DT Capital Partners
DT Capital Partners provides growth capital to early and expansion stage companies in China. DT Capital invests in dynamic businesses that have high growth potential, strong management teams, and demonstrated revenue models in both technology based and traditional industries. DT Capital Partners currently manages over USD$500 Million in capital across multiple US dollar and RMB funds, and also has a close affiliation with Madrone Capital in the US, the investment entity for members of the Walton family. www.dtcap.com
Draper Fisher Jurvetson ("DFJ")
DFJ's mission is to identify, serve, and provide capital for extraordinary entrepreneurs anywhere who are determined to change the world. Since its founding in 1985, DFJ has been proud to back over 600 companies across many sectors including such industry changing successes such as Hotmail (acquired by MSFT), Baidu (BIDU), Skype (acquired by EBAY), United Online (UNTD), Overture (acquired by YHOO), Athenahealth (ATHN), EnerNOC (ENOC), TicketsNow (acquired by TicketMaster), Feedburner (acquired by Google), Interwoven (IWOV), Four11 (acquired by YHOO), Parametric (PMTC), and Digidesign (acquired by AVID). DFJ has offices located in the United States, China, and India. www.dfj.com
Northern Light Venture Capital
Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital was established in the Silicon Valley in 1972. In the past more than 30 years, Sequoia has backed almost all the leading breakthrough companies as the first institutional investor. Such companies include Apple Computer, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo!, Google, etc. Sequoia invested companies consist more than 10% of NASDAQ's entire market value. In China, Sequoia Capital China currently have about US$1 billion and close to RMB1 billion under management to invest in China's innovative and high growth companies. VanceInfo, leading IT outsourcing service provider, went public in December 2007 on the New York Stock Exchange. Renhe Commercial Holding, commercial property developer primarily focused on the development, construction, management and sale of underground protective space of civil air defense projects, went public in October 2008 on Hong Kong Exchange as the largest IPO of the year worldwide. Peak Sports, professional basketball shoes and apparel brand, went public in September 2009 on Hong Kong Exchange. China Nuokang, leading bio-pharmaceutical company in China, went public in December 2009 on NASDAQ. After being invested by Sequoia, American Diary, one of the leading producers and distributors of premium infant formula in China, successfully changed from NYSE’s small and medium board to the main board. In December 2009, Sequoia participated in an investment consortium on the management buyout of SINA.COM. www.sequoiacap.com
China Equity Links
China Equity Links (CEL) is one of the few European growth-capital funds active in China, backed by 7 leading investors. It has started operation through its fund manager CEL Partners in June 2007 with an office in Beijing. Its team is comprised of Chinese and Western professionals, with strong investment, industry and financial expertise, complemented by the long experience of Senior Advisors, all former chairmen of large corporations in China. It is investing active minority positions in fast growing midcap companies (20 to 150 M US$ in revenues) with average investment stakes of 3 to 15 M US$, in selected areas where CEL brings a unique edge. www.celpartners.com
Jafco Investment (Asia Pacific) Ltd (“JAFCO Asia”)
JAFCO Asia is one of the leading brands in the venture capital industry in the Asia-Pacific region. Its primary focus is to invest in promising technology enterprises with high-growth potential. Headquartered in Singapore, and with entities in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei and Seoul, JAFCO Asia has around $650m in aggregate funds under management. It is an operating subsidiary of JAFCO Co. Ltd, which is part of the Nomura group of companies and one of the largest private equity firms in Japan with $5B under management and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. www.jafcoasia.com
Mitsui Ventures
Mitsui Ventures is the venture investment arm of Mitsui & Co., Ltd., an international trading and investment company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Located in Tokyo, New York, Silicon Valley, Beijing and Shanghai, it currently manages over US$500 million in capital. Independent of strategic objectives of Mitsui & Co.'s other business units, Mitsui Ventures acts as a financial investor and mainly provides early stage capital to entrepreneurial ventures in the world. Over the years, with a special expertise to accelerate business growth globally, Mitsui Ventures has invested in and contributed to the success of start-ups in the fields of IT, life science, clean tech and retail services. www.mitsuiventures.com/en/