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From left to right: Genping Liu, Dennis Sze, Lemuel Low, Edmund Tan, and Chan Yip Pang. Sze, Low, and Tan are co-founders of ReN3, while Liu and Chan serve as general partner and executive director of investments, respectively, at Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India.

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Enovate's ME7 model has a longer range than Tesla's Model 3, a hint that it may be using all-solid-state battery technology.

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With regulators cracking down, the vast majority of Chinese P2P lenders is expected to disappear. Dianrong does not want to be one of them.

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Indonesia is an attractive venue for venture capitalists.

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