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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.

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

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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

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

KrASIA | Tencent Archives

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

The company says it has zero tolerance for such mini programs

Tencent clamps down on pornographic content punishing more than 1,800 mini programs | KrASIA

Tencent clamps down on pornographic content punishing more than 1,800 mini programs

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Luna Lin

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

The top dog in the gaming industry worldwide booked a year-on-year decline in mobile gaming revenue in the first quarter.

Tencent links with Qualcomm to sharpen its gaming weapons | KrASIA

Tencent links with Qualcomm to sharpen its gaming weapons

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Song Jingli

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

Entertainment

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

On-Demand Services

Chinese giants Tencent and Baidu have started offering VOD services in Vietnam.

Tencent and Baidu start offering video streaming services in Vietnam | KrASIA

Tencent and Baidu start offering video streaming services in Vietnam

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Thu Huong Le

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

Alibaba

Cheap rent, plentiful graduates spur gaming industry in Chengdu and Wuhan

China's tech startups flourish in talent-rich second-tier cities | KrASIA

China&#8217;s tech startups flourish in talent-rich second-tier cities

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

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Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. 

Transportation

A car featuring this system is scheduled to go into production in a little over one month.

Linking with Tencent and Huawei, Chinese automaker GAC unveils an autonomous driving system | KrASIA

Linking with Tencent and Huawei, Chinese automaker GAC unveils an autonomous driving system

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

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

Tencent and JD invest in auto financing startup Linkfin Technology | KrASIA

Tencent and JD invest in auto financing startup Linkfin Technology

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

Enterprise Services

Tencent expands its cloud business into Japan | KrASIA

Tencent expands its cloud business into Japan

Timi Studio Group is behind popular games including Honour of Kings and Game for Peace.