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| Oct 18, 2023 | Quest backs Vietnam robotic prosthetics start-up | Singapore’s Quest Ventures has confirmed an investment of undisclosed size in Vietnam-based robotic prosthetics start-up Vulcan Augmetics.
Vulcan’s technology spans wearables, biometric sensing, and customizable robotics for upper limb amp... |
| Jul 27, 2023 | Единороги: как стартапы ими становятся | Содержание: Кто такие компании-единороги? Специфика и отличия единорогов Распределение по отраслям Топ-10 зарубежных единорогов Самые дорогие единороги Список российских единорогов Феномен единорогов Компании-единороги сегодня
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| Apr 24, 2023 | Digital health news, funding round up in the prior week; April 24, 2023 | Noah Medical raised $150M; Gilde Healthcare closed a €600M fund; Merck bought Prometheus Biosciences
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Moderna announced a partnership with IBM on Thursday, in which the company will "explore next generation technologies,... |
| Apr 6, 2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Hardee Fresh grabs $56m, Upward Farms shuts down, Wine that tastes like climate change | Vertical farming saw good and bad news this week, as Hardee Fresh raised new funds, Upward Farms ceased operations and Kalera filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Elsewhere, digital-first burger delivery service VICIO secured new cap... |
| Nov 14, 2022 | MoFo Asia Funds ESG Report: ESG Increasingly Impacts Investment Decisions, Fund Managers Report; Opportunities Remain for Integrating ESG throughout the Investment Cycle | HONG KONG (PRWEB) November 14, 2022
Morrison Foerster, a leading global law firm, today announced the results of its inaugural Asia Funds ESG Report, which highlights the disconnect between increasing ESG awareness and embedding ESG into de... |
| Dec 22, 2021 | Australia’s Thriving Fintech Sector Creates Jobs, Attracts Record Funding | Australia’s fintech industry is thriving, creating thousands of new positions, attracting record investment and turning on revenue streams quickly. These players are now expanding globally, turning to markets including the UK, the US, Singa... |
| Nov 24, 2021 | Chinese Agricultural Drone Startup XAG to Debut in STAR Market | On Monday, the IPO application of XAG, a domestic agricultural drone maker, was accepted by the Shanghai Sci-Tech Innovation Board (STAR Market). XAG plans to raise 1.51 billion yuan ($235 million), which would be used for a digital agricul... |
| Jun 2, 2021 | How to win consulting, board and deal roles with PE and VC funds | David Teten Contributor
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| May 19, 2020 | PE firm MBK Partners said to close fifth North Asia buyout fund at $6.5b | Premium
North Asia-focused private equity firm MBK Partners has closed its fifth buyout fund at its $6.5 billion hard cap, AVCJ reported Tuesday.
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| May 8, 2020 | Australia’s Judo Bank Closes On $147M Series C For SME Loans | 19 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Judo Bank, an Australian neobank that provides loans to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has raised $147 million in a Series C round of funding.
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| Dec 2, 2019 | Japanese PE firm J-STAR closes fourth buyout fund at $433m: Report | Premium
Tokyo-headquartered alternative asset manager J-STAR, a mid-market player in the Japanese private equity market, has closed its fourth buyout fund at the hard cap of 48.5 billion yen ($433 million), according to an AVCJ report.
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| Sep 4, 2019 | China’s Quan Capital closes second healthcare fund short of $300m target | Premium
China-based healthcare-focused venture capital firm Quan Capital has closed its second fund – Quan Venture Fund II – with $275 million in commitments, according to an AVCJ report.
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| Jun 17, 2019 | The Most Recent Startup Investments Over $250 Million In 2019 | 242 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
2018 was the year supergiant VC deals became a nearly everyday occurrence. Equity funding rounds of $100 million or more dominated the global VC market, accounting for a vanishingly small percent o... |
| Jun 17, 2019 | The Most Recent Startup Investments Over $250 Million In 2019 | 240 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
2018 was the year supergiant VC deals became a nearly everyday occurrence. Equity funding rounds of $100 million or more dominated the global VC market, accounting for a vanishingly small percent o... |
| Apr 17, 2019 | HK-based NewQuest to raise $850m for fourth secondaries fund: Report | Premium
Hong Kong-based private equity firm NewQuest Capital Partners is looking to raise $850 million for its fourth Asia-focused secondaries fund, according to a report by AVCJ.
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| Apr 10, 2019 | Top 20 Retail & Restaurant Tech Startups in 2018 | Retail and restaurant tech is a category of agrifood tech startups encompassing technologies and services aimed at making retail food businesses more profitable as well as improving shopper experience at the supermarket, in restaurants and ... |
| Jan 21, 2019 | China’s HighLight Capital achieves first close of third RMB fund | Premium
Chinese healthcare-focused investment firm HighLight Capital has reached the first close of its third RMB-dominated fund at about 70 per cent of the hard cap, AVCJ reported.
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| Oct 16, 2018 | Today’s Tech Headlines: Gartner’s 2019 top ten tech predictions | The Essentials The ten tech trends for 2019
IT consultancy Gartner highlighted the top ten tech trends for 2019, include:
– Autonomous things: robots, drones and autonomous vehicles,
– Augmented analytics: augmented intelligence that use ma... |
| Oct 11, 2018 | Today’s Tech Headlines: SEA’s funding tide breaks record | The Essentials Southeast Asia’s funding tide
As Southeast Asia’s startup heat keeps chugging up, venture capital funding in the first eight months in the region has broken last year’s record, outnumbering the total investments made in 2017.... |
| Oct 9, 2018 | Today’s Tech Headlines: Tencent invests in Nubank while Grab ties up with Microsoft | The Essentials
Tencent’s US$180 million investment in Nubank the Brazilian financial services company propelled the latter’s valuation to $4 billion, making it one of the highest valued unicorns in Latin America as well as in global emergin... |
| Mar 6, 2018 | The Cyberlaw Podcast: Interview with Miles Brundage and Shahar Avin | Our interview features an excellent and mostly grounded exploration of how artificial intelligence could become a threat as a result of the cybersecurity arms race. Maury Shenk does much of the interviewing in London. He talks to Miles Brun... |
| Nov 2, 2017 | Open source database startup MariaDB confirms $27M investment led by Alibaba | Open source database startup MariaDB has announced a new $27 million round of funding led by Alibaba, confirming the news that TechCrunch reported in September.
As we wrote then, Alibaba contributed the majority of the round, supplying €20 ... |
| Sep 29, 2017 | Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in open source database startup MariaDB | Alibaba has spent 2017 pushing its cloud computing business and now it is preparing to make its first major investment in a Western startup in the space.
The Chinese e-commerce giant has agreed to lead a €22.9 million ($27 million) investme... |
| Sep 28, 2017 | China: Yao Capital leads $75m funding in sports school Doing Now | Premium
Yao Capital, the Chinese private equity firm co-founded by former NBA superstar Yao Ming, has led a $75 million (RMB500 million) funding round in Doing Now, a privately-held Chinese sports school for children, AVCJ reported.
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| Jun 15, 2017 | PE-backed WuXi Biologics completes Hong Kong re-listing | WuXi Biologics, a Chinese contract R&D services provider to the global pharmaceutical industry that was taken private by a PE-backed consortium in late 2015, gained 38% on its Hong Kong trading debut following a HK$3.97 billion ($510 mi... |
| Jun 15, 2017 | KKR founders, Fosun join $22.8m investment in Japan’s Seven Dreamers Lab | Premium
Japan’s Seven Dreamers Laboratories, a maker of personal-use devices, has raised $22.8 million (JPY2.5 billion) from private equity major KKR’s co-founders Henry Kravis and George Roberts, Chinese conglomerate Fosun International, a... |
| May 24, 2017 | Australia’s Champ Private Equity closes fourth fund at $547m | Premium
Sydney-based CHAMP Private Equity has closed its fourth fund at $547 million (A$735 million), said a report in AVCJ.
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| May 22, 2017 | CPPIB’s Asia private equity portfolio rises 24% to touch $9.9b | Premium
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB)’s Asian private equity portfolio increased by nearly a quarter to $9.9 billion (C$13.4 billion) for the 12-month period ended March 2017, as per a report in AVCJ.
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| Mar 9, 2017 | China: Matrix leads $15m Series C round in cloud platform EaseMob | Premium
China’s cloud communications startup EaseMob has raised $15 million (RMB 103 million) in a Series C funding round led by Matrix Partners China, as per a report in AVCJ.
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| Mar 21, 2016 | Altos Ventures’ second Korea-focused fund closed at $110m | Premium
With offices in San Francisco and Seoul, Altos Ventures has closed $110 million for its second Korean Opportunity Fund (KOF), according to a report.
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| Mar 21, 2016 | Fosun Kinzon leads $15m Series B round in Chinese health app Easyhin | Premium
Fosun Kinzon Capital, a venture capital firm backed by Fosun Group, has led RMB100 million ($15 million) Series B round for Easyhin, a Chinese mobile health management services platform for mothers and babies, AVCJ said in a report ... |
| Mar 17, 2016 | Korean pension fund POBA to double exposure in global PE vehicles, to invest $200m | Premium
South Korea’s Public Officials Benefit Association (POBA), a local pension fund for government officials, will allot $200 million to private equity vehicles this fiscal, a 100 per cent jump, from its allocation last year, a report s... |
| Nov 18, 2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 18, 2015 | Ola bagged $500M; Joyable raised $8M; Test IO landed $5M
TestCloud, a self-service crowdtesting platform for app and Web developers, has a new name and a big new round of funding, the company announced on Wednesday, all to facilitate a big ... |
| Oct 6, 2015 | Market Volatility And New Laws Shape US-Sino Tech Investing | Chuck Comey Contributor
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| Sep 23, 2015 | BC Partners-owned Mergermarket Group acquires AVCJ, Unquote | Premium
Private equity firm BC Partners-owned Mergermarket Group has acquired the Asian Venture Capital Journal (AVCJ), a news and data portal that tracks Asian private equity and venture capital activity.
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| Sep 3, 2015 | Baidu’s Student Q&A App Zuoyebang Lands Investment From Sequoia and Legend Capital | Baidu, China’s largest search engine and an investor in Uber, is giving its Zuoyebang ‘after school’ service, which helps school students with their studies, wings of its own after it revealed that the business raised an undisclosed Series ... |
| Feb 13, 2015 | Mobile Unicorns Multiply To Hit A Quarter Of A Trillion Dollars | Tim Merel Contributor
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| Mar 3, 2014 | Nexus Venture Partners raising new fund, may focus on backing existing portfolio firms | Nexus Venture Partners, an India-focused venture capital firm with around 50 investments to its credit, is raising a new fund christened Nexus Opportunity Fund Ltd, as per a SEC disclosure.
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| Dec 11, 2012 | Founders Fund Partner Bruce Gibney Has Left The Firm | Bruce Gibney, the Founders Fund partner who criss-crossed the country raising its fourth fund of $625 million, has left the firm, multiple industry sources confirm. Details of why he departed are unavailable at this time, but we understand ... |
| Jul 17, 2012 | American McGee’s Spicy Horse launches real-time, cross-platform title Crazy Fairies (exclusive) | American McGee moved from the U.S. to China six years ago and set up a Western game studio making cool triple-A games. Now his Spicy Horse Games is launching a title called Crazy Fairies that has some unique characteristics as a cross-platf... |
| Jul 17, 2012 | American McGee’s Spicy Horse launches real-time, cross-platform title Crazy Fairies (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
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| Sep 5, 2011 | Anacacia Fund Named World's Top Performer | A vehicle launched by Australia’s Anacacia Capital has been named the top performing fund globally by Pensions and Investments magazine.
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| Why you should buy your next car online. Humans interact better, technology does the rest | -Hey dude, I’m gonna buy a car today.
-Really? Where you gonna go?.
-Where? I’ll do it from my couch.
-Really?
This might seem like a dumb conversation between two mates, but it is pretty much what we can expect to hear from now on. On ... |
| AVCJ Fund Focus: Apis seeks to make specialization count | Apis is relying on its team’s financial services expertise and networks to deliver the goods in South Asia and Africa. LPs have given them $287 million with which to prove the thesis. |
