Author: Rebecca Fannin

China’s Meituan-Dianping Deal Mirrors Didi-Kuaidi Merger

The merger of China’s Meituan, a “Groupon for China,” and Dianping, “China’s Yelp,” to create a $15 billion giant respectively backed by Alibaba and Tencent as well as several prominent VC firms,  marks the largest combo in China’s Internet industry in a year when Internet deals involving Chinese companies are pegged at $58.4 billion, nearly double the amount for...

Silicon Dragon Global 2015

COPY TO CHINA tactics for U.S. tech companies are evolving to COPY FROM ASIA strategies as the balance of innovation power shifts to the East.

Viewpoint: Unicorns Don’t Like Winter

Unicorns don’t like Winter!  by Bruno Bensaid, Founder, ShanghaiVest Here we are again, another down cycle, or so we think. After all, the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index took a beating this Summer, from 5,166 (June 12, 2015) to 3,005 (Sept. 15, 2015), wiping out the equivalent of the combined GDP of several smaller European countries....

Silicon Dragon Ranks The Top 10 Unicorn Startups In China

Silicon Dragon’s ranking of China’s top 10 unicorn startups (below) offers a snapshot of these breakthrough leaders with stratospheric valuations. Of the 131 unicorns worldwide, China claims 18 startups in the $1 billion-plus club. More details on each of these unicorns plus a list of the full 18 Chinese companies in the $1 billion club can be accessed...