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Temasek Holdings Private Limited is a Singaporean holding company owned by the Government of Singapore.

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Angel Investing

Investment

Merger &amp; Acquisition

Private Equity

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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Singapore

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

Deals in brief: Xefco, Thrixen, and Salmon secure funding, Temasek invests in US-based Blaize, ten China and India deals, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Xefco, Thrixen, and Salmon secure funding, Temasek invests in US-based Blaize, ten China and India deals, and more

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

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Marvin Goh

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

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

Transportation

Electric vehicle

Weaker earnings spotlight the state players' overreliance on the likes of Nissan and Honda

China's foreign automotive joint ventures lose luster under EV onslaught | KrASIA

China&#8217;s foreign automotive joint ventures lose luster under EV onslaught

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

Alibaba

Taobao

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

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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

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

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

Tencent’s latest update to WeChat Pay targets an improved mobile payment experience for foreign visitors to China. How does it compare to Alipay?

Tencent updates WeChat Pay to facilitate easier payments for foreign visitors | KrASIA

Tencent updates WeChat Pay to facilitate easier payments for foreign visitors

KrASIA | Fintech Archives

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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eMonkey is one of the 32 e-wallets that have received licenses from the State Bank of Vietnam.

Ant Financial has reportedly acquired a stake in Vietnamese e-wallet eMonkey | KrASIA

Ant Financial has reportedly acquired a stake in Vietnamese e-wallet eMonkey

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Thu Huong Le

Tokopedia is an Indonesian technology company, sometimes referred to as a unicorn. It was founded in 2009 by William Tanuwijaya and his Bestfriends from Harvard University, Michael Alexander.

Tokopedia

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

E-Commerce

The new feature can offer financing to around 350,000 Tokopedia offline agents with small kiosks.

Fintech firm Modalku partners with Tokopedia to provide financing facility to offline partners | KrASIA

Fintech firm Modalku partners with Tokopedia to provide financing facility to offline partners

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Cindy Silviana

Lending is one of OVO's main target in 2020.

OVO introduces SME-focused financing platform DanaTara | KrASIA

OVO introduces SME-focused financing platform DanaTara

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Khamila Mulia

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

India Tech

Lending

The serial entrepreneur is streamlining banking for India's SMEs.

Mabel Chacko started Asia's first neobank for small businesses: Women in Tech | KrASIA

Mabel Chacko started Asia&#8217;s first neobank for small businesses: Women in Tech

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

Alibaba’s Alipay is among the investors.

Paytm secures USD 660 million in new funding round | KrASIA

Paytm secures USD 660 million in new funding round

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

Gojek

Gojek needs to acquire Moka, so the ride-hailing platform can expand and monetize more from its merchants.

Gojek to acquire point-of-sale software provider Moka | KrASIA

Gojek to acquire point-of-sale software provider Moka

The fresh cash will be used to expand the company's virtual banking service and financial technologies.

Alibaba-backed Chinese fintech firm WeLab closes USD 156 million Series C round | KrASIA

Alibaba-backed Chinese fintech firm WeLab closes USD 156 million Series C round

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Song Jingli

Next year, the firm plans to expand its lending services in an effort to become a "super lending" platform.

Indonesia-based multifinance startup Akulaku is eyeing offshore financing | KrASIA

Indonesia-based multifinance startup Akulaku is eyeing offshore financing

In September this year, PhonePe was valued at USD 7 billion by Morgan Stanley.

Payment company PhonePe raises USD 88 million from its parent Flipkart | KrASIA

Payment company PhonePe raises USD 88 million from its parent Flipkart

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