Private Equity
A study by Stanford University and TiE shows India is drastically falling behind its counterparts when it comes to early-stage VC funding, and the study’s author warns this could have dire consequences for the quality of later-stage companies down the road. Dave Keating reports.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
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 · 03 January 2013
Beijing-based private equity group Origo Sino-India has hired John Blake as managing director of mergers and acquisitions.
1 min read · 03 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 · 03 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 · 03 January 2013
Sun Capital’s recently established Japanese affiliate has completed its first deal with the acquisition of “Fruit Jelly” snack maker Tarami.
1 min read · 03 January 2013
The oversubscribed fund will focus on early stage IT companies in the US, China and Japan.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Fund manager AMVESCAP is buying WL Ross & Co, a US alternative assets manager, to beef up its product line-up for its clients.
2 min read · 03 January 2013
Standard Chartered Private Equity has invested HK$370 million in a Chinese real estate development company, its second investment in a mainland China property in less than two months.
1 min read · 03 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 · 03 January 2013
