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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.

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Tang Jing, manager of Li Auto’s flagship product line, asserts that the Chinese automaker stays competitive by prioritizing user value.

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Is Li Auto’s commitment to maximizing user value its moat?

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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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

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

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

Transportation

The rise of Baidu's Apollo Go has the industry reflecting on the impact of autonomous driving on ride-hailing.

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Does autonomous driving solve the ride-hailing industry’s woes, or make them worse?

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

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xiaomi

Despite skepticism, Xiaomi defied odds to make its first car, the SU7, a success. CEO Lei Jun reveals the key to this achievement in his annual address.

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun says passion is key to building a great car | KrASIA

Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun says passion is key to building a great car

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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Transitioning from the lab to market is key for humanoid robots, with automaking identified as the most viable path to commercialization.

Lab to market: Humanoid robots poised for debut in automaking industry | KrASIA

Lab to market: Humanoid robots poised for debut in automaking industry

ByteDance or Beijing ByteDance Technology Co Ltd. is a Chinese Internet technology company operating several machine learning-enabled content platforms, headquartered in Beijing. It was founded by Zhang Yiming in 2012. ByteDance's core product, Toutiao, is a popular content platform in China.

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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.

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With GMV skyrocketing to USD 16.3 billion in 2023, TikTok Shop is shaking up Southeast Asia’s e-commerce market, giving Shopee and Lazada a run for their money.

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TikTok Shop’s GMV soared in 2023, putting Shopee and Lazada on edge

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Chinese automaker Li Auto is diving into end-to-end autonomous driving, unveiling the specifics of its new architecture.

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Li Auto advances in self-driving tech, aiming to close the gap with Tesla’s FSD

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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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Mihoyo

Mihoyo, the force behind Genshin Impact, is broadening its horizons outside gaming by venturing into new investment frontiers.

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Mihoyo takes bold leap into investments to diversify beyond gaming

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Artificial intelligence

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SenseTime co-founder Wang Xiaogang said the company must win the automotive AI battle, which now centers on end-to-end large model deployment.

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