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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.

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

Deals in brief: Habitto raises Series A funding, OpenAI tender offer to boost SoftBank’s stake, Deutsche Bank backs Partior, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Habitto raises Series A funding, OpenAI tender offer to boost SoftBank’s stake, Deutsche Bank backs Partior, and more

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

China Tech

Serta aims to solve one of the final challenges of smart living by reimagining what a bed can do.

For Serta, the new era of smart living begins with sleep | KrASIA

For Serta, the new era of smart living begins with sleep

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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Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Google

Japan, Korea, and the West

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.

Deep Tech

Artificial intelligence

To keep users engaged, AI tools may need to be as simple and intuitive as they are powerful.

What NotebookLM’s success says about the future of AI tools | KrASIA

What NotebookLM’s success says about the future of AI tools

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

Paymob's founders. Courtesy of Paymob via MENAbytes.

Cairo-based payment startup Paymob has raised USD 3.5 million investment in a round led by Dubai’s Global Ventures and Dutch Entrepreneurial Development

Egyptian payments startup Paymob raises USD 3.5 million to fuel its regional expansion | KrASIA

Egyptian payments startup Paymob raises USD 3.5 million to fuel its regional expansion

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MENAbytes

OYO Rooms, commonly known as OYO, is India's largest hospitality company, consisting mainly of budget hotels. It was founded in 2013 by Ritesh Agarwal and has since grown to over 12,000 hotels in 337 cities in India, Malaysia, UAE, Nepal, China and Indonesia.

SoftBank Group Corp. is a holding company that engages in the management of its group companies which provides information technology and telecommunication services. It operates through the following segments: Mobile Communications, Sprint, Fixed-line Telecommunications, Internet, and Others. 

Softbank

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Zomato

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

E-Commerce

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

Electric Vehicles

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 total value of all known unicorns based in India is USD 73.2 billion, while the value of unicorns founded overseas by Indians sums up to USD 99.6  billion.

Indian entrepreneurs set up a total of 61 unicorns globally | KrASIA

Indian entrepreneurs set up a total of 61 unicorns globally

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Moulishree Srivastava

By 2025, China’s online mutual aid industry is expected to reach 450 million users, or nearly 32% of the country’s population, three times the number of current users.

Baidu shuts mutual aid platform after disappointing growth | KrASIA

Baidu shuts mutual aid platform after disappointing growth

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Gozde Celik

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

With shipping giant CMA CGM, Incomlend is digitizing bills of lading, an essential document in trade finance.

Incomlend raises USD 20 million in Series A round led by Sequoia, plans further partnerships: CEO | KrASIA

Incomlend raises USD 20 million in Series A round led by Sequoia, plans further partnerships: CEO

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Georg Ackermann

Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing has already entered into a ‘strategic partnership’ with the central bank over the sovereign digital currency plan.

China’s digital currency edges closer with large-scale test by four state-owned banks | KrASIA

China’s digital currency edges closer with large-scale test by four state-owned banks

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South China Morning Post

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

Xiaomi

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.

India banned 47 more Chinese apps including Xiaomi's Mi Browser Pro and Baidu Search.

Indian government's ban on Xiaomi's apps may hurt its long-term revenue strategy | KrASIA

Indian government&#8217;s ban on Xiaomi&#8217;s apps may hurt its long-term revenue strategy

Indonesia has the third-largest unbanked population in the world after China and India, much of which is concentrated in rural communities.

Serving the unbanked: Driving financial inclusion in Indonesia's rural areas (Part 2 of 2) | KrASIA

Serving the unbanked: Driving financial inclusion in Indonesia&#8217;s rural areas (Part 2 of 2)

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Khamila Mulia

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

Startupbootcamp, which already operates Dubai’s Smart City Accelerator and Qatar’s SportTech Accelerator, establishes headquarters in Dubai.

Tunisia legalizes crowdfunding, Beehive expands to Saudi Arabia, and funding news | The Middle East Weekly Roundup | KrASIA

Tunisia legalizes crowdfunding, Beehive expands to Saudi Arabia, and funding news | The Middle East Weekly Roundup

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Qadisha Group

fintech in Singapore

Research

The Asian Institute of Digital Finance will offer a master’s program and train PhDs with a background in digital finance.

NUS to launch research institute, "Fincubator" to groom next generation of fintech leaders | KrASIA

NUS to launch research institute, &#8220;Fincubator&#8221; to groom next generation of fintech leaders

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