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| Jun 27, 2019 | Warburg Pincus closes China-Southeast Asia PE fund at over $4.25b | Premium
Global private equity firm Warburg Pincus has made the final close for its China-Southeast Asia-focused private equity fund – Warburg Pincus China-SEA II – after securing commitments exceeding a $4.25-billion hard cap.
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| Jun 27, 2019 | Warburg Pincus closes USD 4.25 billion fund focusing on China and Southeast Asia | Private equity firm Warburg Pincus, known as Hua Ping in China, announced the close of a new USD 4.25 billion fund with an investment focus on Chinese and Southeast Asian companies.
The firm’s investment portfolio includes some of the bigge... |
| Jun 26, 2019 | Warburg Pincus Closes $4.25 Billion China-Southeast Asia II Fund | Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm focused on growth investing, today announced the successful close of Warburg Pincus China-Southeast Asia II, L.P. ("Warburg Pincus China-SEA II"). Warburg Pincus China-SEA II is... |
| Jun 26, 2019 | Warburg Pincus announces new $4.25 billion fund for China and Southeast Asia | Warburg Pincus, the private equity fund with over $60 billion under management, is doubling down on Asia after it announced a $4.25 billion fund dedicated to China and Southeast Asia.
The firm has been present in China for 25 years, and it ... |
| May 28, 2019 | Warburg Pincus raising $4.25b for China-Southeast Asia PE fund | Premium
Global private equity firm Warburg Pincus is looking to raise up to $4.25 billion for a China-Southeast Asia-focused private equity fund, less than three years after it secured $2 billion for its first China fund, according to its l... |
| Jan 24, 2019 | Mark Pincus Reportedly Raising $700 Million For New Investment Fund | Mark Pincus, the founder of Zynga, is reportedly in the process of raising $700 million for a new fund that would invest in publicly traded technology companies that would benefit from strategic restructuring according to Axios.
As an inves... |
| Jan 22, 2019 | Report: Zynga founder Mark Pincus is raising up to $700 million for an investment fund | Zynga founder Mark Pincus is raising up to $700 million for a new investment fund that will focus on publicly traded tech companies in need of strategic restructuring, according to a new report in Axios. It says his new firm is called Reinv... |
| Nov 1, 2018 | Warburg Pincus completes buyout of DKSH’s China healthcare biz for $99.45m | Premium
Private equity major Warburg Pincus has completed the buyout of DKSH’s healthcare business in China for CHF100 million ($99.45 million), marking the New York-headquartered investor’s first control deal in the country.
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| Jan 12, 2018 | Warburg Pincus picks up 14% stake in PVR for ₹820 crore | Private equity firm Warburg Pincus on Wednesday said that it has acquired about 14 per cent stake through its affiliates in the leading multiplex chain PVR Ltd for around ₹820 crore.
Warburg Pincus said that the stake is being acquired from... |
| Dec 19, 2017 | Warburg Pincus exceeds target, closes first financial services fund at $2.3b | Premium
Global private equity major Warburg Pincus Tuesday said it had raised $2.3 billion for a new financial services fund, exceeding its target of $1.6 billion.
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| Dec 19, 2017 | Warburg Pincus raises $2.3 bn to invest in financial services firms globally | Warburg Pincus, one of the prolific private equity firms investing in India through global funds, has hit the final close of its financial sector fund at $2.3 billion (around Rs 14,725 crore).
Warburg Pincus Financial Sector Fund was launch... |
| Mar 28, 2016 | Warburg Pincus raising new $2b China-focussed fund | Premium
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC is in the early stages of raising a new $2-billion China-focussed fund.
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| Mar 3, 2016 | Warburg Pincus nets $425.7m for China Biologic Products stake sale | Premium
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus has cut trimmed its stake in China Biologic Products, a biopharmaceuticals developer listed on the Nasdaq.
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| Nov 26, 2015 | Warburg Pincus raises $12B for new global fund | Private equity firm Warburg Pincus that invests in India out of a global fund, has raised $12 billion in its latest flagship, Warburg Pincus Private Equity XII, L.P. The firm said that the fund received third-party commitments in excess of ... |
| Nov 25, 2015 | Warburg Pincus raises $12b for new global PE fund | Premium
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus, an active investor in the Asian region, has raised a big-ticket $12 billion in its latest fund Warburg Pincus Private Equity XII (Warburg Pincus XII), according to an announcement.
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| May 10, 2013 | Warburg Pincus raises $11.2B global mega fund | Private equity major Warburg Pincus, which focuses on growth investing, said it had closed Warburg Pincus Private Equity XI, L.P. with $11.2 billion in commitments. The new fund is one of the largest PE funds raised after the global financi... |
| Mar 26, 2012 | Warburg Pincus Completes Kotak Mahindra Exit For Over $661M | Private equity major Warburg Pincus has completed its exit from private sector lender Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd, garnering over Rs 3,400 crore ( $661 million) in the process started over nine months ago. In the recent stake sale, two of its e... |
| Jul 1, 2011 | Zynga IPO mints a new multi-billionaire: Mark Pincus | Zynga founder Mark Pincus (pictured far left) will benefit the most from his company’s planned initial public offering, according to Zynga’s SEC filing.
The company, the creator of massively popular social games like Farmville and CityVille... |
| Jul 1, 2011 | Zynga IPO mints a new multi-billionaire: Mark Pincus | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Zynga founder Mark Pincus (pictured far left) will benefit the most from his company’s planned initial public offering, according to Zy... |
| Mar 16, 2010 | Zynga recruits Electronic Arts veteran to run game studios | Zynga announced today that it has appointed Steven Chiang, a veteran game executive from Electronic Arts, to be president of the social game company’s development studios.
Chiang has 17 years of experience in the console game industry, 15 o... |
| Mar 16, 2010 | Zynga recruits Electronic Arts veteran to run game studios | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Zynga announced today that it has appointed Steven Chiang, a veteran game executive from Electronic Arts, to be president of the social... |
| Jan 31, 2010 | Empowering Your Team | Mark Pincus, founder/CEO of our portfolio company Zynga, is interviewed in today's NY Times on the topic of leadership. The part about empowering and scaling the team is really great.
You can manage 50 people through the strength of your pe... |
| Jan 12, 2010 | Zynga brings back offers to its online game payment methods | After shutting down offers on its social games because of accusations of scam ads, social game firm Zynga is bringing them back under tighter controls.
Mark Pincus, chief executive of the largest social game company, said in a blog post tha... |
| Jan 12, 2010 | Zynga Tiptoes Back Into Offers | Zynga CEO Mark Pincus pulled all in-game offers in the wake of Scamville. At the time, he said “We recognize it is our responsibility to ensure that offers which generate a bad user experience are not shown with any of our games. Therefore,... |
| Jan 12, 2010 | Zynga brings back offers to its online game payment methods | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
After shutting down offers on its social games because of accusations of scam ads, social game firm Zynga is bringing them back under t... |
| Dec 30, 2009 | Thinking About Etsy In The San Telmo Markets | The streets of the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires turn into a big outdoor market on sundays. Our family spent sunday afternoon there this past weekend.
As I strolled around, I could not help but think of Etsy, what it has become and... |
| Nov 23, 2009 | Zynga worth $1 billion? | Gaming company surpasses 100 million unique monthly visitors, launches destination gaming site.
Earlier this month, Electronic Arts bought social gaming site Playfish for three to four times its revenue. Bloomberg points out that ratio woul... |
| Nov 17, 2009 | Zynga raises $15.18 million | Social gaming giant raking in more cash
Popular social gaming startup, Zynga raised $15.18 million on Tuesday, according to a regulatory filing. No new investors were listed, but the company now has raised $54 million in total. Previous inv... |
| Nov 8, 2009 | Zynga To Remove All In Game Offers | Last week Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said that they would take steps to remove scammy advertising offers from their social games. There have been a couple of missteps since then, and Facebook responded by taking Zynga’s newest game, FishVille, o... |
| Nov 8, 2009 | Zynga explains why it is suspending offers in its games and why offer quality control is lacking | Mark Pincus, chief executive of Zynga, said in a blog post today that his company is suspending the use of offers as a monetization option in the company’s games until a better way to police them is found.
The decision stemmed from the laun... |
| Nov 8, 2009 | Zynga explains why it is suspending offers in its games and why offer quality control is lacking | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mark Pincus, chief executive of Zynga, said in a blog post today that his company is suspending the use of offers as a monetization opt... |
| Nov 6, 2009 | Valuation and Option Pool | One of the more contentious things in the negotiation between an entrepreneur and a VC over a financing, particularly an early stage financing, is the inclusion of an option pool in the pre-money valuation. As my friend Mark Pincus likes to... |
| Nov 3, 2009 | Offers controversy stirs reactions across social networking industry | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A relatively obscure part of the social networking business has come into the limelight. It’s about special ads known as “offers” that ... |
| Nov 3, 2009 | Offers controversy stirs reactions across social networking industry | A relatively obscure part of the social networking business has come into the limelight. It’s about special ads known as “offers” that are used to monetize free social games. These offers are like the ads that promise you a discount on your... |
| Nov 2, 2009 | Zynga Takes Steps To Remove Scams From Games | Well that didn’t take long. We outlined the not-so-ethical ways that the big social gaming startups are generating revenue through lead gen scams and subscriptions through a series of posts over the last week. Starting with Social Games: Ho... |
| Oct 31, 2009 | Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell | Last weekend I wrote about how the big social gaming companies are making hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue on Facebook and MySpace through games like Farmville and Mobsters. Major media can’t stop applauding the companies long eno... |
| Jan 6, 2009 | From Wall Street To Yoville? | Our portfolio company Zynga is the leading developer of social games. Zynga games (such as Texas Hold’em Poker, Mafia Wars, and Yoville) are currently available on eight different social platforms (Myspace, Facebook, Hi5, Bebo, Yahoo, Tagge... |
| Aug 20, 2008 | The human piece of the venture equation | Founding teams are young and inexperienced, mostly by design
We’ve been attending a lot of “demo days” in the past month and I am attending one more this week, TechStars in Boulder tomorrow. These startup accelerator programs, inspired by t... |
| Aug 19, 2008 | The Human Piece Of The Venture Equation | We’ve been attending a lot of “demo days” in the past month and I am attending one more this week, TechStars in Boulder tomorrow. These startup accelerator programs, inspired by the success of Y Combinator, are launching something like 100 ... |
| Jan 15, 2008 | Zynga Game Network | In the middle of last year my friend Mark Pincus stopped by my office to tell me what he’d been up to. Facebook apps it turned out, of course. He said, “Fred, by this time next year, everything you invest in will be built on top of Facebook... |
| Sep 26, 2007 | Down 1% Already | I said I was going to join Covestor and build a public stock portfolio. I did that over the weekend. And I am down 1% already. Public market investing has never been my thing, but I am in this now and I’ll stay at it for a while.
I’ve added... |
| Aug 22, 2007 | The Digestion Phase: How We Got Here And Where We Are Going Next | Everything is cyclical. From stock markets to our daily lives we see cycles; on the macro scale of
economics and on a micro level of entomology there are cycles. Technology is no exception:
it follows the ups and downs, taking the big compa... |
| Nov 19, 2006 | Maturity | I was talking to my friend Mark about Yahoo! recently and he said something like "as long as they maintain their audience, I think they’ll be in good shape".
The same point was made by Randy Befumo of Legg Mason, in today’s New Yo... |
| Sep 5, 2006 | Voices | The Singer
Originally uploaded by **Anna.
I write every day, at least once a day.
It’s a compulsion of course.
It’s driven largely by the emptiness I feel when I go to one of my many favorite blogs and find nothing new to read.
Jackson rare... |
| Aug 26, 2006 | Looking For Failures | Catastrophic 2
Originally uploaded by ern.
John Battelle follows on Paul Kedrosky’s post Techcrunch party post on bubble 2.0 with a post about the lack of web 2.0 failures.
To all this discussion, I’ll just simply add "just wait, they”... |
| Aug 2, 2006 | Silicon Valley roundup: Khosla debunked?, Pincus censored, YouTube ain’t that big, more | Here’s the latest news for Silicon Valley tech-money crowd:
The Dead 2.0 blog — In case you haven’t seen it yet, here’s the Dead 2.0 blog, we’ve seen referenced a few times. It says we let Jobster off the hook.
Top Digg.com user going for $... |
| Jul 25, 2006 | Politcal Auctions | One of Mark Pincus’ favorite topics is political corruption. He really cracked me up with this post yesterday. Check this part out:
I can’t wait for the day when we the people get a chance to bid
openly to buy off politicians and contracts.... |
| Jul 20, 2006 | Buying YHOO | Mark Pincus is thinking of going long Yahoo! No wait, he bought it yesterday.
The last trade he blogged was his short eBay/long Amazon trade which netted him a sweet 25% gain in a month or two, while the market was falling apart.
I like to ... |
| May 10, 2006 | C-Span Makes Mockery of its Mission | I just spent 25 minutes watching Stephen Colbert’s roast of President Bush, his administration, other washington insiders, and the press corps.
If you’ve got 25 minutes, you can watch it too. But you really only need to watch the first 10-1... |
| Apr 29, 2006 | Blogging About Stocks | Weblogs Inc/AOL launched Blogging Stocks this past week and it has been criticized by The Stalwart and others. Jason Calacanis has pretty good roundup of the good and bad reviews on his blog.
All you have to do is give Blogging Stocks a qui... |
| Mar 16, 2006 | On The Cutting Edge Podcast | I’ve known Heather Green for over 10 years.
We met when the first internet wave was just starting to form and it was her beat at Bloomberg.
I think my friend Mark Pincus introduced us.
Anyway, Heather is still covering more or less the same... |
| Mar 16, 2006 | Mark on Mark | Mark Pincus lends his complete and total candor to the issue of the Presidential race in 2008 and the subject is Mark Warner, his former boss at Columbia Capital.
I’ll join Mark (not sure which Mark) if there is a "fuck you" campa... |
| Feb 25, 2006 | Tribe Networks raises $3 million | Tribe Networks, the San Francisco online classifieds company, has secured $3.05 million of an $11 million Series B funding round, according to PE Week Wire. Return backers include Mayfield, Knight Ridder and The Washington Post Co.
The comp... |
| Jan 28, 2006 | Ethics from Washington to HBS and back | It’s fun to read Mark Pincus vent on things on his blackberry. I suspect he’ll need thumb surgery at some point.
This time the subject is ethics (or lack thereof) and he tells an interesting story about a case study in ethics at HBS.
It’s a... |
| Jan 13, 2006 | Brands Not Microchunks | Mark Pincus has a rebuttal to my Future Of Media posts.
He says my focus on microchunks and syndication is "too much web 2.0-laide".
Mark makes a bunch of great points, but I don’t think his views and mine are mutually exclusive.
... |
| Jan 5, 2006 | My Favorite Set of 2006 Predictions | From my friend Mark Pincus.
He just calls them as he sees them and that’s what’s great about Mark. |
| Dec 13, 2005 | Alexa - Amazon's Hidden Jewel | I’ve been meaning to blog about Alexa for months.
As I have been tracking my clickstream with the AttentionTrust Firefox extension, I have come to realize that I use Alexa about as much as I use Google.
And as I thought about it, I realized... |
| Dec 11, 2005 | Take A Stance | My friend Mark Pincus has been taking some very public stances on his blog recently.
And taking the inevitable hits in the comments section when he does that.
Regardless of whether you agree with him or not (and I mostly do), you have to ad... |
| Oct 26, 2005 | Posting, Subscribing, Tagging AND Search | I left something important out of my posting, subscribing and tagging post that I did in early August.
There is a fourth pillar of the blogging movement and that is search.
That became obvious to me last night as I slept on Google Base.
Goo... |
| Oct 22, 2005 | On Rupert and Barry | I’ve got a bunch of stuff flying at me on the traditional media guys who get the Internet; Barry Diller and Rupert Murdoch.
First there is Adam Lashinsky’s excellent analysis of Murdoch’s moves on the Internet.
Then there is John Heilemann’... |
| Oct 19, 2005 | If Mark Was Rupert | One of the reasons I like Mark Pincus is he is never afraid to tell you what he thinks.
In this post, he tells the world what he’d do if he were Rupert Murdoch.
Some good points about where big media needs to look for web value. |
| Jul 19, 2005 | links for 2005-07-20 | Who Killed Davey Moore? – A song by Bob Dylan
incredible early Dylan song never released until the Bootleg series
(tags: fred’spodcast fred’sbest)
The New York Times > Technology > Blogs 101
(tags: blogs)
The Gordon Gould Weblog
Gordo... |
| Jun 7, 2005 | Firefox = Foxy Cash Cow | Firefox is creating a lot of cash for a non-profit, according to Mark Pincus, a valley serial entrepreneur who is pretty well connected (yet relaxed too: note the beer-like bottle in his mouth, now that he has stepped down as CEO of Tribe.)... |
| Jun 7, 2005 | The Changing Web | John Battelle wrote about "The Changing Web" in his piece on PubSub last week.
There are a number of interesting companies, including Google and Yahoo!, that are working on solutions to access The Changing Web. The companies that ... |
| Jun 4, 2005 | links for 2005-06-05 | MustBeYou.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object)
(tags: fred’spodcast)
Mark Pincus Blog: Firefox = Foxy Cash Cow
(tags: firefox google opensource) |
| Jun 3, 2005 | Social Networking - Mid Course Assessment | Molly Wood at CNET says that "social networking doesn’t work".
That’s the headline, designed to get attention.
And it got mine.
She goes on to talk about the much covered struggles of Friendster and Orkut and lists the five big pr... |
| May 30, 2005 | Serial Entrepreneur (continued) | I posted about serial entrepreneurs last week and got some great comments.
Understanding the mind of the entrepreneur, particularly the successful serial entrepreneur, is a hard thing to do. But it is one of the most important things a VC c... |
| May 27, 2005 | Outing Spammers | Even though I think the spam crisis is mostly over as a result of filters and other tools in the email ecosystem, I still get spammed every day by lots of people. I figure it comes with the territory and just hit the delete key.
But Mark an... |