Ocean Link
Technology: The unavoidable angle
Technology is directly or indirectly redefining business models across Asia. Private equity investors must embrace change or risk seeing returns damaged as portfolio companies are disrupted
Chinese travel platform Mafengwo secures $133m Series D
Chinese travel services platform Mafengwo has raised $133 million Series D round from new investors including Ocean Link, General Atlantic, Temasek Holdings, Yuantai Investment, and Hopu Investment.
Sector funds: Special forces
The proliferation of fund managers targeting relatively focused investment segments signals a new maturity in Asian private equity. The trend will evolve in step with regional markets
CBC, Ocean Link lead $40m round for China’s Yitiao
China Broadband Capital (CBC) and Ocean Link – a travel and tourism-focused PE firm – have jointly led a $40 million Series C round for Yitiao, a Chinese online platform that offers lifestyle video content and retail services.
Wanderlust: PE taps into China's tourism boom
Ocean Link is China’s first private equity firm dedicated to investing in the travel and tourism industry. Can it successfully leverage an increasingly wealthy, free-spending and far-traveling domestic user base?