18 Chinese Unicorn Startups Face Higher Hurdles As Next Jumps
China’s unicorns startups now numbering 18 will likely face higher hurdles with economic slowdown and market volatility.
China’s unicorns startups now numbering 18 will likely face higher hurdles with economic slowdown and market volatility.
Chinese investors have arrived in Israel to back startups and venture funds.
Silicon Dragon’s conference comes to Pasadena at a time when Chinese money is hitting the streets in rapid fire.
Asia tech startups are not so silently raising record sums from venture capitalists to ramp up their businesses.
Los Angeles is emerging as a hub for Chinese cross-border investment and innovations, catching up with Silicon Valley. Silicon Dragon is hosting a well-timed tech innovation and venture capital conference in Los Angeles, July 29-30, at the Pasadena Convention Center.
Chinese investors continue to show growing interest in Israeli high tech, with Chinese investors set to inject an estimated $500 million in Israeli venture capital in 2015, according to IVC Research Center. The center additionally predicted that Israeli funds will raise between $1.2 billion and $1.5 billion by the end of this year, and half of the funds that raise money by the end of...
Chinese tech firms have fallen out of love with America, and it shows – a growing number of them are looking to drop their listings in New York and head back home. Many Chinese tech executives are betting on higher share valuations in China where stock markets have recently caught fire. They also hope to evade...
Chinese e-commerce site and Alibaba rival JD.com is putting its money into fresh fruit and vegetables after it led a $70 million Series C round in FruitDay, a company that sells fresh produce across China. The investment in six-year-old FruitDay, which claims to be China’s largest online produce firm, also included participation from previous backers Susquehanna International Group...
The theme of Silicon Dragon’s Beijing event was, “China Tech: Hotter than Ever, When Will it Cool?” No one can say definitively when it will cool, but based on the panel discussions, there’s a real reason it’s this hot.
Two companies have sealed a deal that’s raising eyebrows: Segway, the struggling American maker of disgraced self-balancing scooters, has been bought by Ninebot, the Chinese rival that Segway recently accused of copying its signature two-wheelers. Ninebot announced the curious acquisition for an undisclosed sum on Wednesday, which followed a combined $80 million investment from mega-rich Chinese...
Four new venture capitalists arrived on the Forbes Midas List of 100 top tech investors following a stellar year for China-based companies, which saw smartphone maker Xiaomi crowned as the world’s highest-valued private tech company and Alibaba as the largest-ever IPO. Sequoia Capital’s China team added one more VC to the firm’s already stacked Midas roster. Coming in strong at #22, Steven...
It’s interesting to see Sequoia Capital venture investor Mike Moritz contending that Silicon Valley tech is over-inflated while China startup investing is still going strong — and stronger. Here’s an excerpt from an interview with Moritz in an article at Fortune. Moritz argued that money splashed on Silicon Valley companies could probably be put to better use...