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. […]
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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 […]
Where East meets West: Consumer Fintech at a crossroads — A South East Asia Story
Innovators around the world have heralded fintech as a force that will remake the storied financial sector. Investors agree. In the first three quarters of 2018 alone, venture capitalists invested $32.6 billion in 1,164 companies — almost double last year’s $17.9 billion invested globally. Already, fintech startups are impacting consumers lives: in 2017, an EY survey across twenty […]
Insuretech’s real promise: growing the pie
In Silicon Valley, the typical narrative around any innovation follows a similar pattern: [Insert industry] has not changed in [Insert arbitrary large number] years. They are still using [insert choice of antiquated technology: fax machines, excel sheets, mainframe computers] to conduct their business. Therefore, technology startups are poised to disrupt it — with a new approach, […]
How we early-backed Cootek, now China’s most global software company, with 132 Million DAU in 240 countries, going Public on the NYSE on September 28
Sometimes, taking a company public only takes only three years, like with Cathay Innovation invested Pinduoduo, but most of the time it takes much longer. September 28 2018 is a very special day for us, because it is the day CooTek is going public on the NYSE (NYSE:CTK) at a multi billion dollar valuation. We invested […]