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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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Singapore

Bringing you the latest updates on funding deals and activities in the Asia Pacific.

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

China Tech

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

Xiaomi

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

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

Transportation

Electric vehicle

xiaomi

The smartphone maker hopes to turn the 'Apple Car' idea into reality.

China's Xiaomi jumps into EV market battle with gusto | KrASIA

China&#8217;s Xiaomi jumps into EV market battle with gusto

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Chery

New Energy Vehicle

new energy vehicles

The Chinese automaker is banking on the new brand to change its fortunes in the NEV market.

Chery to launch new “Yueji” NEV brand, debut model coming by year’s end | KrASIA

Chery to launch new “Yueji” NEV brand, debut model coming by year’s end

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Investors

Razorpay became the sixth unicorn company this year

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

India Tech

Sequoia Capital

Y Combinator is an American seed accelerator, started in March 2005. Y Combinator is consistently ranked at the top of U.S. accelerators.

Y Combinator

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

An e-commerce payment system facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for online transactions. Read stories of Payment service providers, platforms or the trending of the Payment industry.

Payments

Razorpay aims to power payments and banking for 50 million businesses by 2025 from the current five million.

Indian fintech startup Razorpay enters unicorn club with USD 100 million funding from GIC, Sequoia | KrASIA

Indian fintech startup Razorpay enters unicorn club with USD 100 million funding from GIC, Sequoia

I cover Indian tech, startup, venture capital ecosystems for KrASIA.

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Flipkart

Fixel is known for leading Tiger Global’s investment in Indian startups such as Flipkart, Ola, Delhivery, and Quikr, among others.

Lee Fixel makes a come back to India with USD 35 million investment in content startup Inshorts | KrASIA

Lee Fixel makes a come back to India with USD 35 million investment in content startup Inshorts

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

Swiggy

Zomato

Food Delivery

The food industry is booming! Both traditional companies and startups are using technology to transform the dynamics of the food sector.

Food Tech

In the past tech companies such as Oyo, Policybazaar, Ola, Paytm, Quikr, and others have also said they would soon launch their IPO.

Ant Group-backed Indian food delivery giant Zomato to go public in 2021 | KrASIA

Ant Group-backed Indian food delivery giant Zomato to go public in 2021

Bjyu's

Edtech

Amid the allegations of toxic work culture, Byju’s has remained unfettered and is scouting for additional funding.

The vulnerability that threatens edtech decacorn Byju's | KrASIA

The vulnerability that threatens edtech decacorn Byju&#8217;s

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. The education industry is fast-reforming nowadays. 

Education

Edtech has emerged as one of the most sought after sectors by global as well as local venture capital firms.

Byju's to raise USD 400 million from DST Global | KrASIA

Byju&#8217;s to raise USD 400 million from DST Global

In January, Tiger Global raised a new fund of USD 3.8 billion which is meant to back startups in the US, China, and India.

Tiger Global co-leads USD 44 million Series C in SirionLabs | KrASIA

Tiger Global co-leads USD 44 million Series C in SirionLabs

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

Alibaba

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

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

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

Enterprise Services

The e-signature market in China was estimated to reach more than half a billion USD last year.

ByteDance launches e-signature platform, competing with Alibaba, Tencent in SaaS space | KrASIA

ByteDance launches e-signature platform, competing with Alibaba, Tencent in SaaS space

Wency Chen is a reporter KrASIA based in Beijing, covering tech innovations in&amp;beyond the Greater China Area. Previously, she studied at Columbia Journalism School and reported on art exhibits, New York public school systems, LGBTQ+ rights, and Asian immigrants. She is also an enthusiastic reader, a diehard fan of indie rock and spicy hot pot, as well as a to-be filmmaker (Let’s see). Follow her on Twitter: @ChenWQ45 Tips go to: wency@kr-asia.com

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Reliance

The company raised USD 101 million in 2019.

General Atlantic invests USD 30 million in real-estate startup NoBroker | KrASIA

General Atlantic invests USD 30 million in real-estate startup NoBroker

It has been backing Indian tech startups since 2014 and is best known for investing in Ola, Mswipe, Bounce, and Quikr.

Tiger Global

Razorpay became the sixth unicorn company this year

Lee Fixel makes a come back to India with USD 35 million investment in content startup Inshorts

Ant Group-backed Indian food delivery giant Zomato to go public in 2021

The vulnerability that threatens edtech decacorn Byju’s

Byju’s to raise USD 400 million from DST Global

Tiger Global co-leads USD 44 million Series C in SirionLabs

ByteDance launches e-signature platform, competing with Alibaba, Tencent in SaaS space

General Atlantic invests USD 30 million in real-estate startup NoBroker

Falcon Edge Capital raises USD 300 million India-focused fund

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