Byju’s doubles down on offline ed-tech play with 500 tuition centres
Indian ed-tech unicorn Byju’s is investing $200 million to open 500 ‘Byju’s Tuition Centres’ across 200 cities in India this year. Read more…
Indian ed-tech unicorn Byju’s is investing $200 million to open 500 ‘Byju’s Tuition Centres’ across 200 cities in India this year. Read more…
Top Indian startups may form an alliance to push for an India-specific app store as they look to counter the dominance of Google and Apple. Read more…
India’s coronavirus lockdown and an exodus of venture capital are testing a start-up community that has become one of the world’s biggest. Read more…
We always hear how digital companies must embrace failure, so should we really be freaking out over SoftBank’s investment flops? Well no, not yet. Read more…
IoT start-up accelerator SparkLabs Connex has a secret sauce: an ecosystem of partners committed to the collaboration IoT needs to thrive. Read more…
GreaterBayX investors aim to use the Greater Bay Area to develop urban mobility tech for the rest of the planet. HK’s current political crisis is not a concern, they say. Read more…
Forget e-scooters – a start-up in Sweden is promoting the next big thing in urban mobility solutions: pogo sticks. They claim they’re not kidding. Read more…
Dozens of start-ups aim to fight climate change with carbon removal tech, but Silicon Valley VCs would rather fund the usual software and blockchain boffins. Read more…
Qualcomm has announced the launch of the Qualcomm Ventures AI Fund to invest up to an aggregate of $100 million in start-ups working in artificial intelligence. The fund will focus on startups that share the Read more…
EY has launched its ‘wavespace’ flagship center in Hong Kong to enable businesses – with a particular focus on financial services, technology, media and telecom sectors – to tap into experts across EY’s global network Read more…
Infiniti Motor Company has unveiled a new Infiniti Lab initiative in Hong Kong to connect international entrepreneurs with local startups, corporate partners and Infiniti executives to accelerate the innovation cycle and find new ways of Read more…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia wants southeast Asian nations to cooperate in helping startups in the region worth at least $1 billion expand outside their home countries, the communication minister said on Friday. The effort aims Read more…
International real estate companies JLL and Lendlease have jointly launched Propell Asia, a Singapore-based regional property technology (“PropTech”) accelerator that will connect ambitious start-ups to Asia Pacific’s commercial real estate market, which was worth $16 Read more…
Imposing content-filtering technology on online platforms could be very difficult to implement and costly for European start-ups and scale-ups, according to a new survey from Analysys Mason commissioned by Allied for Startups. Legislators in the Read more…
Artificial intelligence has become a hot new buzzword, although the concept has existed in theory for more than seven decades. But AI came into the limelight only recently when bots developed by DeepMind Technologies and Read more…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Southeast Asia’s Grab on Tuesday launched Grab Ventures, its innovation arm to develop technology start-ups in sectors such as transport, food services, logistics and financial services, further expanding beyond ride-hailing. Grab, which Read more…
After six months of intense work, the team Agncy was announced the winner of the fifth annual Telenor Youth Forum for their platform that crowdsources labor violation reporting. Tackling UN Sustainable Development Goal #10, their Read more…
Alibaba, SenseTime and Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks (HKSTP) have launched the HKAI Lab, a nonprofit initiative that aims to advance AI R&D and empower start-ups to commercialize their new inventions. Alibaba Hong Kong Read more…
NEW YORK/ SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Beijing’s unquenchable thirst for the latest technology has spurred a proliferation of “accelerators” in Silicon Valley that aim to identify promising start-ups and bring them to China. The surge Read more…
TOKYO (Reuters) – SoftBank Group chief executive Masayoshi Son, founder of the world’s largest private equity fund, said on Tuesday a second Vision Fund would be set up in the near future, with funds from Read more…
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