Intel Capital and China Policy Roadmap China Venture News

With no Abatement in the gold rush of US VCs into China, I continue my conversation with author and researcher, Jonsson Yinya Li, on his observations in his new book, Investing in China: The Emerging Venture Capital Industry. Jonsson is an avowed daily finance media junkie, scouring everything he can find on the latest announced venture capital deals. With multinationals like Intel Capital and their new $200 million fund directed [...] Read More


Intel Capital Invests in China's Innovation China Venture News

Intel Corp.'s venture-capital arm sees greater innovation among the companies it examines for investment in China. According to the Street.com, Intel Capital has announced four new investments from its $200 million Technology Fund. The companies receiving investments are Campus Media Inc., Montage Technology Co. Ltd., Star Softcomm Pte Ltd. and Winking Entertainment Limited. Intel Capital has now invested in 12 Chinese companies since its US$200 million China Technology Fund was [...] Read More


Intel Capital Starts Second China Fund China Venture News

Intel Capital has put $500 million into a second venture capital fund focused on China technology start-ups, according to ZD Net Asia. The fund will focus on start-ups "doing work in areas such as wireless broadband, media, telecommunications, and clean technology." Intel plans to increase the size of the investment it makes in individual companies and to even become the lead investor in some cases. Intel's first fund invested in 28 [...] Read More


Intel Unveils New Roadmap The Mobile Technology Weblog

With all of the buzz around ETech, CeBIT etc., and the unveiling of the UMPC/Origami portable devices, it passed rather quietly last week that Intel announced some of its wireless "roadmap" in San Francisco. Among the announced items were: The next generation of Centrino mobile technology, code named Santa Rosa, with additional connectivity management and security and support for 802.11n. Santa Rosa is due to come to market in 2007. Greater focus [...] Read More


Intel: Free Ride is Over! The Search Engine Weblog

Say goodbye to freebies, free rides... News.com reports: After years of delivering faster and faster chips that can easily boost the performance of most desktop software, Intel says the free ride is over. Already, chipmakers like Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are delivering processors that have multiple brains, or cores, rather than single brains that run ever faster. The challenge is that most of today's software isn't built to handle that kind [...] Read More

Entrepreneur Corner shares an optimistic perspective on venture captial in China.

During the past several years, China has gradually become one of the most attractive investment markets in the world, largely due to the diversification of industries, the relative cost base and the tremendously increased domestic market...

But the article goes on to point out that China's not immune from the financial crisis.

The question for VCs is really the same question that most of the world is asking: Can China maintain its growth? Or is it a bubble that will burst sometime soon?

At the moment at least, life is good of venture capital in China...

© Emile Bremmer


Chna made economic news this past week by announcing that its gross domestic product grew 10.7% in the fourth quarter of 2009, and that as far as China was concerned the recession was now over. The Chinese are more worried about inflation than recession and they plan to take steps to bring their growth under control.

Growth had been projected at around 9% for the quarter. So the growth rate of almost 11% was a bit of a surprise. Many analysis are now concerned that if the Chinese government takes steps to slow the growth of its economy, the grobal recession will drag out longer.

At the moment China is the third largest economy in the world - behind the US and Japan. But if growth continues at the current pace, China could pass Japan and take second place before the year is out.

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As the economies of India and China become more and more intertwined, and as the two countries focus more and more on competing with each other, a little context can create some perspective. I found a piece of that context recently in a blog post at 2point6billion, and I found it mildly surprising...

Mumbai may be on the way to overtaking Shanghai as a financial hub in the coming years based on data revealed by the Financial Times which shows that the Bombay Stock Exchange's main index significantly outperformed the Shanghai Stock Exchange's main index in terms of growth in the past decade.

Outsiders to Chna have often watched with envy as the Shanghai Exchange shot up - knowing that they couldn't get access to buy and sell there. But as 2point6.billion points out, Mumbai performed better over the last decade even though China's citizens have only Shanghai and the Shenzhen Exchange as options while India's citizens can invest pretty much anywhere.

No one is suggesting that China's economy isn't going to stay hot. But Mumbai may eventually become Asia's leading exchange.

Advance New Book on China Venture Capital China Venture News

A number of leading private equity and venture players continue to float their funds through the South China Seas, most with offices not only in Hong Kong but now also in China. This includes industry giants like Warburg Pincus, The Carlyle Group, and Intel Capital, to name but only a few of the stellar mega funds. More American VCs are making a beachead in China each passing week. The venture [...] Read More


China Venture Capital Research Institute Issues New China VC Yearbook China Venture News

Like China itself, the venture capital scene has witnessed some dynamic change. Dr. Gongmeng Chen, the director of the Hong Kong based China Venture Capital Research Institute has just released their latest annual China VC Yearbook. This acclaimed baedecker on China venture capital includes more than 900 pages and 400 charts and tables. In an earlier interview with CVN, the director stated, ""The role of the CVCRI is to help [...] Read More


For China's Poor- Venture Capital Funds for Digital Deliverance China Venture News

Hangzhou based Sinomen, has received US$1 million in funding and will soon receive another US$1 million investment, according to Pacific Epoch. Sinomen is an information website for China's rural workers. The website was launched in November 2005 and provides recruitment, training, life style, and various other information for China's rural workers. Rural laborers began to flood into cities in the 1980s looking for simple manual jobs. There are now about 140 [...] Read More


Nanotechnology research funding up, venture capital down Nanotechbuzz

More than $9.5 billion was spent on nanotechnology research and development worldwide in 2005, a considerable rise as compared to 2004. But $9 billion of that was from governments and corporations, says "The World Nanotechnology Market (2006)" report from Research and Markets. And VC's may be backing off even more in 2006. Venture capital investments in MEMS and nanotech companies in the first half of 2006 were down 15.4% compared [...] Read More


The 2009 Outlook for Venture Capital (from the National Venture Capital Association) TJ's Weblog

Nine out of ten venture capitalists expect a decrease in VC investment in 2009. That, according to a recent survey conducted by the National venture capital Association. The survey, conducted in late November and early December, asked more than 400 VCs about the outlook for next year. Some 92 percent of them forecast decreased investment (measured in dollars, but not necessarily in deals) for 2009. While there may be less [...] Read More