Filed in archive by james on December 29, 2005
With the New Year approaching, the parent company of Silicon Valley Bank, the institution that boasts nearly half of all U.S. venture-backed companies as clients, has opened a new subsidiary in...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by james on December 22, 2005
According to the Shanghai Daily, Venture capital firms have increased the pace of their investment in China's high-growth sectors, including the Internet, semiconductors and new applications for...
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Filed in archive Private Equity
by james on December 21, 2005
Beijing Technology and Business University (BTBU) issued the "International Trade Investment Risks Index" (ITIRI) and China is among the list of 10 countries and regions with the lowest...
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Filed in archive Private Equity
by james on December 20, 2005
CVN has a follow-up to yesterday's post, about Ritchie Capital, a diversified alternative asset management firm's appoitnment of Harjit Bhatia as Chief Executive Officer, Ritchie Capital...
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Filed in archive Private Equity
by james on December 19, 2005
According to Hong Kong based, Asia Finance magazine, Harjit Bhatia, a ex-GE exec will spearhead Ritchie Capital business for China, Japan and Australia. This is just further confirmation that China in...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by james on December 15, 2005
Victor Koo, former Sohu (Nasdaq: SOHU) president and COO, is now banking on a new 3rd generation Internet "search fund," 1Verge Internet Technology Inc. for 2006 and beyond. Koo, along with...
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Filed in archive Conferences
by james on December 14, 2005
At last week's Pan-Pearl River delta Software Industry and China Venture Capital Conference, PacificNet Inc. (Nasdaq:PACT), a leading provider of value-added telecom services (VAS) in China,...
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by james on December 13, 2005
In efforts to promote life science partnerships across the Pacific, San Francisco-based Burrill & Company, together with CapitalBio Corporation, WuXi PharmaTech Co. Ltd., ChipScreen...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by james on December 08, 2005
Respected reporter, Matt Marshall of Silicon Beat, still in Shanghai writes that division street is more evident among the once clubby and cozy venture community. The picture at Granite Global...
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Washington, Silicon Valley and even the Treasury Department have been vigilantly watching China, wondering what would happen when the Sleeping Dragon finally took flight. Now that it has, even Bay...
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by james on December 05, 2005
With the year-end approaching, it is apparent that the interest in China's venture capital industry shows no signs of waning, and if anything is certain, the investment fever continues. Today in...
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Filed in archive Venture Capital
by james on December 02, 2005
Pacific Epoch has reported that Chinese blog startup Bokee, formerly called, Blog China, is planning a series of acquisitions before year-end. Beijing-based Bokee, which hosts Chinese blogs and makes...
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