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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: Supermom confirms Series B round, Clime Capital backs Indonesia’s Hijau, Waymo raises USD 5.6 billion, and more | KrASIA

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Deals in brief: Supermom confirms Series B round, Clime Capital backs Indonesia’s Hijau, Waymo raises USD 5.6 billion, and more

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Japan

14 overseas companies have been picked to receive advisory support for Japan IPOs.

Tokyo Stock Exchange seeks Asian unicorns to revive foreign listings | KrASIA

Tokyo Stock Exchange seeks Asian unicorns to revive foreign listings

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Robotics

Beatbot is charging a premium for its pool-cleaning robots, and the hefty price tag isn't deterring buyers.

Can a USD 2,199 pool cleaning robot succeed in the US market? Beatbot is betting on it | KrASIA

Can a USD 2,199 pool cleaning robot succeed in the US market? Beatbot is betting on it

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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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

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. is a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics manufacturer, headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The company was founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former People's Liberation Army engineer.

Huawei

NetEase, Inc. is a Chinese Internet technology company providing online services centered on content, community, communications and commerce. The company was founded in 1997 by Lebunto. NetEase develops and operates online PC and mobile games, advertising services, email services and e-commerce platforms in China.

NetEase

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

Enterprise services is an over-arching term to describe an architecture combining engineering discipline and computer science to solve practical business problems. 

Enterprise Services

Working from home is becoming a rising trend in China, fueled by the coronavirus outbreak.

As millions are forced to stay at home, China's office apps battle for market share | KrASIA

As millions are forced to stay at home, China&#8217;s office apps battle for market share

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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Oppo is a Chinese consumer electronics and mobile communications company headquartered in Dongguan, China, known for its smartphones, Blu-ray players and other electronic devices.

OPPO

Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company headquartered in Beijing. Xiaomi makes and invests in smartphones, mobile apps, laptops, and related consumer electronics.

Xiaomi

Hardware, in the context of technology, refers to the physical elements that make up a computer or electronic system and everything else involved that is physically tangible. 

Hardware

Beijing's chip and display ambitions collide with efforts to contain coronavirus.

Wuhan tech plants to continue operation amid coronavirus lockdown | KrASIA

Wuhan tech plants to continue operation amid coronavirus lockdown

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

The company has already landed in other countries in Asia.

Locus promises you'll never deviate from your route: Startup Stories | KrASIA

Locus promises you&#8217;ll never deviate from your route: Startup Stories

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Social Impact

Over 7,500 coronavirus-related fraud cases have been reported in China as of February 24.

‘Heartless’ online scammers and hackers take advantage of coronavirus fears | KrASIA

‘Heartless’ online scammers and hackers take advantage of coronavirus fears

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SCMP

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. 

Entertainment

A spin-off from US-based Collab Inc, the startup recently raised USD 7.5 million in Series B funding.

Collab Asia is bent on pursuing growth in Asia: Startup Stories | KrASIA

Collab Asia is bent on pursuing growth in Asia: Startup Stories

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AIRP

Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. The education industry is fast-reforming nowadays. 

Education

Live Streaming

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

Video

Boom in new users has saved online education companies hundreds of billions in advertising, industry insider says.

Coronavirus outbreak opens unprecedented opportunities for China’s online education market | KrASIA

Coronavirus outbreak opens unprecedented opportunities for China’s online education market

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Sun Henan

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

Food Delivery

Two of Southeast Asia's fiercest unicorn rivals have held 'casual' discussions.

Gojek-Grab merger makes sense but hurdles mar its path | KrASIA

Gojek-Grab merger makes sense but hurdles mar its path

Edtech

For students who need a little help with school work, tutors might be just a few taps away.

Snapask educates students in a fun, practical way: Startup Stories | KrASIA

Snapask educates students in a fun, practical way: Startup Stories

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Khamila Mulia

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

E-Commerce

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

There are at least 27 Indonesian startups with valuations above USD 100 million.

Classifying the centaur startups in Indonesia | KrASIA

Classifying the centaur startups in Indonesia

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