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Nvidia

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

Semiconductors

Industry experts urge calm as tempered demand and strategy shifts drive down Nvidia’s GPU rentals.

Nvidia GPU rentals drop sharply, but experts say no cause for panic | KrASIA

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Nvidia GPU rentals drop sharply, but experts say no cause for panic

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

KrASIA

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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Investment

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

In an uncommon VC move, HongShan teams up with Li-Ning to drive the sportswear brand’s international growth.

HongShan and Li-Ning form rare joint venture to fuel global expansion | KrASIA

HongShan and Li-Ning form rare joint venture to fuel global expansion

Angel Investing

Merger &amp; Acquisition

Indonesia

Malaysia

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: Finfra secures USD 2.5 million, Gobi Partners invests in DCAP through GDIV fund, HSBC backs BuzzAR in MENA expansion, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Finfra secures USD 2.5 million, Gobi Partners invests in DCAP through GDIV fund, HSBC backs BuzzAR in MENA expansion, and more

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KrASIA Writers

KrASIA | Merger &amp; Acquisition Archives

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

India Tech

Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics is the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet requirements of customers or corporations. 

Logistics

India

Spoton is the second acquisition by Delhivery this year. In March, it scooped up Primaseller, a California-based SaaS company providing order management software for omnichannel retailers.

Indian logistics unicorn Delhivery acquires smaller rival Spoton | KrASIA

Indian logistics unicorn Delhivery acquires smaller rival Spoton

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

Edtech

Simplilearn’s early investors Kalaari Capital, Helion Venture Partners, and Mayfield will exit from their investments.

PE firm Blackstone acquires controlling stake in Indian online education startup Simplilearn | KrASIA

PE firm Blackstone acquires controlling stake in Indian online education startup Simplilearn

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Avanish Tiwary

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

The decade-old company has now diversified into a software-as-a-service company.

Indian fintech company Clear acquires B2B payments startup yBanq to expand services | KrASIA

Indian fintech company Clear acquires B2B payments startup yBanq to expand services

Investors

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Q&amp;A

Southeast Asian startups raised a total of USD 8.2 billion in 2020, down 7% from USD 8.79 billion in 2019, with 80% of the exits being mergers or acquisitions.

SPACs will set the benchmark for investor appetite in Southeast Asia, says Golden Gate Ventures' Michael Lints | KrASIA

SPACs will set the benchmark for investor appetite in Southeast Asia, says Golden Gate Ventures&#8217; Michael Lints

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Stephanie Li

PhonePe

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

In May, Walmart-owned PhonePe signed the term sheet to acquire an over 90% stake in Indus OS, to boost its super app dream on the back of the latter's content and app discovery platform.

PhonePe-Indus OS USD 60 million deal in limbo | KrASIA

PhonePe-Indus OS USD 60 million deal in limbo

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

E-Commerce

Live Streaming

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

RedSeer projects the Indian social commerce sector to become a USD 7 billion opportunity by 2025, contributing up to 5% to the total e-commerce market.

Indian adtech unicorn InMobi in talks to acquire social commerce startup Shop101 | KrASIA

Indian adtech unicorn InMobi in talks to acquire social commerce startup Shop101

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 announced today that it will undergo a SPAC merger with Altimeter Growth Corporation (NASDAQ: AGC) that will place a USD 39.6 billion valuation on the Southeast Asian company.

Grab steers into New York for world's largest SPAC merger | KrASIA

Grab steers into New York for world&#8217;s largest SPAC merger

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Ursula Florene

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

Gojek

Sea Group

Shopee

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

Food Delivery

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

On-Demand Services

Ride-hailing encompasses a range of companies and services, including traditional taxis and car services. 

Ride-hailing

A combined entity formed by Gojek and Tokopedia would be valued at more than USD 18 billion, eclipsing Grab's USD 16 billion valuation.

Too big to fail: Are Gojek and Tokopedia about to merge?  | KrASIA

Too big to fail: Are Gojek and Tokopedia about to merge? 

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Khamila Mulia

Southeast Asia's unicorns are considering a merger with a SPAC as option to go public.

Patrick Grove files to raise USD 250 million through blank-check firm | KrASIA

Patrick Grove files to raise USD 250 million through blank-check firm

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Merger & Acquisition