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

Alibaba

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

China Tech

Lazada

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

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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

India

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: Alibaba injects another USD 230 million into Lazada, Arpwood Partners acquires majority stake in Sitara, five China deals, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Alibaba injects another USD 230 million into Lazada, Arpwood Partners acquires majority stake in Sitara, five China deals, and more

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

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Li Auto

NIO (Chinese: 蔚来; pinyin: Wèilái) is a Chinese automobile manufacturer headquartered in Shanghai, specializing in designing and developing electric autonomous vehicles. The company is also involved in the FIA Formula E Championship, the first single-seater, all-electric racing series.

Tesla

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

Xiaomi

Xpeng

Autonomous Vehicles is about self-driving. A self-driving car is also known as a robot car, autonomous car, or driverless car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input.

Autonomous Vehicles

Mobility

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

Transportation

autonomous driving

self-driving

Self-driving cars

There's no standout leader in China's autonomous driving landscape yet, but Tesla's influence has ignited Level 3 ambitions.

The current state of self-driving across China in 2024 | KrASIA

The current state of self-driving across China in 2024

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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Electric Vehicles

Indonesia

Electric vehicle

indonesia

The automakers are planning local productions to crack a market dominated by Japanese players.

China's BYD, Neta eye growth in Indonesia with new EV investments | KrASIA

China&#8217;s BYD, Neta eye growth in Indonesia with new EV investments

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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

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

E-Commerce

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

Ant Financial's Alipay is valued at over USD 150 billion and is now expanding quickly outside of China.

How Alipay is killing cash in China, and wants to take the world stage | KrASIA

How Alipay is killing cash in China, and wants to take the world stage

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Song Jingli and Simone Martin

Lending

Q&amp;A

The limit for an individual to invest has been increased to USD 70,000.

As India increases lending limit, P2P companies hope for more riches to invest | KrASIA

As India increases lending limit, P2P companies hope for more riches to invest

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Avanish Tiwary

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. is a transportation network company based in Singapore. In addition to transportation, the company offers food delivery services via mobile app. It operates in the Southeast Asian countries of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia. 

Grab

Grab aims to make GrabPay a "truly ASEAN wallet."

Grab launches first GrabPay Card in Singapore to further push financial services | KrASIA

Grab launches first GrabPay Card in Singapore to further push financial services

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Thu Huong Le

Currently, the service is present in 10 states which will soon be available pan India.

Xiaomi India strengthens its financial services play with a lending app | KrASIA

Xiaomi India strengthens its financial services play with a lending app

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Moulishree Srivastava

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

Even with a strong backer, China's first digital bank needs to stand more firmly on its own feet.

Tencent-backed WeBank partners with China Mobile fintech division to lure new users | KrASIA

Tencent-backed WeBank partners with China Mobile fintech division to lure new users

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Song Jingli

The feature will officially launch sometime this month, CEO says.

LinkAja to launch PayLater feature in partnership with Kredivo | KrASIA

LinkAja to launch PayLater feature in partnership with Kredivo

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Khamila Mulia

The company plans to take its business and services to nearby Southeast Asian countries.

Indonesia’s Kredivo raises USD 90 million in Series C round | KrASIA

Indonesia’s Kredivo raises USD 90 million in Series C round

OVO will raise funding in 2020, and it will focus on expanding into lending, online investing, and digital insurance services.

Ovo CEO Jason Thompson talks company strategy, investments, and rumors | KrASIA

Ovo CEO Jason Thompson talks company strategy, investments, and rumors

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

Paytm

One97 posted a loss of USD 552.1 million for FY19, up 165.5% from USD 207.9 million reported in FY 2018.