Chinaccelerator Daily Digest 3/25/2019

Overseas:

1. The Most Innovative Companies of 2019 According to BCG – including Alphabet, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft

2. Uber could announce $3 billion deal with Careem early this week

3. Visual search engine Pinterest files to go public: Booked $756 million last year and claims more than 250 million monthly users

4. Video-conferencing company Zoom files to go public with over $300 million in revenue 

5. Apple could announce its gaming subscription service on Monday

6. Microsoft Reveals Game-Changing New Project xCloud Feature

7. Verizon Set To Offer Free Robocall Blocking App, New Tech To Combat Spam — AT&T, Comcast Too

8. Mailchimp and Shopify break up their partnership

9. How autonomous delivery startup Nuro plans to spend Softbank’s $940 million

10. Keatz, a European ‘cloud kitchen’ startup, raises further €12M

11. Clark, a venture-backed tutoring platform, will now help tutors build their own sites

12. Spark Networks Swipes Right For SF Dating Company Zoosk, valuing it at approximately $255 million

13. Drone analytics startup Aria Insights suddenly ceased operations

14. Flying taxi startup Blade is helping Silicon Valley CEOs bypass traffic

China:

1. Automaker Changan 长安 partners with Tencent, Alibaba on RMB 10 billion mobility business

2. Tencent doubles down on customized cloud computing services

3. Controversial social e-commerce platform Yunji 云集 files for $200 million US IPO

4. Enterprise talent management solution provider È成科技 ifchange.com completed Series C US$80m fundraising

5. TikTok and Douyin rake in $75 million with in-app purchases

6. Online children education platform 火花思维 huohua.cn completed 40 million US dollars of C round financing

7. Technology and industry innovation service platform Intellifusion 云天励飞 completed Series B fundraising

8. Morningside leads $11m Series A funding for staff marketplace Jitjatjo

9. China’s migrant worker exodus has created demand for drone pilots to help ageing left-behind farmers

10. Chinese funds hiring Indian executives as they seek to hike deal flow from region

Cross-border:

1. Vietnamese retail tech Vingroup to sell US$1B shares to SK Group

2. Alibaba buys Israeli AR startup InfinityAR for estimated more than $10m

Emerging Market:

1. Abu Dhabi aims to lure start-ups with 1 billion dirhams investment in new technology hub

2. African Edutainment Company Ubongo Wins Next Billion EdTech Prize

3. Indonesian fintech startup Akulaku invests $35m in local bank

4. Asia’s AnyMind pulls in another $8M and expands into outdoor advertising

5. Indonesia’s Kargo comes out of stealth with $7.6M from Travis Kalanick, Sequoia and others

Cover picture credits from Fast Company.