How we early-backed Cootek, now China’s most global software company, with 132 Million DAU in 240 countries, going Public on the NYSE on September 28

Sometimes, taking a company public only takes only three years, like with Cathay Innovation invested Pinduoduo, but most of the time it takes much longer. September 28 2018 is a very special day for us, because it is the day CooTek is going public on the NYSE (NYSE:CTK) at a multi billion dollar valuation. We invested […]

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Kayrros Secures $24M in Series B Funding to Expand Energy Market Penetration

New funding deepens the company’s crude oil market intelligence and expands its coverage across other energy markets that include petroleum products, natural gas, and power generation PARIS, 18 September 2018 – Kayrros, the leading advanced data analytics firm, today announced that it has raised €21 million ($24.4 million) in Series B funding led by Cathay Innovation […]

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Kayrros Secures $24M in Series B Funding to Expand Energy Market Penetration

September 18, 2018 New funding deepens the company’s crude oil market intelligence and expands its coverage across other energy markets that include petroleum products, natural gas, and power generation PARIS, 18 September 2018 – Kayrros, the leading advanced data analytics firm, today announced that it has raised €21 million ($24.4 million) in Series B funding led […]

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Cathay Innovation invests in website and mini-program editor SXL

Cathay Innovation today announces it led the series A+ funding round of website and mini-program editor SXL, with participation from Cash Capital. As the first Chinese start up incubated by Y Combinator, SXL has launched a simple, intuitive and easy-to-use website and mini-program editor as well as other web products and services. Following this round […]

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Help your ecosystem and your ecosystem will help you, the lesson taught by the uncontainable rise of PinDuoDuo

The US e-commerce ecosystem today is clearly dominated by a few giants, often making it harder for startups to innovate. Here’s an example, with each quarterly earnings call, Amazon continues to conquer US commerce and steamroll its competitors. Today, Amazon’s e-commerce market share in the US is nearly 50%. That’s more than three times the […]

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Pinduoduo stock soars in debut as IPO fever rolls on

Chinese Internet names continued their IPO hot streak on Thursday, after shopping app Pinduoduo Inc. made its public debut. Shares of Pinduoduo PDD, +0.63%  rose 40% in their first day of trading and were up another 4% premarket Friday. The company raised $1.6 billion through its initial public offering, during the second-busiest week for IPOs this year. […]

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