Dec 12, 2014 | China, East Asia, News
TechCrunch Qualcomm this summer announced plans to invest $150 million in Chinese startups, and it has cracked that new fund open to put $40 million into five different organizations in the country, including voice recognition startup Unisound and games development...
Dec 10, 2014 | East Asia, News
TechCrunch Seeo, a Hayward, California-based company that makes lithium-polymer batteries, has closed a $17M round led by new investor Samsung Ventures, the investment arm of Samsung Group. Existing investors Khosla Ventures and GSR Ventures also participated. This...
Dec 1, 2014 | East Asia, News
TechCrunch QLL, a Taipei-based developer of educational mobile apps, has raised $450,000 in funding led by B Dash Ventures, with participation from Incubate Fund, Pinehurst Advisors, Viling, and Coent Venture Partners. The startup is an alumnus of accelerator program...
Nov 21, 2014 | Central & Eastern Europe, China, East Asia, News, Russia
The Moscow Times RusHydro, one of Russia’s largest power generating companies, is set to offer a majority stake in its far-eastern subsidiary to Asian investors, a news report said Friday. The asset in question is RAO Energy Systems of the East, in which...
Nov 18, 2014 | China, East Asia, News
TechCrunch V-Key, a security software maker for mobile apps, has raised $12 million from Alibaba Group affiliate Ant Financial Services and IPV Capital, a venture capital firm based in China. The Series B round means that Ant Financial now has a minority stake in...
Oct 9, 2014 | China, East Asia, News, North America
TechCrunch October 9, 2014 Smart remote software maker Peel has closed an additional $50 million in funding, supplied by Alibaba, the e-commerce giant which recently made its public market debut in the U.S. The company’s new funding is a strategic investment separate...
