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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

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

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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

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Will there be one e-money platform that outruns the herd?

Crack open every wallet: Indonesia’s crowded fintech sector is about to change | KrASIA

Crack open every wallet: Indonesia’s crowded fintech sector is about to change

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Khamila Mulia

Four years in fintech and six million users later, Akulaku aims for a piece of Southeast Asia’s digital banking pie.

Fintech startup Akulaku advances on digital banking in Southeast Asia | KrASIA

Fintech startup Akulaku advances on digital banking in Southeast Asia

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Hui Tse Gan

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

E-Commerce

Edtech

GroupM predicts overall advertising spend to drop by 25% in 2020.

Reports from Deloitte, Visa, and GroupM, as well as a London startup with Dubai-based executive team | The Middle East Weekly Roundup | KrASIA

Reports from Deloitte, Visa, and GroupM, as well as a London startup with Dubai-based executive team | The Middle East Weekly Roundup

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Sony

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

Hardware, in the context of technology, refers to the physical elements that make up a computer or electronic system and everything else involved that is physically tangible. 

Hardware

CEO Yoshida faces test of sustaining share rally with post-pandemic vision.

Sony hopes to shed 'conglomerate discount' under new name | KrASIA

Sony hopes to shed &#8216;conglomerate discount&#8217; under new name

As part of 36Kr’s ongoing partnership with Nikkei, you can read selected content from Nikkei Asia on KrASIA.

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With four unicorns (Tokopedia, Bukalapak, Go-Jek, and Traveloka), Indonesia is a highly sought out growing tech hub in Southeast Asia.

Startup Country Guide: Indonesia |

Startup Country Guide: Indonesia

Startup Universal is a content website covering emerging startup ecosystems across Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. We work directly with top local investors &amp; founders in emerging ecosystems to develop global startup insights in the form of country guides, database of local resources, and curated news articles. You can think of Startup Universal as the Wikipedia of global startup ecosystems--a centralized and foundational information source.

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Q&amp;A

The Bengaluru incubator has mentored four startups so far, and plans to add six more by 2021.

'We want to make Southeast Asia accessible to our startups': Q&A with Tanul Mishra of Afthonia Lab | KrASIA

&#8216;We want to make Southeast Asia accessible to our startups&#8217;: Q&#038;A with Tanul Mishra of Afthonia Lab

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Avanish Tiwary

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

Bukalapak

Microsoft

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

Enterprise Services

Lending

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

Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. 

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36Kr Chuhai and KrASIA successfully organized Globiz, a webinar aimed at shedding light on doing business in Southeast Asia.

Globiz｜Southeast Asia Market Expansion- Event Recap | KrASIA

Globiz｜Southeast Asia Market Expansion- Event Recap

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Lin Lingyi

Indian digital lending market was USD 75 billion in size in 2018.

Indian central bank tightens regulations for digital lending startups | KrASIA

Indian central bank tightens regulations for digital lending startups

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

Wave Money will focus on an app started in 2018 for paying bills and making online purchases, tapping the expertise of Alipay. Photo by Yuichi Nitta for Nikkei Asian Review.

USD 73 million deal brings Alipay operator on board to expand app services.