Denis Barrier started his career at Orange as a researcher working on quantum optics and physics around hardware and electronics. Soon after, the company began encouraging researchers to start companies using their work, with the aim of funding these spin-off startups. “I joined Orange’s investment arm Innovacom to create this seed capital program,” Denis said. […]
Alibaba’s Worst Nightmare: Pinduoduo Becoming the No.1 E-commerce App in China
Have you ever used Pinduoduo? There is a wide variety of e-commerce start-ups in China, but why is Pinduoduo suddenly so popular? It is because it has a large user base? Public data show that Pinduoduo has already attracted over 300 million users even though it is less than 3 years old, and its monthly […]
Cathay Capital launches its Smart Energy Fund with founding partners Total and Hubei High Tech
March 27, 2018 Cathay Capital Private Equity (‘Cathay’), Total Energy Ventures (‘Total’), Hubei High Technology Investment Guiding Fund Management Co., Ltd. (‘Hubei’), have signed today a Framework Cooperation Agreement to launch the Cathay Smart Energy Fund, an investment fund dedicated to the new energy sector in China. The fund will focus its investments on emerging […]
Nicolas du Cray (Cathay Innovation): “The speed of digitalization in China has been incredible”
An investment professional with over 15 years’ experience in the TMT sector, Nicolas du Cray is a China-based partner at Cathay Innovation, a €250m venture capital fund created in association with Cathay Capital Private Equity, which supports digital entrepreneurs across North America, Europe and China. Here he gives his insight on the investment strategy of […]
Ledger raises another $75 million to become the leader in cryptocurrency hardware wallets
Ledger just raised an impressive Series B round of $75 million (€61 million), led by Draper Esprit. The startup already raised a $7 million round last year. But the cryptocurrency mania probably made it easy to raise more money. If you have more than a bit of money in cryptocurrencies, chances are you’ve heard about Ledger wallets. The French […]
OWKIN raises $ 11 million to harness artificial intelligence for medical researc
La start-up OWKIN, spécialisée dans le machine learning appliqué à la recherche médicale, a bouclé un tour de table de 11 millions de dollars mené par Cathay Innovation, Otium Venture, Plug and Play et NJF Capital. Cette opération porte à 13,1 millions de dollars le montant total levé par la société depuis sa création. […]
Orange Takes Part in $11 Million Funding Round For FollowAnalytics
Orange (ORA.FR) on Wednesday said that it has participated in an 11 million dollar funding round for mobile marketing startup FollowAnalytics. The French telecommunications group said its investment in San Francisco-based FollowAnalytics has been made through Orange Digital Ventures, a fund it launched in 2015 to invest in early-stage tech companies. Orange didn’t disclose the […]
Is the future of cartech in China?
In recent years, it has been amazing to how China has become the most innovating country in the e-commerce world. This happened for several reasons. First, since the physical retail infrastructure was not well developed in China, digital advances were able to help accelerate the growth relative to the West. Then, mobile quickly scaled and […]
Cathay Capital Fund Leads Series B2 Round In Chinese Autonomous Driving Tech Firm Momenta
A fund managed by Cathay Capital Private Equity has led a series B2 round in Chinese autonomous driving tech start-up Momenta, with participation from GGV Capital. […]
How we bet on the man who went from Zero to US$ 15 Billion sales run-rate in 18 months
In 2017, it is quite impressive to see how Amazon is frightening the world, and how a lot of people interpret each of its move as the end of hope for any competitor present in the targeted field. After each quarterly results announcement, the US retailers suffer blows, and give the impression to be happy […]