Ant Financial was initially launched to support online payments. Today, it’s ecosystem covers financial services, from wealth management and insurance to lending and credit scores. Ant counts nearly 600M Alipay users, plus 110M+ Alipay partners across 15 countries — is much bigger than payments alone. 100M+ users use all 5 of Ant’s key functions, meaning...

If you are in public sector or non-for-profit organisation, GovInnovate would be of your interest. GovInnovate is a forum for the public sector to achieve excellence in service design, digital delivery and security. GovInnovate facilitates engaged, educated conversation on the challenges and opportunities in delivering a more collaborative, participatory and responsive...

Spotify is a great way to share your love of music with people all over the world. It is launched on 7 October 2008, is available in 65 regions.Spotify went public in April this year, so how Spotify grew from a startup into a public company? Let's have a look on...

If you are running a startup, you would want to know, like many others, why startups fail. The research company CB Insights studied many cases and highlighted the top 20 reasons which you could learn from. #20 – Failure to pivot when necessary. Not pivoting away or quickly enough from a...

Unicorns born in China are on the Rise. CBinsight publishes a research brief to show where did those private companies worth more than $1 billion came from. There are 214 unicorn startups, 127 were born in US, 59 from China, 12 from UK, 9 from India and 8 from Germany. Those ones...