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China

Adrian Cheng Launches C Ventures, an ‘Investment Club’ With Eye on Youth Culture

The Hong Kong-based entrepreneur is partnering with financier Clive Ng to foster a 'cultural ecosystem' of brands targeting Millennials and Gen Z in the West and China.

Technology

How Fashion’s Most Talked-About Start-Ups Are Actually Performing

From Rent the Runway to Refinery 29, BoF separates the break-outs from the flameouts.

Financial Markets

VC Firm That Backed Gwyneth Paltrow Raises $150 Million

Felix Capital Partners plans to use the money to grab stakes in early-stage startups that tap into the growth of digital brands.

Technology

Venture Capitalists Invest $56 billion In Startups So Far in 2016

At that pace, venture investment is projected to hit $74 billion by year's end, falling short only of the investment levels in 2000 and 2014.

Technology

Rocket Internet Drops as Fashion Unit Raises Cash at Lower Value

Rocket Internet SE fell as much as 8.3 percent in Frankfurt after a funding round by the startup investor’s Global Fashion Group valued the online retailer at less than half of what it was worth a year ago.

Technology

Berlin Boosts Funds to Find Next Zalando

Berlin has already surpassed London as Europe’s top venture capital destination. A pair of VC firms are poised to extend the lead.

Global Markets

Indian Startups Find the Fundraising Party Is Winding Down

Sending ripples through the industry, a Morgan Stanley fund marked down India's Flipkart value by more than a quarter to $11 billion, less than a year after financing clinched a $15 billion valuation.

Technology

India's Flipkart Denies Media Report of Accel Selling $100 Million Stake

Flipkart denied a newspaper report that said venture capital firm Accel Partners had sold a small stake in India's biggest online marketplace to Qatar Investment Authority for $100 million.

Global Markets

Hedge Funds Swoop Low in India E-Frenzy Chasing Next Alibaba

Such is the excitement over Internet startups in India that practically every other week this year there’s been a conference in a luxury hotel aimed at luring investors.

Technology

Rocket Internet IPO to Value Firm Around $8 Billion

BERLIN, Germany — Germany's Rocket Internet, a venture capital group that has launched dozens of online start-ups, expects to raise almost double the

News & Analysis

Op-Ed | Why Fashion is the Next Big Thing in Venture Capital

The multi-trillion dollar fashion business is ripe for disruption and venture capitalists who seize the opportunity will see huge returns, argues Jay Deng.

Entrepreneurship

Part 5: How to Choose the Right Investors

Áslaug Magnúsdóttir, co-founder of Moda Operandi, examines the art and science of how to find the right backers for your venture.

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