{"id":77824,"date":"2018-04-15T02:43:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T09:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/made-for-each-other-indian-start-ups-and-chinese-investors"},"modified":"2018-04-15T02:43:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T09:43:02","slug":"made-for-each-other-indian-start-ups-and-chinese-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/made-for-each-other-indian-start-ups-and-chinese-investors","title":{"rendered":"Made for each other: Indian start-ups and Chinese investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/made-for-each-other-indian-start-ups-and-chinese-investors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once known as the source of \u201cdumb money\u201d \u2013 investments that could hurt, instead of help, tech start-ups in the long-run \u2013 Chinese investors now have found many happy recipients. In India, start-ups from fintech to e-commerce to transport have all rolled out the red carpet for Chinese investors, not only for their capital but also for their successful track records in similar markets.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Western funding still dominates India\u2019s start-up scene, but entrepreneurs are turning East for cash and expertise that will keep them viable in the long term.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/author\/coco-liu\" title=\"Coco Liu\">Coco Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>0 Share<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/business\/article\/2141665\/made-each-other-indian-start-ups-and-chinese-investors\">http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/business\/article\/2141665\/made-...-investors<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once known as the source of \u201cdumb money\u201d \u2013 investments that could hurt, instead of help, tech start-ups in the long-run \u2013 Chinese investors now have found many happy recipients. In India, start-ups from fintech to e-commerce to transport have all rolled out the red carpet for Chinese investors, not only for their capital but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}