Early-stage
Applied Ventures, Allen & Buckeridge invest BT Imaging
VC investors Applied Ventures has joined in a $3.8 million Series A-2 investment round for Australian photovoltaic manufacturing quality control business BT Imaging, alongside existing investors Allen & Buckeridge and Uniseed.
GGV, Lightspeed Venture invest MediaV
GGV Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners have together invested RMB100 million ($14.7 million) in the second round of financing raised by MediaV, a leading provider of digital advertising technology and services in China.
Canaan invests e-shopping with Naaptol
VC firm Canaan Partners has invested some INR40 crore ($8.67 million) in India e-shopping site Naaptol.com, which claims to be the country's largest online shopping platform, for a 25% stake.
Qiming invests $10 million in two life science companies
Qiming Venture Partners, the PRC-focused early and growth stage VC company, has invested a total of $10 million in two life science research service companies, Sangon Biotech in Shanghai and Bio Basic Inc. (BBI) in Toronto.
IFC, JBIC make joint PNG bank investment
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank Group's private finance arm, and IFC Capitalization Fund, a $3 billion fund set up by IFC and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, have jointly invested around $110 million in Bank South...
Legend Capital invests in Yixintang Drugstore and eBen
Beijing-headquartered VC firm Legend Capital reportedly aims to invest RMB150million ($22 million) in Yixintang Drugstore, the seventh-largest drugstore chain operator in China, to support its expansion in the region.
VC-backed China Kanghui seeks $75 million IPO on NYSE
VC-funded China Kanghui Holdings, a manufacturer of orthopedic implants, has filed for a $75 million IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, with investors including IDG Capital, Accel Partners, TDF Capital, CDH Ventures and VivoVentures.
JAFCO invests Singapore's Consilium
VC-focused JAFCO Asia has raised an undisclosed amount in Series A funding for Singapore-based Consilium Software, a communications solutions firm with operations in India, Southeast Asia, Taiwan and Canada.
Sequoia puts best foot forward with OkayBuy
Sequoia Capita has participated in the second round of funding for OkayBuy, an online retailer of shoes in China, with other two unidentified investors.
PE-backed Ambow files for NYSE IPO
Ambow Education Holding Ltd. - a PRC education and career development service provider backed by Actis, CStar Investment, EdVenture, JAFCO Asia Technology Fund and Macquarie - has filed for an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, planning to raise nearly...
Accel does biggest software deal to date with Oz Atlassian
Accel Partners, the Silicon Valley-headquartered VC firm, has made what is ostensibly its largest investment in a software business to date, with a $60 million commitment to Atlassian Pty, a Sydney-based software developer.
Helion Venture leads $6 million Komli Media India deal
Helion Venture Partners, Nexus Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson India have infused an additional $6 million into digital ad network Komli Media India Pvt. Ltd.
Norwest leads $7.2 million fundraising round for Perfint Healthcare
Norwest Venture Partners has led a $7.2 million Series B fundraising round for Indian medical equipment developer Perfint Healthcare Pvt Ltd. with Perfint’s existing investors Accel Partners and IDG Ventures also participating in the financing.
DCM invests Yesmylife
Leading Menlo Park-headquartered VC firm Doll Capital Management (DCM) has revealed that it led a $10 million Series B investment round in Shanghai-headquartered MOS Holdings, Ltd., also known as Yesmylife and Yesmynet.
First Eastern makes second investment in Wuhan
First Eastern Investment Group, the pioneering Hong Kong-based private equity firm, has made a capital injection of RMB100 million ($14.8 million) into Wuhan STDS Environment Tech Co., Ltd. in China.
JAFCO Asia, Mitsui, CEL invest Prudent Energy in China
PRC energy storage business Prudent Energy has announced that pan-Asian VC investor JAFCO Asia, Japanese VC firm Mitsui Ventures and European growth capital investor China Equity Links (CEL) Partners, as well as other investors, will invest a total of...
Kleiner China invites two new recruits
KPCB China, the China unit of Silicon Valley VC firm Kleiner Perkins, has hired Jonathan Wang and Wang Enqiang as venture partner and senior advisor, respectively.
SBI in new round for Quark Pharmaceuticals
Japan's SBI Holdings Group, the investment conglomerate behind the SoftBank family of funds, has made a further commitment of $10 million to investee company Quark Pharmaceuticals, a Californian developer of RNAi-based drugs.
SIG China investing China Ticket Service
SIG China, a Shanghai-based private equity and VC firm, has invested around RMB100 million ($14.7 million) in a Series B financing round for China Ticket Service Net.
Granite Hill backs Net4 India
US India-focused private equity firm Granite Hill Capital Partners is investing some $1.7 million in Indian-listed network and application services company Net4 India.
Temasek arm does China food venture for Sing
Singbridge International Singapore Pte Ltd, a wholly-owned unit of Singapore SWF Temasek Holdings, has signed an agreement with the Municipal Government of Jilin province in northeast China to build a JV "food security" food zone.
Kleiner, Qiming invest China's Arrail Dental
Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers China and Qiming Ventures have invested $20 million in Arrail Dental, a leading high-end PRC dental services provider, for an undisclosed stake.
Li Ka-shing fund, Infocomm, Skype founders invest Singapore's GuardTime
Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-Shing's early stage Horizon Ventures fund, and Ambient Sound Investments, established by the four founding engineers of Skype Technologies, have joined in an $8 million Series A round for Singapore-based GuardTime Ltd., a data security...
Qiming invests China insulin with Gan & Lee
Qiming Venture Partners has committed just over $14.5 million to Gan & Lee Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., a PRC manufacturer of insulin that claims to have Asia's largest recombinant insulin manufacturing site.