Startup News
July 2017
- Educational robot developer Kuaile Zhihui raises near $10M
- Xiaomi takes $1BN loan for retail store growth, overseas expansion
- Malong Technologies AI startup takes win at WebVision challenge
- PayPal and Baidu partner for ecommerce, access and user growth
- NYC’s WeWork launches China unit with $500M backing
- Liulishuo English language app firm lands $100M
- Xiaomai cashier-and-checkout-free store startup lands $18.5M
- Lenovo sets $1.2BN for research into AI, IoT and big data
- MiniKTV self-serve karaoke box startup lands $15M
- WeChat users to hit 490 million this year
- China’s naked Hub, Singapore’s JustGroup merge to form coworking giant
- Shanghai’s VFinance startup backed by Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial
- Baidu’s open-source ‘Project Apollo’ aims to perfect driverless car tech
- VR-related revenues set to approach $11.9BN by 2021
- Honor of Kings, most popular game, has near 200M registered users
- Hairongyi fintech startup closes $29M round
- China’s moves in and around artificial intelligence
- SenseTime facial recognition developer raises $410M
- Xiangshui Space opens rentable ‘nap capsules’ for tired workers
- A look at Gizwits, taking aim at large-scale IoT adoption
- UW-China tech innovation school aims to graduate 3K students over 10 years
- Chengjia accommodation rental startup lands $50M
- Dashu Finance, online unsecured lender, backed for $117M
- ‘ChinAfrica’ – macro megatrend to impact everything from Valley to Wall Street
- ZanDeal, Sino-Indian marketing analytics startup, lands $150K
- A look at UNDP China’s e-waste recycling app
- Xiaomi and Nokia sign major patent-sharing deal
- A look at the rise of the luxury clothing rental economy
- Parntership formed to create share-bikes that absorb pollution
- A brief look at the growing media value of ‘smaller’ lower-tier cities
- A look at Subat, Xinjiang Uygur online music platform
- Baidu pushes into AI, acquires Kitt natural language startup
- Xiaomi goes bricks-and-mortar to reclaim smartphone crown
- Bingobox no-staff stores startup gains $14M backing
- Rong Cloud cloud-based instant messaging startup backed for $14M
- Fuzhou 3rd city to partner Ant Financial to build ‘cashless society’
- China’s URWork moves on WeWork’s NYC home turf, opening cowork centre
- China’s Hujiang e-learning firm to help Chinese study in Japan
- Chinese Danke Gongyu apartment rental platform backed for $14M
- Malong Technologies takes top at G20 Young Entrepreneurs Alliance
- Guizhou signs MOU with Indian government, Nasscom for Indian entrepreneurs
