October 30, 2019
Tencent leads $111M investment in India’s video streaming service MX Player
MX Player, a popular video app that offers both local playback and streaming...
October 24, 2019
Naspers Foundry is open for South African startup pitches, CEO says
Naspers’ 1.4 billion rand (≈$100 million) VC fund to support South...
October 17, 2019
MyGate raises $56M to bring its security management service to more gated communities in India
MyGate, a Bangalore-based startup that offers security management and...
October 2, 2019
India’s Udaan raises $585M to expand its B2B e-commerce platform
Udaan, a three-year-old business-to-business e-commerce platform in India, has...
October 1, 2019
Khatabook raises $25M to help businesses in India record financial transactions digitally and accept online payments
Even as tens of millions of Indians have come online for the first time in...
September 5, 2019
India’s Milkbasket in talks to raise over $50M
Milkbasket, a Gurugram-based micro-delivery startup, is in talks to close a new...
September 4, 2019
How Zhihu has become one of China’s biggest hubs for experts
Zhihu may not be as well known outside of China as WeChat or ByteDance’s...
September 3, 2019
WeChat restricts controversial video face-swapping app Zao, citing “security risks”
Zao went viral in China this weekend for its realistic face-swapping videos, but...
August 13, 2019
Today’s top tech news, Aug 13: Flat Monthly gets US$320K, Verizon to sell Tumblr to WordPress owner
In addition to Flat Monthly and Tumblr, we also have updates from Zhihu and...
August 13, 2019
China’s largest Q&A platform, Zhihu, raises $434 million from investors including Kuaishou, Baidu and Tencent
Zhihu, the largest question and answer platform in China, has raised a $434...