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Bringing together the latest business insights and trends of China's tech ecosystem.

China Tech

Investment

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

Beijing is backing strategic tech like drones and chips as general venture funds dry up.

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

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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

Content

Creative

Creator Economy

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

Entertainment

With Xiaohongshu-inspired design and TikTok’s global pull, Lemon8 is gaining traction abroad.

ByteDance’s Lemon8 borrows from Xiaohongshu, but can it keep users hooked? | KrASIA

ByteDance’s Lemon8 borrows from Xiaohongshu, but can it keep users hooked?

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

As competition intensifies, Porsche is betting on intelligent features to revive its lagging sales in China.

Porsche ramps up R&D in China to reclaim its edge amid slowing sales | KrASIA

Porsche ramps up R&#038;D in China to reclaim its edge amid slowing sales

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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

With a rising middle class, Golden Education found a surge in demand for financial education in China.

Finance education platform Golden Education scored RMB80m from Hillhouse Capital and Morgan Stanley with 3M active users on top of 50K corporate clients | KrASIA

Finance education platform Golden Education scored RMB80m from Hillhouse Capital and Morgan Stanley with 3M active users on top of 50K corporate clients

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DeFang Tang

With increasing GDP, young population, and technologies adoption, the country is poised to generate immense growth in the digital and online sectors.

An intro into the e-commerce players in Vietnam | KrASIA

An intro into the e-commerce players in Vietnam

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Contributor

Fore Coffee

Kopi Kenangan

Can Fore Coffee and Kopi Kenangan, among others, be the country’s Luckin Coffee -- or bigger?

Indonesia gets thirsty for some on-demand kopi | KrASIA

Indonesia gets thirsty for some on-demand kopi

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Elaine Huang

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

E-Commerce

In this capital market crunch, group buying has been exceptionally vibrant.

Meituan co-founder raises $30m for his community group buying platform SongShuPinPin | KrASIA

Meituan co-founder raises $30m for his community group buying platform SongShuPinPin

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

Alibaba

To Alibaba, this investment is about its New Retail plan.

Alibaba makes strategic investment in home renovation platform "007 eService" | KrASIA

Alibaba makes strategic investment in home renovation platform &#8220;007 eService&#8221;

Didi Chuxing Technology Co., formerly Didi Kuaidi, is a Chinese transportation network company, artificial intelligence and autonomous technology conglomerate.

Didi

ELEME Inc. is a platform that offers online food delivery service. It was founded in 2008 by Mark Zhang and Jack Kang in Minhang Campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Ele.me was acquired by the Alibaba Group in April 2018 and continues to operate independently.

ele.me

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

Ele.me

Food delivery in Asia

Go-Jek

Meituan

Across China, hundreds of millions of VC dollars are transforming the way people eat. A snapshot.

Inside food delivery in China, and its implications for the SEA market | KrASIA

Inside food delivery in China, and its implications for the SEA market

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Nadine Freischlad

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

Many platforms only care about the service during and after the loan, no one had paid attention to pre-lending services

Indonesian fintech startup CashCash raises millions in new funding | KrASIA

Indonesian fintech startup CashCash raises millions in new funding

DGene, founded in May 2016, develops VR solutions via the integration of light-field technology and machine learning.

DGene prepares to integrate 3D reconstruction capabilities into mobile phones with IDG's 100 million RMB | KrASIA

DGene prepares to integrate 3D reconstruction capabilities into mobile phones with IDG&#8217;s 100 million RMB

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

Enterprise Services

"Outcome-as-a-service" as an answer to drive real value for retailers.

This startup is looking to help grow ASEAN retailers with big data | KrASIA

This startup is looking to help grow ASEAN retailers with big data

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Insights

Finance education platform Golden Education scored RMB80m from Hillhouse Capital and Morgan Stanley with 3M active users on top of 50K corporate clients

An intro into the e-commerce players in Vietnam

Indonesia gets thirsty for some on-demand kopi

Meituan co-founder raises $30m for his community group buying platform SongShuPinPin

Alibaba makes strategic investment in home renovation platform “007 eService”

Inside food delivery in China, and its implications for the SEA market

Indonesian fintech startup CashCash raises millions in new funding

DGene prepares to integrate 3D reconstruction capabilities into mobile phones with IDG’s 100 million RMB

This startup is looking to help grow ASEAN retailers with big data

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