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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

Korea

Singapore

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

Deals in brief: Oneteam and Locad raise funding, Atome Financial lands syndicated credit facility, Panmnesia nets over USD 60 million, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Oneteam and Locad raise funding, Atome Financial lands syndicated credit facility, Panmnesia nets over USD 60 million, and more

Spotlighting Asia&#039;s next wave of innovations.

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Amazon.com, Inc., is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington that focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Amazon is the largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization. 

Amazon

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

China Tech

Japan, Korea, and the West

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.

Pinduoduo

Temu

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

E-Commerce

MENA

E-commerce

Jumia’s path to profitability grows steeper as foreign competitors make inroads across the continent.

As Amazon and Temu push into Africa, Jumia retreats to core markets | KrASIA

As Amazon and Temu push into Africa, Jumia retreats to core markets

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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Fangchengbao

Electric Vehicles

Mobility

The Bao 8 combines rugged offroad power and city-savvy tech in a versatile SUV built for today’s multifaceted driver.

Fangchengbao’s latest EV is more than just an offroad SUV | KrASIA

Fangchengbao’s latest EV is more than just an offroad SUV

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Reliance

Grocery Delivery

Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and American PE firm Carlyle have also shown interest in investing in Reliance Retail.

American private equity firm KKR invests USD 754 million in Reliance Retail | KrASIA

American private equity firm KKR invests USD 754 million in Reliance Retail

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

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Singapore-based Syfe is in advanced conversations with regulators in the region and expects to enter other markets within the next 18 months, according to CEO Dhruv Arora.

Wealth manager Syfe raises USD 18.6 million, says assets increased tenfold this year | KrASIA

Wealth manager Syfe raises USD 18.6 million, says assets increased tenfold this year

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Ursula Florene

A drone powered by Israeli company Flytrex delivers products from Walmart. Courtesy of Walmart via NoCamels.

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

Flytrex debuted its delivery services in August 2017 in Reykjavik and is now bringing those capabilities to the United States.

Walmart pilots on-demand drone deliveries with Israel's Flytrex | KrASIA

Walmart pilots on-demand drone deliveries with Israel&#8217;s Flytrex

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NoCamels

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

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.

Gaming

Global revenue from e-sports is expected to grow to USD 1.1 billion in 2020, up 15.7% from USD 950.6 million in 2019.

E-sports startup Ampverse notches pre-Series A funding for regional expansion | KrASIA

E-sports startup Ampverse notches pre-Series A funding for regional expansion

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Stephanie Li

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

India Tech

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

Lending

Indian government is compiling a list of app-based lending companies that are connected with China.

India contemplates banning digital lending apps with links to China | KrASIA

India contemplates banning digital lending apps with links to China

Luckin Coffee

And there are more penalties coming its way.

KEY STAT | Nasdaq-delisted coffee chain Luckin gets its first fine | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Nasdaq-delisted coffee chain Luckin gets its first fine

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Julianna Wu

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

Alibaba

Didi Chuxing Technology Co., formerly Didi Kuaidi, is a Chinese transportation network company, artificial intelligence and autonomous technology conglomerate.

Didi

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.

Tencent

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

Ride-hailing services from Tencent Map are expected to be expanded nationwide before the National Day holiday.

Tencent to integrate ride-hailing services with mapping app | KrASIA

Tencent to integrate ride-hailing services with mapping app

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Song Jingli

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.

Bytedance

Coca-Cola halts posts while Kao and others heed app's assurance on user data.

TikTok row pushes companies in Japan into marketing dilemma | KrASIA

TikTok row pushes companies in Japan into marketing dilemma

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Founded in 2015 in Shanghai, WM Motor launched its first model EX5 at the end of 2018, and the second model EX6 Plus in the fourth quarter of last year.