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

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.

China

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

Grocery delivery

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

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

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

Entertainment

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

Retail

India

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

Social impact

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

Alibaba

WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011, and by 2018 it was one of the world's largest standalone mobile apps by monthly active users, with over 1 billion monthly active users.

Wechat

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

Tencent's total investment deals, Q1 2021: 103

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

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

Douyin

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

Kuaishou

Tencent Weishi

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

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

Indonesia

MissFresh's highest IPO target: USD 1 billion

Sea Group

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

Singapore

WeDoctor Hong Kong IPO to raise USD 3 billion

Health tech

Medical technology, or "medtech", encompasses a wide range of healthcare products and is used to treat diseases and medical conditions affecting humans. 

Tencent

Tencent tests new WeChat keyboard to curb data leakage

Thanks to China’s internet crackdown, Alibaba is finally on Tencent’s WeChat

KEY STAT | Tencent is investing in a video game company every three days

Tencent merges video teams to draw eyeballs away from Douyin and Kuaishou

Inside Tencent’s USD 17 billion foreign investment gamble

Tencent Cloud opens first data center in Indonesia

KEY STAT | Online grocer MissFresh privately files for IPO in the US

Garena Free Fire tops Tencent’s PUBG Mobile for the first time in the US

KEY STAT | Tencent-backed online hospital WeDoctor files for IPO

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