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on July 20, 2008
It might be hard to decide what to think about China's Business Confidence Index, but the venture capital index is definitely up.
MarketWatch reported this weekend on the latest MoneyTree(TM) Rep...
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on July 15, 2008
Tech Start Ups carried a blog post a couple of days ago on the VC industry in China. I think the story originated with Xinhua. This year's Q2 numbers for venture capital in china are up 70% over l...
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on July 14, 2008
China's monstrous online job site, Zhaopin.com, got a shot of cash so huge recently that would make king kong blush.
PaidContent.Org is reporting that Zhaopin has received $110 million in venture...
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on July 13, 2008
Koolanoo Group has found success in China. Their social networking site, 360Quan, is the largest teen-oriented Internet site in China, with 30 million logging on each month.
"China is an emergin...
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on April 11, 2008
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 ...
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on April 2, 2008
ProGenTech, a life science company with offices in Shanghai, Suzhou and Emeryville California, announced last week that it had received US$21 million in venture capital funding from two sources.
Acco...
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on March 29, 2008
3i, a European PE firm that had played a major role in funding start-ups in Europe and dabbles at times in Asia, has decided to get out of the venture capital business.
A number of bloggers have comm...
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on March 18, 2008
I heard a story on NPR this morning that was fascinating before the money angle ever got mentioned. Seems a company in China called Beike Biotechnology is treating optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH) among o...
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on March 17, 2008
The China Daily reported recently that venture capital investment in China more than doubled in February compared to the same time last year.
The brief report cited the financial consulting firm Chin...
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on March 12, 2008
Britain's largest private equity firm, Permira, is about to take the plunge into China.
Permira has decided it wants in on the Chinese consumer market, according to This Is Money. The PE firm pla...
