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How do markets shape wealth creation? Study portfolio diversification, asset classes, and strategies balancing growth and risk.

Investment

When do companies invite public investment? Understand listing criteria, underwriter roles, and regulatory steps defining initial offerings.

Why do firms join forces? Investigate synergy goals, valuation methods, and negotiations driving corporate consolidation.

Merger &amp; Acquisition

What happens after acquisitions close? Examine deal structures, operational improvements, and exit strategies molding corporate outcomes.

Private Equity

What fuels startup ecosystems? Review funding rounds, investor strategies, and market insights guiding entrepreneurial growth.

Venture Capital

A new model of state capital is taking root in China—one that’s redefining how venture capital works, from funding mechanics to policy alignment.

Beneath the bureaucracy: How state capital made (and remade) China’s venture ecosystem

36Kr is China's most influential business and technology network, delivering high-quality content focused on China’s innovation and new economy trends since 2010. With its extensive traffic and network, 36Kr has built a comprehensive database and strong data analytics capabilities to provide insights into China’s technology landscape.

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

Deals in brief: Wavemaker Impact leads Arysun’s pre-seed round, Nuevocor raises USD 45 million, latest funding deals in China, and more

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KrASIA tracks China’s tech and business stories—alongside key developments across the broader Asia Pacific region.

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Inspired by her son Jake, Judith is working hard to provide more physical therapy options in Singapore.

Tuning In | Judith Julia Justin on providing unique rehabilitative therapy services for children with disabilities

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Taro Ishida

How does learning transcend classrooms? Investigate online courses, adaptive learning tools, and global educational platforms.

Education

Preventive education can actually help to mitigate many of the public health crises that we’re currently facing in today’s world.

Tuning In | It's never too early to bring up tough conversations with children, says co-founders of Maro Parents

Tuning In | It&#8217;s never too early to bring up tough conversations with children, says co-founders of Maro Parents

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Joanna Ng

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

Enterprise Services

Hitachi Asia has been involved in several infrastructure and telecommunications projects in Southeast Asia.

Creating modern, urbanized, and sustainable cities: Q&A with Takatoshi Sasaki of Hitachi Asia

Creating modern, urbanized, and sustainable cities: Q&#038;A with Takatoshi Sasaki of Hitachi Asia

What guides machine-led insights? Uncover AI applications, language models, and decision-making systems transforming sectors worldwide.

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What lies beyond familiar frontiers? Investigate emerging tech—like quantum computing and AI—transforming traditional sectors.

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Waste Labs offers an AI and data modelling platform to help waste management companies reduce costs and improve efficiency through an optimal combination of vehicles, crew and routes.

[Tuning In] Elias Willemse on tackling urban waste by shifting gears from academia to AI innovation

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Emily Fang

India’s tech landscape blossoms with e-commerce startups, fintech innovations, and IT services shaping a growing digital consumer base.

India

How does finance become frictionless? Examine digital banking, payment innovation, and lending platforms redefining financial access.

Mishra is the founder and CEO of Afthonia, an incubator for fintech startups.

[Tuning In] Tanul Mishra gives her lens on the startup ecosystem in India

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Ooi leads Welcome In My Backyard, an initiative to change existing prejudices and help migrant workers in Singapore.

[Tuning In] Nicole Ooi wants migrant workers to feel at home in Singapore

As Stride Ventures prepares for the final close of its maiden fund, it has already backed 14 startups, with more to come.

Venture debt may soon go mainstream in India: Q&A with Stride Ventures

Venture debt may soon go mainstream in India: Q&#038;A with Stride Ventures

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The Trojan Fairy restaurant offers disabled people a chance to use their "superpowers" to take care of others, says founder Yu Shuang.

[Tuning in] Founder of dark dining restaurant on empowering people with disabilities at the workplace

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Julianna Wu

How do ideas shape industries? Learn how content, design, and digital artistry influence branding, marketing, and cultural impact.

Creative

Tamanna grew India’s largest parenting community to 2 million mothers, and productized her learnings to help communities become sustainable.

Q&A

Tuning In | Judith Julia Justin on providing unique rehabilitative therapy services for children with disabilities

Tuning In | It’s never too early to bring up tough conversations with children, says co-founders of Maro Parents