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Grab, a Southeast Asian superapp, provides ride-hailing, food delivery, and mobile payments, connecting millions to on-demand services.

Grab

Southeast Asia’s tech ecosystem is a melting pot of startups and businesses of all sizes, all vying for rapid growth.

What sets the bar for convenience? Examine on-demand platforms, subscription models, and personalization transforming consumer expectations.

Consumer Services

How does dinner arrive at your door? Study platform partnerships, last-mile delivery, and culinary trends powering the takeaway economy.

Food Delivery

What changes the way we shop? Review fresh inventory management, dark stores, and logistics driving door-to-door grocery services.

Grocery Delivery

How do platforms deliver on immediacy? Analyze ride-hailing, instant deliveries, and gig models meeting consumer needs fast.

On-demand Services

What redefines personal transport? Investigate pricing models, user experience, and new entrants reshaping door-to-door mobility.

Ride-hailing

Indonesia

Malaysia

Philippines

Singapore

Thailand

Vietnam

Strong performances across mobility, deliveries, and financial services drove Grab’s better-than-expected first-quarter results.

Grab raises EBITDA outlook as Q1 revenue and user growth beat expectations | KrASIA

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Grab raises EBITDA outlook as Q1 revenue and user growth beat expectations

Decoding China&#039;s tech and business pulse

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Sudo Lim

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

Deep Tech

What powers digital devices? Delve into chip design, manufacturing bottlenecks, and semiconductor breakthroughs fueling global electronics.

Semiconductors

The two companies unveiled processors designed to boost real-time performance, enhance safety, and power more centralized automotive systems.

Axera and Black Sesame roll out chips built for smarter, safer vehicles | KrASIA

Axera and Black Sesame roll out chips built for smarter, safer vehicles

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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What grounds digital progress in physical form? Analyze chipsets, sensors, and advanced components driving device performance.

Hardware

Once reliant on the US, Chinese brands are pivoting to new markets to blunt the impact of trade tensions.

US tariffs push Chinese hardware startups to redraw global roadmaps | KrASIA

US tariffs push Chinese hardware startups to redraw global roadmaps

Q&amp;A

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

Fintech

Working together with Grab, Kudo is also looking to help startups in Southeast Asia with scaling their businesses in Indonesia.

Kudo CEO Agung Nugroho: Growing with Grab to win in the Southeast Asian market | KrASIA

Kudo CEO Agung Nugroho: Growing with Grab to win in the Southeast Asian market

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Khamila Mulia

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

Venture Capital

Cento Ventures' Mark Suckling responds to the age-old question: are we in a bubble?

The state of investments in Southeast Asia | KrASIA

The state of investments in Southeast Asia

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Tech Collective

Payments

Thunes

The startup locked in USD 10 million in Series A funding last month. With a long history in cross-border payments, it’s one to keep an eye on.

We do mass-payouts for thousands of Grab drivers: Thunes CEO Steve Vickers | KrASIA

We do mass-payouts for thousands of Grab drivers: Thunes CEO Steve Vickers

How do goods cross borders seamlessly? Examine warehousing tech, route optimization, and data analytics building efficient supply chains.

Logistics

cross border

Delivery

E-commerce

Lai Chang Wen

Ninja Van

Social Commerce

Ninja Van is tying up with Grab to address a new wave of multi-channel sellers.

Social commerce is a growing trend: Ninja Van CEO Lai Chang Wen | KrASIA

Social commerce is a growing trend: Ninja Van CEO Lai Chang Wen

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Nadine Freischlad

How do clicks replace aisles? Explore global marketplaces, payment solutions, and technology accelerating online retail’s growth.

Shopee

Women in Tech

Shaowen Ang of Shopee on the inclusive culture that helps working mothers: Women in Tech | KrASIA

Shaowen Ang of Shopee on the inclusive culture that helps working mothers: Women in Tech

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Robin Moh

StashAway

“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world.”

Freddy Lim of StashAway, Investments made easy: Startup Stories | KrASIA

Freddy Lim of StashAway, Investments made easy: Startup Stories

Gojek

Opinion

Breaking down Grab Financial's grand vision into "bite-sized" bits.

20x the market opportunity of ride-hailing: Ankur Mehrotra on Grab Financial’s strategy and products | KrASIA

20x the market opportunity of ride-hailing: Ankur Mehrotra on Grab Financial’s strategy and products

Carousell

Facebook Markerplace

M&amp;A

Naspers

The presence of Facebook Marketplace might accelerate further consolidation among classified marketplaces in Southeast Asia

Acquisitions are a way to grow: Carousell co-founder and CEO Quek Siu Rui with an outlook post-Naspers deal | KrASIA

Acquisitions are a way to grow: Carousell co-founder and CEO Quek Siu Rui with an outlook post-Naspers deal

How do trustless ledgers transform industries? Investigate decentralized databases, smart contracts, and infrastructure powering secure transactions.

Blockchain

How does interactive entertainment evolve? Assess gaming ecosystems, esports growth, and technology enhancing virtual play.

Gaming

female entrepreneur

HotNow

Hotoken

Nithinan Boonyawattanapisut

woman entrepreneur

She helped shape the gaming industry as we know it today. Her new platform HotNow is discussing a collaboration with Go-Jek's offshoot in Thailand, GET.

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