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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. 

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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.

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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

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

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India

Tiger Global's appetite for growth-to-late stage deals—the flavor of the season—is the biggest driver bumping the valuation of late-stage startups.

Indian startups bask in high valuation as investors remain upbeat on massive digital adoption | KrASIA

Indian startups bask in high valuation as investors remain upbeat on massive digital adoption

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

China Venture Roundup

China Venture Roundup Volume 30 covers China’s investment activity from April 19 -25, 2021.

Zuoyebang—China's largest Edtech unicorn—considers US IPO | China Venture Roundup Volume 33 | KrASIA

Zuoyebang—China&#8217;s largest Edtech unicorn—considers US IPO | China Venture Roundup Volume 33

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KrASIA Venture Roundup

HKEX's net profit in Q1, 2021: USD 490 million

Kuaishou (Chinese: 快手) is a platform for recording with millions of original fresh videos everyday.

Kuaishou

The stock connect programs with Shanghai and Shenzhen recorded historical highs in terms of revenue. Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing (HKEX: 388) reported its best-ever results for the first quarter of this year. Revenue reached USD 760 million, up 49% year-on-year, generating a net profit of USD 490 million for the quarter, up 70%.

KEY STAT | HKEX posts best-ever Q1 results on the back of strong tech IPO pipeline | KrASIA

KEY STAT | HKEX posts best-ever Q1 results on the back of strong tech IPO pipeline

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Julianna Wu

Drones

The firm aims to benefit from China's USD 30.4 billion smart agriculture market.

Chinese agricultural drone maker EAVision bags funding from Temasek, CITIC | KrASIA

Chinese agricultural drone maker EAVision bags funding from Temasek, CITIC

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Ursula Florene

China Venture Roundup Volume 30 covers China’s investment activity from April 12 -18, 2021.

Meet Youzan — the backbone of China's e-commerce industry | China Venture Roundup Volume 32 | KrASIA

Meet Youzan — the backbone of China&#8217;s e-commerce industry | China Venture Roundup Volume 32

Dream11

Founded in 2008, Dream11 was the first Indian gaming startup to become a unicorn in 2019.

Fantasy sports platform Dream11 mulls to go public in US next year | KrASIA

Fantasy sports platform Dream11 mulls to go public in US next year

Tencent's total investment deals, Q1 2021: 103

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.

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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.

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Tencent's investment arm has been the most active VC in China in the first quarter. Tencent Investment was the most active Chinese venture capital firm in the first quarter with 103 deals internationally, spending more than RMB 60 billion (USD 9.2 billion), according to the Qichacha data aggregator. Around 30% of its targets were game developers, suggesting that Tencent invested into a game company every three days in Q1.

KEY STAT | Tencent is investing in a video game company every three days | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Tencent is investing in a video game company every three days

Chinaccelerator revealed the 12 startups that will form its latest cohort.

Chinaccelerator's 8x8 Global Speaker Series provides clues for young entrepreneurs | KrASIA

Chinaccelerator&#8217;s 8&#215;8 Global Speaker Series provides clues for young entrepreneurs

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Stephanie Li

While there has been an incremental interest from Indian celebrities to park their money in fast growing tech startups, a few of them have even set up their own fund to back early-stage companies.

Indian startups feature Bollywood stardom on their cap table | KrASIA

Indian startups feature Bollywood stardom on their cap table

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