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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

With the fresh fund it will invest in nearly 35 startups.

ShareChat investor India Quotient raises USD 100 million | KrASIA

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ShareChat investor India Quotient raises USD 100 million

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

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Priya Pradeep

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

Perfios seeks to expand to the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia

Warburg Pincus leads a USD 50 million funding round in an Indian fintech company | KrASIA

Warburg Pincus leads a USD 50 million funding round in an Indian fintech company

Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.  It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Facebook

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

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

Entertainment

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

Gamers earn revenue through advertisements, tips &amp; donations, and from subscribers.

YouTube sees gaming as its next growth driver in India | KrASIA

YouTube sees gaming as its next growth driver in India

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

Live Streaming

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

TikTok also seeks to launch music streaming app in India next month.

India becomes numero uno of ByteDance-owned TikTok | KrASIA

India becomes numero uno of ByteDance-owned TikTok

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

India Tech

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

E-Commerce

Meesho, Bulbul, EkAnek and HappyShappy are contending for greater video commerce market share in India.

Shunwei Capital backs SimSim as Indian video e-commerce plays to the gallery | KrASIA

Shunwei Capital backs SimSim as Indian video e-commerce plays to the gallery

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

Alibaba

BigBasket

Swiggy

Grocery Delivery

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

On-Demand Services

This year at least three milk delivery businesses either shut shop or trimmed their operations.

Alibaba-backed Bigbasket might acquire Indian milk delivery startup DailyNinja | KrASIA

Alibaba-backed Bigbasket might acquire Indian milk delivery startup DailyNinja

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.

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

Ride-hailing

Ola is in advanced talks with Microsoft to raise USD 200 million at a valuation of USD 10 billion.

Uber to go on a long drive in India with USD 246 million fund infusion from its parent company | KrASIA

Uber to go on a long drive in India with USD 246 million fund infusion from its parent company

Amazon.com, Inc., is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Amazon is the largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization. 

Amazon

Flipkart

Paytm

Snapdeal

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

Snapdeal is betting big on India’s tier 2 and 3 market to realize greater ambitions.

SoftBank might pour USD 100 million into Indian marketplace Snapdeal | KrASIA

SoftBank might pour USD 100 million into Indian marketplace Snapdeal

India’s online beauty and personal care market is set to cross USD 3.5 billion by 2022.