn with fresh investment from SoftBank | KrASIA

Lenskart becomes 25th Indian unicorn with fresh investment from SoftBank

OYO Rooms, commonly known as OYO, is India's largest hospitality company, consisting mainly of budget hotels. It was founded in 2013 by Ritesh Agarwal and has since grown to over 12,000 hotels in 337 cities in India, Malaysia, UAE, Nepal, China and Indonesia.

Lightspeed Venture Partners and Sequoia Capital held about 13% and 11% stake, respectively in Oyo.

Lightspeed and Sequoia executives raked in huge profits after partial Oyo exit | KrASIA

Lightspeed and Sequoia executives raked in huge profits after partial Oyo exit

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

This year saw Asian companies that have been in the country before, announce and expand their presence in India.