Over the last few years, Southeast Asia (SEA), home to over 650 million people and startup unicorns like Grab, Gojek and Tokopedia, has been recognized as one of the hottest emerging startup economies to watch due to rapid growth and an increasingly mobile-savvy population — with mobile penetration growing 132% in 2019. […]
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Start Up Bright Spots in a Time of Global Meltdown
Most if not all countries today are under some form of quarantine, isolation or are “sheltering in place,” and people everywhere are feeling the stress and anxiety that comes along with a global crisis that’s unlike anything we’ve experienced thus far. Yet, it’s during the most difficult and challenging times that you often see the […]
Cathay Innovation suggestions and tactical advices to deal with the COVID-19 period
Sharing the letter we sent to our portfolio companies to help them dealing with the Covid19 and anticipating post-Covid19 periods. We believe that we are in a longer period than expected of weak activities to manage, but that here lies also a massive opportunity of acceleration for the ones who really want to be useful […]
A Sustainable Economy: it takes a Village!
The world over is calling for businesses of all sizes to have a positive impact and contribute to a shift towards a sustainable economy — one that not only promotes job growth and economic prosperity but promotes the well-being of society as a whole. […]
China 2020: Rise of the AI driven Services
Over the last two decades we have witnessed the rapid rise of tech in China, which is now considered a world leader with technology giants such as Tencent, Alibaba and Bytedance. Now there are more than 200 unicorns in China, second only to the US. […]
3 Cathay Innovation Predictions for 2020
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 […]
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. […]
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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 […]