Keytone Ventures

The China country manager has upped its initial investment in a company that outfits China's coal plants with emission reduction equipment.

PEI Asia presents the 2009 Asian winners in the tenth annual Private Equity International Awards.

Vince Warner and Josephine Price have established Chepstow Capital, a private equity firm targeting Asia’s mid-market opportunities.

PEI Asia asked some of the region’s leading private equity LPs to name their pick of the Asia Pacific region’s “first-time” funds. The results are the eight names listed on pages 16 and 17. While some of the people may be familiar, having already made their mark elsewhere in Asian private equity, the firms they run now are probably not – yet. They have had the toughest of challenges thrown at them, in the form of the economic downturn, but the expectation is that these eight firms will go on to establish themselves firmly in the bedrock of the Asian private equity industry. Reporting by Jenny Blinch, Siddharth Poddar and Yvette Choo

Cadol Cheung has established FUEL Capital to focus on Chinese cleantech and healthcare deals. The firm is reportedly raising a $100m fund.

The debut fund from the China-focused private equity firm will invest in the technology, clean-tech, media and consumer sectors.

Norwest Venture Partners has led a $17.4m Series B round of funding for Borqs, a Chinese developer and integrator of mobile software applications.