BabyTree, a Chinese social networking site for mothers-to-be, just picked up $10 million in venture capital funds from Matrix Partners China Fund. Matrix Partners set up a China Fund last month and...
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Xorte is reporting that venture capital deals in the fourth quarter of 2007 were up 6% over that same period of 2006. The fourth quarter saw 60 deals, with $660 million being invested in China...
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Tech Confidential reported last week that Shanghai-based BCD Semiconductor had decided not to offer an IPO in the US in the near future. BCD had asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on...
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Blogger Paul Denlinger, CEO of China Business Strategy, put up a good post last week at his blog on whether a Western-Managed business can succeed in China. Paul looks at trends in the management of...
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Northern Light Venture Capital announced last week that its second fund, the Northern Light Venture Fund II, had reached its US$350 million target and was now closed. Trading Markets was among a...
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Tam, an English teacher in China, published an interesting blog post yesterday on what might be a new frontier in green energy for China: biogas. In Guangxi, according to her blog (which references a...
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The China Development Bank and the IDB Group of tel aviv have kicked $50 million into Infinity I-China, a developing VC fund that targets joint ventures between Chinese and Israeli companies in the...
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Zero2IPO has started China's first venture capital and private equity database. The subscription service, ChinaVentureDatabase "is the single source for accurate, comprehensive and timely...
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The EE Times is reporting that Israel-based Giza Venture Capital is started a fifth VC fund, Giza V, with help from Taiwan's National Development Fund (NDF). The new $150 million fund is getting...
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Redline China is among several sources reporting that 360Quan is getting an influx of cash from Koolanoo Group. The 360Quan site is China's third largest social networking site and has experienced...
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Zero2IPO recently released the China Venture Capital & Private Equity Annual Ranking for 2007 and this year's number one venture capital firm is SAIF Partners. SAIF Partners describes itself...
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Looking for a job, a change of location, or maybe a nice raise? Half the venture capital world may be looking for you, depending on what you know... A.E. Feldman pointed out this week in their blog...
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The US-based venture capital firm Walden International is looking to increase its investment in Taiwan, according to Digitimes in Taipei. Digitimes quotes Walden managing director Brian Chiang who...
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Redbaby is a business-to-consumer (B2C) website based in Beijing. The company started off dealing in children's products, selling them through an online portal. It has broadened its product line,...
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venture capital investment continues to grow in China, but it is changing direction in China according to a recent report by Ernst & Young and Dow Jones VentureOne on third quarter venture capital...
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Clean technology has been a hot topic recently for venture capital buffs interested in China. So when I saw this article in Business Week I knew I'd have to at least mention it... "Venture...
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One of the biggest difficulties Western business people face when they go into China to find partners is a cultural one. Most Westerners don't fully understand that Chinese business people value...
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Min Zhu is the founder of Cybernaut, a Hangzhou-based venture capital firm. He lived through the Cultural Revolution in China, graduated from Zhe Jiang University with a degree in engineering, came to...
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The China Daily News is reporting that Ambow Education Group has been promised $54 million in venture capital funds. That makes Ambow the largest recipient of VC funds so far in the education sector...
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Juren Education Group, a fairly well known named brand for education in China, received US$20 million in venture capital funds earlier this month to expand its after school tutoring programs. Several...
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The Shanghai Daily is reporting that China may expand venture capital opportunities in the near future. According to a recent report in the paper, "China is drafting rules to let insurers start...
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With improved quality of life, economic growth, the demand for professional skills, and a growing amount of money in the pockets of the average Chinese citizen, it was probably only a matter of time...
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Today I came across a refreshingly humorous but very useful account of how language and culture play into communication problems for Western managers (and investors) in the Chinese workplace. The...
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