Ils se retrouveront dans quelques jours aux Rencontres économiques d’Aix-en-Provence pour sceller leur alliance inédite : Xuning Wang, le président du fabricant d’électroménager chinois Joyoung et d’autres entrepreneurs chinois, comme Liu Qiangdong, le patron de la plate-forme d’e-commerce JD.com, ont décidé de s’associer à Valeo, Aéroports de Paris (ADP), Michelin, Total, Seb, BNP Paribas Cardif […]
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Record fundraising for Cathay Innovation’s first fund
June 29, 2017 Today Cathay Capital announced the closing of Cathay Innovation’s first investment vehicle for a total of $320 million. This sum constitutes a record for a first-time venture capital fund raised in Europe. The success of this fundraising can largely be explained by the unique approach proposed by Cathay Innovation and how this […]
Cathay Innovation invests in Lechebang, to participate in the Chinese car aftermarket opportunity
June 1, 2017 Cathy Innovation recently completed an investment in Lechebang, China’s largest mobile car maintenance and services platform that uniquely leverages 4S (“Sales, Spare parts, Service, Survey”) shop networks. This $40M series-B round of financing was led by Far East Leasing, along with Cathay Innovation and existing investors, Sequoia China, Joyson Electronics and Vertex […]
Ex-Google Engineer Builds $1.5 Billion Startup in 21 Month
Colin Huang belongs to a rarefied cohort of Chinese entrepreneurs who launched their careers in Silicon Valley and then returned home to start successful tech companies. Huang, an ex-Google engineer who worked on early search algorithms for e-commerce, is already on his fourth and most ambitious startup. […]
Cathay Capital deploys Innovation Fund to Ifchange
March 23, 2016 The human resources management platform targets big data to attain business value of job seekers Cathay Capital recently announced it has completed an investment in human resources management platform Ifchange through the Cathay Innovation Fund. Ifchange is a leading big data SaaS (software as a service) recruitment platform in China, which is […]
Cathay Innovation supports the growth of FollowAnalytics
Paris, 1st March 2016 Cathay Innovation today announces that it is supporting the growth of FollowAnalytics by completing the 10 million US$ financing round led by Aspect Ventures and supported by Salesforce Ventures alongside the company’s historical investors, including Sapphire Ventures and Zetta Ventures. FollowAnalytics is leading a new generation of mobile engagement software designed […]
This Stanford physicist quit academia to help companies like Pepsi sell more soda
Quantifind president Ari Tuchman doesn’t have the background you might expect from a startup founder. […]
Quantifind Secures $30 Million Funding Round
February 24, 2016 Quantifind, on-demand insights platform for brands, today announced that it has closed a $30 million funding round led by global investment firm Cathay Innovation. Previous investors Redpoint Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners, Comcast Ventures, Iris Capital and AME Cloud Ventures also joined the round. This investment will support the company’s growth as it […]
Cathay Innovation makes first US investment: Trifacta
February 11, 2016 The additional financing will be used to fuel the continuing innovation of its award-winning products and the growth of Trifacta’s global field organization. Leveraging on Cathay Innovation’s platform bridging three continents, Trifacta intends to make the most of the tremendous momentum it has built and to accelerate that success in Europe and […]
The Franco-Chinese digital alliance takes action
La France et la Chine entrent dans le vif de leur alliance digitale. A peine signé sous les ors des républiques française et chinoise à l’été 2015, leur fonds d’investissement de 200 millions d’euros dans les start-up sino-francaises et américaines ne s’est pas perdu dans les méandres politiques. Porté sur les fonts baptismaux en présence […]