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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: Pi-xcels raises USD 2.7 million, Vynn Capital backs MediSun Energy, Gobi Partners teams up with Cross Capital, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Pi-xcels raises USD 2.7 million, Vynn Capital backs MediSun Energy, Gobi Partners teams up with Cross Capital, and more

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Creative

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

Nintendo’s new Pokemon mobile game blends nostalgia with a tried-and-true format, but its long-term success is far from guaranteed.

Pokemon TCG Pocket starts strong, but can Nintendo keep the cards in play? | KrASIA

Pokemon TCG Pocket starts strong, but can Nintendo keep the cards in play?

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

China Tech

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics manufacturer, headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The company was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former People's Liberation Army engineer.

Huawei

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

Huawei is gearing up to launch at least ten new vehicle models next year, targeting the high-end automotive market.

Aito M8 to headline Huawei’s 2025 automotive lineup | KrASIA

Aito M8 to headline Huawei’s 2025 automotive lineup

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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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

KrASIA | Fintech Archives

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

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

The move helps to close the “last-mile gap in Singapore’s e-payments journey,” said MAS managing director Ravi Menon.

Non-bank e-wallets in Singapore to get access to PayNow and FAST | KrASIA

Non-bank e-wallets in Singapore to get access to PayNow and FAST

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Kuaishou (Chinese: 快手) is a platform for recording with millions of original fresh videos everyday.

Kuaishou

E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. 

E-Commerce

Live Streaming

Kuaishou users bought goods worth USD 16.56 billion between January and June while watching short videos or livestreams.

Kuaishou acquires payment license amid booming e-commerce and livestreaming | KrASIA

Kuaishou acquires payment license amid booming e-commerce and livestreaming

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Asia's Innovation Resource Platform

The fifth installment of AIRP (Asia’s Innovation Resource Platform) saw Grab Financial Group discuss AI-Empowered Credit Technologies and SME Lending.

AIRP Exchange Series 5: Grab Financial Group seeks overseas fintech partners in China | KrASIA

AIRP Exchange Series 5: Grab Financial Group seeks overseas fintech partners in China

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AIRP

Deputy CEO Kredivo explained USD 100 million credit line financing.

Lending

Kredivo plans to serve more than 10 million financially underserved customers in Indonesia in the next few years.

Indonesian Kredivo closes its largest credit line, plans to tap healthcare and student loans | KrASIA

Indonesian Kredivo closes its largest credit line, plans to tap healthcare and student loans

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

Alibaba

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. 

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Health Tech

Retail

China is willing to work with other countries to seize the historical opportunities of the information revolution: President Xi.

Evolving regulations improve growth and sustainable development, Alibaba CEO says | KrASIA

Evolving regulations improve growth and sustainable development, Alibaba CEO says

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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Gojek is a transportation network company and logistics startup company based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Gojek

An on-demand service platform connects waiting-time-sensitive customers with independent service providers.

On-Demand Services

Gojek is doubling down on its financial business, which now contributes the most to the firm's revenue.

What's behind Gojek’s management reshuffle? | KrASIA

What&#8217;s behind Gojek’s management reshuffle?

E-payment to have more market share than Visa and Mastercard

Q&amp;A

As more streamlined payment methods emerge in the region, better digital payment services will be developed, Aung Kyaw Moe says.

'E-payment solutions might have more market share than Visa and MasterCard': Q&amp;A with 2C2P founder Aung Kyaw Moe | KrASIA

&#8216;E-payment solutions might have more market share than Visa and MasterCard&#8217;: Q&amp;A with 2C2P founder Aung Kyaw Moe

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Stephanie Li

Mutual funds only take 10% of Thailand’s THB 44 trillion (USD 1.5 trillion) capital market.

Lufax spinoff and Thailand’s KBank launch wealth management platform | KrASIA

Lufax spinoff and Thailand’s KBank launch wealth management platform

A blockchain, originally block chain, is a growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data.

Blockchain

Singapore-based Aqilliz is using distributed ledger technology for programmatic advertising.

Confronted with privacy issues, advertising firms are exploring decentralized solutions | KrASIA

Confronted with privacy issues, advertising firms are exploring decentralized solutions

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