PE Hub is reporting that Shanghai-based Profex Inc. has gotten hold of $15.5 million in first round venture capital funding. Profex is a dermatology startup in China. The funding round was co-led by...
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PE Hub is reporting that Venture Capital research group Zero2IPO has raised $60 million for a second China-focused investment fund. Zero2IPO is based in Beijing and tracks the China venture capital...
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China's economy may (or may not) be slowing down, but the decision makers behind venture capital investment in the Middle Kingdom couldn't care less. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier...
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PE HUB is reporting that HD Biosciences Inc. of Shanghai has raised an undisclosed amount of Series A funding. HD Bio is a biology contract research group. Morningside Venture and Lilly Asian Ventures...
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Shanghai-based Ultizen Games has raised $6 million in Series B funding - most of it from a Taiwanese investor. According to PE Hub, PAC-Link of Taiwan led the round, and was joined by Japan Asia...
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PE HUB reported today that Chinese Internet and new media investment firm Koolanoo Group has raised $25 million as part of a new, third round of venture capital funding. According to a press release,...
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A recent rumor reported by Pacific Epoch has cause two different blogs to look at peer-to-peer file sharing in China. NewTeeVee is one of the sites that covered the rumor. Pacific Epoch is reporting...
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Seeking Alpha had a good piece Sunday on the poor performance of China's biomedical industry when it comes to venture capital funding. The comparison is simple enough. In the U.S., biomedical...
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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)...
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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...
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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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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 emerging...
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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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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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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...
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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...
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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 China...
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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...
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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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