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Venture Capital
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.
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Venture Capital
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 19, 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...
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on March 12, 2008
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 p...
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on February 25, 2008
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 compare...
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on February 16, 2008
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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Venture Capital
on February 13, 2008
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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on February 3, 2008
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 numb...
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