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Chinese VC firm Acacia and consortium acquired stake in Mexican startup for $5.3 million

2021-12-14T11:26:16Z

Acacia Venture Capital Partners, a VC firm based in Shanghai and a consortium has acquired stake in PideDirecto, a Mexican ride delivery startup for $5.3 million.

Founded in 2020, PideDirecto is a digital ordering and delivery platform that enables any business to offer a branded on-demand delivery service to their own clients. (Founded in 2020, Acacia Venture Capital Partners is a venture capital company based in Shanghai that specializes in seed, start-up, and early-stage investments with Edmond Hui as their founder)

Acacia Venture Capital Partners is listed in the Chinese Private Equity and Venture Capital Directory with the code PJ28.

What we like about the deal:
Acacia is established in 2020, but has managed to invest in a great portfolio of startups and companies all over the world. Well done team Acacia!

Chinese private equity firm and consortium invested $75 million in US firm Nobell Foods

2021-07-21T11:09:31Z

Chinese private equity firm Hillhouse Capital Group has acquired stake in Nobell Foods, a US-based Alternative protein company in a Series B fundraising of $75 million.

Nobell Foods is established in 2016 and offers a plant-based alternative to animal-derived cheese. (Hillhouse is a Chinese private equity firm investing globally which is founded in 2005 and has made more than 200 investments so far. It has offices in Beijing, Hong Kong and Singapore).

HillHouse Capital Group is listed in the Chinese Investors Directory with the code JC76

Chinese firm CreditEase and consortium invested $250 million in US firm Pipe

2021-06-27T14:47:12Z

The Chinese fintech conglomerate CreditEase FinTech Investment Fund (CEFIF) and a consortium has acquired stake in Pipe, a US-based trading platform for recurring revenue streams, for $250 million.

Pipe is founded in 2019 and has signed on over 4,000 companies to its platform with a tradable annual recurring revenue in excess of $1 billion. (CEFIF is a venture fund investing in Fintech companies globally which is founded in 2016 and has made more than 72 investments fo far).

CreditEase FinTech Investment Fund (CEFIF) is listed in the Chinese Investors Directory with the code JN16

Chinese angel investor Alvin Tse invests in US firm People Mesh

2021-03-29T10:27:42Z

Chinese angel investor Alvin Tse, the director of Xiaomi's Indonesia invests in People Mesh, a US-based social networking platform.

People Mesh is a corporate social networking platform which focuses on employees and helps employees manage their goals and track their tasks more easily in remote teams. (Alvin graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Management Science and Engineering. He has invested in several companies globally including Qoohoo, Yellow Class, and CityMall.)

To see listing and email addresses of angel investors from China similar to Alvin Tse, check the Chinese Investors Directory.

Chinese PE firm TMCP invested $2.4 million in US firm RNAimmune

2021-03-10T16:40:51Z

Chinese private equity firm Terra Magnum Capital Partners has invested $2.35 million in US-based RNAimmune

Founded in 2016, Terra Magnum Capital Partners (TMCP) has over $800 million assets under management and specializes in both direct investments and fund investments. It has offices in Beijing, Shanghai and United States. Sha Wang, Ben Wang, Ray Yang, Frank Qin, Ming Liu and Justin Chang are among their partners and directors. (RNAimmune is a biopharmaceutical company in Gaithersburg with more than 20 years of experience in cancer therapies, antibody therapies and treatment of rare diseases)

Terra Magnum Capital Partners is listed in the Chinese Investors Directory with the code SJ78

Chinese investors of NLVC acquired stake in California startup for $7 million

2021-02-28T15:24:51Z

Chinese investors of Northern Light Venture Capital led investment of $7 million in BSPK, a California-based digital platform for global luxury brands.

Northern Light Venture Capital (NLVC) founded in 2005 and is a venture capital partnership which focuses on investment in technology, media, telecom and healthcare. NLVC manages approximately $ 4.5 billion. Their funds have attracted institutional investors from United States, Europe and Asia. (BSPK is a Menlo Park based digital platform for luxury brands founded in 2018. The company operates in the U.S. and Europe).

To see listing and email addresses of investors from China similar to NLVC, check the Chinese Investors Directory.

Chinese investors of Yunqi acquired stake in German startup Jina for $5.4 million

2020-10-06T19:21:47Z

Yunqi Partners, an investment company based in China, invests $5.4 million in Jina AI, an open source neural search startup software company based in Germny.

Jina AI, is an open source neural search startup based in Berlin. The company provides cloud native neural search powered by AI and deep learning. Jina on Github enables users to create a cloud native search solution powered by deep learning in just minutes.

(Yunqi Partners founded in 2014 in Shanghai and is an early stage VC fund focusing on internet related startups. The company focuses on early and mid-term investment opportunities in the fields of Enterprise Internet and IoT. Its portfolios feature almost 100 startups)

To see listing and email addresses of investors from China similar to Yunqi Partners, check the Chinese Investors Directory.

Chinese investors of eWTP Fund invest $12 million in Swedish online business

2020-09-15T17:46:30Z

eWTP Technology & Innovation Fund, the global investment arm of the Alibaba Group and other investors invest $12 million in Challengermode, a Swedish eSports startup.

launched in 2014 Challengermode allows players to find, create, and compete in online tournaments. It has partnerships with the digital festival DreamHack and global football organization FIFA. Other investors includes Telia Ventures, GP Bullhound, Back in Black Capital and Swedish soccer legend Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

(eWTP Technology & Innovation Fund, also known as eWTP Fund, focuses on development of businesses and technological innovation. From May 2019, eWTP Fund has made 4 public investments.)

To see a listing and email addresses of investors from China similar to eWTP Fund, check the Chinese Investors Directory.

Chinese investors of Linear Capital acquired stake in Singapore Igloo for $8.2 million

2020-04-23T13:26:50Z

Chinese Linear Venture and a consortium has invested $8.2 million in Singapore-based Igloo insurance-tech firm .

Igloo is an insurtech firm with a mission to make insurance accessible through creating digital insurance products in personal insurance, lifestyle insurance and social insurance. (Linear Venture provides early-stage investments across the world and is founded by former JD and Tmall's executive Michael Zhang and Facebook's founding employee Harry Wang. It has invested in more than 50 firms so far.)

To see a listing and email addresses of investors from China similar to Linear Venture, check the Chinese Investors Directory.

Chinese investors of Ping An acquired stake in Israel MeMed for $70 million

2019-05-08T16:28:06Z

Chinese Ping An Global Voyager Fund and a consortium has invested $70 million in Israel-based MeMed Diagnostics diagnostic solutions provider.

MeMed Diagnostics is to translate the signals of the immune system into simple diagnostic insights that transforms the way we treat infectious diseases and inflammatory disorders. (Ping An Insurance Company of China is a Chinese holding conglomerate whose subsidiaries mainly deal with insurance, banking, and financial services. The company was founded in 1988 and has its headquarters in Shenzhen)

To see a listing and email addresses of investors from China similar to Ping An Insurance, check the Chinese Investors Directory.

Chinese investor Justin Sun acquired BitTorrent for $140 million

2018-10-23T05:23:33Z

Justin Sun, CEO of Chinese firm Tron, has acquired BitTorrent, an early mover in decentralized computing architecture, for $140 million.

BitTorrent is a communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing which is used to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet. BitTorrent most recently said it has about 170 million users of its products. (Justin Sun founded Peiwo, an app aspiring to become China's Snapchat. Sun became Davos Global Shaper in 2014 and was the former representative of Bitcoin settlement platform Ripple in China.)

To see a listing and email addresses of investors from China similar to Justin Sun, check the Chinese Investors Directory.

China NetDragon to acquire California firm Edmodo for $137 million

2018-10-09T15:34:16Z

" width="275" height="137" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" />Chinese firm NetDragon has announced acquiring Edmodo, an education technology company based in US-California, for $137 million.

Based in San Mateo, California, Edmodo is an educational tech company offering a communication, collaboration, and coaching platform to K-12 schools and teachers. (Established in 1999, NetDragon is a Chinese company that develops and operates massively multiplayer online games in addition to making mobile applications). More details here.

To see a listing and email addresses of investors from China similar to NetDragon, check the Chinese Investors Directory.

Chinese firm invests $100 million in New Zealand gaming company

2018-10-02T06:17:34Z

" width="237" height="171" class="mt-image-right" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;" />Chinese internet firm Tencent has invested $100 million in New Zealand gaming developer Grinding Gear Games.

Founded in 2006, Grinding Gear Games is a New Zealand video game developer best known for creating the 'Path of Exile' online video game that has around 2 million players signed up. (Founded in 1998, Tencent Holdings is a leading provider of Internet value-added services in China. Tencent Mobility is majority owned by Hong-Kong investors and is the world's largest online games company. Its total revenue in the first quarter of 2018 was $11.7 billion.) More details here.

To see a list of investors from China similar to Tencent Holdings, check the Chinese Investors Directory.

China firm to buy 20 percent of Canada Ivanhoe for $555 million

2018-09-25T14:48:58Z

" width="266" height="128" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" />A unit of Chinese firm CITIC will buy 20 percent stake in Ivanhoe, a Canadian mining company for $555 million.

Ivanhoe is headquartered in Vancouver and is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. It has two projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and one in South Africa. (CITIC Capital Partners, the private equity arm of CITIC Capital, invests globally, operates in China, Japan and the US and manages $2.6 billion of committed capital.)

Citic Private Equity is listed in the Chinese Private Equity and Venture Capital Directory with the code OR48

China Gaw Capital acquired Bell City Australia for $113 million

2018-09-17T13:28:27Z

Gaw Capital a Hong Kong-based real estate private equity firm, announced the acquisition of Bell City, a mixed-use Australian development.

Bell City, located near Melbourne Airport, consists of two hotels totaling 844 guestrooms under the Mantra and BreakFree brands, a conference complex, commercial tenancies and serviced offices. (Established in 2005, Gaw Capital Partners is a private equity fund management company that focuses on global real estate markets. The firm manages value-add/opportunistic funds in Vietnam and the US, a Pan-Asia hospitality fund and a UK creative office vehicle. SinaBeat reported their investment of 50% stake in a Spanish hotel chain before here.)

To see a listing and email addresses of investors from China similar to Gaw Capital, check the Chinese Investors Directory.