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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

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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

The Internet of things (IoT) is the extension of Internet connectivity into physical devices and everyday objects. Embedded with electronics, Internet connectivity, and other forms of hardware, these devices can communicate and interact with others over the Internet, and they can be remotely monitored and controlled.

industrial internet

The corporate reshuffle in Tencent last year prepare the company for this development.

Tencent links up with the State Grid of China to build industrial internet infrastructure for the power sector | KrASIA

Tencent links up with the State Grid of China to build industrial internet infrastructure for the power sector

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Song Jingli

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

Game for Peace

Tencent's PUBG Mobile clone Game for Peace rakes in USD 14 million in three days | KrASIA

Tencent&#8217;s PUBG Mobile clone Game for Peace rakes in USD 14 million in three days

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Luna Lin

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

Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing. Xiaomi makes and invests in smartphones, mobile apps, laptops, and related consumer electronics.

Xiaomi

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

Hong Kong

virutual banking

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has so far issued 8 virtual banking licenses. Ant Financial, Tencent, Xiaomi, and Ping An each have one.

Companies backed by Chinese tech giants are granted virtual banking licenses in Hong Kong | KrASIA

Companies backed by Chinese tech giants are granted virtual banking licenses in Hong Kong

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

Tencent looks set to make more money from advertising.

WeChat launches a third ad slot in Moments feed | KrASIA

WeChat launches a third ad slot in Moments feed

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Lao Bei

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

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

MedTech

digital healthcare

Healthtech

internet hospitals

After an initial face-to-face consultation follow up services can be done online.

158 hospitals in China now offer online diagnosis, prescription and medicine delivery | KrASIA

158 hospitals in China now offer online diagnosis, prescription and medicine delivery

mobile games

video games

Game for Peace feels just like its predecessor, but has an official seal of approval.

Tencent replaces PUBG Mobile with a clone | KrASIA

Tencent replaces PUBG Mobile with a clone

Hainan

'Tencent village' in China's Hainan province expected to be completed next April | KrASIA

&#8216;Tencent village&#8217; in China&#8217;s Hainan province expected to be completed next April

Ride-hailing encompasses a range of companies and services, including traditional taxis and car services. 

Ride-hailing

ride-hailing

China's Tencent, with its strong grip on the global gaming industry and its messaging app WeChat, may start its own ride-hailing business. The firm

Tencent may enter ride-hailing business, its trademark registration information shows | KrASIA

Tencent may enter ride-hailing business, its trademark registration information shows

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Chinese tech companies are rapidly catching up to their American counterparts.