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- Silver Lake Kraftwerk seals first non-US investment
The partnership between Silver Lake and billionaire George Soros will expand German recycled plastics company friedola Tech by opening a new manufacturing facility in the US.
- India is the new China
Having devoted much time and effort to China, Silicon Valley VCs are beginning to turn their attention to Asia’s other emerging giant. By Andy Thomson.
- “Stars are aligned” for new funds
First-time VC funds are entering the US market at the fastest rate since 2001, but could all of the recent activity spell a return to the over saturation of the dotcom boom? Dave Keating reports.
- The GPs’ GP heads east
Partners Capital, the private investment office for private equity professionals, is opening an office in Hong Kong.
- Ex-HSBC and ex-CLSA execs team up
Vince Warner and Josephine Price have established Chepstow Capital, a private equity firm targeting Asia’s mid-market opportunities.
- Asia’s rising stars
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
- Keytone raises $200m
The debut fund from the China-focused private equity firm will invest in the technology, clean-tech, media and consumer sectors.
- SPORTY, STYLISH AND EMISSIONS-FREE
Fisker Automotive raised $65m last month to fund a chic line of designer hybrid cars.
- Goh resurfaces at Matrix
Former Kleiner Perkins China partner Ian Goh has followed David Su to Matrix's China affiliate. Su and Goh worked together both at Kleiner Perkins China and TDF Capital. Matrix is investing its first China fund, which closed on $275m in January 2008.