Private Equity
XConnect Global Networks, a service provider to the telecommunications industry, has received $12 million of funding from a venture capital consortium led by Accel Partners and Venrock Associates.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The UK government fund of funds manager in developing markets has posted strong results for 2006 while sounding a note of caution as a wall of money heads for new markets.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Beijing-based private equity group Origo Sino-India has hired John Blake as managing director of mergers and acquisitions.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Top US venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has entered China with a $360 million fund and a seasoned team of local investment professionals.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Buyout firm Industri Kapital has exited from Elektrokoppar after nearly 10 years invested in the company and several difficult economic cycles in the copper industry.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The Carlyle Group will invest up to $20 million in Korea’s Topia Academy, an after-school private education business founded in 1995 by a former English lecturer.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
CVC Asia Pacific has opened a Singapore office, its fifth in the Asia Pacific region, and recruited Sigit Prasetya from Henderson Equity Partners to run it. The firm wants to step up its activity in Southeast Asia.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Adconion Media, a German online advertising network, has received a commitment from Wellington Partners, a pan-European venture capital firm, of an undisclosed amount.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
SAIF Partners, a private equity firm focused on Greater China, has raised $1.1 billion for its second fund as an independent entity. The fund will also invest in Korea and India.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
CCMP Capital Asia is reportedly set to start fundraising for its CCMP Asia Opportunity Fund III, just two years after closing its predecessor.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
