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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

Building a coherent narrative of India's rapidly changing tech ecosystem.

India Tech

India

YAP shortens the distance between conventional banks and a segment of customers they have overlooked.

YAP takes fintech products from idea to implementation | Startup Stories | KrASIA

YAP takes fintech products from idea to implementation | Startup Stories

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Avanish Tiwary

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. 

Ant Group

Tencent Holdings Limited is a Chinese multinational investment holding conglomerate whose subsidiaries specialize in various Internet-related services and products, entertainment, artificial intelligence and technology both in China and globally.

Tencent

WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app developed by Tencent. It was first released in 2011, and by 2018 it was one of the world's largest standalone mobile apps by monthly active users, with over 1 billion monthly active users.

Wechat

Social Impact

Alipay and WeChat Pay have almost turned China into a cashless society. The digital yuan might carry it even further.

Will China’s digital yuan pose a threat to the country’s fintech giants? | KrASIA

Will China’s digital yuan pose a threat to the country’s fintech giants?

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Q&amp;A

The firm has presence in the Philippines, Indonesia, and will soon expand into Vietnam.

Oriente wants to boost financial inclusion in Southeast Asia's biggest markets: Q&A with Geoffrey Prentice | KrASIA

Oriente wants to boost financial inclusion in Southeast Asia&#8217;s biggest markets: Q&#038;A with Geoffrey Prentice

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Khamila Mulia

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

Didi

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

On-Demand Services

China’s central bank partners with Didi Chuxing to advance its sovereign digital currency payment program trials.

Didi partners with China’s central bank on digital currency research and development | KrASIA

Didi partners with China’s central bank on digital currency research and development

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South China Morning Post

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

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

E-Commerce

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

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The food industry is booming! Both traditional companies and startups are using technology to transform the dynamics of the food sector.

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Islamic startups are suiting up for the global Sharia market.

10 Halal-focused startups to watch in 2020 | KrASIA

10 Halal-focused startups to watch in 2020

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Lin Lingyi

Fawry currently offers over 250 electronic payment services through its network of over 105,000 service points across 300 cities in Egypt. Courtesy of Fawry via MENAbytes.

As the leading player in Egypt's payments space, Fawry is receiving a lot of interest from investors.

Fawry’s market cap swells to USD 830 million | KrASIA

Fawry’s market cap swells to USD 830 million

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MENAbytes

Hangzhou’s public security bureau said they will be taking action to prevent losses at Weidai and recover stolen funds.

Another scandal brews in China’s P2P lending sector as authorities investigate Hangzhou’s largest microloans provider | KrASIA

Another scandal brews in China’s P2P lending sector as authorities investigate Hangzhou’s largest microloans provider

The Singaporean payment startup raised its Series A funding from Ant Financial-backed BAce Capital, SMDV, and Skystar Capital.

Wallex is helping businesses trade in a more convenient way: Startup Stories | KrASIA

Wallex is helping businesses trade in a more convenient way: Startup Stories

Curv founders Dan Yadlin (left) and Itay Malinger. Photo by Netanel Tobias. Courtesy of Curv via NoCamels.

Security

The company's tX group of crytographers and engineers use keyless technology to develop flexible deployment models for both crypto-native and conventional financial institutions.

Israeli startup Curv raises USD 23 million to secure digital assets for financial institutions | KrASIA

Israeli startup Curv raises USD 23 million to secure digital assets for financial institutions

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