In today’s fast-paced world — it’s often difficult to pause for reflection. And while we all have our ideas or “resolutions” about how we can improve and be better — it’s equally important to reflect on the positive outcomes from the last year. At Cathay Innovation, 2019 was an exciting year of growth not only […]
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Pourquoi les startups sont devenues la clé vers une économie durable
Le monde entier se tourne vers les acteurs économiques pour demander aux entreprises de jouer leur rôle dans la transition vers une économie durable. Les défis sociaux et environnementaux que nous devons relever aujourd’hui sont bien réels et énormes. Il reste beaucoup à faire pour résoudre ces défis majeurs, mais les avancées technologiques nouvelles mises […]
Web Summit 2019: 3 Take-Aways on the Future of Tech
While Web Summit has come and gone, many of the trends discussed in Lisbon every year are bellwethers for the years to come. While technologies like AI, 5G, Autonomous Vehicles and the Future of Work continued to be trending topics at the show, I noticed several larger trends that I believe speak to where the […]
Industry Insights: How Logistics is Changing
Amazon’s dominance in the e-commerce space is impressive, but the impact it has had on the logistics industry as a whole is even more powerful. With the FreightWaves conference taking place this last week in Chicago, the topic of innovation in the logistics industry is certainly top of mind. […]
We’re looking for you to join the Cathay Innovation team!
Cathay Innovation is a rapidly growing European venture capital fund investing in North America, Europe, China and Africa. Based in San Francisco, Paris, and Shanghai, we are affiliated with Cathay Capital, a global investment firm with over $3.0b AUM and 90 professionals. We are now investing out of the recently launched Fund II, a EUR 500 million […]
The Rise of AI-Driven Enterprise Software in China
In what is now the largest-ever single financing in China’s Robotic Process Automation (RPA) + AI field, we are excited to announce the close of Laiye Technology’s Series B+ funding round of $US35 million, led by Cathay Innovation. With this investment, we are happy to partnering again with existing investors as Sequoia China, Lightspeed China, […]
Internet Access for the Next Billion People: Meet KaiOS, the Company Taking on the Global Digital Divide
Today, we are proud to announce that Cathay Innovation is the latest investor in KaiOS Technologies, leading the US $50 million Series B round along with existing investors Google and TCL. KaiOS, whose mission is to connect the next billion users to the Internet, has already made significant headway with more than 100 million KaiOS phones […]
CES 2019: The shift towards an AI driven services economy has begu
Cathay Innovation attended CES in Las Vegas this year – we visited the exhibitions and held meetings with our ecosystem of corporates to discuss the evolution of various technologies. As usual, the event continued to be massive, with more than 4,500 exhibiting companies and 180,000 attendees. […]
Connecting African Entrepreneurs to the world with the first Pan-African Venture Capital Fund
Africinvest and Cathay Innovation proudly announced today the launch of Cathay Africinvest Innovation. This new fund is the largest venture capital fund in Africa with nine offices interconnecting the entire African continent. Our aim is simple: contribute to changing the financing and development of startups in this continent of 1.3 Billion of people. How so? By providing the […]
Do not miss 5G, the highway to the Artificial Intelligence revolution!
As the debate heats up around the prices and providers of 5G, we should all keep in mind that its outcome will shape the global communications market for a long time to come. 2019 may not be the year of 5G’s distribution to the vast majority of consumers, but it is the year when key […]