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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: Lenovo’s Leshines gains Saudi backing, Ampd Energy and Ensonic secure funding, Swiggy bags USD 606 million from anchor investors, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Lenovo’s Leshines gains Saudi backing, Ampd Energy and Ensonic secure funding, Swiggy bags USD 606 million from anchor investors, and more

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Amid slowing sales, new CEO Brian Niccol is steering Starbucks back to basics, reviving its “third space” community focus.

With Luckin Coffee on the rise, Starbucks scales back discounts and returns to its roots | KrASIA

With Luckin Coffee on the rise, Starbucks scales back discounts and returns to its roots

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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With innovative approaches and a commitment to cultural and environmental needs, Southeast Asian startups can thrive amid competition and market challenges.

Pioneering innovation: Turning challenges into competitive advantages | KrASIA

Pioneering innovation: Turning challenges into competitive advantages

Michelle Khoo is the leader of the Deloitte Center for The Edge Southeast Asia. With over a decade of experience in advising business and government leaders on long-term strategies, Khoo is passionate about shaping a more sustainable, fairer, and inclusive future in both physical and digital realms. Her work revolves around artificial intelligence, sustainability, metaverse, disruption, and innovation.

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

India Tech

In the last one year startups in India have started offering their employees an opportunity to cash out their ESOP holdings. Singapore-based digital equity management startup Qapita Fintech, said Wednesday it has raised an undisclosed round of funding from East Ventures. The fresh funding will be used to accelerate product development, build clientele, and further strengthen its team in Singapore, India, and Indonesia.

Equity management startup Qapita raises fresh funding from East Ventures for expansion push | KrASIA

Equity management startup Qapita raises fresh funding from East Ventures for expansion push

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

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Hardware, in the context of technology, refers to the physical elements that make up a computer or electronic system and everything else involved that is physically tangible. 

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Beijing-based personal computer vendor Lenovo (HKSE: 0992) said Wednesday that it made USD 17.2 billion in revenue in the third fiscal quarter between October and December, a 22% year-on-year (YoY) increase, setting a new record in its corporate history.

Lenovo reports record quarterly earnings ahead of Shanghai listing | KrASIA

Lenovo reports record quarterly earnings ahead of Shanghai listing

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Online medical healthcare startup MediBuddy said Wednesday it has raised USD 40 million in the last tranche of its Series B funding round led by India Life Sciences Fund III, a private equity fund that invests in healthcare and pharma companies. The funding round also saw participation from new and existing investors including TEAM Fund LP, JAFCO Asia Fund, and ALES Global Japan among others.

Healthtech startup MediBuddy completes Series B funding round | KrASIA

Healthtech startup MediBuddy completes Series B funding round

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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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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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. 

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China's largest short-video platform Douyin on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Tencent for alleged monopolistic behavior, signaling an escalation of the rivalry between the two tech giants.

ByteDance's Douyin sues Tencent, claiming antitrust violations | KrASIA

ByteDance&#8217;s Douyin sues Tencent, claiming antitrust violations

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Internet services were suspended in the Rakhine and Chin states in June 2019, after hostilities broke out between the state military and rebel groups representing the local ethnic population.

Myanmar ends world’s longest internet shutdown in the Rakhine and Chin states | KrASIA

Myanmar ends world’s longest internet shutdown in the Rakhine and Chin states

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

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Singapore-based healthtech firm Bot MD announced it has closed a USD 5 million Series A round led by Monk’s Hill Ventures, a VC firm with a focus on early-stage startups in Southeast Asia. Existing and new investors include SeaX Ventures, tech executives investment network XA Network, the Singapore government-owned SGInnovate, Biosensors International Group founder Yoh-Chie Lu, and Zilog founder Steve Blank. %

Healthcare startup Bot MD raises USD 5 million in funding round led by Monk's Hill Ventures | KrASIA

Healthcare startup Bot MD raises USD 5 million in funding round led by Monk&#8217;s Hill Ventures

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

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

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Alibaba’s strong growth, buoyed by 2020’s extended Singles’ Day shopping festival, was overshadowed by an antitrust investigation and Ant Group’s business overhaul.

Despite a strong quarter, Alibaba offers little to reassure investors | KrASIA

Despite a strong quarter, Alibaba offers little to reassure investors

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AJ Cortese

Pinduoduo is an e-commerce platform allowing users to participate in group buying deals. It was founded by Colin Huang as Shanghai Dream Information Technology Co., Ltd. in September 2015.

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The portal, called Tencent Huiju, now looks like a centralized e-commerce marketplace, with promotions on the first page and a section called "All shops", which directs buyers to 12 categories of goods and services, such as fresh goods, menswear, womenswear, jewellery, medicine, and cooked food. Hundreds of companies including McDonald's, Adidas, Starbucks, and on-demand grocery delivery firms Dingdong Maicai and MissFresh all have a presence on Tencent Huiju.

Tencent pilots centralized portal for retailers' WeChat mini programs in new e-commerce attempt | KrASIA

Tencent pilots centralized portal for retailers&#8217; WeChat mini programs in new e-commerce attempt

Fawry currently offers over 250 electronic payment services through its network of over 105,000 service points across 300 cities in Egypt. Courtesy of Fawry via MENAbytes.

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

Less than six months after becoming the first billion-dollar technology company in Egypt, Fawry has hit another milestone by surpassing USD 2 billion in market cap for the first time. Its stock has doubled in the last six months and closed at an all-time high of EGP 46.90 on Monday, pushing its market cap to over EGP 32 billion.

Fawry’s market cap swells to over USD 2 billion | KrASIA

Fawry’s market cap swells to over USD 2 billion

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