AAA July 2013 – Page 11

Citic Capital Venture Partners fund closes

Citic Capital Venture Partners (CCVP), the fund sponsored by the venture business of Citic Capital (co-owned by China Investment Corporation, China’s sovereign wealth fund, and Chinese conglomerate Citic Group), has closed its latest fund at $113m, short of its original $150m target. Subsequent to the first closing, further investors to join as limited partners include… Continue reading Citic Capital Venture Partners fund closes

NumberFour counts in T-Venture

NumberFour, a Germany-based provider of a small business platform and apps, has raised $38 million in series A financing led by Mike Volpi from venture capital firm Index Ventures and including contributions from T-Venture (the venture capital company of Deutsche Telekom), merchant bank Allen & Co, IT entrepreneur Andreas Bechtolsheim, AME Cloud Ventures (Jerry Yang’s… Continue reading NumberFour counts in T-Venture

SanDisc flashes cash for Panzura

SanDisc Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of flash memory storage company SanDisc, has announced that it participated as one of the investors in Panzura, US-based provider of cloud storage services, which in June raised $25m in its series D round from a consortium including Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV), the corporate venturing unit of the eponymous… Continue reading SanDisc flashes cash for Panzura

Alibaba-backed TaoTaoSou fashion fit in series B round

TaoTaoSou, a Chinese fashion e-commerce comparison site, has raised an undisclosed amount of series B funding from DT Capital, a China early stage private equity firm, and existing investors, CDH Investments,  an international alternative asset fund manager focused on partnering with China management teams, and Alibaba. Prior to this round, the 2010 start-up had raised $20m, according… Continue reading Alibaba-backed TaoTaoSou fashion fit in series B round