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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.

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

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

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

The Chinese tech giant makes another big bet in the South Asian country.

Tencent leads Indian fintech company NiYo Solutions's USD 35 million Series B round | KrASIA

Tencent leads Indian fintech company NiYo Solutions&#8217;s USD 35 million Series B round

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Song Jingli

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

E-Commerce

Consumers still love to spend money in shopping centers.

Tencent and JD.com-backed online retailer Vipshop acquires shopping mall operator in China for USD 42 million | KrASIA

Tencent and JD.com-backed online retailer Vipshop acquires shopping mall operator in China for USD 42 million

NetEase, Inc. is a Chinese Internet technology company providing online services centered on content, community, communications and commerce. The company was founded in 1997 by Lebunto. NetEase develops and operates online PC and mobile games, advertising services, email services and e-commerce platforms in China.

NetEase

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

In China, app stores traditionally take 50% from game developers, worse than the global standard.

In the aftermath of China’s clampdown on gaming, Tencent is ready to fight for better revenue split | KrASIA

In the aftermath of China’s clampdown on gaming, Tencent is ready to fight for better revenue split

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Viktoria Fricova

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

MedTech

Tencent shells out USD 36.3 million for medtech startup Synyi | KrASIA

Tencent shells out USD 36.3 million for medtech startup Synyi

It can turn informal WeChat conversations into a sales process.

Tencent invests in a tool that helps sales people bridge the gap between socializing and dealmaking | KrASIA

Tencent invests in a tool that helps sales people bridge the gap between socializing and dealmaking

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

Alibaba

Autonomous Vehicles is about self-driving. A self-driving car is also known as a robot car, autonomous car, or driverless car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input.

Autonomous Vehicles

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

Transportation

While Tencent is chasing domestic carmakers, its major competitor Alibaba holds out olive branches to foreign auto giants.

Tencent forms strategic partnership with carmaker Dongfeng Motor | KrASIA

Tencent forms strategic partnership with carmaker Dongfeng Motor

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Luna Lin

Tencent Bets on Its Revived Weishi App to Take on Toutiao's Tik Tok in Short Video Streaming

Tencent Weishi

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

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

WeChat makes 30-second Weishi video-sharing integration official | KrASIA

WeChat makes 30-second Weishi video-sharing integration official

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Lao Bei

Didi Chuxing Technology Co., formerly Didi Kuaidi, is a Chinese transportation network company, artificial intelligence and autonomous technology conglomerate.

Didi

Technically it's a rival, but OnTime's ride-hailing concept differs slightly from Didi's.

Didi invests in its new challenger, the Tencent and GAC-owned ride-hailer OnTime | KrASIA

Didi invests in its new challenger, the Tencent and GAC-owned ride-hailer OnTime

Tencent is focused on growing ad revenue.