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

E-Commerce

Half of Korea’s 10 unicorns are battling in online retail.

Korea’s e-commerce market is still dominated by local players | KrASIA

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Korea’s e-commerce market is still dominated by local players

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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

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

Neat, a fintech startup from Hong Kong that provides financial services to small businesses, said it has raised USD 11 million in a Series A round.

SME-focused fintech firm Neat banks USD 11 million in Series A funding | KrASIA

SME-focused fintech firm Neat banks USD 11 million in Series A funding

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

WeWork is an American company that provides shared workspaces for technology startup subculture communities, and services for entrepreneurs, freelancers, startups, small businesses and large enterprises. Founded in 2010, it is headquartered in New York City.

WeWork

The special committee of WeWork‘s board said it is suing SoftBank after the investment giant withdrew its USD 3 billion tender offer.

WeWork sues SoftBank over canceled USD 3 billion tender offer | KrASIA

WeWork sues SoftBank over canceled USD 3 billion tender offer

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

MedTech

The initiative covers the areas of mitigation, medical equipment, remote health and digital tools.

Singapore’s Antler to deploy up to USD 500,000 for startups battling COVID-19 | KrASIA

Singapore’s Antler to deploy up to USD 500,000 for startups battling COVID-19

Electric Vehicles

India is currently on a 21-day lockdown, forcing people to stay at home and many businesses to suspend operations.

Bounce’s founders give up salary to keep team intact amid Covid-19 | KrASIA

Bounce’s founders give up salary to keep team intact amid Covid-19

The Special Situations Fund will be a sub-fund for its TNB Aura Fund II.

TNB Aura to invest USD 2 million in each startup hit by COVID-19 crisis | KrASIA

TNB Aura to invest USD 2 million in each startup hit by COVID-19 crisis

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.

Edtech

The company is working on an education service and enterprise search engine based on natural language processing.

Japanese AI startup Cogent Labs nets USD 13 million to expand in Asia | KrASIA

Japanese AI startup Cogent Labs nets USD 13 million to expand in Asia

A blockchain, originally block chain, is a growing list of records, called blocks, which are linked using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data.

Blockchain

The Internet of things (IoT) is the extension of Internet connectivity into physical devices and everyday objects. Embedded with electronics, Internet connectivity, and other forms of hardware, these devices can communicate and interact with others over the Internet, and they can be remotely monitored and controlled.

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

DiMuto uses blockchain, internet of things, and AI to help digitize the agrifood supply chain.

Singapore agrifood startup DiMuto secures funding to enter Latin America | KrASIA

Singapore agrifood startup DiMuto secures funding to enter Latin America

Gojek is a transportation network company and logistics startup company based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Gojek

GrabTaxi Holdings Pte. Ltd. is a transportation network company based in Singapore. In addition to transportation, the company offers food delivery services via mobile app. It operates in the Southeast Asian countries of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia. 

Grab

Ride-hailing encompasses a range of companies and services, including traditional taxis and car services. 

Ride-hailing

Via’s latest round was led by Exor, the holding company of Italy’s Agnelli family.