ePlanet Ventures Portfolio Company Moreens Recognized by Deloitte
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ePlanet Ventures Congratulates SiliconMitus on GSA Award
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Silicon Valley Cash Comes Calling
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Friendi Receives Serious Backing

Forbes Midas List 2008

Forbes ranks Asad Jamal, Chairman and CEO of ePlanet Ventures, among the Top 10 Global VCs of 2008.

Forbes Midas List 2008
Rank
Name
Comapny
1 L. John Doerr Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
2 Michael Moritz Sequoia Capital
3 Ram Shriram Sherpalo
4 David Cheriton Stanford University
5 Andreas von Bechtolsheim Sun Microsystems
6 William Ford General Atlantic LLC
7 Lawrence Sonsini Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
8 Asad Jamal ePlanet Ventures
9 Ronald Conway Angel investor
10 Navin Chaddha Mayfield Fund
11 Paul Chamberlain Morgan Stanley
12 Michael D. Grimes Morgan Stanley
13 James Perry Madison Dearborn Partners
14 Thomas Ng Granite Global Ventures
15 Kheng Nam Lee Granite Global Ventures
16 Aneel Bhusri Greylock Partners
17 Jon A. Woodruff Goldman Sachs
18 David Katsujin Chao DCM
19 Bryce Lee Credit Suisse
20 Daniel Rimer Index Ventures
21 Bryan Roberts Venrock
22 Roelof Botha Sequoia Capital
23 Timothy C. Draper Draper Fisher Jurvetson
24 Howard Hartenbaum Draper Richards
25 Bruce Evans Summit Partners


Zero2ipo-China Venture Capital Annual Report 2004
, 12.17.04

Zero2ipo ranks ePlanet Ventures among the Top 10 Active Venture Capitalists of the Year and among the Top 50 Venture Capital Firms of the Year

Zero2ipo - Top 10 Active Venture Capitalists of the Year

Rank Firm
1 SoftBank Asia Infrastructure Fund
2 IDG Technology Venture Investment
3 Doll Capital Management
4 CDH Investments
5 NewMargin Ventures
6 Legend Capital Limited Managing
7 Acer Technology Ventures Asia Pacific Ltd.
8 Shandong High Technology Investment Co., Ltd.
9 ePlanet Ventures
10 JAFCO Investment (Hong Kong) Ltd.

Zero2ipo - Top 50 Venture Capital Firms of the Year

Rank Firm Rank Firm
1 SoftBank Asia Infrastructure Fund 26 H&Q Asia Pacific
2 IDG Technology Venture Investment 27 Sycamore Ventures
3 Doll Capital Management 28 AsiaVest Partners, TCW/YFY Ltd.
4 CDH Investments 29 Baring Private Equity Partners Asia
5 NewMargin Ventures 30 DragonTech Ventures Management Limited
6 The Carlyle Group Asia 31 Qualcomm Ventures
7 Warburg Pincus Asia LLC 32 WI Harper Group Pacific Venture
8 Legend Capital Limited 33 Partners China-Singapore Selzhou Industrial Park
9 Acer Technology Ventures Asia Pacific Ltd. 34 Ventures Co., Ltd. China Merchants
10 Shandong High Technology Investment Co., Ltd. 35 Technology Group Guangdong Technology
11 Walden International 36 Venture Capital Group Co., Ltd.
12 ePlanet Ventures 37 Acceleration
13 JAFCO Asia 38 Tsinghua Venture Capital Management Co., Ltd.
14 Intel Capital 39 Gobi Partners
15 Shenzhen Capital Group Co., Ltd. 40 Canton Venture Capital Co., Ltd.
16 Vertex China Investment 41 Fidelity Capital Management Ltd. Shenzhen Hi-tech
17 China Science&Merchants Venture Capital Management Co., Ltd. 42 Investment Co., Ltd.
18 J.P. Morgan Partners Asia Pte. Ltd. 43 ChinaVest Limited
19 New Enterprise Associates 44 Hunan High-Tech Venture Capital Co., Ltd.
20 3i 45 Wuhan Huagong Venture Capital Co., Ltd.
21 Heilongjiang Chenergy Hit High-Tech Venture Capital Co., Ltd. 46 Orchid Asia Group Management Co., Ltd.
22 Venture TDF 47 UOB Investment (China) Ltd.
23 Shenzhen Tsinghua Leaguer Venture Caital Co., Ltd. 48 Milestone Capital Management Limited
24 Actis China Limited 49 Acorn Campus Shanghai Management Co., Ltd.
25 China Merchants & Fortune Assets Management 50 Shenzhen Fortune Venture Capital Co., Ltd.

“In the voting for the Best Investment of the Year, Focus Media and Baidu received most of the attentions with fairly close votes, but Focus Media won this award eventually with slight advantage.”


Fortune Magazine, 02.16.04

“I knew it was over when I downloaded Skype,” Michael Powell, chairman, Federal Communications Commission, explained. “When the inventors of KaZaA are distributing for free a little program that you can use to talk to anybody else, and the quality is fantastic, and it’s free – it’s over. The world will change now inevitably.”


Key Players in China
Venture Capital Journal, 06.01.04

ePlanet Ventures named as "Key Player in China" by Editorial Staff of Venture Capital Journal.


VCs Hope to Star in Own Version of Nip/Tuck
Venture Capital Journal, 09.01.04

Thermage is probably the best-known noninvasive cosmetic surgery company that is venture-backed. It has received an estimated $250 million in free advertising, thanks in part to two appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show. The company is expected to file for an IPO any day now, and could be one of the rare biotech offerings to hit its target price in 2004.


The 2004 E-Gang - My Internet.com (Ember)
Forbes, 09.06.04

In this profile of tech trendsetters, we spotlight four in the pursuit of the next big idea: using Internet technology to genuinely connect people and things and to deepen our understanding of the Net's ability to change how we work and play.

Ember, the company Poor co founded in 2001, gives mundane devices the power to communicate wirelessly.


The Quiet Iconoclast - Skype
Economist, 07.01.04

With KaZaA, Niklas Zennstrom undermined the music industry. Now he has telecoms firms in his sights.


China
Associated Press, 06.15.2004

SHANGHAI — Expanding its reach overseas, Google Inc. has taken a minority stake in a leading Chinese-language Internet search company, Baidu.com Inc., the Chinese company said Tuesday.

Robin Li, Baidu's chief executive, confirmed U.S. reports that Google was among foreign investors included in a recent overseas fund-raising push by the privately held Chinese company.


Cool Companies - Ember: 'Smart Dust'
Fortune, 05.03.04

This semiconductor firm is one of 14 Cool Companies we love.


Ten Tech Trends - Ember
Fortune, 02.09.2004

Here are companies that seem best poised to win what will surely be some of Silicon Valley's most memorable battles.

Networking pioneer Bob Metcalfe is backing this startup [Ember] that builds chips for smart-dust systems.


Skype - Catch Us If You Can
Fortune, 01.26.04

The folks who brought you Kazaa have a new hit called Skype—and a plan to set phone calls free.


Baidu, a Chinese Google, eyes Nasdaq IPO queue
Forbes.com, 01.08.04

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