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While China’s tea chains race to open stores, Molly Tea is opting for a more measured expansion. Will this strategy give it an edge, or leave it lagging behind?

Molly Tea isn’t rushing into China’s tea wars—could that be the smarter move? | KrASIA

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Molly Tea isn’t rushing into China’s tea wars—could that be the smarter move?

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

KrASIA

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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Angel Investing

Investment

Merger &amp; Acquisition

Private Equity

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

Indonesia

Singapore

Bringing you the latest updates on funding deals and activities in the Asia Pacific.

Deals in brief: MindWorks Capital raises USD 220 million for new fund, Chickin and watchTowr reportedly bag Series A funding, four China deals, and more | KrASIA

Deals in brief: MindWorks Capital raises USD 220 million for new fund, Chickin and watchTowr reportedly bag Series A funding, four China deals, and more

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KrASIA Writers

Baidu

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

China Tech

Autonomous Vehicles is about self-driving. A self-driving car is also known as a robot car, autonomous car, or driverless car, is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and moving with little or no human input.

Autonomous Vehicles

Mobility

An on-demand service platform connects waiting-time-sensitive customers with independent service providers.

On-Demand Services

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

Ride-hailing

With plans to launch in Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Middle East, Baidu’s robotaxi service aims to break new ground as competition in self-driving intensifies.

Baidu’s Apollo Go eyes global expansion as robotaxi race heats up | KrASIA

Baidu’s Apollo Go eyes global expansion as robotaxi race heats up

Q&amp;A

KrASIA | Q&amp;A Archives

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

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

E-Commerce

Malaysia

Philippines

Thailand

SCI Ecommerce, which counts Lazada and Shopee as clients, assists brands and merchants set up and manage digital stores in Southeast Asia and China.

SCI Ecommerce targets regional expansion in Thailand, the Philippines, and Malaysia | Q&amp;A with CEO Joseph Liu | KrASIA

SCI Ecommerce targets regional expansion in Thailand, the Philippines, and Malaysia | Q&amp;A with CEO Joseph Liu

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Stephanie Li

Deep Tech

SzeKi Sim shares her journey building SGInnovate’s community from scratch.

SzeKi Sim of SGInnovate about the constant need for reinvention in the deep tech space | KrASIA

SzeKi Sim of SGInnovate about the constant need for reinvention in the deep tech space

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Joanna Ng

Africa Tech

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

India Tech

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

Insurance

Lending

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

India

Apis Partners invests between USD 30 million and USD 50 million in capital-efficient businesses in India, Southeast Asia, and African countries.

India’s buy now pay later' companies will move up the e-commerce value chain | Q&A with Udayan Goyal of Apis Partners | KrASIA

India’s buy now pay later&#8217; companies will move up the e-commerce value chain | Q&#038;A with Udayan Goyal of Apis Partners

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Avanish Tiwary

WEH invests USD 100,000 to 400,000 in seed-stage startups and has backed a dozen companies so far.

India's second wave of COVID-19 has impaired investment discussions | Q&A with Rohit Krishna of WEH Ventures | KrASIA

India&#8217;s second wave of COVID-19 has impaired investment discussions | Q&#038;A with Rohit Krishna of WEH Ventures

Vietnam

Trung Hoang Nguyen, CEO of Loship, wants his firm to become the first Vietnamese startup to go public on the NYSE.

Tuning In | Trung Hoang Nguyen on breaking into the Vietnamese delivery scene | KrASIA

Tuning In | Trung Hoang Nguyen on breaking into the Vietnamese delivery scene

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Contributor

Video

iQiyi has 101.7 million subscribing members and 100.7 million individuals with trial memberships.

iQiyi streams forward in Southeast Asia with niche content and flexibility | Q&A with head of business development | KrASIA

iQiyi streams forward in Southeast Asia with niche content and flexibility | Q&#038;A with head of business development

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Khamila Mulia

Japan, Korea, and the West

Nagesh Devata of Payoneer spoke with Oasis about the excitement and challenges of developing Southeast Asia's digital payment architecture.

Tuning In | Nagesh Devata on building Southeast Asia’s payment infrastructure | KrASIA

Tuning In | Nagesh Devata on building Southeast Asia’s payment infrastructure

Social Impact

Andrew Poh is the founder of HiBlendr, a company that creates portable, stylish blenders for smoothies on-the-go.

Tuning In | Andrew Poh on building a successful business while pursuing a law degree | KrASIA

Tuning In | Andrew Poh on building a successful business while pursuing a law degree

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Emily Fang

Wikipedia strives to have content creators from diverse backgrounds, says Uzzel, COO of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Tuning In | Janeen Uzzell on empowering women and fighting biases on Wikipedia | KrASIA

Tuning In | Janeen Uzzell on empowering women and fighting biases on Wikipedia

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Q&A

SCI Ecommerce targets regional expansion in Thailand, the Philippines, and Malaysia | Q&A with CEO Joseph Liu

SzeKi Sim of SGInnovate about the constant need for reinvention in the deep tech space

India’s buy now pay later’ companies will move up the e-commerce value chain | Q&A with Udayan Goyal of Apis Partners

India’s second wave of COVID-19 has impaired investment discussions | Q&A with Rohit Krishna of WEH Ventures