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Venture Capital
by Greg Cruey on January 25, 2010
Entrepreneur Corner shares an optimistic perspective on venture captial in China.During the past several years, China has gradually become one of the most attractive investment markets in the world,...
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by Greg Cruey on December 9, 2008
Cybernaut Investment (China partner of VC fund New Enterprise Associates) just sat up two yuan denominated VC funds in China this month with a total value of 650 million yuan - or about $95.24 million...
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by Greg Cruey on November 26, 2008
If the Venture Capital model is broken in the U.S., companies that invest VC Funds in China don't seem to have figured it out yet; they're investing faster than ever, according to sources like...
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by Greg Cruey on November 13, 2008
TechCrunch ran a piece today on the ratio funds raised to invests with vs. economic value created by venture capital firms (measured by what VC companies have gotten back on exiting their investments)...
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by Greg Cruey on November 13, 2008
U.S. venture capital fund Revolution Ventures plans to open a Beijing office "soon," according to Reuters.
The VC company wants to focus on the education and learning sectors in China and I...
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by Greg Cruey on November 11, 2008
China Economic Review is reporting that Shanghai's Pudong district is going to get its own venture capital firm.
A government sponsored investment fund worth almost $300 million is going to focus...
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by Greg Cruey on September 9, 2008
China IT service provider DCITS has received $73 million in venture capital funds, according to the Private Equity Help Desk.
The deal is part of a spin off of DCITS. The company was previously part ...
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by Greg Cruey on August 27, 2008
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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by Greg Cruey on August 26, 2008
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 m...
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by Greg Cruey on August 22, 2008
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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by Greg Cruey on August 16, 2008
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 Ventur...
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by Greg Cruey on August 7, 2008
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 Inves...
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by Greg Cruey on August 5, 2008
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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by Greg Cruey on July 25, 2008
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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by Greg Cruey on July 23, 2008
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 pro...
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by Greg Cruey on July 21, 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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by Greg Cruey 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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by Greg Cruey 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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by Greg Cruey on July 14, 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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by Greg Cruey 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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by Greg Cruey 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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by Greg Cruey 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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by Greg Cruey 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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by Greg Cruey 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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by Greg Cruey 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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by Greg Cruey 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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by Greg Cruey 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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by Greg Cruey 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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by Greg Cruey 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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by Greg Cruey 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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