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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.

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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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Flipkart

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

India Tech

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

E-Commerce

India

Despite the e-commerce sector being dominated by Flipkart and Amazon India, startups are scripting a new wave of online commerce, primarily targeting the next 500 million netizens from smaller cities.

Walmart-owned Flipkart enters social commerce space with Shopsy | KrASIA

Walmart-owned Flipkart enters social commerce space with Shopsy

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A peek into the booming tech ecosystem of Southeast Asia.

SEA Tech

Digital Banks

BCA releases Blu, adding to Indonesia's plethora of digital banking options. The country already has at least seven digital banks and four neobanks.

BCA releases Blu, adding to Indonesia's plethora of digital banking options | KrASIA

BCA releases Blu, adding to Indonesia&#8217;s plethora of digital banking options

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Amazon India

Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.  It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Facebook

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. 

Google

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

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

Google, Amazon, and Facebook's messaging platform WhatsApp, have been making strides to position themselves among the top players in India’s fintech market.

Reserve Bank of India worried about big tech's deeper involvement in India's financial sector | KrASIA

Reserve Bank of India worried about big tech&#8217;s deeper involvement in India&#8217;s financial sector

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Avanish Tiwary

Malaysia

50 conglomerates and upstarts vie for digital banking licenses in Malaysia. Up to five licenses will be issued in the first quarter of 2022.

More than 50 conglomerates and upstarts vie for digital banking licenses in Malaysia | KrASIA

More than 50 conglomerates and upstarts vie for digital banking licenses in Malaysia

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Stephanie Li

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

China Tech

Luckin Coffee

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

On-Demand Services

Luckin Coffee releases updated 2019 financials detailing fraud, showing fraudulent transactions began as early as April 2019.

Luckin Coffee releases updated 2019 financials detailing fraud | KrASIA

Luckin Coffee releases updated 2019 financials detailing fraud

KrASIA Connection curates technology and innovation updates from China.

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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

Xiaomi-backed autonomous driving decacorn ZongMu nets USD 190 million Series D. It may add charging and car-washing services to its auto valet function.

Xiaomi-backed autonomous driving decacorn ZongMu nets USD 190 million Series D | KrASIA

Xiaomi-backed autonomous driving decacorn ZongMu nets USD 190 million Series D

The 5 startups in China that caught our eye in the first half of 2021 span multiple sectors: holograms, payments, digital twins, wellness, and blockchain.

5 startups in China that caught our eye in 2021 | KrASIA

5 startups in China that caught our eye in 2021

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

Enterprise Services

R&D management platform Ones nets RMB 300 million Series B to rev up teamwork for enterprises of all sizes. Ones benchmarks itself against Atlassian.

R&D management platform Ones nets RMB 300 million Series B to rev up teamwork | KrASIA

R&#038;D management platform Ones nets RMB 300 million Series B to rev up teamwork

Drones

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

Israel pilots drone delivery flights in residential areas with sights on national drone network. Tests spanned 10 km and with a load of up to 2.5 kg.

Israel pilots drone delivery flights in residential areas with sights on national drone network | KrASIA

Israel pilots drone delivery flights in residential areas with sights on national drone network

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