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When do companies invite public investment? Understand listing criteria, underwriter roles, and regulatory steps defining initial offerings.

What fuels startup ecosystems? Review funding rounds, investor strategies, and market insights guiding entrepreneurial growth.

Venture Capital

Indonesia

Malaysia

Philippines

Singapore

Thailand

Vietnam

Smaller companies could turn to local listings, lifting the region's performance.

Southeast Asia's IPOs poised for rebound in 2025, but clouds loom | KrASIA

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Southeast Asia&#8217;s IPOs poised for rebound in 2025, but clouds loom

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

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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

What powers tomorrow’s roads? Explore EV adoption, charging infrastructure, and battery advances sparking the shift toward sustainable transport.

Electric Vehicles

How is the way we move evolving? Explore developments in autonomous transportation, electric vehicles, and more efficient urban transit.

Mobility

How do goods and people flow worldwide? Examine transport networks, logistics innovations, and policies shaping global connectivity.

Transportation

As cold weather continues to reveal performance gaps in electric vehicles, are automakers finding effective solutions?

Winter woes: Why EVs face their toughest test in the cold | KrASIA

Winter woes: Why EVs face their toughest test in the cold

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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What shapes modern healthcare and agriculture? Examine biotech startups, gene editing, and drug discovery unlocking biological potential.

Biotechnology

What lies beyond familiar frontiers? Investigate emerging tech—like quantum computing and AI—transforming traditional sectors.

Deep Tech

How is healthcare going digital? Investigate telemedicine, wearable sensors, and data-driven platforms improving patient experiences.

Health Tech

New treatments like dotinurad provide safer, more effective solutions for millions battling gout and hyperuricemia.

The decade-long wait ends: A breakthrough in gout treatment | KrASIA

The decade-long wait ends: A breakthrough in gout treatment

How does finance become frictionless? Examine digital banking, payment innovation, and lending platforms redefining financial access.

Fintech

Fintech | KrASIA Archives

India’s tech landscape blossoms with e-commerce startups, fintech innovations, and IT services shaping a growing digital consumer base.

What happens when banking goes virtual? Study no-branch platforms, biometric authentication, and seamless financial services.

Digital Banks

Q&amp;A

4 observations on India’s fintech space from Jupiter’s Jitendra Gupta. He wants to offer experience-driven banking to young Indian consumers.

4 observations on India’s fintech space from Jupiter’s Jitendra Gupta | KrASIA

4 observations on India’s fintech space from Jupiter’s Jitendra Gupta

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem is a melting pot of startups and businesses of all sizes, all vying for rapid growth.

Where do digital assets find value? Consider market volatility, decentralized exchanges, and blockchain protocols shaping crypto economies.

Cryptocurrencies

How does credit flow online? Explore digital lending tools, alternative scoring, and services accelerating capital access.

Lending

Polytrade taps crypto liquidity to provide invoice financing. Polytrade leverages blockchain technology to finance MSMEs.

Polytrade taps crypto liquidity to provide invoice financing | KrASIA

Polytrade taps crypto liquidity to provide invoice financing

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Stephanie Li

How fintech providers are digitalizing compliance and custody services. Compliance-as-a-service and custody-as-a-service are two important new services.

Fintech providers are digitalizing compliance and custody services | KrASIA

Fintech providers are digitalizing compliance and custody services

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Headline Asia

Binance Asia acquires minority stake in Singapore-licensed private securities exchange HGX, giving Binance Asia access to a regulated private exchange.

Binance Asia acquires minority stake in Singapore-licensed private securities exchange HGX | KrASIA

Binance Asia acquires minority stake in Singapore-licensed private securities exchange HGX

Hong Kong online platform WeLab to take control of Jakarta bank. Group to invest USD 240 million to buy and upgrade traditional Indonesian lender.

Hong Kong online platform WeLab to take control of Jakarta bank | KrASIA

Hong Kong online platform WeLab to take control of Jakarta bank

Grab, a Southeast Asian superapp, provides ride-hailing, food delivery, and mobile payments, connecting millions to on-demand services.

Grab

How does dinner arrive at your door? Study platform partnerships, last-mile delivery, and culinary trends powering the takeaway economy.

Food Delivery

How do goods cross borders seamlessly? Examine warehousing tech, route optimization, and data analytics building efficient supply chains.

Logistics

How do platforms deliver on immediacy? Analyze ride-hailing, instant deliveries, and gig models meeting consumer needs fast.

On-demand Services

What streamlines global commerce? Examine digital wallets, cross-border remittances, and instant settlement technologies.

Payments

What redefines personal transport? Investigate pricing models, user experience, and new entrants reshaping door-to-door mobility.

Ride-hailing

A detailed look at Grab's ecosystem in Indonesia. Grab has a series of tightknit partnerships with local conglomerates, fintech firms, and other companies.

A detailed look at Grab's ecosystem in Indonesia | KrASIA

A detailed look at Grab&#8217;s ecosystem in Indonesia

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Khamila Mulia

How do policies adjust to a data-rich world? Explore usage-based coverage, automated claims, and analytics guiding risk assessment.

Insurance

Insurtech enablers are transforming the insurance value chain. They provide insurance-as-a-service infrastructure and other services such as data analysis.

Insurtech enablers are transforming the insurance value chain | KrASIA

Insurtech enablers are transforming the insurance value chain

As Laos rolls out welcome mat for crypto mining, big questions remain unanswered. Analysts worry about the the impact of mining on Laos' natural resources.

As Laos rolls out welcome mat for crypto mining, big questions remain unanswered | KrASIA

As Laos rolls out welcome mat for crypto mining, big questions remain unanswered

Grab debuts on Nasdaq, rings opening bell in Singapore. The company ​​raised USD 4.5 billion for the largest US market debut by a Southeast Asian company.