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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

As China's convenience stores charge ahead with high-tech implementation, Southeast Asian players are still finding their own balance.

Southeast Asia’s convenience stores play catch-up with China on digitization | KrASIA

Southeast Asia’s convenience stores play catch-up with China on digitization

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Lin Lingyi and Ursula Florene

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. 

Ant Group

ByteDance or Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd. is a Chinese Internet technology company operating several machine learning-enabled content platforms, headquartered in Beijing. It was founded by Zhang Yiming in 2012. ByteDance's core product, Toutiao, is a popular content platform in China.

Bytedance

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

One can borrow up to RMB 500 (USD 71) with a repayment schedule of seven days,

CHINA BRIEF | TikTok owner ByteDance now offering micro loans | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | TikTok owner ByteDance now offering micro loans

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Song Jingli

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

Alibaba

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

Company controlled by Alibaba founder Jack Ma plans dual listing this year.

Ant's IPO plan: What to know about China's USD 200 billion fintech king | KrASIA

Ant&#8217;s IPO plan: What to know about China&#8217;s USD 200 billion fintech king

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

He’s a first-time startup founder that made it through the Antler program with a goal of creating a tech startup.

Putting the 'venture' in adventure: A Silicon Valley native pursuing his startup dream in Singapore | KrASIA

Putting the &#8216;venture&#8217; in adventure: A Silicon Valley native pursuing his startup dream in Singapore

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Derek Wong

Based on a report by Boston Consulting Group, investments in Singapore-based fintech firms spiked year-on-year to SGD 650 million.

A new portal lists available grants and over 500 fintech jobs in Singapore | KrASIA

A new portal lists available grants and over 500 fintech jobs in Singapore

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Vulcan Post

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

E-Commerce

Ant is seeking a valuation of more than USD 200 billion, according to a Reuters report.

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba affiliate Ant Group starts dual-listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong | KrASIA

CHINA BRIEF | Alibaba affiliate Ant Group starts dual-listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong

The UAE announces government changes to empower digital transformation, creates new Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology.

Hill & Knowlton Europe now managed out of Dubai, e-sports recognized by the Arab Olympic Committee, and deal news | The Middle East Weekly Roundup | KrASIA

Hill &#038; Knowlton Europe now managed out of Dubai, e-sports recognized by the Arab Olympic Committee, and deal news | The Middle East Weekly Roundup

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Qadisha Group

Fatura's team. Courtesy of Fatura via MENAbytes.

Light on assets, Fatura consolidates orders for existing wholesalers, and counts on them to ship their own products.

Egypt’s Fatura raises seven-figure seed to provide inventory and lending solutions to grocery stores | KrASIA

Egypt’s Fatura raises seven-figure seed to provide inventory and lending solutions to grocery stores

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MENAbytes

Didi Chuxing Technology Co., formerly Didi Kuaidi, is a Chinese transportation network company, artificial intelligence and autonomous technology conglomerate.

Didi

Videos

Over 150 million users have joined mutual aid programs as of the end of 2019 in China.

Video | Mutual aid platforms, the best alternative to commercial health insurance for millions of Chinese | KrASIA

Video | Mutual aid platforms, the best alternative to commercial health insurance for millions of Chinese

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