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Creative

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. 

Entertainment

A trading card resurgence led by China’s youth could ignite a new pop culture wave.

China’s collectible card craze: Kayou and major IPs drive a growing market | KrASIA

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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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36Kr English

Angel Investing

Investment

Merger &amp; Acquisition

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

Malaysia

Philippines

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: Wavemaker Partners launches USD 30 million growth fund, Dossier clinches pre-seed funding, AC Ventures fuels Collektr’s APAC push, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: Wavemaker Partners launches USD 30 million growth fund, Dossier clinches pre-seed funding, AC Ventures fuels Collektr’s APAC push, and more

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KrASIA Writers

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

China Tech

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.

Biotech

Deep Tech

Health Tech

Medical technology, or "medtech", encompasses a wide range of healthcare products and is used to treat diseases and medical conditions affecting humans. 

MedTech

Baidu CEO’s life sciences startup sees artificial intelligence as the inevitable force driving transformation in drug discovery and biotech

BioMap envisions AI as the future of life sciences | KrASIA

BioMap envisions AI as the future of life sciences

KrASIA | News Archives

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

Insurance

The joint venture will support the rise of insurance aggregators and marketplaces, says Ovo.

Indonesia's Ovo joins forces with ZhongAn to create a digital insurance marketplace | KrASIA

Indonesia&#8217;s Ovo joins forces with ZhongAn to create a digital insurance marketplace

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Khamila Mulia

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

VerSe will use new funds to expand local language offerings, build a content creator ecosystem, and develop AI and ML-based platform for its short video app Josh.

Dailyhunt's parent VerSe becomes India's newest unicorn | KrASIA

Dailyhunt&#8217;s parent VerSe becomes India&#8217;s newest unicorn

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

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

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

On-Demand Services

The transformation of China's freight industry through mobile internet is far from over, according to Lalamove founder Zhou Shengfu.

On-demand cargo delivery platform Lalamove closes USD 515 million Series E round | KrASIA

On-demand cargo delivery platform Lalamove closes USD 515 million Series E round

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Song Jingli

SoftBank Group Corp. is a holding company that engages in the management of its group companies which provides information technology and telecommunication services. It operates through the following segments: Mobile Communications, Sprint, Fixed-line Telecommunications, Internet, and Others. 

Softbank

Conglomerate aims to use Nasdaq-listed SPAC to list companies quickly.

SoftBank to raise up to USD 604 million for acquisition vehicle | KrASIA

SoftBank to raise up to USD 604 million for acquisition vehicle

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Kuaishou's IPO valuation to surpass USD 50 billion

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

Kuaishou

The listing was delayed due to the large number of orders placed in the secondary market, a source told 36Kr.

KEY STAT | Loss-making short video app Kuaishou to list in early Februrary | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Loss-making short video app Kuaishou to list in early Februrary

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Julianna Wu

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

Alibaba

Xpeng

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

Electric Vehicles

The manufacturer revealed a plan to launch a second model, the P7 electric sports sedan, in Europe within the next 12 months.

Xpeng ships first 100 EVs to Norway in global expansion | KrASIA

Xpeng ships first 100 EVs to Norway in global expansion

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

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

Traveloka

It's a different version of a direct listing, but with more potential, says MDI Ventures' Hartanto.

Indonesian unicorn Traveloka mulls SPAC merger to go public, following Tokopedia | KrASIA

Indonesian unicorn Traveloka mulls SPAC merger to go public, following Tokopedia

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Ursula Florene

Japan, Korea, and the West

MENA

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. 

Hardware

OrCam is headed by the founders of Mobileye, the vision tech provider for autonomous driving snapped up by Intel for USD 15 billion.

Israel's OrCam nabs CES 2021 'Best of Innovation' award | KrASIA

Israel&#8217;s OrCam nabs CES 2021 &#8216;Best of Innovation&#8217; award

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NoCamels

Number of IPOs on Shanghai Stock Exchange, 2020: 228

China registered 395 new listings raising a total of USD 72 billion in Shanghai and Shenzhen combined, the largest amount since 2010.

News

Indonesia’s Ovo joins forces with ZhongAn to create a digital insurance marketplace

Dailyhunt’s parent VerSe becomes India’s newest unicorn

On-demand cargo delivery platform Lalamove closes USD 515 million Series E round

SoftBank to raise up to USD 604 million for acquisition vehicle

KEY STAT | Loss-making short video app Kuaishou to list in early Februrary

Xpeng ships first 100 EVs to Norway in global expansion

Indonesian unicorn Traveloka mulls SPAC merger to go public, following Tokopedia

Israel’s OrCam nabs CES 2021 ‘Best of Innovation’ award

KEY STAT | Shanghai takes the crown as world number one exchange for IPOs in 2020

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