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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

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

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

India Tech

A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

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.

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

Biotech

Deep Tech

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

Enterprise Services

India

The Japanese fund is an LP in Blume Ventures, through which it invests in idea-stage deep tech startups.

Indian deep tech companies blend qualities from Silicon Valley and Israel | Q&A with Kiran Mysore of UTEC | KrASIA

Indian deep tech companies blend qualities from Silicon Valley and Israel | Q&#038;A with Kiran Mysore of UTEC

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Avanish Tiwary

Social Impact

Malaysia

By advocating for a culturally inclusive and diverse workplace, Johary Mustapha is leading socially driven initiatives with Forest Interactive.

Tuning In | Johary Mustapha on the importance of workplace diversity | KrASIA

Tuning In | Johary Mustapha on the importance of workplace diversity

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Taro Ishida

StartupX's Durwin Ho is making hackathons accessible to young people in Southeast Asia.

Tuning In | Durwin Ho built Southeast Asia’s largest hackathon | KrASIA

Tuning In | Durwin Ho built Southeast Asia’s largest hackathon

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Emily Fang

Facebook is assisting individuals and leaders with specially curated tools and programs, says Clapham.

Tuning In | Grace Clapham on empowering Facebook's community leaders with structured programs | KrASIA

Tuning In | Grace Clapham on empowering Facebook&#8217;s community leaders with structured programs

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.

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

MedTech

The fund is exploring startups with deep tech capabilities in agritech, fintech, health tech, edtech, and cybersecurity.

'We are looking for deep tech companies with global market potential' | Q&A with Jatin Desai of Inflexor Ventures | KrASIA

&#8216;We are looking for deep tech companies with global market potential&#8217; | Q&#038;A with Jatin Desai of Inflexor Ventures

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

Oi Yee Choo integrates financial lessons in her daily conversations with her daughters to prepare them for a financially secure future.

Tuning In | Oi Yee Choo, CCO of iStox, teaches her young daughters about financial and career planning | KrASIA

Tuning In | Oi Yee Choo, CCO of iStox, teaches her young daughters about financial and career planning

Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. 

Transportation

Vietnam

The investment marks Jungle Ventures’ first foray into the mobility sector, a vast emerging market in Southeast Asia that awaits the maturity of battery-charging infrastructure.

Dat Bike could become the e-bike company of Southeast Asia | Q&amp;A with Jungle Ventures' Amit Anand | KrASIA

Dat Bike could become the e-bike company of Southeast Asia | Q&amp;A with Jungle Ventures&#8217; Amit Anand

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Stephanie Li

Nishimura emphasizes the need for more investment, better language skills, adaptation, and innovation in the Japanese startup ecosystem.

Tuning In | Innovation necessary for global competitiveness, says Mariko Nishimura, founder of HEART CATCH | KrASIA

Tuning In | Innovation necessary for global competitiveness, says Mariko Nishimura, founder of HEART CATCH

The Singapore Deep-Tech Alliance, a program powered by Xnode, A*STAR, and NHIC, is looking to develop and grow Singaporean deep tech startups.

Fostering deep tech ventures to achieve environmental sustainability | Q&A with XNode Singapore | KrASIA

Fostering deep tech ventures to achieve environmental sustainability | Q&#038;A with XNode Singapore

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Q&A

Indian deep tech companies blend qualities from Silicon Valley and Israel | Q&A with Kiran Mysore of UTEC

Tuning In | Johary Mustapha on the importance of workplace diversity

Tuning In | Durwin Ho built Southeast Asia’s largest hackathon

Tuning In | Grace Clapham on empowering Facebook’s community leaders with structured programs

‘We are looking for deep tech companies with global market potential’ | Q&A with Jatin Desai of Inflexor Ventures

Tuning In | Oi Yee Choo, CCO of iStox, teaches her young daughters about financial and career planning

Dat Bike could become the e-bike company of Southeast Asia | Q&A with Jungle Ventures’ Amit Anand

Tuning In | Innovation necessary for global competitiveness, says Mariko Nishimura, founder of HEART CATCH

Fostering deep tech ventures to achieve environmental sustainability | Q&A with XNode Singapore

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