Corporate venture

Q&A: How Ping An can nurture tech startups

Ping An Global Voyager's Donald Lacey explains how his corporate venture fund invests in tech startups.

Carol Huang

August 20, 2019

Traditional Chinese corporates are gradually increasing their investment in tech startups, hoping to be ahead of the game.

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