This one has several gems:
1/ Asian investors directed nearly as much money into startups last year as American investors did—40% of the record $154 billion in global venture financing versus 44%
1/ Asian investors directed nearly as much money into startups last year as American investors did—40% of the record $154 billion in global venture financing versus 44%
3/ CFO for Paytm, one of India’s biggest e-payments firms, says the company approached Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial instead of U.S. backers for funding in 2015 because Chinese mobile-internet innovations are “way far ahead of anything that’s happened in the U.S.”
4/ @AntFinancial is preparing to raise $9 billion in a private funding round, according to people familiar with the matter, valuing it at close to $150 billion.
Thanks for the brilliant article, @Phred_Dvorak @YasufumiSaito!
you might want to have a look at this w/ @SlushTokyo . Japan's stats driven mainly by @SoftBank deals?
