Conference program features panels and a fireside chat with top-name executives. The international biotech and pharma community will converge upon the city of Suzhou, China, a rapidly growing base for life science industries, at ChinaBio® Partnering Forum 2012 at the Kempinski Hotel Suzhou, May 23–24.
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EveryMove Raises $2.6 Million to Help Consumers Reduce Health Costs
EveryMove Inc., an innovator in health rewards-based marketing and incentives, secured $2.6 million in Series A Financing
ZiLift Receives £4 Million Boost for Artificial Lift Technology, Targeting $6 Billion Dollar Oil and Gas Extraction Market
ZiLift, an Aberdeen, Scotland-based provider of artificial lift solutions for the oil and gas industry, has received a growth capital investment of £4 million (US$7 million).
Penta, Eastbridge to hold 74 pct of EM&F after tender
Czech private equity group Penta Investments and Luxembourg-based Eastbridge Group will together hold 74 percent of Polish retailer Empik Media & Fashion after a public tender.
Hedge funds may be allowed direct access to China markets
China eyeing lowering bar for becoming QFII -sources A proposed plan by China's regulators could allow hedge funds, for the first time, to directly trade in mainland stocks and bonds, opening up one of Asia's biggest capital markets to the $2 trillion industry.
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Company Will Accelerate Market Share Gains and Product Development in IP Video Delivery. Elemental Technologies, the leading supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, today announced that it raised $13 million in Series C financing led by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP).
Expands to New York and Boston; Adds Jeff Jordan to Board of Directors
Belly, a rapidly-growing start-up that is effectively redefining customer loyalty for small businesses, announced today that it has received a $10 million Series B round of venture capital financing from Andreessen Horowitz.
Czech private equity group Penta Investments and investment fund Eastbridge raised their joint bid for Polish retailer Empik Media & Fashion (EM&F) to 10.45 zlotys per share.
China yuan funds of overseas PE firms to be treated as foreign. China plans to treat local money raised and managed by global private equity firms as foreign funds, industry sources said on Tuesday, restricting their access to sectors such as media and mining in the world's second-biggest economy.
Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings and Asia-based private equity firm RRJ Capital have agreed to invest $468 million in Cheniere Energy.
Credit Suisse Group AG intends to increase capital at its Chinese joint venture and apply for a stock trading permit in the country.
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) has hired Christophe Florin to head its emerging markets private equity team, it said in a statement on Tuesday.
Singapore Telecommunications Ltd is close to acquiring a Silicon Valley-based mobile advertising startup.
Total capital proceeds of recent investment round increased to $53 million. Celladon Corp. , a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of innovative treatments for cardiovascular diseases, announced the receipt of additional capital proceeds from a second close of its recent venture financing to advance the Company's lead investigational product candidate MYDICAR® for the treatment of advanced heart failure.
