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

India Tech

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

E-Commerce

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

Since 2018, India has been seeing a rise in usage of social commerce platforms such as Meesho, Shop101, GlowRoad, and Bulbul.

Indian social commerce startups ride out the pandemic | KrASIA

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Indian social commerce startups ride out the pandemic

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

KrASIA

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Avanish Tiwary

Read the stories about Augmented reality (AR), Virtual reality (VR) and Mixed Reality (MR), know about the trendings and the future of VR/AR/MR industry. 

AR/VR

India

Q&amp;A

In its attempt to increase user base in the country, Snapchat has made several localized partnerships including the Hindi-version of its popular Snap Original, Phone Swap.

'We're building culturally and locally relevant experience for India' | Q&A with Snapchat's Durgesh Kaushik | KrASIA

&#8216;We&#8217;re building culturally and locally relevant experience for India&#8217; | Q&#038;A with Snapchat&#8217;s Durgesh Kaushik

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

Investors

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

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

Cultural links provide one bridge between India and Southeast Asia, giving Indian startups a leg up as they head to the region.

India and Southeast Asia will be one market with 2 billion customers: Lightspeed India Partners | KrASIA

India and Southeast Asia will be one market with 2 billion customers: Lightspeed India Partners

Edtech

FrontRow has onboarded celebrity instructors from the fields of film, stand-up comedy, and cricket.

Non-academic edtech startup FrontRow raises USD 3.2 million from Lightspeed, Elevation Capital | KrASIA

Non-academic edtech startup FrontRow raises USD 3.2 million from Lightspeed, Elevation Capital

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Google

Paytm

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

Smartphones

Startups that have received letters from CCI include Paytm, Zomato, PhonePe, UpGrad, Dream11, GOQii, Razorpay, and Matrimony.com.

India antitrust regulator probes Google's alleged abuse of market dominance | KrASIA

India antitrust regulator probes Google&#8217;s alleged abuse of market dominance

Grocery Delivery

Kirana King transforms small- and mid-sized physical retail stores to enable more walk-in customers.

Indian online grocery aggregator startup Kirana King raises fresh funding | KrASIA

Indian online grocery aggregator startup Kirana King raises fresh funding

Hubilo finds its footing in virtual events as pandemic rage

Hubilo can host events that includes interactive live sessions, networking lounges, breakout rooms, and one-on-one networking sessions.

Hubilo finds its footing in virtual events as pandemic rages | Startup Stories | KrASIA

Hubilo finds its footing in virtual events as pandemic rages | Startup Stories

Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.  It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Facebook

PhonePe

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

WhatsApp Pay can now be used by 20 million users in India.

Indian regulators give nod to phased full rollout of WhatsApp's payment feature | KrASIA

Indian regulators give nod to phased full rollout of WhatsApp&#8217;s payment feature

Flipkart

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

Mech Mocha is backed by top tier investors including Accel Partners, Blume Ventures, Shunwei Capital, and AET Fund.

Avanish Tiwary

Indian social commerce startups ride out the pandemic

‘We’re building culturally and locally relevant experience for India’ | Q&A with Snapchat’s Durgesh Kaushik

India and Southeast Asia will be one market with 2 billion customers: Lightspeed India Partners

Non-academic edtech startup FrontRow raises USD 3.2 million from Lightspeed, Elevation Capital

India antitrust regulator probes Google’s alleged abuse of market dominance

Indian online grocery aggregator startup Kirana King raises fresh funding

Hubilo finds its footing in virtual events as pandemic rage

Indian regulators give nod to phased full rollout of WhatsApp’s payment feature

Flipkart acquires gaming startup Mech Mocha to expand customer base