Silicon Valley Cash Comes Calling
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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
