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Return of The Kings 27 Jan 2005
Forbes Chao figured people in rural China would be looking for jobs in big cities ... of another," says Mark Heesen, president of the National Venture Capital Association ...

A coffee war heats up in China 27 Jan 2005
Xinhua, ..."Starbucks (in North China) introduces venture capital. It has the money to secure the best locations to open its own corporate stores. ...

INTERVIEW - Cisco's private equity arm hot on China 27 Jan 2005
Reuters India, ...based lawyer has said. Beyond China, Cisco also maintains venture capital operations in the United States, Europe, Israel and India.

Sears to Conduct Earnings Conference Call and China Direct ... 27 Jan 2005
Financial News USA (press release), China Direct Trading Corporation (OTCBB: CHDT), a global trading company engaged ... worthy press releases, and Investor Relations and Venture Capital services to ...

Matrix Partners overrides China to direct funds to India 27 Jan 2005
Indiantelevision.com, By TARO W. BANGALORE: Matrix Partners, the US-based venture capital firm, prefers India over China to do some major investments. ...

Citigroup says that it would buy Inchon 27 Jan 2005
Financial Times, ...reach an agreement over the sale, which is set to become China's first takeover ... bought KorAm Bank for $2.7bn in May and Citigroup Venture Capital, a Citigroup ...

Isabel Maxwell: High tech is no ivory tower 27 Jan 2005
Globes Online, ...iCognito Technologies (now named PureSight), and an advisor to venture capital funds Jerusalem ... Maxwell mentions the new markets in India and China, among others ...

Investment strategists suggest focusing on fundamentals, balance ... 27 Jan 2005
eTaiwan News, In Asia, China and India - the emerging "superpowers" - would still be offering strong venture capital and private equity opportunities this year. ...

Motorola boosts venture capital Jan 23, 2005
Boston Globe, The annual venture capital investment may be a drop in the bucket for the world's ... about 15, has its eye on growing technology hotbeds such as China and Israel. ...

Local venture-capital picture is mixed Jan 25, 2005
News & Observer, ...of Corporate Investment Center, which advises firms seeking to raise venture capital. ... employees and offices in Durham, London, Munich, Germany, China and India ...

China sees a re-birth of IT venture capital interest Jan 21, 2005
Interfax, Many venture capital representatives agreed China is still developing, with great potential. Feng Tao of New Margin pointed out ...

NextNine Closes $5 Million Financing Round; Finance Round Led by ... Jan 24, 2005
TMCnet IDB and Infinity have recently established the first venture capital fund located in China in purpose to invest and support in Israeli related companies. ...

Venturi Wireless Secures $10 Million in Series C Financing Led by ... Jan 24, 2005
Business Wire (press release), ...who have chosen Venturi Wireless include Cingular Wireless, China Mobile, DDI ... Partners, founded in 1979, is a leading diversified Venture Capital firm focused ...

IBM Partners Produce Mutual Benefits Jan 24, 2005
SYS-CON Media, For example, in Palo Alto, some 50 venture capital firms attended the session ... the emerging markets' high-growth countries, in particular, China, India, Brazil ...

China's Ever-Growing Oil Needs May Result In A Global Shortage Jan 26, 2005
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) Bryant Tong, a managing director of Nth Power, a San Francisco-based energy-tech venture capital firm, said China is serious. Tong ...

Lumus, Developer of Revolutionary Personal Displays, Secures ... Jan 23, 2005
Yahoo News (press release) Jerusalem Global Ventures is an Israeli venture capital fund that invests in ... Technologies, Time Warner (AOL), Bank of America, China Development Industrial Bank ...

Chunghwa Picture Tubes to set up PDP venture in China Jan 24, 2005
Taiwan Headlines, DDMC would be initially capitalized at NT$10 billion (US$312.5 million), in which many local venture capital firms have promised to contribute capital, and is ...

China to have VC play bigger role in boosting its hi-tech industry Jan 20, 2005
People's Daily Online, He noticed that 80 percent of the venture capital in China has been invested in hi-tech companies by 300 to 400 VC businesses which held about 5 to 6 billion ...

Medifacts International Raises $16 million from Ampersand Ventures ... Jan 24, 2005
PharmaLive.com (press release), Medifacts International maintains offices in the US, Canada, Germany, and China. ... Ventures Life Sciences, is a life sciences focused venture capital adviser and ...

Daily Briefing Jan 26, 2005
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription), China's defense industry recorded strong growth in 2004, with revenue climbing more than ... Thomson Venture Economics and the National Venture Capital Association ...

£100m sweetener to save Rover's Chinese rescue Jan 26, 2005
The Times, SAIC, one of China’s biggest carmakers, has been in talks over collaboration with MG ... BMW had first planned to sell it to a venture capital group, which would ...

NEW ECONOMY Mixed Report on Silicon Valley Jan 23, 2005
New York Times ..."Today it's Taiwan and China and India ... grim by nearly every measure, as the area has seen a steep decline in everything from jobs to venture capital to funding ...

Taiwan Shares End at 11-Week Low Jan 24, 2005
Forbes Among the biggest decliners, China Development Financial, the owner of Taiwan's largest venture capital firm, tumbled 4.5 percent to NT$12.8, while Mega ...

Funds in Brief: 3i, expanding in Asia, to open Shanghai office Jan 24, 2005
International Herald Tribune, The venture capital company, which has been operating in Hong Kong since 2001, sees China as a key part of its growth strategy and views the Shanghai office as ...

Burke named Wisconsin Commerce secretary Jan 26, 2005
BusinessNorth.com, ...demand not only in the United States, but also in China, Japan, and ... aggressive regulatory reform policy in the Midwest, and expand access to venture capital. ...

THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Jan 24, 2005
BusinessWeek CEO of the Acumen Fund (www.acumenfund.org), uses a venture-capital model to ... in the world, the Israeli-Palestinian relations, the US dollar, China's rise, and ...

China Communication To Launch Nationwide TV Station Jan 17, 2005
Pacific Epoch (subscription), News. According to He, China TV Station has support from a secret venture capital giant and related governmental departments. The ...

Akesis Pharmaceuticals (Nevada) Announces Completion of ... Jan 20, 2005
mysan.de (Pressemitteilung), ...formerly Poland Partners), a Warsaw-based venture capital fund, and Taiwan- based venture capital funds Taiwan Mezzanine Fund and Greater China Private Equity ...

Xinhua Finance Retains The Ruth Group as US Investor Relations ... Jan 20, 2005
mysan.de (Pressemitteilung), Asian equity markets, delivering an integrated platform of China-specific indices ... IPO public relations programs, media relations and venture capital relations. ...

Erika Brown On Venture Capital Jan 5, 2005
Forbes ...obsolete. VCs and their entrepreneurs are racking up frequent flier miles with trips to Australia, China, India and Eastern Europe. ...

Venture capital firms turn focus toward India Jan 6, 2005
MENAFN, ...our toe in the water in India, and use that as a jumping-off point for China,'" said Mark Heesen, president of the National Venture Capital Association, which ...

Valley of doubt Jan 24, 2005
San Jose Mercury News (subscription), Average pay is down, per-capita income is up, the number of jobs is shrinking, venture-capital investment is ... India and China have become technology powerhouses ...

Mining The Middle Kingdom Jan 20, 2005
MSNBC J. McGovern, chairman of the Boston magazine conglomerate International Data Group Inc., was thinking about starting a venture capital fund for China in the ...

AMI-Partners' Study Shows India Medium Businesses Spent over $2.9 ... Jan 24, 2005
Business Wire (press release), ...the US, France, Germany, UK, Australia, China, Japan, South ... in IT, Internet, telecommunications and business services strategy, venture capital and actionable ...

The Vendare Group Names Veteran Executive Officer David Burcham ... Jan 24, 2005
PR Newswire (press release) ...and acquisitions, and has raised tens of millions of dollars in venture capital. ... Downs was most recently Principal of China Diligence in Beijing and Hong Kong. ...

Asia private equity saw banner 2004: Report Jan 13, 2005
Hindustan Times, International Corp, which counted Goldman Sachs and US venture capital firm Walden ... invested, followed by Australia with $1.98 billion, and China, which drew ...

CITIC in talks to buy stake in Huaxia Jan 11, 2005
Xinhua, Central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said earlier in January that China aimed to encourage investment in equities, bonds and venture capital to support ...

Canada NewsWire summary of releases for Evening, Tuesday January ... Jan 18, 2005
CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse), Area Access Control (Bioscrypt-at-airport) C3774 - BEIJING, China : Ivanhoe Mines ... BioMep raises more than $19 million CAN in venture capital, becomes Enobia ...

Greylock Partners Expands Israeli Focus, Adds Two Venture Partners Jan 17, 2005
Forbes Ofer will expand Greylock's partnerships with local venture capital firms in Israel, identify ... Systems, Inc.'s Israeli, Asia-Pacific, European and China M&A and ...

Banking industry 2005 - an overview Jan 14, 2005
Malaysia Kini, ...such as to the Middle East, Africa, India and China apart from ... that would be more appropriately financed by equity capital, venture capital and government ...

VC recovery adds enthusiasm Dec 28, 2004
China Daily, Garvin Ni, president of Zero2ipo, said at the Zero2ipo China Venture Capital Forum early this month in Beijing that it was expected there is over US$15 billion ...

Rover rescue hopes clouded by Chinese whispers Jan 22, 2005
Guardian, Beyond China, the industry is sick with overcapacity, as the reported bailout of ... who backed Towers when Rover was up for sale to venture capital group Alchemy ...

Wavesat Announces General Availability of its WiMAX Chip Jan 12, 2005
Business Wire (press release), Trango Broadband Wireless (USA); Tsinghua University, Beijing (China); VCom Inc. ... Key investors include BDC Venture Capital, Innovatech Montreal, Monet Capital ...

Transcosmos inc UK Regulatory Announcement: Interim Results Dec 28, 2004
Business Wire (press release), EnCompass Group KK, transcosmos Information Creative (China) Co., Ltd ... software development, sales of equipment Venture Capital Venture capital investment The ...

FDI is beneficial as it will also bring in technology, expertise Jan 20, 2005
Financial Express, ...for SSIs, when those products are freely imported, perhaps at half the cost, from China? ... Moreso, as our fledgling venture capital regime is yet to take off. ...

Comlent Starts Sampling China's First RFIC Power Amplifier (PA) ... Jan 17, 2005
PR Web (press release), Comlent’s investors include leading venture capital institutional investors such as Intel ... After Comlent’s recent success in sampling China’s first whole ...

BlueTarp Secures $14 Million in Venture Financing Jan 6, 2005
PR Newswire (press release) About IDG Ventures IDG Ventures is a global venture capital firm with approximately ... in Boston, London, San Francisco, Seattle, and throughout China and Vietnam ...

LAW FIRM NEWS - Jones Day names new partner in Taipei Jan 12, 2005
Lawfuel (press release), ...equity, venture capital and technology transactions. He has advised numerous public companies in their mergers and acquisitions in Taiwan, Mainland China, and ...

Businesses upbeat as they head into 2005 Jan 3, 2005
MSNBC Oil prices, however, likely will drop a little next year as China's economy cools ... New cash also is making its way into venture capital firms, a good sign for ...

Polaris Moons Over McCleodUSA Jan 20, 2005
Light Reading ...jobs in the US so it could hire cheaper labor in China (see Headcount ... deal a company that has chewed through more than $80 million in venture capital would need ...

PE Week Wire -- Monday, January 3 Jan 3, 2005
Private Equity Week, ...companies that priced on US exchanges (all from either China or Israel ... The Carlyle Group, Citigroup Venture Capital, BC Partners and Cinven all have submitted ...

BlueTarp Secures $14 Million in Venture Financing Jan 6, 2005
mysan.de (Pressemitteilung), IDG Ventures is a global venture capital firm with approximately $700 million under ... in Boston, London, San Francisco, Seattle, and throughout China and Vietnam ...

Coming soon: Television via the Internet Jan 11, 2005
China Daily, According to a report from the Beijing Morning Post, some 1 billion yuan (US$121.07 million) of venture capital is eyeing China's media industry this year. ...

INTERVIEW: US Crystal Ventures Plans New US$120 Mln Fund Jan 18, 2005
Yahoo News While acknowledging that there is a tremendous amount of venture capital interest in China at the moment, Tzeng said the new fund would focus on areas that ...

State lost 73,612 jobs from China trade over 14 years Jan 11, 2005
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, ...we're seeing now put the lie to that hope as China expands its ... he was general partner of Lycos Ventures Inc., a Pittsburgh-based venture capital fund that ...

Burrill & Company Announces Promotions and Organizational Changes ... Jan 5, 2005
PR Newswire (press release) ...our service areas and growing in new geographies such as China and India ... Venture Capital The Burrill family of venture capital funds, with over $500 million ...

2004 Venture-Backed IPO Activity Exceeded Prior Three Years ... Jan 3, 2005
mysan.de, ...offerings, according to Thomson Venture Economics and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA ... were domiciled in the US; eight companies, in China; two in ...

2004 Vevture-Backed IPO Activity Exceeded Prior Three Years ... Jan 4, 2005
Pressi.com (press release) ...were domiciled in the US; eight companies, in China; two in ... The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) represents approximately 450 venture capital and ...

Burrill & Company Announces Promotions and Organizational Changes ... Jan 5, 2005
ArriveNet (press release), ...our service areas and growing in new geographies such as China and India ... The Burrill family of venture capital funds, with over $500 million under management ...

“Today’s market is very hungry for equityâ€? Dec 29, 2004
Globes Online, ...is not a deterring factor is evident in the successes of venture capital funds in ... is great interest now in investment in companies in Asia, particularly China. ...

Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Jan 1, 2005
Houston Chronicle, Japan and China are looking for opportunities to invest here ... We have significant growth in the amount of venture capital that's coming into the city, and you'll ...

Small businesses think big Jan 13, 2005
ABS CBN News, ...in furniture and handicraft can survive despite competition from China, Taiwan, Malaysia ... has a venture capital financing programs for SMEs, as well as loan ...

Top 10 Trends for 2005 Jan 21, 2005
Bio-IT World, R&D is a good place to look, especially as countries such as China and India ramp up their R&D capabilities. ... 10- Venture capital comes back. We've missed you. ...

2004 Venture-Backed IPO Activity Exceeded Prior Three Years ... Jan 3, 2005
PR Newswire (press release) 7485.1 Total 10 2006.9 7485.1 Thomson Venture Economics & National Venture Capital Association In ... were domiciled in the US; eight companies, in China; two in ...

Adventures of a venture capitalist Jan 17, 2005
China Daily, York Chen looks back at the last ten years of venture capital (VC) business in China as if he's looking into a dark tunnel that he has just come out of. ...

Erez Ofer and Yoram Snir join Greylock Partners Jan 17, 2005
Globes Online, Ofer will expand Greylock's partnerships with local venture capital firms in Israel ... led Cisco Systems' Israeli, Asia-Pacific, European and China M&A and ...

Company working on bringing worldwide entertainment to cell phones Jan 12, 2005
MENAFN, Before starting Mforma, Kranzler founded eFund, a Kirkland, Wash., venture-capital company that donates ... in San Francisco and London, as well as China and South ...

China tech officials see Hawaii as US gateway Jan 10, 2005
MSNBC ...on a mass scale, just as Western medicine has been introduced to China. ... Barry Weinman, managing director of Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund Allegis ...

Venture-backed IPOs soar in 2004 Jan 3, 2005
CNN/Money States, eight in China and two in Israel. The results include deals by companies that went public on a US exchange and had US-based venture capital investors.

Alibaba: No need to rush for IPO Jan 3, 2005
Xinhua, ...market research house Zero2ipo said last month that possible large-scale IPOs of companies such as Alibaba will push the venture capital industry in China to a ...

Key Issues for Investing in 2005 Will Be Forecast at Outlook ... Jan 5, 2005
Business Wire (press release), The conference, now in its sixth year, will also feature a presentation on early-stage venture capital investing in China from David Chao, managing general ...

RentalHouses.com gets boost with $3 million in funding Jan 17, 2005
MSNBC ...also made a significant contribution; the early-stage venture-capital fund is ... franchises to follow, specifically in European countries, Australia and China. ...

SiGe Semiconductor Reports US $20.1 Million in Sales for 2004 Jan 10, 2005
TechFinance, A large portion of the shipments was to its growing customer base in China. ... is venture funded, having raised over US $72 million in venture capital financings. ...

Funds in Brief: Venture-backed firms cleaned up in 2004 Jan 3, 2005
International Herald Tribune, ...latest recession, according to Thomson Venture Economics and the National Venture Capital Association ... 83 were based in the United States, eight in China and two ...

Burrill & Company's Merchant Banking Practice Announces Increasing ... Jan 7, 2005
Yahoo News (press release) ...company for the development and commercialization of Oxygent in China, with this ... The Burrill family of venture capital funds, with over $500 million under ...

And now, a short intermission sequence Jan 13, 2005
Globes Online, ...game in the US and brings it back with him to China, may unexpectedly find ... People told us, 'don’t work with a venture capital fund, they'll interfere.' But I ...

By Bio-IT World Staff Jan 12, 2005
Bio-IT World, The company's consumer medicines businesses in Japan, China, Latin America Europe ... Group has released its Q3 2004 report titled: Venture Capital Investment in ...

Learn to connect the dots in 2005 Jan 10, 2005
Financial Times, He does likes what he calls "real assets", including precious metals and timber, because China and other ... Curious about private equity or venture capital? ...

What’s Next for Google Jan 7, 2005
Technology Review ...and Page started Google and raised money from top-tier venture capital firms Sequoia ... with Google in the United States, and Baidu has been expanding in China. ...

Burrill & Company's Merchant Banking Practice Announces Increasing ... Jan 7, 2005
PR Newswire (press release) ...company for the development and commercialization of Oxygent in China, with this ... Venture Capital The Burrill family of venture capital funds, with over $500 ...

SST to provide EEPROM technology and funding to foundry startup ... Jan 12, 2005
DigiTimes, ...construction in the Changzhou National Hi-Tech District in China, the sources indicated. According to the sources, last month a venture capital company called ...

Excerpts from the Greater-China press: January 19 Jan 19, 2005
DigiTimes, ...(DDMC) with China venture capital; the affiliate will be responsible for PDP business and will start producing PDPs in 1Q06. [EDN, Jan 19]. ...

Area companies may be ready to go public in coming year Jan 2, 2005
Seattle Post Intelligencer, ...game company in May, established a subsidiary in Shanghai, China, in July ... Radiant Research landed $26 million in venture capital financing in September, with ...

Innovation brings partners closer Jan 19, 2005
People's Daily Online, ...innovation and scientific research, huge investment in R&D, and government backed venture capital fund. Obviously these messages have been applauded by China. ...

HK Bourse: Press Release from Shui On Construction -3 Jan 5, 2005
Yahoo News ...the assets and liabilities agreed to be assumed by Honest China Ltd ... in property development in Chinese Mainland, investment in venture capital, construction and ...

The Business Week In Pictures Jan 14, 2005
Forbes ...the state would retain its monopoly on cigarette distribution to China's 350 million ... years with the software giant to join a Seattle-area venture capital firm. ...

Israeli VCs looking to China, IndiaVenture capitalists talk trends ... Jan 6, 2005
Jerusalem Post, The Israeli venture capital industry may be strong and mature, but VC executives look to ... Everyone on the panel agreed that India and China are shaping up to ...

Biotech sector facing growing Asian pressure Jan 6, 2005
Business Edge, ...biotech workers are returning to their native countries, attracting venture capital and creating ... is especially important to a country such as China, which has ...

Govt scraps restrictive foreign investment rule Jan 12, 2005
India Daily, ...is still way behind the figure of around $40 billion that China attracts annually ... partners owns less than a 3 percent stake and venture capital funds registered ...

Under weight returns for investors in Canterbury paua firm Jan 11, 2005
Stuff.co.nz, Canterbury Development Corporation's investor-matching scheme for venture capital, raising $419,000 ... The target market had been China, Korea, Japan, South-east ...

Scholarly road leads Hsu Ta-lin to success Jan 6, 2005
China Business Weekly, ..."Looking back, I find my academic background in science and engineering helped me a lot in leading a venture capital (VC) company," Hsu said. ...

PRESS RELEASE:NarrowAD.com Exploring Personalized Online-Ad Model ... Jan 19, 2005
Seattle News, Washington (WA), ...last year, and the NarrowAD.com, in the fast growing China’s online ... After absorbing a venture capital from Mitsui Sumitomo Financial Group, the company has ...

SILICON VALLEY PLAYERS SEEK ALTERNATIVE ENERGY BREAKTHROUGHS Jan 11, 2005
Small Times As the price of oil soars and China's insatiable appetite for growth ... Venture capital investments in clean-energy technologies alone last year represented 2.4 ...

A man who has got IT in the Net Jan 4, 2005
China Daily, Francisco Bay area, where he earned two degrees and then worked for a venture capital firm. ... They could not understand why I would want to settle down in China. ...

Where Only Dummies Look for Outside Investors Dec 30, 2004
Boardmember.com, ...people are negative on the idea.� That proved true of his China fund. ... company and with McGovern’s blessing exchanged a 15% stake for venture capital in 1999 ...

Eye on IT Jan 18, 2005
IT Manager's Journal, York Chen looks back at the last 10 years of venture capital business in China as if he's looking into a dark tunnel that he has just come out of. ...

White & Case's big China hire Jan 11, 2005
Financeasia.com, ..."With the maturing of China's economy we're also seeing more opportunities in private equity, venture capital and international capital markets transactions. ...

UPDATE 2-China's CITIC in talks to buy rival Huaxia-sources 10 Jan 2005
Reuters Central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said earlier in January that China aimed to encourage investment in equities, bonds and venture capital to support ...

Learn to connect the dots in 2005 10 Jan 2005
Financial Times, He does likes what he calls "real assets", including precious metals and timber, because China and other ... Curious about private equity or venture capital? ...

SiGe Semiconductor Reports US $20.1 Million in Sales for 2004 10 Jan 2005
TechFinance, A large portion of the shipments was to its growing customer base in China. ... is venture funded, having raised over US $72 million in venture capital financings. ...

China tech officials see Hawaii as US gateway 10 Jan 2005
MSNBC ...on a mass scale, just as Western medicine has been introduced to China. ... Barry Weinman, managing director of Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund Allegis ...

Jeremy Warner's Outlook: HSBC outsmarted in quest for Korean bride 10 Jan 2005
Independent, The US-based venture capital group more than triples its money with yesterday's deal. ... in terror of being swamped by the development stories of China and India ...

China's Red Flag joins enterprise Linux consortium 10 Jan 2005
Computerworld Australia, ...to the global Linux community, and to promote Linux in China, in Asia ... Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Science and a venture capital company, Red ...

UN labor report grim news for Michigan 10 Jan 2005
Kalamazoo Gazette, ...work to low-wage countries -- first to Mexico and now to China, where workers ... sights on life sciences and are trying to attract the venture capital local bio ...

AMI-Partners Predicts Significant Growth for Linux Servers and ... 10 Jan 2005
TMCnet US, Canada, France, Germany, the UK, Australia, China, India, Japan ... Internet, telecommunications and business services strategy, venture capital and actionable ...

Growing businesses 10 Jan 2005
Detroit Free Press, Ft. Gratiot-based AVL Global Inc. received an offer from Hong Ling Venture Capital Corp. and Worldwide China Securities Corp. ...

SAIF Won Two Laurels of China Venture Capital Annual Ranking 2004 Dec 17, 2004
PR Newswire (press release) Released by Zero2ipo Venture Capital Research Center BEIJING, Dec 17 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- On December 17, China Venture Capital Annual Ranking 2004 Awarding ...

SAIF Won Two Laurels of China Venture Capital Annual Ranking 2004 Dec 17, 2004
New Ratings BEIJING, Dec 17 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- On December 17, China Venture Capital Annual Ranking 2004 Awarding Ceremony was held in Tianlun Dynasty, Beijing. ...

Erika Brown On Venture Capital Jan 5, 2005
Forbes ...obsolete. VCs and their entrepreneurs are racking up frequent flier miles with trips to Australia, China, India and Eastern Europe. ...

A NEW ENERGY SILICON VALLEY PLAYERS ARE ON THE HUNT FOR ... Jan 9, 2005
San Jose Mercury News (subscription), As the price of oil soars and China's insatiable appetite for growth ... Venture capital investments in clean-energy technologies alone last year represented 2.4 ...

Venture capital firms turn focus toward India Jan 6, 2005
MENAFN, ...our toe in the water in India, and use that as a jumping-off point for China,'" said Mark Heesen, president of the National Venture Capital Association, which ...

Burrill & Company's Merchant Banking Practice Announces Increasing ... Jan 7, 2005
Yahoo News (press release) ...company for the development and commercialization of Oxygent in China, with this ... The Burrill family of venture capital funds, with over $500 million under ...

What’s Next for Google Jan 7, 2005
Technology Review ...and Page started Google and raised money from top-tier venture capital firms Sequoia ... with Google in the United States, and Baidu has been expanding in China. ...

Burrill & Company's Merchant Banking Practice Announces Increasing ... Jan 7, 2005
PR Newswire (press release) ...company for the development and commercialization of Oxygent in China, with this ... Venture Capital The Burrill family of venture capital funds, with over $500 ...

BlueTarp Secures $14 Million in Venture Financing Jan 6, 2005
PR Newswire (press release) About IDG Ventures IDG Ventures is a global venture capital firm with approximately ... in Boston, London, San Francisco, Seattle, and throughout China and Vietnam ...

Businesses upbeat as they head into 2005 Jan 3, 2005
MSNBC Oil prices, however, likely will drop a little next year as China's economy cools ... New cash also is making its way into venture capital firms, a good sign for ...

PE Week Wire -- Monday, January 3 Jan 3, 2005
Private Equity Week, ...companies that priced on US exchanges (all from either China or Israel ... The Carlyle Group, Citigroup Venture Capital, BC Partners and Cinven all have submitted ...

BlueTarp Secures $14 Million in Venture Financing Jan 6, 2005
mysan.de (Pressemitteilung), IDG Ventures is a global venture capital firm with approximately $700 million under ... in Boston, London, San Francisco, Seattle, and throughout China and Vietnam ...

Burrill & Company Announces Promotions and Organizational Changes ... Jan 5, 2005
PR Newswire (press release) ...our service areas and growing in new geographies such as China and India ... Venture Capital The Burrill family of venture capital funds, with over $500 million ...

2004 Venture-Backed IPO Activity Exceeded Prior Three Years ... Jan 3, 2005
mysan.de, ...offerings, according to Thomson Venture Economics and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA ... were domiciled in the US; eight companies, in China; two in ...

2004 Vevture-Backed IPO Activity Exceeded Prior Three Years ... Jan 4, 2005
Pressi.com (press release) ...were domiciled in the US; eight companies, in China; two in ... The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) represents approximately 450 venture capital and ...

Burrill & Company Announces Promotions and Organizational Changes ... Jan 5, 2005
ArriveNet (press release), ...our service areas and growing in new geographies such as China and India ... The Burrill family of venture capital funds, with over $500 million under management ...

How to head off an aerospace battle Jan 9, 2005
Financial Times, ...for the eventuality that other governments, including those from China, Taiwan, and ... kind Airbus receives in the form of state-donated venture capital and loan ...

2004 Venture-Backed IPO Activity Exceeded Prior Three Years ... Jan 3, 2005
PR Newswire (press release) 7485.1 Total 10 2006.9 7485.1 Thomson Venture Economics & National Venture Capital Association In ... were domiciled in the US; eight companies, in China; two in ...

Venture-backed IPOs soar in 2004 Jan 3, 2005
CNN/Money States, eight in China and two in Israel. The results include deals by companies that went public on a US exchange and had US-based venture capital investors.

Alibaba: No need to rush for IPO Jan 3, 2005
Xinhua, ...market research house Zero2ipo said last month that possible large-scale IPOs of companies such as Alibaba will push the venture capital industry in China to a ...

Key Issues for Investing in 2005 Will Be Forecast at Outlook ... Jan 5, 2005
Business Wire (press release), The conference, now in its sixth year, will also feature a presentation on early-stage venture capital investing in China from David Chao, managing general ...

Funds in Brief: Venture-backed firms cleaned up in 2004 Jan 3, 2005
International Herald Tribune, ...latest recession, according to Thomson Venture Economics and the National Venture Capital Association ... 83 were based in the United States, eight in China and two ...

Area companies may be ready to go public in coming year Jan 2, 2005
Seattle Post Intelligencer, ...game company in May, established a subsidiary in Shanghai, China, in July ... Radiant Research landed $26 million in venture capital financing in September, with ...

VC recovery adds enthusiasm Dec 28, 2004
China Daily, Garvin Ni, president of Zero2ipo, said at the Zero2ipo China Venture Capital Forum early this month in Beijing that it was expected there is over US$15 billion ...

Tejas raises $15 million in Series C funding :- Jan 7, 2005
Webindia123, Investment Manager, Battery Ventures, one of the top-tier venture capital firms in the ... shipping our family of five products to Russia, China, Indonesia, Taiwan ...

HK Bourse: Press Release from Shui On Construction -3 Jan 5, 2005
Yahoo News ...the assets and liabilities agreed to be assumed by Honest China Ltd ... in property development in Chinese Mainland, investment in venture capital, construction and ...

Israeli VCs looking to China, IndiaVenture capitalists talk trends ... Jan 6, 2005
Jerusalem Post, The Israeli venture capital industry may be strong and mature, but VC executives look to ... Everyone on the panel agreed that India and China are shaping up to ...

Biotech sector facing growing Asian pressure Jan 6, 2005
Business Edge, ...biotech workers are returning to their native countries, attracting venture capital and creating ... is especially important to a country such as China, which has ...

China Venture Capital Yearly Investments Surpassed US$1 Billion ... Dec 16, 2004
PR Newswire (press release) 16 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Zero2IPO, a well-known venture capital research and consulting company in China, announced on China Venture Capital Annual Forum 2004 ...

Transcosmos inc UK Regulatory Announcement: Interim Results Dec 28, 2004
Business Wire (press release), EnCompass Group KK, transcosmos Information Creative (China) Co., Ltd ... software development, sales of equipment Venture Capital Venture capital investment The ...

Scholarly road leads Hsu Ta-lin to success Jan 6, 2005
China Business Weekly, ..."Looking back, I find my academic background in science and engineering helped me a lot in leading a venture capital (VC) company," Hsu said. ...

Venture capital on fast track Dec 16, 2004
China Daily, He said at the Zero2ipo China Venture Capital Forum in Beijing yesterday that with the successful initial public offerings (IPOs) of Shanghai-based Chinese ...

China's appetite for foreign capital will dominate '05 Dec 23, 2004
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) With US funds committing well over $1 billion in private equity and venture capital to China in 2005, liquidity issues could sour market appetite for China ...

CEO of China Finance Online Nominated Dec 27, 2004
ArriveNet (press release), Limited , was named one of the ''2004 Top 10 Start-up Entrepreneurs in China'' by the China Venture Capital Annual Forum in 2004. ...

A man who has got IT in the Net Jan 4, 2005
China Daily, Francisco Bay area, where he earned two degrees and then worked for a venture capital firm. ... They could not understand why I would want to settle down in China. ...

TCS to take JV route in venture capital Dec 21, 2004
Rediff, He cited companies in China and Hungary, as technology hotbeds. ... is a joint venture between TCS, Swedish bank SEB, McKinsey & Co's venture capital arm Compass ...

Venture-Capital Activity Focused on Rebuilding in 2004; First Year ... Dec 12, 2004
Business Wire (press release), ...of the trip, as increasing numbers of investors ventured to China and India ... This data was collected by surveying professional venture capital firms, through in ...

HF Capital and MicroPlanet announce agreement to complete business ... Dec 21, 2004
Canada NewsWire (press release), The Company has additional patents pending in the US, Europe, China and South ... Upon graduation, Mr. Howse entered venture capital with Data Science Ventures in ...

“Today’s market is very hungry for equityâ€? Dec 29, 2004
Globes Online, ...is not a deterring factor is evident in the successes of venture capital funds in ... is great interest now in investment in companies in Asia, particularly China. ...

Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Jan 1, 2005
Houston Chronicle, Japan and China are looking for opportunities to invest here ... We have significant growth in the amount of venture capital that's coming into the city, and you'll ...

VTech Partners With Skype to Launch First US Cordless Phone for ... Jan 4, 2005
Business Wire (press release), ...is privately held and backed by top-tier international venture capital firms, including ... VTech is a pioneer in the establishment of China-based manufacturing ...

TargeGen Initiates Phase I/II Clinical Trial of TG100-115 in Heart ... Jan 4, 2005
mysan.de, ...tier venture capital sources. Key investors include Forward Ventures, Enterprise Partners, William Blair Capital Partners, VantagePoint Venture Partners, China ...

Venture capitalist has a shine for steel Jan 6, 2005
China Business Weekly, But Hsu has been selling Starbucks coffee in northern China since 1999 - which has been one of his most successful venture capital (VC) investments in the ...

Coming, Silicon Valley VCs Dec 14, 2004
Business Standard, But Lilani thinks that India will get less venture capital cash than China because IT services and BPO require less capital than manufacturing. ...

Ups & Downs of 2004 Dec 27, 2004
Fort Wayne News Sentinel, ...a business unit to make its heating and cooling equipment in China for that ... June 9: A new northeast Indiana venture capital fund, the Imagineer Fund, will ...

PE Week Wire -- Friday, December 10 Dec 10, 2004
Private Equity Week, ...fables semicondcutor company, has raised $8 million in new venture capital funding ... to sell its personal computer unit for $1.75 billion to China-based computer ...

Warburg Pincus, 2 Others Buy 55% of China Drugmaker (Update2) Dec 20, 2004
Bloomberg 22.5 percent stakes, while Heilongjiang Chenergy HiT High-tech Venture Capital Co. ... based Warburg Pincus and Citic Capital, a unit of China's biggest investment ...

Biotech firms close large VC rounds Dec 14, 2004
San Jose Mercury News (subscription), ...and including US Venture Partners, Venrock Associates, China Development Industrial ... led by existing investors Menlo Ventures, Mobius Venture Capital and First ...

Where Only Dummies Look for Outside Investors Dec 30, 2004
Boardmember.com, ...people are negative on the idea.� That proved true of his China fund. ... company and with McGovern’s blessing exchanged a 15% stake for venture capital in 1999 ...

Burrill's Biotech Outlook for 2005 ...and a look back at 2004 Dec 22, 2004
PR Newswire (press release) ...especially in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China), Japan, and ... Venture Capital The Burrill family of venture capital funds, with over $500 million ...

Warburg Pincus, 2 Others Buy 55% of China Drugmaker (Update3) Dec 20, 2004
Bloomberg ...million) for a 55 percent stake in Hayao Group, China's biggest drugmaker ... Heilongjiang Chenergy HIT High-tech Venture Capital Co., a domestic venture capital ...

The Mainline of Their Thinking Dec 14, 2004
Gateway 2 Russia, Some people believe venture capital is like gambling in a casino and that only ... there are only three fast-growing and large markets, Russia, Brazil and China. ...

UPDATE:China CITIC,Warburg Pincus Buy Into Harbin Pharma Dec 20, 2004
Yahoo News ...allows the company to recover shares bought illegally by China Southern Securities ... run firm include Heilongjiang Chenergy HIT Hi-tech Venture Capital Co., which ...

Warburg buys stake in Chinese drug firm Dec 20, 2004
International Herald Tribune, 22.5 percent stakes, while Heilongjiang Chenergy Hit High-tech Venture Capital will buy ... Warburg Pincus and Citic Capital, a unit of China's biggest investment ...

Startup Checkup Part II: Nine months later, where are they now? Dec 14, 2004
Ottawa Business Journal, Paul Venture Capital and France's Innovacom. ... The company began an Asian sales and marketing campaign last week with stops in Japan and China to try to drum up ...

China private equity may be minefield for investors Dec 14, 2004
Reuters, ...billion in Asia, on Tuesday took control of the board of China's Shenzhen Bank ... for instance, netted returns of up to 20 times for venture capital firm Doll ...

A look back: During the past 20 years, Cincinnati's economy has ... Jan 3, 2005
MSNBC Venture capital firms, virtually nonexistent until the early 1990s, have raised more than ... has shrunk because nonunion factories in Mexico and China can build ...

Pvt equity investors see high growth Dec 16, 2004
Sify, Product development firms in the technology arena are attractive, said K. Ganapathy Subramanian of venture capital firm JumpStartUp, which ... "I think China has a ...

AFX Europe Summary - midday Jan 4, 2005
FXStreet.com, ...capital funds bidding for Amadeus Global Travel Distribution SA have offered around 7 eur per share. BEIJING (AFX) - Volkswagen AG saw car sales in China fall ...

Harbin to get $200m investment boost Dec 20, 2004
Financial Times, ...in Harbin Pharmaceutical Group, a leading Chinese drug maker in China's north-east ... of the deal, Heilongjiang Chenergy HIT Hi-tech Venture Capital will purchase ...

[New Year Special] Hitting Both Highs and Lows Dec 30, 2004
Korea Times, ...suk told me that Warburg Pincus, a global venture capital fund, invested ... American films uploaded by ``copyleft’’ advocators in Southeast Asia and China.

Size matters in Asia's private equity industry Dec 12, 2004
Reuters, ...half went to the big global houses, according to the Asian Venture Capital Journal (AVCJ ... China's CDH Investments, founded in 1995 as a unit of a joint venture ...

Deal would lure tech jobs to Iowa Dec 17, 2004
DesMoinesRegister.com, ..."Venture capital is basically based on both coasts, and there isn'ta lot in the ... companies in states like Iowa is "more cost-effective" than India, China or the ...

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Dec 16, 2004
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) ...its true growth potential is in the enclave of Macau on the China coast. ... The IPO resurgence is especially good news for the venture capital industry, which was ...

O'Melveny & Myers LLP Announces Partnership Class for 2005 Dec 13, 2004
Yahoo News (press release) ...and public technology companies in connection with venture capital financing, public ... measures applicable to technology companies doing business in China. ...

Visit to the Echo Chamber: A Day at MIT Dec 15, 2004
CRM Buyer This is a big deal in the Boston venture capital and technology circles and beyond. ... There was also a lot of attention given to China and India. ...

2005 Forecast: Stick Around, This Could Be Fun Dec 22, 2004
CRM Buyer ...held at MIT's Sloan Business School, in which I participated, the mood was cautiously optimistic for venture capital prospects in ... Oracle will try to buy China. ...

It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times... Dec 16, 2004
Always On ...t mean as spectator sport), in this week’s Letter from China, David Scott ... The National Venture Capital Association as well as some of the nation's leading ...

Burrill's Biotech Outlook for 2005 ...and a look back at 2004 Dec 22, 2004
Yahoo News (press release) ...especially in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China), Japan, and ... The Burrill family of venture capital funds, with over $500 million under management ...

Financial shares: small is beautiful Dec 18, 2004
Telegraph.co.uk, Despite Europe and America's sluggishness, India and China offer long-term upside ... market noticed RAB later getting fat returns on venture capital stakes, via ...

Carlyle, Prudential to Buy China Pacific Life Stake (Update3) Dec 16, 2004
Bloomberg ...to be the biggest buyout deal in China, said Paul Mackintosh, managing editor of AVCJ Group Ltd., which runs a venture-capital journal and database. ...

Shankar Narayanan joins Carlyle as managing director in India Dec 10, 2004
AltAssets ...spanning a variety of sectors in both traditional private equity and venture capital. ... over the last 12 months, building up its activities in China, India and ...

TechTarget Closes $15 Million in Series C Financing; New Round ... Dec 21, 2004
Business Wire (press release), ...company began its international expansion, launching TechTarget China and Information ... a crossover investment model that combines venture capital with public ...

China Telecom to boost Internet TV in 2005 Dec 30, 2004
Xinhua, After China opened movie and TV program production a month ago,Sony, Viacom ... that there would be nearly one billion yuan of foreign venture capital coming to The ...

Mforma makes Marvel-ous deal Dec 13, 2004
Seattle Times, Bellevue, with offices in China, South Korea, San Francisco and London. Funding:In 2004, the company has raised $63 million in venture capital from eFund ...

Brains Abroad Dec 13, 2004
Forbes, Singapore is recruiting in China, India, and Malaysia to fill IT positions. ... coupled with initiatives such as the creation of a venture capital industry and ...

Immigrant startups Dec 12, 2004
Boston Business Journal, ...in Impress, sent its investment partners to China, Germany, India, Ireland and Israel in search of companies to add to the venture capital firm's stable. ...

Japan's largest mobile carrier invests in Linux supplier Dec 22, 2004
Linux News ...$7 million, and brought in new investors that included Siemens Venture Capital, Samsung Ventures America, Infineon Ventures, and China Development Industrial ...

Warburg Pincus, Blackstone Plan Record Buyout Funds (Update1) Dec 20, 2004
Bloomberg 2 buyout and venture capital firm after Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., based on the $19 ... whether to start an Asian operation in India, Japan or China, James said ...

READ IN THIS STORY: Dec 13, 2004
ITWeb, Notable IPOs included China Netcom, Elpida, Google (one of the largest of ... those still listed in the JSE's development capital and venture capital sectors, will ...

Ethanol's sweet success Dec 17, 2004
International Herald Tribune, ...industries to feed demand for energy in the region, especially from China. ... Against this backdrop, it is not surprising that venture capital firms have targeted ...

California must keep its edge Jan 2, 2005
San Francisco Chronicle, ...to a skilled, entrepreneurial workforce and a heavy concentration of venture capital. ... term competitiveness, particularly with the emergence of China and India ...

MaXXan Secures $29 Million in Latest Funding Round Dec 13, 2004
PR Newswire (press release) ...and fastest- growing wireless providers in the world, including China Unicom, have ... Partners is a multi-stage, market-driven venture capital partnership that ...

Comlent Successfully Develops China's First Complete RFIC ... Dec 20, 2004
TMCnet China currently has nearly 70 million PHS/PAS subscribers, and experienced ... Comlent's investors include leading venture capital investors such as Intel Capital ...

H'wood's global warming Jan 2, 2005
Variety (subscription) ...and "Lemony Snicket." More importantly, the jury is still out on China and India ... are now largely controlled by three owners, all of them venture capital groups. ...

Carlyle aims to establish Japan team Dec 20, 2004
International Herald Tribune, ...in young Japanese companies, the latest move to broaden its venture capital exposure in ... Prudential Financial to buy about 25 percent of China's third-largest ...

Stanford Business School student missing after Thailand tsunami Dec 29, 2004
Stanford Report ...student organizations, including the Entrepreneurship Club, the Venture Capital Club and ... an import business, which is currently selling products from China. ...

Europe gains, Swiss Re supports Dec 30, 2004
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) The statement clarified reports this week that said China wouldn't order ... Zeitung reported that the Carlyle Group and Citigroup Venture Capital were making a ...

Lynnell Burkett: Councilman has big plans for his district — and ... Dec 18, 2004
San Antonio Express (subscription), San Antonio doesn't have enough of a financial base — with venture capital, investment banking ... America, a year in Europe and a year in China before settling ...

A few local tech-bust survivors 26 Dec 2004
Boulder Daily Camera, Venture capital markets dried up just as DataPlay's $369 players hit store shelves ... Already, consumers in China and Korea use media devices powered by DataPlay ...

Year in review: Looking back on MetroWest business 26 Dec 2004
MetroWest Daily News, Staples made its first move into China's $25 billion office supply market with ... payroll to 25 workers from 156 -- after draining its supply of venture capital. ...

SAIF Won Two Laurels of China Venture Capital Annual Ranking 2004 Dec 17, 2004
PR Newswire (press release) Released by Zero2ipo Venture Capital Research Center BEIJING, Dec 17 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- On December 17, China Venture Capital Annual Ranking 2004 Awarding ...

SAIF Won Two Laurels of China Venture Capital Annual Ranking 2004 Dec 17, 2004
New Ratings BEIJING, Dec 17 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- On December 17, China Venture Capital Annual Ranking 2004 Awarding Ceremony was held in Tianlun Dynasty, Beijing. ...

China's appetite for foreign capital will dominate '05 Dec 23, 2004
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) With US funds committing well over $1 billion in private equity and venture capital to China in 2005, liquidity issues could sour market appetite for China ...

TCS to take JV route in venture capital Dec 21, 2004
Rediff, He cited companies in China and Hungary, as technology hotbeds. ... is a joint venture between TCS, Swedish bank SEB, McKinsey & Co's venture capital arm Compass ...

HF Capital and MicroPlanet announce agreement to complete business ... Dec 21, 2004
Canada NewsWire (press release), The Company has additional patents pending in the US, Europe, China and South ... Upon graduation, Mr. Howse entered venture capital with Data Science Ventures in ...

While bad publicity was offset by a great acquisition rate, 29% of ... Dec 25, 2004
Sunday Herald, ...by 51% to £7.8m last year and prospered in markets such as India and China. ... “A lot of the advice companies are getting is: raise venture capital funds and we ...

China Venture Capital Yearly Investments Surpassed US$1 Billion ... Dec 16, 2004
PR Newswire (press release) 16 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Zero2IPO, a well-known venture capital research and consulting company in China, announced on China Venture Capital Annual Forum 2004 ...

Warburg Pincus, 2 Others Buy 55% of China Drugmaker (Update2) Dec 20, 2004
Bloomberg 22.5 percent stakes, while Heilongjiang Chenergy HiT High-tech Venture Capital Co. ... based Warburg Pincus and Citic Capital, a unit of China's biggest investment ...

Venture capital on fast track Dec 16, 2004
China Daily, He said at the Zero2ipo China Venture Capital Forum in Beijing yesterday that with the successful initial public offerings (IPOs) of Shanghai-based Chinese ...

Burrill's Biotech Outlook for 2005 ...and a look back at 2004 Dec 22, 2004
PR Newswire (press release) ...especially in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China), Japan, and ... Venture Capital The Burrill family of venture capital funds, with over $500 million ...

Warburg Pincus, 2 Others Buy 55% of China Drugmaker (Update3) Dec 20, 2004
Bloomberg ...million) for a 55 percent stake in Hayao Group, China's biggest drugmaker ... Heilongjiang Chenergy HIT High-tech Venture Capital Co., a domestic venture capital ...

Venture-Capital Activity Focused on Rebuilding in 2004; First Year ... Dec 12, 2004
Business Wire (press release), ...of the trip, as increasing numbers of investors ventured to China and India ... This data was collected by surveying professional venture capital firms, through in ...

UPDATE:China CITIC,Warburg Pincus Buy Into Harbin Pharma Dec 20, 2004
Yahoo News ...allows the company to recover shares bought illegally by China Southern Securities ... run firm include Heilongjiang Chenergy HIT Hi-tech Venture Capital Co., which ...

Warburg buys stake in Chinese drug firm Dec 20, 2004
International Herald Tribune, 22.5 percent stakes, while Heilongjiang Chenergy Hit High-tech Venture Capital will buy ... Warburg Pincus and Citic Capital, a unit of China's biggest investment ...

Harbin to get $200m investment boost Dec 20, 2004
Financial Times, ...in Harbin Pharmaceutical Group, a leading Chinese drug maker in China's north-east ... of the deal, Heilongjiang Chenergy HIT Hi-tech Venture Capital will purchase ...

Small businesses expect good year despite rising costs Dec 20, 2004
New Mexico Business Weekly, Oil prices, however, likely will drop a little next year as China's economy cools ... New cash also is making its way into venture capital firms, a good sign for ...

2005 Forecast: Stick Around, This Could Be Fun Dec 22, 2004
CRM Buyer ...held at MIT's Sloan Business School, in which I participated, the mood was cautiously optimistic for venture capital prospects in ... Oracle will try to buy China. ...

Burrill's Biotech Outlook for 2005 ...and a look back at 2004 Dec 22, 2004
Yahoo News (press release) ...especially in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China), Japan, and ... The Burrill family of venture capital funds, with over $500 million under management ...

TechTarget Closes $15 Million in Series C Financing; New Round ... Dec 21, 2004
Business Wire (press release), ...company began its international expansion, launching TechTarget China and Information ... a crossover investment model that combines venture capital with public ...

Coming, Silicon Valley VCs Dec 14, 2004
Business Standard, But Lilani thinks that India will get less venture capital cash than China because IT services and BPO require less capital than manufacturing. ...

China Communication To Launch Nationwide TV Station Dec 23, 2004
Pacific Epoch (subscription), News. According to He, China TV Station has support from a secret venture capital giant and related governmental departments. The ...

Japan's largest mobile carrier invests in Linux supplier Dec 22, 2004
Linux News ...$7 million, and brought in new investors that included Siemens Venture Capital, Samsung Ventures America, Infineon Ventures, and China Development Industrial ...

Warburg Pincus, Blackstone Plan Record Buyout Funds (Update1) Dec 20, 2004
Bloomberg 2 buyout and venture capital firm after Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., based on the $19 ... whether to start an Asian operation in India, Japan or China, James said ...

Comtech Group Adds Dr. QY Ma as an Independent Member to Its Board ... Dec 22, 2004
mysan.de, Dr. Ma is the Managing Partner of Time Innovation Ventures (TIV), a venture capital firm focused on funding technology start-ups and joint ventures in China. ...

Is venture capital creating a bubble in China? Dec 6, 2004
International Herald Tribune, Chang Sun, a venture capitalist at Warburg Pincus Asia in Hong Kong and founder of the China Venture Capital Association, said that most of the venture ...

Is Venture Capital Creating A Bubble In China? Dec 6, 2004
DisInfo.com Venture investors say it is hardly possible anymore to step into the business-class cabin of a flight from San Francisco to China without running into at least ...

Comlent Successfully Develops China's First Complete RFIC ... Dec 20, 2004
TMCnet China currently has nearly 70 million PHS/PAS subscribers, and experienced ... Comlent's investors include leading venture capital investors such as Intel Capital ...

Carlyle aims to establish Japan team Dec 20, 2004
International Herald Tribune, ...in young Japanese companies, the latest move to broaden its venture capital exposure in ... Prudential Financial to buy about 25 percent of China's third-largest ...

Biotech firms close large VC rounds Dec 14, 2004
San Jose Mercury News (subscription), ...and including US Venture Partners, Venrock Associates, China Development Industrial ... led by existing investors Menlo Ventures, Mobius Venture Capital and First ...

The Mainline of Their Thinking Dec 14, 2004
Gateway 2 Russia, Some people believe venture capital is like gambling in a casino and that only ... there are only three fast-growing and large markets, Russia, Brazil and China. ...

Server, software firm bides its time Dec 24, 2004
San Diego Union Tribune, Since its founding, the company has raised more than $45 million in venture capital from firms such as Intel and China Development Industrial Bank of Taiwan. ...

Lynnell Burkett: Councilman has big plans for his district — and ... Dec 18, 2004
San Antonio Express (subscription), San Antonio doesn't have enough of a financial base — with venture capital, investment banking ... America, a year in Europe and a year in China before settling ...

Startup Checkup Part II: Nine months later, where are they now? Dec 14, 2004
Ottawa Business Journal, Paul Venture Capital and France's Innovacom. ... The company began an Asian sales and marketing campaign last week with stops in Japan and China to try to drum up ...

China private equity may be minefield for investors Dec 14, 2004
Reuters, ...billion in Asia, on Tuesday took control of the board of China's Shenzhen Bank ... for instance, netted returns of up to 20 times for venture capital firm Doll ...

Pvt equity investors see high growth Dec 16, 2004
Sify, Product development firms in the technology arena are attractive, said K. Ganapathy Subramanian of venture capital firm JumpStartUp, which ... "I think China has a ...

Size matters in Asia's private equity industry Dec 12, 2004
Reuters, ...half went to the big global houses, according to the Asian Venture Capital Journal (AVCJ ... China's CDH Investments, founded in 1995 as a unit of a joint venture ...

Deal would lure tech jobs to Iowa Dec 17, 2004
DesMoinesRegister.com, ..."Venture capital is basically based on both coasts, and there isn'ta lot in the ... companies in states like Iowa is "more cost-effective" than India, China or the ...

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Dec 16, 2004
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) ...its true growth potential is in the enclave of Macau on the China coast. ... The IPO resurgence is especially good news for the venture capital industry, which was ...

O'Melveny & Myers LLP Announces Partnership Class for 2005 Dec 13, 2004
Yahoo News (press release) ...and public technology companies in connection with venture capital financing, public ... measures applicable to technology companies doing business in China. ...

Visit to the Echo Chamber: A Day at MIT Dec 15, 2004
CRM Buyer This is a big deal in the Boston venture capital and technology circles and beyond. ... There was also a lot of attention given to China and India. ...

It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times... Dec 16, 2004
Always On ...t mean as spectator sport), in this week’s Letter from China, David Scott ... The National Venture Capital Association as well as some of the nation's leading ...

Financial shares: small is beautiful Dec 18, 2004
Telegraph.co.uk, Despite Europe and America's sluggishness, India and China offer long-term upside ... market noticed RAB later getting fat returns on venture capital stakes, via ...

Carlyle, Prudential to Buy China Pacific Life Stake (Update3) Dec 16, 2004
Bloomberg ...to be the biggest buyout deal in China, said Paul Mackintosh, managing editor of AVCJ Group Ltd., which runs a venture-capital journal and database. ...

Mforma makes Marvel-ous deal Dec 13, 2004
Seattle Times, Bellevue, with offices in China, South Korea, San Francisco and London. Funding:In 2004, the company has raised $63 million in venture capital from eFund ...

Brains Abroad Dec 13, 2004
Forbes, Singapore is recruiting in China, India, and Malaysia to fill IT positions. ... coupled with initiatives such as the creation of a venture capital industry and ...

Immigrant startups Dec 12, 2004
Boston Business Journal, ...in Impress, sent its investment partners to China, Germany, India, Ireland and Israel in search of companies to add to the venture capital firm's stable. ...

Weekly Review Dec 22, 2004
China Business Weekly, ...year basis, to US$81 billion at the end of November, the People's Bank of China said last ... "This year is a turning point for the venture capital industry," said ...

'Americans have begun to believe that India is on top when it ... Dec 21, 2004
ZDNetIndia, IT will continue to remain centre stage as far as the venture capital community is ... producing engineers and they have to rely on engineers from India and China. ...

READ IN THIS STORY: Dec 13, 2004
ITWeb, Notable IPOs included China Netcom, Elpida, Google (one of the largest of ... those still listed in the JSE's development capital and venture capital sectors, will ...

PE Week Wire -- Friday, December 10 Dec 10, 2004
Private Equity Week, ...fables semicondcutor company, has raised $8 million in new venture capital funding ... to sell its personal computer unit for $1.75 billion to China-based computer ...

Ethanol's sweet success Dec 17, 2004
International Herald Tribune, ...industries to feed demand for energy in the region, especially from China. ... Against this backdrop, it is not surprising that venture capital firms have targeted ...

MaXXan Secures $29 Million in Latest Funding Round Dec 13, 2004
PR Newswire (press release) ...and fastest- growing wireless providers in the world, including China Unicom, have ... Partners is a multi-stage, market-driven venture capital partnership that ...

Cisco invests big in Japan Dec 20, 2004
Silicon.com, ...plans to spend $32m on a research and development centre in Shanghai, China. ... Cisco has also announced plans to launch a venture capital programme in India to ...

Cisco invests US$12 million in Japan R&D center Dec 19, 2004
Cnet Asia, ...to spend US$32 million on a research and development center in Shanghai, China. ... Cisco has also announced plans to launch a venture capital program in India to ...

Devise long-term policy for IT hardware: panel Dec 14, 2004
Financial Express, ...model of IT industry in China, more so when the Indian hardware industry was battling for survival. Measures relating to venture capital funding, fiscal ...

BT's buzzing hive of ideas has designs on the future Dec 17, 2004
VNUNet.com, The tool was deployed, taken to venture capital unit Brightstar in 2000 and spun off as an ... But we're keen to expand into the US and China for key partnerships ...

IBM May Lead New High-Tech Revolution Dec 19, 2004
Los Angeles Times (subscription), ...sold most of its personal computer business to China's Lenovo Group two weeks ago ... in 20 years," says Rick Gold, a partner at InnoCal Venture Capital, a Costa ...

eLCOS to Launch 1080p VAN eHD70 LCOS Microdisplay With 4000:1 ... Dec 21, 2004
PR Newswire (press release) ...design house for LCOS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) microdisplays, is a venture capital-backed company ... eLCOS has offices in the United States, China, and Taiwan.

TaiGen Biotechnology focuses on worldwide market with novel drugs Dec 17, 2004
Biotecheast.com, China, and with more available patients in Taiwan and China, particularly for ... from both a national government fund and also venture capital firms, including MPM ...

Saving Strings Dec 10, 2004
Los Angeles Times (subscription), Less than a year earlier, a venture capital group had purchased rights to the technology ... And there's China, where Townsend was the guest of honor at a family ...

Fair for returned students Dec 22, 2004
China Daily, ...students," said Lin. The Guangzhou Scientific and Technological Venture Capital Company provides startup funds for the returned students.

A red herring for an IT boom? Dec 13, 2004
The Times, ...the same sharp headlines: "VC in Asia: Chips in China", "The Biotech ... That overhang may be diminishing, according to the latest Venture Capital Report compiled ...

New company moves here to wage war on soybean rust Dec 11, 2004
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, ...has caused billions of dollars in crop losses in Brazil, China, India and ... partner of Arch Development Partners LLC, a Chicago-based venture capital firm that ...

American investor, Chinese entrepreneur make for a winning pair Nov 29, 2004
MENAFN, Local Chinese VCs contributed only 15 percent of all venture capital in China in the first half of 2004, down from 50 percent in 2001, according to ZerotoIPO ...

ThermoGenesis Signs Agreement for BHHTI to Distribute the CryoSeal ... Dec 7, 2004
mysan.de, Corp., commented, "BHHTI, a portfolio company of Beijing Venture Capital Co., Ltd ... the largest leading surgical hospitals within the various provinces in China. ...

Shankar Narayanan joins Carlyle as managing director in India Dec 10, 2004
AltAssets ...spanning a variety of sectors in both traditional private equity and venture capital. ... over the last 12 months, building up its activities in China, India and ...

TargeGen TG100-115 Wins UCSD CONNECT 2004 Most Innovative Product ... Dec 2, 2004
PR Newswire (press release) ...venture capital sources. Key investors include Forward Ventures, Enterprise Partners, William Blair Capital Partners, CDP Capital Technology Ventures, China ...

SIMEST: BOARD, OK TO 14 INVESTMENT FOREIGN COMPANIES PJCTS Dec 1, 2004
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia, ...in the sector, an opportunity further reinforced by the venture capital managed by Simest in the same sector. The orientation towards China is confirmed with ...

Carlyle and Prudential Financial eye stake in China insurer Dec 16, 2004
The Malaysia Star, It would also increase by a quarter the total private equity volume recorded so far this year in China, according to the Asian Venture Capital Journal. ...

IBM to Add 150 Design Engineers in China Dec 1, 2004
LinuxElectrons, For instance, Shanghai Belling, China's largest semiconductor company, said today ... Architecture technology has drawn the interest of venture capital firms, too. ...

China Entrepreneur: A ticket to ride? Nov 28, 2004
Financeasia.com, ...through this route, in which he learnt about technology, venture capital and international ... sent on the same day via couriers, thus using China's cheap labour ...

Mind the curve Dec 8, 2004
Red Herring, While the return of venture capital to the high-tech sector will increase competition ... For example, in the last two decades, China has matured from a country ...

Silicon Valley High Tech Incubator and Global Business Development ... Dec 7, 2004
TMCnet ...alliances with organizations in such countries as Israel, China, Japan, Denmark, and ... Approximately $600 million in venture capital has been raised by companies ...

Northwest economy emerging from funk Dec 5, 2004
Seattle Times, The drought of venture-capital investment, which helped ... If anything, he said, he's more concerned about China's attempts to rein in its galloping economy.

Tech execs take stand against R&D grants Dec 4, 2004
Ha'aretz, Olmert warned that "many countries, including India, China, Singapore, Germany, Ireland ... a year ago to stand up to pressure from Israeli venture capital funds to ...

Don't let the dollar take the fall Dec 8, 2004
International Herald Tribune, China, meanwhile, keeps its currency pegged to the dollar, so a cheaper dollar ... up so much domestic savings, our stock market and venture capital markets also ...

Contrarian warns of investment 'fashion' Dec 1, 2004
International Herald Tribune, ...to industry data provider AsiaHedge, while the Asian Venture Capital Journal estimated ... One popular investment that Rogers likes is China, which he said would ...

Improving economy could backfire on small businesses Nov 28, 2004
IdahoStatesman.com, But within a month he was in production in China.". ... In cases where bank financing is not available, he suggests tapping the venture capital markets, which will ...

Managing in the IT economy Dec 11, 2004
The Malaysia Star, China’s ability to buy the necessary infrastructure has paved the way for ... skills, willing to take risks and supported by a strong venture capital industry. ...

Briefly: Big new tax bill for Yukos unit Dec 7, 2004
International Herald Tribune, Basel II international agreement by cutting reserve requirements on venture capital investments. ... The Bush administration once again declared that China is not ...

TechBiz Connection Showcases Five Forum Webcasts on Security ... Dec 17, 2004
Business Wire (press release), With venture capital back in a big way, flush with money to invest ... through international exchanges of products, technology, labor and information with China. ...

ThermoGenesis Signs Agreement for BHHTI to Distribute the CryoSeal ... Dec 7, 2004
PR Newswire (press release) ...right to distribute the Company's CryoSeal FS System and disposables in China. ... Corp., commented, "BHHTI, a portfolio company of Beijing Venture Capital Co., Ltd ...

Europeans Learning to Love the Super-Euro By PAOLO PONTONIERE Dec 14, 2004
Berkeley Daily Planet, ...into the EU, Europeans have discovered their own domestic China—that is ... Michele Libraro, CEO of Global StartUps, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm devoted ...

$ 200m. India-China investment fund set up Dec 7, 2004
The Hindu, First Eastern Investment Group is one of the largest venture capital firms in China with $ 600 million of flowing funds in 80 projects across 40 Chinese cities ...

Johnson Matthey's mettle forged by platinum's worth Nov 25, 2004
The Times, And China presents the company with another juicy opportunity for growth ... term business streams — property development and a venture capital-style investment ...

Zi Corporation to Acquire Assets of Decuma AB of Sweden Dec 14, 2004
TechFinance, ...representative offices in Beijing, China. In September 2003, Decuma received €3.1 million in venture funding from Sony Venture Capital Europe, Industrifonden ...

Propagating Some AP Tech Dec 14, 2004
Wi-Fi Planet, ...work to do with original design manufacturers (ODMs) in China" to keep ... Propagate deal, and he's probably right—Siemens, through its Venture Capital arm, was ...

Carlyle eyes 2 more Chinese companies Dec 7, 2004
China Daily, So far this year, the US venture-capital firm has invested US$40 million in China, which dwarfed last year's total investment of less than US$15 million. ...

Monolithic Power Systems Appoints Saria Tseng as Vice President ... Dec 17, 2004
Business Wire (press release), ...she specialized in corporate securities law, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financing, and ... of the bar association of the Republic of China (Taiwan). ...

IP Unity Launches New Software Development Centre in Bangalore Dec 12, 2004
TMCnet SBC, BellSouth, Qwest, Cablevision, Cbeyond, China Netcom, China Telecom, Comcast and ... Byers and Partech International, as well as from Siemens Venture Capital. ...

Chemport liquidating, state officials investigating Dec 13, 2004
MSNBC ...making presentations to potential investors at InvestMidwest, a venture capital forum here ... it to distribute a gasoline additive in the United States and China. ...

Hong Kong Tom joins brothers' biz Dec 9, 2004
Variety (subscription) ...and Sony has apparently ended. With the new investment from Tom and a 3% stake taken by venture capital player China Equity, Huayi Bros. ...

Votemail Express Inc Announces "On Demand" Security Solution for ... Dec 10, 2004
CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse), ...to successfully raise $15 M USD in financing from a US venture capital firm ... For further information: press only: China: Mr. Mike Tilley, China Mobile number (011 ...

GPEC taps Mich. official Dec 15, 2004
AZ Central.com, ...and blunt, sporting a sign in his office that reads, "Bull, China Shop ... In addition to publicly calling on Pfizer, he has helped create venture capital funds and ...

Warburg Pincus, 2 Others Buy 55% of China Drugmaker (Update3) 20 Dec 2004
Bloomberg ...million) for a 55 percent stake in Hayao Group, China's biggest drugmaker ... Heilongjiang Chenergy HIT High-tech Venture Capital Co., a domestic venture capital ...

Warburg Pincus, Blackstone Plan Record Funds as Buyouts Surge 20 Dec 2004
Bloomberg 2 buyout and venture capital firm after Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., based on the $19 ... whether to start an Asian operation in India, Japan or China, James said ...

Comlent Successfully Develops China's First Complete RFIC ... 20 Dec 2004
Business Wire (press release), China currently has nearly 70 million PHS/PAS subscribers, and experienced ... Comlent's investors include leading venture capital investors such as Intel Capital ...

‘Americans have begun to believe that India is on top when it ... 20 Dec 2004
Financial Express, IT will continue to remain centre stage as far as the venture capital community is ... producing engineers and they have to rely on engineers from India and China. ...

China Venture Capital Yearly Investments Surpassed US$1 Billion ... Dec 16, 2004
PR Newswire (press release) 16 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Zero2IPO, a well-known venture capital research and consulting company in China, announced on China Venture Capital Annual Forum 2004 ...

Venture-Capital Activity Focused on Rebuilding in 2004; First Year ... Dec 12, 2004
Business Wire (press release), ...of the trip, as increasing numbers of investors ventured to China and India ... This data was collected by surveying professional venture capital firms, through in ...

IBM May Lead New High-Tech Revolution Dec 19, 2004
Los Angeles Times (subscription), ...sold most of its personal computer business to China's Lenovo Group two weeks ago ... in 20 years," says Rick Gold, a partner at InnoCal Venture Capital, a Costa ...

Deal would lure tech jobs to Iowa Dec 17, 2004
DesMoinesRegister.com, ..."Venture capital is basically based on both coasts, and there isn'ta lot in the ... companies in states like Iowa is "more cost-effective" than India, China or the ...

Financial shares: small is beautiful Dec 18, 2004
Telegraph.co.uk, Despite Europe and America's sluggishness, India and China offer long-term upside ... market noticed RAB later getting fat returns on venture capital stakes, via ...

Lynnell Burkett: Councilman has big plans for his district — and ... Dec 18, 2004
San Antonio Express (subscription), San Antonio doesn't have enough of a financial base — with venture capital, investment banking ... America, a year in Europe and a year in China before settling ...

Coming, Silicon Valley VCs Dec 14, 2004
Business Standard, But Lilani thinks that India will get less venture capital cash than China because IT services and BPO require less capital than manufacturing. ...

It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times... Dec 16, 2004
Always On ...t mean as spectator sport), in this week’s Letter from China, David Scott ... The National Venture Capital Association as well as some of the nation's leading ...

Is venture capital creating a bubble in China? Dec 6, 2004
International Herald Tribune, Chang Sun, a venture capitalist at Warburg Pincus Asia in Hong Kong and founder of the China Venture Capital Association, said that most of the venture ...

Is Venture Capital Creating A Bubble In China? Dec 6, 2004
DisInfo.com Venture investors say it is hardly possible anymore to step into the business-class cabin of a flight from San Francisco to China without running into at least ...

BT's buzzing hive of ideas has designs on the future Dec 17, 2004
VNUNet.com, The tool was deployed, taken to venture capital unit Brightstar in 2000 and spun off as an ... But we're keen to expand into the US and China for key partnerships ...

Private equity investors see high growth in India Dec 16, 2004
Financial Express, Product development firms in the technology arena are attractive, said K. Ganapathy Subramanian of venture capital firm JumpStartUp, which ... "I think China has a ...

TaiGen Biotechnology focuses on worldwide market with novel drugs Dec 17, 2004
Biotecheast.com, China, and with more available patients in Taiwan and China, particularly for ... from both a national government fund and also venture capital firms, including MPM ...

Carlyle and Prudential Financial eye stake in China insurer Dec 16, 2004
The Malaysia Star, It would also increase by a quarter the total private equity volume recorded so far this year in China, according to the Asian Venture Capital Journal. ...

TechBiz Connection Showcases Five Forum Webcasts on Security ... Dec 17, 2004
Business Wire (press release), With venture capital back in a big way, flush with money to invest ... through international exchanges of products, technology, labor and information with China. ...

Startup Checkup Part II: Nine months later, where are they now? Dec 14, 2004
Ottawa Business Journal, Paul Venture Capital and France's Innovacom. ... The company began an Asian sales and marketing campaign last week with stops in Japan and China to try to drum up ...

Ethanol's sweet success Dec 17, 2004
International Herald Tribune, ...industries to feed demand for energy in the region, especially from China. ... Against this backdrop, it is not surprising that venture capital firms have targeted ...

Mforma makes Marvel-ous deal Dec 13, 2004
Seattle Times, Bellevue, with offices in China, South Korea, San Francisco and London. Funding:In 2004, the company has raised $63 million in venture capital from eFund ...

The Mainline of Their Thinking Dec 14, 2004
Gateway 2 Russia, Some people believe venture capital is like gambling in a casino and that only ... there are only three fast-growing and large markets, Russia, Brazil and China. ...

O'Melveny & Myers LLP Announces Partnership Class for 2005 Dec 13, 2004
Yahoo News (press release) ...and public technology companies in connection with venture capital financing, public ... measures applicable to technology companies doing business in China. ...

Monolithic Power Systems Appoints Saria Tseng as Vice President ... Dec 17, 2004
Business Wire (press release), ...she specialized in corporate securities law, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financing, and ... of the bar association of the Republic of China (Taiwan). ...

Visit to the Echo Chamber: A Day at MIT Dec 15, 2004
CRM Buyer This is a big deal in the Boston venture capital and technology circles and beyond. ... There was also a lot of attention given to China and India. ...

Biotech firms close large VC rounds Dec 14, 2004
San Jose Mercury News (subscription), ...and including US Venture Partners, Venrock Associates, China Development Industrial ... led by existing investors Menlo Ventures, Mobius Venture Capital and First ...

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Dec 16, 2004
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) ...its true growth potential is in the enclave of Macau on the China coast. ... The IPO resurgence is especially good news for the venture capital industry, which was ...

Immigrant startups Dec 12, 2004
Boston Business Journal, ...in Impress, sent its investment partners to China, Germany, India, Ireland and Israel in search of companies to add to the venture capital firm's stable. ...

PE Week Wire -- Friday, December 10 Dec 10, 2004
Private Equity Week, ...fables semicondcutor company, has raised $8 million in new venture capital funding ... to sell its personal computer unit for $1.75 billion to China-based computer ...

Carlyle, Prudential to Buy China Pacific Life Stake (Update3) Dec 16, 2004
Bloomberg ...to be the biggest buyout deal in China, said Paul Mackintosh, managing editor of AVCJ Group Ltd., which runs a venture-capital journal and database. ...

China private equity may be minefield for investors Dec 14, 2004
Reuters, ...billion in Asia, on Tuesday took control of the board of China's Shenzhen Bank ... for instance, netted returns of up t