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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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Bringing you the latest updates on funding deals and activities in the Asia Pacific.

Deals in brief: Habitto raises Series A funding, OpenAI tender offer to boost SoftBank’s stake, Deutsche Bank backs Partior, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Habitto raises Series A funding, OpenAI tender offer to boost SoftBank’s stake, Deutsche Bank backs Partior, and more

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KrASIA Writers

Bringing together the latest business insights and trends of China's tech ecosystem.

China Tech

Serta aims to solve one of the final challenges of smart living by reimagining what a bed can do.

For Serta, the new era of smart living begins with sleep | KrASIA

For Serta, the new era of smart living begins with sleep

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network. Since 2010, 36Kr has been providing high-quality content around China’s innovation and new economy trends. With the traffic and network it has built, 36Kr has developed a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities of the technology landscape in China.

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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

Japan, Korea, and the West

In computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals.

Deep Tech

Artificial intelligence

To keep users engaged, AI tools may need to be as simple and intuitive as they are powerful.

What NotebookLM’s success says about the future of AI tools | KrASIA

What NotebookLM’s success says about the future of AI tools

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

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&#8217;s core product, Toutiao, is a popular content platform in China.

KrASIA | Bytedance Archives

The Beijing-based company called the speculation "not accurate", in response to local media outlets.

CHINA BRIEF | ByteDance denies rumored Hong Kong IPO plan | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | ByteDance denies rumored Hong Kong IPO plan

Wency Chen is a reporter KrASIA based in Beijing, covering tech innovations in&amp;beyond the Greater China Area. Previously, she studied at Columbia Journalism School and reported on art exhibits, New York public school systems, LGBTQ+ rights, and Asian immigrants. She is also an enthusiastic reader, a diehard fan of indie rock and spicy hot pot, as well as a to-be filmmaker (Let’s see). Follow her on Twitter: @ChenWQ45 Tips go to: wency@kr-asia.com

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Wency Chen

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

The accelerator was launched in March with a USD 125 million fund.

CHINA BRIEF | ByteDance's founder donates USD 10 million to COVID-19 therapeutics accelerator project backed by Bill Gates | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | ByteDance&#8217;s founder donates USD 10 million to COVID-19 therapeutics accelerator project backed by Bill Gates

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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.

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

E-Commerce

The app is still not available to the public, but might be at the end of May.

JD.com teases work collaboration market as it unveils video conferencing app JoyMeeting | KrASIA

JD.com teases work collaboration market as it unveils video conferencing app JoyMeeting

Music

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The world’s most valuable startup is hiring in Singapore and other locations around the globe.

“This is only the beginning”: Helena Lersch on how ByteDance is shaping up in Southeast Asia | KrASIA

“This is only the beginning”: Helena Lersch on how ByteDance is shaping up in Southeast Asia

Edtech

The startup has launched two new education apps, both featuring an AI-powered interactive aid in the shape of a cartoon dragon.

TikTok-owner ByteDance eyes expansion in online education with help of AI dragon ‘tutor’ | KrASIA

TikTok-owner ByteDance eyes expansion in online education with help of AI dragon ‘tutor’

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Visual Stories

The ambitious leadership behind ByteDance is planning international expansion while leaving the China market to trusted hands who created Douyin and TikTok.

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | Meet the people behind the most downloaded social app amid COVID-19 outbreak | KrASIA

BIZ IN GRAPHICS | Meet the people behind the most downloaded social app amid COVID-19 outbreak

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Julianna Wu

In 2018, ByteDance invested USD 100 million in India, while last year it said it would invest USD 1 billion in the country over the next three years.

ByteDance's short video duo TikTok and Douyin cross two billion downloads with India accounting for one third of installs | KrASIA

ByteDance&#8217;s short video duo TikTok and Douyin cross two billion downloads with India accounting for one third of installs

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

Kuaishou (Chinese: 快手) is a platform for recording with millions of original fresh videos everyday.

Kuaishou

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

Entertainment

CHINA BRIEF | Kuaishou releases new short-video app targeting overseas market | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Kuaishou releases new short-video app targeting overseas market

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

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

Tiger Global

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

Enterprise Services

The e-signature market in China was estimated to reach more than half a billion USD last year.