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What lies beyond familiar frontiers? Investigate emerging tech—like quantum computing and AI—transforming traditional sectors.

Deep Tech

How is healthcare going digital? Investigate telemedicine, wearable sensors, and data-driven platforms improving patient experiences.

Health Tech

What medical tools shape care delivery? Assess medical devices, diagnostics, and digital services refining patient treatment.

Medtech

What powers digital devices? Delve into chip design, manufacturing bottlenecks, and semiconductor breakthroughs fueling global electronics.

Semiconductors

Malaysia

Penang's state chief wants to foster an "ecosystem for innovation" as supply chains shift.

Malaysia's investment "sweet spot," Penang, to open new tech park | KrASIA

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

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As part of 36Kr’s ongoing partnership with Nikkei, you can read selected content from Nikkei Asia on KrASIA.

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Nikkei Asia

Nio, a Chinese electric car maker, specializes in high-performance EVs, battery-swapping solutions, and autonomous driving technologies.

What powers tomorrow’s roads? Explore EV adoption, charging infrastructure, and battery advances sparking the shift toward sustainable transport.

Electric Vehicles

How is the way we move evolving? Explore developments in autonomous transportation, electric vehicles, and more efficient urban transit.

Mobility

How do goods and people flow worldwide? Examine transport networks, logistics innovations, and policies shaping global connectivity.

Transportation

Firefly, Nio’s third automotive brand, is set to unveil its first model at Nio Day on December 21, with a China debut leading its rollout.

Nio’s Firefly prepares for takeoff with a SAIC veteran at its helm | KrASIA

Nio’s Firefly prepares for takeoff with a SAIC veteran at its helm

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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ByteDance, a Chinese internet company, uses machine learning to recommend engaging videos, news, and social content (via TikTok and Douyin).

ByteDance

China’s tech ecosystem serves as a driving force behind the world’s second largest economy, influencing global digital markets.

What guides machine-led insights? Uncover AI applications, language models, and decision-making systems transforming sectors worldwide.

Artificial Intelligence

How do markets shape wealth creation? Study portfolio diversification, asset classes, and strategies balancing growth and risk.

Investment

What happens after acquisitions close? Examine deal structures, operational improvements, and exit strategies molding corporate outcomes.

Private Equity

What fuels startup ecosystems? Review funding rounds, investor strategies, and market insights guiding entrepreneurial growth.

Venture Capital

Hong Kong

Artificial intelligence

The ByteDance co-founder’s Hong Kong-based firm will target early-stage tech investments, with artificial intelligence expected to be a core focus.

Zhang Yiming enters private equity with AI-focused Cool River Venture | KrASIA

Zhang Yiming enters private equity with AI-focused Cool River Venture

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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India’s tech landscape blossoms with e-commerce startups, fintech innovations, and IT services shaping a growing digital consumer base.

India | KrASIA Archives

How do ideas shape industries? Learn how content, design, and digital artistry influence branding, marketing, and cultural impact.

Creative

What sets the world’s soundtrack? Follow streaming royalties, label strategies, and genre shifts guiding the global music industry’s rhythm.

Music

The company is targeting users who already subscribe to platforms such as Netflix, Spotify, and other podcast channels.

Kuku FM will get you hooked on podcasts and audiobooks | Startup Stories | KrASIA

Kuku FM will get you hooked on podcasts and audiobooks | Startup Stories

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Avanish Tiwary

How do clicks replace aisles? Explore global marketplaces, payment solutions, and technology accelerating online retail’s growth.

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

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Priya Pradeep

Amazon leads e-commerce, streaming (Prime Video), and AWS cloud infrastructure, redefining retail, media, and data services.

Amazon

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

More Indians to get a make-over as beauty startups double their funding | KrASIA

More Indians to get a make-over as beauty startups double their funding

The company saw a series of high profile exits as well as 40% of downsizing.

Sequoia-backed Indian furniture retailer Urban Ladder sees a silver lining in USD 2 million fund infusion | KrASIA

Sequoia-backed Indian furniture retailer Urban Ladder sees a silver lining in USD 2 million fund infusion

Google dominates online search, digital ads, and cloud solutions, powering discovery, analytics, and smartphone operating systems.

Google

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

Enterprise Services

Valued at USD 3.5 billion the company is aiming for an IPO in a couple of years.

Google participates in a USD 150 million pre-IPO round in Indian SaaS unicorn Freshworks | KrASIA

Google participates in a USD 150 million pre-IPO round in Indian SaaS unicorn Freshworks

What streamlines global commerce? Examine digital wallets, cross-border remittances, and instant settlement technologies.

Payments

Investors are queuing up to infuse funds in successful entrepreneurs’ second venture in India’s startup ecosystem.

Sequoia Capital and BeeNext participate in a USD 24 million seed round to back a second-time Indian entrepreneur | KrASIA

Sequoia Capital and BeeNext participate in a USD 24 million seed round to back a second-time Indian entrepreneur

And Sequoia and Lightspeed are expected to make 1.5 billion from selling stakes in OYO Rooms. Is the Matthew effect forming in the country's venture capital market?

VC firms to gain USD 4 billion from exits in India's maturing startup ecosystem | KrASIA

VC firms to gain USD 4 billion from exits in India&#8217;s maturing startup ecosystem

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Somdyuti Datta Ray

The venture capital firm originally targetted at 1 billion for its sixth Indian fund.

India

Kuku FM will get you hooked on podcasts and audiobooks | Startup Stories

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

More Indians to get a make-over as beauty startups double their funding

Sequoia-backed Indian furniture retailer Urban Ladder sees a silver lining in USD 2 million fund infusion

Google participates in a USD 150 million pre-IPO round in Indian SaaS unicorn Freshworks

Sequoia Capital and BeeNext participate in a USD 24 million seed round to back a second-time Indian entrepreneur

VC firms to gain USD 4 billion from exits in India’s maturing startup ecosystem

Sequoia adds USD 200 million to its sixth India fund in a warming market

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