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Grab, a Southeast Asian superapp, provides ride-hailing, food delivery, and mobile payments, connecting millions to on-demand services.

Grab

Ovo, an Indonesian e-wallet, enables digital payments, money transfers, and loyalty rewards for everyday transactions.

Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem is a melting pot of startups and businesses of all sizes, all vying for rapid growth.

Southeast Asia

How does finance become frictionless? Examine digital banking, payment innovation, and lending platforms redefining financial access.

How do markets shape wealth creation? Study portfolio diversification, asset classes, and strategies balancing growth and risk.

Investment

What streamlines global commerce? Examine digital wallets, cross-border remittances, and instant settlement technologies.

Payments

Indonesia

Grab takes stake in Indonesian investment platform Bareksa. Bareksa will gain access to Grab’s users and offer mutual fund investments.

Grab takes stake in Indonesian investment platform Bareksa, deepens Ovo integration

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Gojek, an Indonesian superapp, covers on-demand rides, food delivery, and financial services, enriching daily urban life.

Gojek

What happens when banking goes virtual? Study no-branch platforms, biometric authentication, and seamless financial services.

Digital Banks

GoPay users can open bank accounts on Gojek's app with Jago integration. Gojek is the first super app to launch this service in Indonesia.

GoPay users can open bank accounts on Gojek's app with Jago integration

GoPay users can open bank accounts on Gojek&#8217;s app with Jago integration

How do trustless ledgers transform industries? Investigate decentralized databases, smart contracts, and infrastructure powering secure transactions.

Blockchain

How do ideas shape industries? Learn how content, design, and digital artistry influence branding, marketing, and cultural impact.

Creative

How does interactive entertainment evolve? Assess gaming ecosystems, esports growth, and technology enhancing virtual play.

Gaming

What defines fully immersive realms? Uncover virtual environments, user-generated content, and monetization models shaping the metaverse.

Metaverse

Philippines

Avocado Guild raises USD 18 million to transform into decentralized autonomous organization. The project has a scholarship program with 7,000 members.

Avocado Guild raises USD 18 million to transform into decentralized autonomous organization

Where do digital assets find value? Consider market volatility, decentralized exchanges, and blockchain protocols shaping crypto economies.

Cryptocurrencies

How Indonesia is embracing blockchain projects beyond crypto trading. BeKind, Hara, TokoMall, and Paras are examples of blockchain tech in other sectors.

Indonesia is embracing blockchain projects beyond crypto trading

Islamic scholars in Indonesia issue fatwa against cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies carry elements of speculation and are not permissible in Islam.

Indonesian blockchain evangelists see rosy future despite fatwa against cryptocurrencies

Sea Group operates digital entertainment (Garena), e-commerce (Shopee), and fintech (SeaMoney) platforms across Southeast Asia.

Sea Group

Shopee, a Southeast Asian online marketplace, features interactive shopping, flash deals, and localized payment options.

Shopee

What sets the bar for convenience? Examine on-demand platforms, subscription models, and personalization transforming consumer expectations.

Consumer Economy

How do clicks replace aisles? Explore global marketplaces, payment solutions, and technology accelerating online retail’s growth.

E-commerce

Malaysia

Singapore

Thailand

Vietnam

Sea Group's net losses widen even though revenues rose to USD 2.7 billion in Q3 2021. Sea Group's shares dropped 3.8% at market closure.

Sea Group's net losses widen even though revenues rose to USD 2.7 billion in Q3 2021

Sea Group&#8217;s net losses widen even though revenues rose to USD 2.7 billion in Q3 2021

How are digital assets protected? Analyze threat detection, encryption standards, and cybersecurity solutions safeguarding data.

Cybersecurity

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

Enterprise Services

Q&amp;A

5 thoughts on digital identity solutions from Privy CEO Marshall Pribadi. Privy raised a USD 17.5 million Series B in October.

5 thoughts on digital identity solutions from Privy CEO Marshall Pribadi

How does technology feed the planet? Explore precision farming, digital supply chains, and sustainability efforts shaping modern agriculture.

Agriculture

What lies beyond familiar frontiers? Investigate emerging tech—like quantum computing and AI—transforming traditional sectors.

Deep Tech

Singapore agritech startup Glife raises USD 8 million Series A to expand in Malaysia and Indonesia. This round brings Glife's total funding to USD 10 million.  

Singapore agritech startup Glife raises USD 8 million Series A to expand in Malaysia and Indonesia

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Stephanie Li

How do stores adapt to digital shifts? Explore e-commerce integration, inventory analytics, and omnichannel strategies for modern shoppers.

Retail

Indonesia's Ula snags additional USD 23.1 million in extended Series B round. This round brings Ula’s total Series B investment to USD 110 million.

Indonesia's Ula snags additional USD 23.1 million in extended Series B round

Indonesia&#8217;s Ula snags additional USD 23.1 million in extended Series B round

China

Some cities have suspended programs earlier than expected.

China races to calm worries over end to USD 42 billion consumer subsidies

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

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Baidu leads Chinese search engines, voice assistants, autonomous driving research, and AI platforms connecting users with information and services.

China’s tech ecosystem serves as a driving force behind the world’s second largest economy, influencing global digital markets.

Explore East Asia’s thriving tech hubs, global electronics producers, and fast-evolving digital platforms shaping cross-border innovation.

East Asia

What guides machine-led insights? Uncover AI applications, language models, and decision-making systems transforming sectors worldwide.

Artificial Intelligence

Its new search interface is part chatbot, part creative tool, and part concierge, but whether users will embrace it at scale remains an open question.

Baidu reimagines search as the race to build the first AI superapp continues

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network, delivering high-quality content focused on China’s innovation and new economy trends since 2010. With its extensive traffic and network, 36Kr has built a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities to provide insights into China’s technology landscape.

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What shapes modern healthcare and agriculture? Examine biotech startups, gene editing, and drug discovery unlocking biological potential.

Biotechnology

Hong Kong

The Hong Kong-listed firm is advancing its pipeline using an mRNA system it says can compete with the industry’s best.

Everest Medicines targets global expansion with proprietary, AI-driven mRNA platform

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T. K. Lin

KrASIA tracks China’s tech and business stories—alongside key developments across the broader Asia Pacific region.