BEIJING, May 22, 2019 — Nikkei, Asia’s largest independent business media group, has announced today a global partnership with China’s leading business and tech news portal 36Kr to cover Asian startups, with a focus on the vibrant Chinese startup scene.
The partnership will see global cooperation between Nikkei and 36Kr on news content and corporate data.
The Japanese version of 36Kr’s Chinese startup reportage will appear on the Nikkei Online Edition and Nikkei Telecom, a leading Japanese business database. In addition, 36Kr’s English content, produced through its subsidiary KrASIA, will appear on Nikkei Asian Review and scoutAsia, a corporate data and news service jointly developed by Nikkei and the Financial Times.
Founded in 2010 in Beijing, 36Kr has been chronicling China’s dynamic startup and venture capital ecosystem and growing alongside the ecosystem, which is the world’s second largest next to Silicon Valley.
To date, 36Kr has reached more than 150 million readers worldwide and published more than 100,000 articles. It’s one of the most influential content providers covering China’s new economy sector.
“The cooperation with 36Kr on Japanese and English content syndication will help Nikkei strengthen its coverage of Chinese and other Asian tech companies,” said Naotoshi Okada, CEO and president of Nikkei.
Feng Dagang, CEO of 36Kr, said the tie-up is another step towards achieving the company’s vision of globalization vision as well as its mission to connect Chinese innovation with the world. “The move will accelerate our global content strategy and brand recognition. It will also help increase the worldwide awareness of Chinese companies,” he said.
Apart from content syndication, the two companies will also seek to find synergies in organizing off-line events in the future.
About Nikkei
Nikkei is a world-renowned media brand for Asian news, respected for quality journalism and for being a trusted provider of business news and information. Founded as a market news provider in Japan in 1876, Nikkei has grown into one of the world’s largest media corporations, with 37 foreign editorial bureaus and approximately 1,500 journalists worldwide. Nikkei acquired the Financial Times in 2015. The combined digital and print readership of the Nikkei and the FT totals approximately 4 million.
About 36Kr
36Kr is dedicated to providing Chinese entrepreneurs, investment institutions, and professionals with cutting-edge technology news and trends with a global perspective. It covers global startups, primary market data insights, industry analysis, as well as investment trends. As of 2017 year-end, it has covered 150,000,000 readers worldwide and has issued over 100,000 articles. And it has grown to be an influential content platform of China’s new economy sector. The company has created an enterprise service platform premised on its content, and integrated itself into the development and innovation of the Chinese new economy, with a view to help new economy companies develop through its comprehensive services.