{"id":3819,"date":"2009-06-04T17:55:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T08:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=3819"},"modified":"2009-06-04T17:55:32","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T08:55:32","slug":"ivp-launches-new-fund-raised-by-web20-celebrities-in-japan-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/ivp-launches-new-fund-raised-by-web20-celebrities-in-japan-china\/","title":{"rendered":"IVP Launches New Fund Raised By Web2.0 Celebrities In Japan &#038; China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3821\" title=\"Logo of Infinity Venture Partners\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/ivp.gif\" alt=\"Logo of Infinity Venture Partners\" width=\"327\" height=\"45\" \/><br \/>\nOn Wednesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infinityventures.com\/\">Infinity Venture LLP[J]<\/a> announced it would launch a new fund targeting investment on mobile start-ups in Japan and Mainland China.<br \/>\nThe Fundraisers for this are founders and presidents from tech-startups including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dena.jp\/en\/\">DeNA<\/a> (Mobile SNS) , <a href=\"http:\/\/mixi.co.jp\/\">Mixi[J]<\/a> (SNS), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opt.ne.jp\/english\/\">Opt<\/a> (web advertising agency) and P&amp;A (investment firm founded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rakuten.co.jp\/info\/ir\/english\/\">Rakuten<\/a>&#8216;s former CTO), who have made success in their financial aspects such as their companies having been listed on a major stock exchange.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Its fund size is approximately USD12.5M as of May, and expected to be USD52.1M by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"articlecontent\"><span class=\"articlecontent_inner\"><span class=\"articlecontent_inner1\">Infinity Venture plans to make an investment of more than USD1M on each of potential start-ups specifically working on mobile SNS and game apps in China as well as social apps and augmented reality in Japan.\u00a0\u00a0 The fund&#8217;s first bid will be made in coming July.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"articlecontent\"><span class=\"articlecontent_inner\"><span class=\"articlecontent_inner1\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"articlecontent\">Infinity Venture is well-known for holding a semi-annual event to give emerging tech start-up companies opportunities to present their brand new services in front of visionaries, and its investment team is made of three tech-finance experts including a former partner for Hong Kong-based<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/aboutadobe\/adobeventures\/\"> investment team of Adobe Systems<\/a>, and a co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.camobile.com\/en\/\">CyberAgent&#8217;s mobile-oriented subsidiary<\/a>.<span class=\"articlecontent_inner\"><span class=\"articlecontent_inner1\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Infinity Venture LLP[J] announced it would launch a new fund targeting investment on mobile start-ups in Japan and Mainland China. The Fundraisers for this are founders and presidents from tech-startups including DeNA (Mobile SNS) , Mixi[J] (SNS), Opt (web advertising agency) and P&amp;A (investment firm founded by Rakuten&#8216;s former CTO), who have made&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/ivp-launches-new-fund-raised-by-web20-celebrities-in-japan-china\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IVP Launches New Fund Raised By Web2.0 Celebrities In Japan &#038; China<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[883,1674,1770,2342,2761,2785],"class_list":["post-3819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company","category-japan","tag-dena","tag-infinity-ventures","tag-ivp","tag-mixi","tag-opt","tag-pa","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}