• Home
  • News
  • Analysis
  •  
    Regions
    • Australasia
    • Southeast Asia
    • Greater China
    • North Asia
    • South Asia
    • North America
    • Europe
    • Central Asia
    • MENA
  •  
    Funds
    • LPs
    • Buyout
    • Growth
    • Venture
    • Renminbi
    • Secondary
    • Credit/Special Situations
    • Infrastructure
    • Real Estate
  •  
    Investments
    • Buyout
    • Growth
    • Early stage
    • PIPE
    • Credit
  •  
    Exits
    • IPO
    • Open market
    • Trade sale
    • Buyback
  •  
    Sectors
    • Consumer
    • Financials
    • Healthcare
    • Industrials
    • Infrastructure
    • Media
    • Technology
    • Real Estate
  • Events
  • Chinese edition
  • Data & Research
  • Weekly Digest
  • Newsletters
  • Sign in
  • Events
  • Sign in
    • You are currently accessing unquote.com via your Enterprise account.

      If you already have an account please use the link below to sign in.

      If you have any problems with your access or would like to request an individual access account please contact our customer service team.

      Phone: +44 (0)870 240 8859

      Email: customerservices@incisivemedia.com

      • Sign in
     
      • Saved articles
      • Newsletters
      • Account details
      • Contact support
      • Sign out
     
  • Follow us
    • RSS
    • Twitter
    • LinkedIn
    • Newsletters
  • Free Trial
  • Subscribe
  • Weekly Digest
  • Chinese edition
  • Data & Research
    • Latest Data & Research
      Ape-directory
      AVCJ Private Equity Online Directory

      With its wide network of senior industry contacts, the directory is the most comprehensive online directory on private equity and venture capital in Asia. It is easy to navigate, enabling access to Asian private equity firms and professionals.

      Read more
      2016-china-cover
      Regional Reports

      The reports review the year's local private equity and venture capital activity and are filled with up-to-date data and intelligence on fundraising, investments, exits and M&A. The regional reports also feature information on key companies.

      Read more
      2016-pevc-cover
      Industry Review

      Asian Private Equity and Venture Capital Review provides an independent overview of the private equity, venture capital and M&A activities in the Asia region. It delivers insights on investments made, capital raised, sector specific figures and more.

      Read more
      AVCJ Database

      AVCJ Database is the ultimate link between Asian dealmakers and those who provide advisory, financial, legal and technological services to the private equity, venture capital and M&A industries. It is packed with facts and figures on more than 153,000 companies and almost 117,000 transactions.

      Read more
AVCJ
AVCJ
  • Home
  • News
  • Analysis
  • Regions
  • Funds
  • Investments
  • Exits
  • Sectors
  • You are currently accessing unquote.com via your Enterprise account.

    If you already have an account please use the link below to sign in.

    If you have any problems with your access or would like to request an individual access account please contact our customer service team.

    Phone: +44 (0)870 240 8859

    Email: customerservices@incisivemedia.com

    • Sign in
 
    • Saved articles
    • Newsletters
    • Account details
    • Contact support
    • Sign out
 

Technology

healthcare-pharma-lab-drug-biotech
Co-Stone leads $43m round for China biosynthesis player

Co-Stone Capital Management has led a CNY 300m (USD 43m) Series B round for Readline, a Shenzhen-based company that specialises in synthetic biology.

  • Greater China
  • 18 December 2022
healthcare-medical-app
Australia’s Heal Partners closes debut fund on $137m

Australia’s Heal Partners, a health, education, and lifestyle-focused venture capital firm, has closed its first fund on AUD 200m (USD 137m). The target was AUD 100m.

  • Australasia
  • 18 December 2022
concept-of-solar-panel
China solar cell manufacturer raises $72m

Temasek Holdings, Sequoia Capital China, and IDG Capital have led a CNY500m (USD 72m) Series B investment in Chinese solar cell manufacturer GCL Photoelectric Materials.

  • Greater China
  • 15 December 2022
robot-cloud
2023 preview: Hard-tech

As China’s technology space has shifted toward more advanced domains of R&D, bubbles have formed and geopolitics have complicated investment. There is scope for some turnaround on these points

  • Greater China
  • 14 December 2022
jakarta-indonesia-night
2023 preview: Southeast Asia VC

Southeast Asia VC is in fair position to hobble through a global downturn and cooling appetite for all things tech despite controversial politics in the region’s largest market and a dicey IPO outlook

  • Southeast Asia
  • 14 December 2022
chip-semiconductor-chipset-motherboard
China automotive chip company raises $43m

Indiemicro, a Chinese chip designer targeting the automotive industry has raised a CNY300m (USD 43m) round featuring semiconductor-focused Sunic Capital.

  • Greater China
  • 14 December 2022
party-hangover
2022 in review: End of the party?

Fundraising favours the few; deployment becomes progressively slower as investors agonise about valuations, macro prospects, and financing costs; sponsor-to-sponsor deals prop up exits

  • Greater China
  • 14 December 2022
auto-car-parts
New Zealand's Partly gets $21m Series A

New Zealand’s Partly, a company that uses big data to source replacement parts for the global automotive industry, has raised a NZD 37m (USD 21m) Series A round led by UK-based Octopus Ventures.

  • Australasia
  • 14 December 2022
software-code-face
Australia's Potentia pursues two technology take-privates

Australia-based specialist B2B technology investor Potentia Capital appears to be continuing its pursuit of two listed companies – Nitro Software and Tyro Payments – despite several rejections.

  • Australasia
  • 13 December 2022
semiconductor-chip-pcb-circuit-board
China semiconductor player Eswin Material raises $576m

Eswin Material, the integrated circuit manufacturing unit of Eswin Technology Group, has raised CNY 4bn(USD 576m)in Series C funding led by the New Materials Fund of China National Building Material.

  • Greater China
  • 13 December 2022
board-puzzle-math-
Korea's Google-backed Mathpresso raises $70m

Seoul-based education technology start-up Mathpresso has closed its Series C round on USD 70m following an investment of undisclosed size last year from Google.

  • North Asia
  • 13 December 2022
cloud-computing-concept
Korea's Bespin Global gets $100m Series D

Korea-headquartered cloud services company Bespin Global has raised a USD 100m Series D round led by a unit of Emirates Telecoms Group.

  • North Asia
  • 13 December 2022
Internet of Things big data
Japan's Sparx leads $50m round for Singapore IoT start-up

Japan’s Sparx Group has led an investment in Singapore-based internet-of-things (IoT) developer UnaBiz. It completes a USD 50m Series B round that started in October last year.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 09 December 2022
philip-liang-e15
Hong Kong’s E15 VC raises $61m for third fund

Hong Kong’s E15 VC has hit a first close of USD 60.75m on its third global deep tech fund with an anchor investment from existing cornerstone LP Sun Hung Kai & Co (SHK).

  • Greater China
  • 09 December 2022
bruce-buchanan-rokt
Square Peg, Wellington back Australia's Rokt at $2.4b valuation

Square Peg Capital and Wellington Management have led a AUD 750m (USD 501m) investment in Australian e-commerce marketing technology provider Rokt at a valuation of USD 2.4bn.

  • Australasia
  • 08 December 2022
orlando-bravo-thoma-bravo-2
Thoma Bravo raises $32b for deployment in software

Thoma Bravo, a specialist investor in software companies, has closed its latest set of buyout funds with more than USD 32.4bn in commitments. This compares to USD 22.8bn in the previous vintage.

  • North America
  • 08 December 2022
aysar-tayeb-prosperity7
Deal focus: Prosperity7 widens mandate with Australia’s Vow

Prosperity7 Ventures has well and truly escaped its energy sector roots, leading a hefty early-stage round for Australia’s Vow, a company making cell-cultured meat with a twist

  • Australasia
  • 06 December 2022
ruiyun
Deal focus: Ruiyun heats up China’s cold chain industry

Ruiyun Cold Chain will use its pre-Series A funding to continue industry consolidation efforts, build out full-truckload and less-than-truckload services, and develop a tech platform that does more than matchmake

  • Greater China
  • 06 December 2022
china-map-globe-2
China's InnoVision seeks $250m for third fund

InnoVision Capital, a Chinese private equity firm founded by Lane Zhao, who was one of the original members of KKR’s China team, is targeting USD 250m for its third fund and first US dollar-denominated vehicle.

  • Greater China
  • 06 December 2022
metaverse-s
Korea's Daesung Private Equity raises $85m metaverse fund

Daesung Private Equity, an affiliate of Korean conglomerate Daesung Group, has launched a metaverse-focused fund with KRW 110bn (USD 84.6m) in commitments.

  • North Asia
  • 05 December 2022
inceptio-truck
Secondary investor backs Hidden Hill's $465m fundraise

Hidden Hill Capital, which is backed by warehouse operator turned logistics and infrastructure investment manager GLP, has closed its debut growth-stage US dollar-denominated fund on USD 465m with secondaries specialist NewQuest Capital Partners among...

  • Greater China
  • 05 December 2022
india-loan-book-debt-credit
India's KreditBee raises $80m Series D

Indian lending start-up KreditBee has raised USD 80m in Series D funding from Premji Invest, NewQuest Capital Partners, Mirae Asset Ventures, MUFG Bank, and Motilal Oswal Alternates (MO Alts).

  • South Asia
  • 05 December 2022
agriculture-crops
India agtech start-up DeHaat closes Series E on $60m

DeHaat, which claims to be India’s largest full-stack agricultural technology platform, has closed its Series E round on USD 60m. Sofina and Temasek Holdings were the lead investors.

  • South Asia
  • 02 December 2022
bitcoin-blockchain-markets
Singapore's Temasek launches internal review of FTX deal

Temasek Holdings has launched an internal review into the circumstances that led to its investment in collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, but Singapore’s deputy prime minister refused to criticise the organisation’s governance structures.

  • Southeast Asia
  • 02 December 2022
1 2 3

Most read

healthcare-pharma-lab-drug-biotech
Co-Stone leads $43m round for China biosynthesis player
healthcare-medical-app
Australia’s Heal Partners closes debut fund on $137m
zhihu-ipo
US regulator gets access to Chinese audits
avcj-221215cvr-72
Weekly digest - December 15 2022
nbfc-loan-mortgage
TPG buys India's Poonawalla Housing Finance
  • About AVCJ
  • Advertise
  • Contacts
  • About Acuris
  • Terms of use
  • Privacy policy
  • Group disclaimer
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Newsletters

© Merger Market

© Mergermarket Limited, 10 Queen Street Place, London EC4R 1BE - Company registration number 03879547

Digital publisher of the year 2010 & 2013

Digital publisher of the year 2010 & 2013