WI Harper Group | November 6, 2020 WI Harper Group is honored to announce its Chairman Peter Liu as the 2020 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award presented at the 18th Annual Global Views Leaders Forum. The award was bestowed in Taipei on November 6th 2020 by Global View’s Chairman, Professor Charles Kao, in special…
WI Harper Group | October 22, 2020 | Source: PR Newswire GrubMarket announces its acquisition of Best Fresh Produce, Inc., a highly regarded and well-scaled provider of a wide array of fresh fruits and vegetables, with an established customer base in California, Midwest, East Coast, and other major metropolitan areas around the U.S. Best Fresh Produce is also a major…
WI Harper Group | October 14, 2020 | Source: Businesswire WI Harper Group backed EdiGene, Inc., which develops genome editing technologies to accelerate drug discovery and develop novel therapeutics for a broad range of diseases, announced the successful completion of a RMB 450 million (approximately USD 67 million) Series B financing. 3H Health Investment led…
WI Harper Group | October 7, 2020 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the development of a method for genome editing. Dr. Doudna co-discovered the programmable gene editing capabilities of CRISPR eight years ago, paving the way for modern genome engineering. WI Harper Group…
WI Harper Group | October 6, 2020 | Source: Techcrunch WI Harper backed GrubMarket completed $60M series D financing and share the plan to submit application for listing. The funding is coming from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock,Reimagined Ventures, Trinity Capital Investment, Celtic House Venture Partners, Marubeni Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital and Mojo Partners,…
WI Harper Group | September 17, 2020 | Source: XWPharma WI Harper-backed XWPharma (formerly XW Laboratories), a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery and development of therapeutics that apply platform chemistry to time-regulated neurobiology, today announced it completed a $40 million Series C financing. The financing was led by Panacea Venture, with participation from existing…
WI Harper Group | September 09, 2020 SOURCE: NYTIMES Poshly, a WI Harper Group-backed beauty research company, opens the world’s first museum dedicated to makeup. The Makeup Museum is dedicated to exploring the history and impact of beauty through events and interactive exhibits. Though initially delayed by the pandemic, Poshly CEO Doreen Bloch, was able…
WI Harper Group | September 2, 2020 September 2, 2020,WI Harper Group-backed Beijing LabTech Instruments Co., Ltd. (LabTech, 688056), has successfully landed on the SSE Star market (Science and Technology Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange). LabTech priced its IPO at RMB24.8 per share. When the market opened, the stock price increased 154% to…
WI Harper Group | August 31, 2020 Source: PR Newswire WI Harper-backed GrubMarket announces the general availability of WholesaleWare 2.0, the most comprehensive and modern Software-as-a-Service platform built for food industry suppliers and vendors. This is another significant milestone for the company after the acquisitionof Hung San Foods and Boston Organics earlier this year. Founded in 2014, GrubMarket is an e-commerce platform…
