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Angel Investing

Investment

Merger &amp; Acquisition

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

Europe

Singapore

Vietnam

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

Deals in brief: Earth VC backs UK-based Sparxell, Grab’s acquisition of Trans-cab falls through, five China deals, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Earth VC backs UK-based Sparxell, Grab’s acquisition of Trans-cab falls through, five China deals, and more

Spotlighting Asia&#039;s next wave of innovations.

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KrASIA Writers

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

China Tech

Li Auto

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

Tang Jing, manager of Li Auto’s flagship product line, asserts that the Chinese automaker stays competitive by prioritizing user value.

Is Li Auto’s commitment to maximizing user value its moat? | KrASIA

Is Li Auto’s commitment to maximizing user value its moat?

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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36Kr English

Young entrepreneurs are using arcade games to grab low-rent opportunities.

Hong Kong's rise of the claw machines reflects property fall | KrASIA

Hong Kong&#8217;s rise of the claw machines reflects property fall

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

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Nikkei Asia

Deep Tech

KrASIA | Deep Tech Archives

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.

Facial Recognition

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

airp

Asia's Innovation Resource Platform

The fourth installment of AIRP (Asia’s Innovation Resource Platform) contained a fruitful discussion between Vulcan AI and up-and-coming players in China’s tech ecosystem.

AIRP Exchange Series 4: Vulcan AI seeks foreign partners in the machine vision technology industry | KrASIA

AIRP Exchange Series 4: Vulcan AI seeks foreign partners in the machine vision technology industry

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AIRP

Japan, Korea, and the West

MENA

Creative

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

Voca.ai has built a human-friendly agent designed to reduce the size and cost of call centers.

Snap to acquire Israeli voice assistant startup Voca.ai for USD 70 million | KrASIA

Snap to acquire Israeli voice assistant startup Voca.ai for USD 70 million

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NoCamels

A number of Peregrine’s current portfolio companies have already pivoted to use their technologies to combat the coronavirus.

Peregrine Ventures launches USD 300 million fund for life sciences startups | KrASIA

Peregrine Ventures launches USD 300 million fund for life sciences startups

Space industry refers to economic activities related to manufacturing components that go into Earth's orbit or beyond, delivering them to those regions, and related services. 

Space Tech

The satellite is undergoing pre-flight testing at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, after which it will be sent to the United States to hitch a ride to space in early 2021.

Tel Aviv University to launch research satellite into space | KrASIA

Tel Aviv University to launch research satellite into space

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Drones

DroneCult is doing inspections, progress reports, mapping, spraying and crop management for agriculture, and more.

These Malaysians start a versatile dronetech business, break even within months | KrASIA

These Malaysians start a versatile dronetech business, break even within months

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Vulcan Post

Yitu Technology H1 2020 net loss: USD 190 million

China's cash-burning AI companies have encountered difficulties with public fundraising due to blacklisting by the US government.

KEY STAT | US-blacklisted AI company Yitu files for Shanghai IPO | KrASIA

KEY STAT | US-blacklisted AI company Yitu files for Shanghai IPO

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Julianna Wu

KrASIA spoke with SpaceDC CEO Darren Hawkins about his vision for Indonesia's cloud and data center ecosystem.

GIC-backed SpaceDC opens new data center in Indonesia | KrASIA

GIC-backed SpaceDC opens new data center in Indonesia

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Ursula Florene

Robotics

More than a dozen robot outlets are in the pipeline at leading airports, malls, hotels, and co-working spaces across Asia.

A Singaporean startup runs the world's first robotics café | KrASIA

A Singaporean startup runs the world&#8217;s first robotics café

Oppo is a Chinese consumer electronics and mobile communications company headquartered in Dongguan, China, known for its smartphones, Blu-ray players and other electronic devices.

OPPO

Smartphones

Problems with the new mandatory IMEI registration system have caused smartphone makers to halt production and sales of new devices.