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Private Equity

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

In an uncommon VC move, HongShan teams up with Li-Ning to drive the sportswear brand’s international growth.

HongShan and Li-Ning form rare joint venture to fuel global expansion | KrASIA

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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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Merger &amp; Acquisition

Indonesia

Malaysia

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: Finfra secures USD 2.5 million, Gobi Partners invests in DCAP through GDIV fund, HSBC backs BuzzAR in MENA expansion, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Finfra secures USD 2.5 million, Gobi Partners invests in DCAP through GDIV fund, HSBC backs BuzzAR in MENA expansion, and more

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KrASIA Writers

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

China Tech

Miniso

Miniso’s Top Toy brand launches in Bangkok, signaling broader Southeast Asia ambitions.

Top Toy targets Southeast Asia with first store in Thailand, expanding Miniso’s footprint | KrASIA

Top Toy targets Southeast Asia with first store in Thailand, expanding Miniso’s footprint

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.

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Deep Tech

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

Alibaba

It's the first chip of its kind developed by an internet company.

Alibaba launches its first AI chip, the Hanguang 800 | KrASIA

Alibaba launches its first AI chip, the Hanguang 800

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Song Jingli

Applied AI startups and companies in Vietnam are late to the game, but they're catching up.

Will Vietnamese companies be sidelined in the AI race? | KrASIA

Will Vietnamese companies be sidelined in the AI race?

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Thu Huong Le

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 move aims to pressure defaulters but doubts are being raised over privacy violation.

Scholar questions Chinese court's legitimacy in bombarding defaulters' WeChat friends | KrASIA

Scholar questions Chinese court&#8217;s legitimacy in bombarding defaulters&#8217; WeChat friends

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

Xiaomi

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

Subsidies and slashed prices are driving user adoption of smart speakers, but what’s next?

Smart speakers: A marathon of uncertainty in China | KrASIA

Smart speakers: A marathon of uncertainty in China

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Luna Lin

5G is a commonly used term for certain advanced wireless systems. Industry association 3GPP defines any system using "5G NR" software as "5G", a definition that came into general use by late 2018. 

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.

Ping An is looking at disease prevention, especially illnesses that are contagious like flu or lifestyle-related, such as heart disease or diabetes.

Reducing contagion - Ping An’s AI team can now predict flu outbreaks with 90% accuracy | KrASIA

Reducing contagion &#8211; Ping An’s AI team can now predict flu outbreaks with 90% accuracy

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SCMP

The round was led by Temasek-linked Pavilion Capital and China-based VC Gaorong Capital.

Singapore-based Advance.ai raises USD 80 million for regional expansion | KrASIA

Singapore-based Advance.ai raises USD 80 million for regional expansion

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Zhixin Tan

Centurium Capital, major investor behind Luckin Coffee, and Princeville Capital, once backer of Alibaba, Baidu, Xiaomi, and Facebook, led this round.

Chinese AI chipmaker Iluvatar CoreX raises several hundred million RMB in Series B round | KrASIA

Chinese AI chipmaker Iluvatar CoreX raises several hundred million RMB in Series B round

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

Chinese automaker SAIC Motor is the main backer.

Chinese autonomous driving sensor developer CalmCar raises USD 14 million | KrASIA

Chinese autonomous driving sensor developer CalmCar raises USD 14 million

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

A sign of Tencent's ambition in the IoT sector.

AI

Alibaba launches its first AI chip, the Hanguang 800

Will Vietnamese companies be sidelined in the AI race?

Scholar questions Chinese court’s legitimacy in bombarding defaulters’ WeChat friends