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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

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

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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

A newsfeed feature allowed users to read posts from blocked foreign platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

CHINA BRIEF | Regulators order ByteDance to suspend office app Feishu | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Regulators order ByteDance to suspend office app Feishu

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

Indian netizens are hungry for short-video content, but localization proves challenging in a fragmented and competitive market.

Chinese app hopes to expand on success of TikTok in India: Inside China's Startups | KrASIA

Chinese app hopes to expand on success of TikTok in India: Inside China&#8217;s Startups

The short-video platform hit 518 million monthly active users in March.

CHINA BRIEF | Douyin adds video call function supporting beauty filters | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Douyin adds video call function supporting beauty filters

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

E-Commerce

The entertainment giant demands compensation worth over USD 400,000.

CHINA BRIEF | ByteDance's Douyin sues Guangzhou-based firm for trademark infringement | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | ByteDance&#8217;s Douyin sues Guangzhou-based firm for trademark infringement

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

Kuaishou

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

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

Entertainment

Robotics

Videos

They lead companies such as ByteDance, Pinduoduo, and DJI.

Video | These young CEOs are behind some of the most innovative Chinese companies | KrASIA

Video | These young CEOs are behind some of the most innovative Chinese companies

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James Chan

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

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

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

The move comes after major tech companies like Tencent, Ant Financial, and Meituan have all launched similar platforms.

CHINA BRIEF | JD.com launches mini program platform targeting 270,000 third-party merchants | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | JD.com launches mini program platform targeting 270,000 third-party merchants

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Edtech

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. The education industry is fast-reforming nowadays. 

Education

online education

ByteDance is prioritizing the education sector in 2020 by developing new products and investing in edtech startups.

More than short-video apps, ByteDance eyes education sector in 2020 | KrASIA

More than short-video apps, ByteDance eyes education sector in 2020

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AJ Cortese

Dailyhunt claims to have over 252 million monthly active users and over 51 million daily active users.

ByteDance and Falcon Edge participate in a USD 23.5 million round in Indian news aggregator Dailyhunt | KrASIA

ByteDance and Falcon Edge participate in a USD 23.5 million round in Indian news aggregator Dailyhunt

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

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

Alibaba

Live Streaming

China is forecast to have 526 million livestreaming video users this year, up from 504 million in 2019.

Why China’s tech chieftains have become livestreaming stars | KrASIA

Why China’s tech chieftains have become livestreaming stars

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