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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.

Venture Capital

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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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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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JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong and formerly called 360buy, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing.

JD Health has grown into China’s largest online pharmacy by revenue and was valued at USD 7 billion as of September 2019.

JD.com to spin off health unit, plans Hong Kong listing | KrASIA

JD.com to spin off health unit, plans Hong Kong listing

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Song Jingli

The Jordanian startups Endeavor Catalyst has invested in so far include Kharabeesh, Altibbi, Mawdoo3, and Jamalon.

Jordan’s ISSF invests USD 2 million in Endeavor Catalyst’s third fund | KrASIA

Jordan’s ISSF invests USD 2 million in Endeavor Catalyst’s third fund

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MENAbytes

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

Alibaba

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

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

Pinduoduo predicts annual gross merchandise volume on its platform from agriculture to exceed RMB 1 trillion (USD 146 billion) in annual GMV in five years.

Pinduoduo taps China Post to expand its fresh groceries business | KrASIA

Pinduoduo taps China Post to expand its fresh groceries business

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

According to Moovaz CEO Junxian Lee, conversation with GetVan had been ongoing for eight months before the deal was sealed.

Relocation startup Moovaz acquires GetVan, looking at further deals: CEO | KrASIA

Relocation startup Moovaz acquires GetVan, looking at further deals: CEO

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Ursula Florene

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

The US Commerce Department said that it would delay by one week restrictions on distribution and maintenance of the WeChat and TikTok apps.

ByteDance emphasizes it will retain control of TikTok Global after Trump agrees to Walmart, Oracle deal | KrASIA

ByteDance emphasizes it will retain control of TikTok Global after Trump agrees to Walmart, Oracle deal

Wency Chen is a reporter KrASIA based in Beijing, covering tech innovations in&amp;beyond the Greater China Area. Previously, she studied at Columbia Journalism School and reported on art exhibits, New York public school systems, LGBTQ+ rights, and Asian immigrants. She is also an enthusiastic reader, a diehard fan of indie rock and spicy hot pot, as well as a to-be filmmaker (Let’s see). Follow her on Twitter: @ChenWQ45 Tips go to: wency@kr-asia.com

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Tesla

If the plan materializes, India would become the second country, outside of the US where Tesla will have an R&amp;D center.

American electric car maker Tesla may set up an R&amp;D center in India | KrASIA

American electric car maker Tesla may set up an R&amp;D center in India

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

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Moulishree Srivastava

Ant Group raises IPO target to USD 35 billion

Ant Financial Services Group, formerly known as Alipay, is an affiliate company of the Chinese Alibaba Group. Ant Financial is the highest valued fintech company in the world, and the world's most valuable unicorn company, with a valuation of US$150 billion. 

Ant Group

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

Lending

An e-commerce payment system facilitates the acceptance of electronic payment for online transactions. Read stories of Payment service providers, platforms or the trending of the Payment industry.

Payments

Its valuation also increased to USD 250 billion.

KEY STAT | Ant Group raises IPO target over uptick in investor interests | KrASIA

KEY STAT | Ant Group raises IPO target over uptick in investor interests

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Julianna Wu

Perfect Diary plans for a US IPO before the end of this year, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as underwriters.

Chinese cosmetics brand Perfect Diary valued at USD 4 billion after new financing round | KrASIA

Chinese cosmetics brand Perfect Diary valued at USD 4 billion after new financing round

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Openspace Ventures

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OSV+ is the VC's fourth fund, with focus on mid-stage tech investments in existing portfolio companies.

Openspace Ventures announces fourth fund, new senior appointments | KrASIA

Openspace Ventures announces fourth fund, new senior appointments

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