RWDC Industries, a biotechnology company developing biopolymer material solutions, and Lummus Technology, a global provider of process technologies and value-driven energy solutions, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate on global PHA deployment initiatives.…
Neuracle, a leading brain-computer interface technology company based in Beijing, has successfully completed its Series C round of financing led by Green Pine Capital Partners. Early backer WI Harper participated in the round along with…
WI Harper Group | August 17, 2022 | Source: GrubMarket GrubMarket announces the acquisition of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and El Paso, Texas-based Quality Fruit & Vegetable Co. (QF&V), a highly respected fresh produce company that…
WI Harper Group | June 8, 2022 | YesHealth Group, a vertical farming technology company, was recognized by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as part of its 2022 class of most promising Technology Pioneers. A…
WI Harper Group | April 25, 2022 | Source: PR Newswire Fresco (formerly Drop), a smart kitchen technology platform has raised $20M in a Series B funding round led by three international appliance brands: Instant…
WI Harper Group | April 12, 2022 | Source: PR Newswire (Regatta) / PR Newswire (SunFed) GrubMarket completed the acquisitions of: Regatta Tropicals, a fresh fruit company that operates in New Jersey and California; in…
WI Harper Group | February 17, 2022 | Source: Synthego Synthego, a genome engineering company, raised $200 million in a Series E financing led by Perceptive Advisors. Participating in the round were new investors SoftBank…
WI Harper Group | January 12, 2022 | Source: TechCrunch Merit (originally called Sigma), an online achievement verification platform, raised a $50 million Series B round led by Rose Park Advisors. There was also participation…
WI Harper Group | January 3, 2022 | Source: WI Harper 2021 marked a banner year for WI Harper Group. The firm saw its portfolio companies close exceeding fundraising rounds, as well as exits in…
WI Harper Group | December 6, 2021 | Source: Businesswire Wynd Technologies, a California-based maker of proprietary AI-powered indoor air monitoring and purification technologies, has announced the launch of its Indoor Air Quality Optimization Service, a…
WI Harper Group | November 2021 | Source: Flexcompute Flexcompute, a company that develops proprietary simulation software and hardware, and provides these tools to customers with rigorous Research and Development (R&D) needs, has raised a $22…
WI Harper Group | December 16, 2021 | Source: Businesswire Suzy announced its acquisition of beauty-focused research platform Poshly.com. The acquisition expands Suzy’s category presence and qualitative research capabilities, including the recent launch of Suzy Home,…
WI Harper Group | November 24, 2021 | Source: Eco Business RWDC Industries announced the closing of a US$95 million Series B2 funding round that will support expansion and boost production of its biodegradable biopolymer…
WI Harper Group | November 11, 2021 | Source: Forbes Embark, a leading autonomous trucking company, went public today via SPAC merger with Northern Genesis Acquisition Corp. II at a $5 billion valuation. It will…
WI Harper Group | October 26, 2021 | Source: Weixin Datablau, which provides companies with: data extraction, agile data analysis, raw data problem solving, data visualization and decision-making, has raised ~RMB100 million at in a…
WI Harper Group | October 13, 2021 | Source: WI Harper WI Harper Group held its first virtual Annual Shareholder Conference on September 28th, highlighting the “Renewable Future” and the companies the Firm is building…
WI Harper Group | September 16, 2021 | Source: BusinessWire Embark announced a joint initiative with HP Inc. to combine electric and autonomous truck technology and create a more sustainable distribution network. The two companies…
WI Harper Group | September 16, 2021 | Source: BusinessWire Embark announced a partnership with Ryder aimed at launching a nationwide network of up to 100 Embark transfer points, where Ryder will provide yard operations,…
WI Harper Group | September 14, 2021 | Source: TechCrunch GrubMarket, which provides software and services that help link up and manage relationships between food suppliers and their customers, has raised $120 million at a…
WI Harper Group | September 13, 2021 | Source: XWPharma WWI Harper-backed XWPharma, a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery and development of therapeutics, announced its first-in-human study evaluating XW10508 – the Company’s novel, patented,…
WI Harper Group | September 10, 2021 | Source: la Repubblica XEV, a company that manufacturers electric vehicles (EV) through utilizing mature 3D printing technology, has partnered with Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi or ENI (“State Hydrocarbons…
WI Harper Group | July 21, 2021 | Source: TechCrunch Epic!, an eponymous digital reading platform for kids aged 12 or younger, has been acquired by Byju for $500 million. The deal involves both cash…
WI Harper Group | July 19, 2021 | Source: TechCrunch Kdan Mobile, a company that provides a wide range of cloud-based software, including AI-based tech for organizing documents, has raised a $16 million Series B.…
WI Harper Group | July 16, 2021 | Source: Kindstar WI Harper Group-backed Kindstar Global (Beijing) Technology, Inc. (9960.HK), has successfully landed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. At the proposed IPO price of HK$9.78…
WI Harper Group | June 23, 2021 | Source: Reuters Embark, a leading autonomous trucking company, will merge with blank-check firm Northern Genesis Acquisition Corp II at a $5.2 billion valuation. Through the (sustainability-focused) SPAC,…
WI Harper Group | June 21, 2021 | Source: Business wire Circle Pharma, a macrocycle drug discovery and development company focused on intractable cancer targets, announced that it has raised $66 million in an oversubscribed…
WI Harper Group | June 8, 2021 | Source: PR Newswire In pursuit of its 2030 ambition to reduce the use of fossil fuel-based plastics by half before the end of the decade, Kimberly-Clark announced a partnership…
WI Harper Group | June 2, 2021 | Source: The Business Times ENGINE Biosciences, a biotech company that applies machine learning as well as large-scale biology testing to discover precision medicine-based therapies for cancer and…
WI Harper Group | May 12, 2021 During the past few weeks the Covid-19 crisis has become critical in India with cases sharply rising across the country. In efforts to help, Daokang, WI Harper backed…
WI Harper Group | March 30, 2020 On March 30, 2021, Appier successfully listed on the Mothers Board, Tokyo Stock Exchange in Japan (Stock code: 4180). Appier is not only recognized as one of Taiwan…
WI Harper Group | February 23, 2021 WI Harper-backed Datablau, a Beijing based company focusing on data asset management and governance, has completed a Series A financing round lead by Linear Capital. With this round…
WI Harper Group | February 10, 2021 | Source: PR Newswire WI Harper backed GrubMarket completed a $60 million series D financing in October 2020. Today, GrubMarket has raised an additional $30M, bringing a total…
WI Harper Group | January 15, 2021 | Source: PR Newswire GrubMarket announces its acquisition of Bengard Marketing, Inc., a longstanding provider of high quality domestic and imported specialty fruits directly from sustainable growers in Chile, Argentina, Peru, New…
WI Harper Group | December 18, 2020 WI Harper backed Kindstar Global, a leading medical esoteric testing service company based in Beijing, has successfully completed Series E funding. The fundraising round was led by CPE…
WI Harper Group | December 8, 2020 | Source: Footprint Coalition RWDC and The Footprint Coalition have partnered together to replace one-time use plastics with fully biodegradable materials.RWDC is the leading manufacturer of the world’s…
WI Harper Group | December 9, 2020 | Source: FastCompany YesHealth Group is partnering with Danish company, Nordic Harvest, to bring Europe’s largest and most efficient indoor vertical farm to Denmark. Thisvertical farm will cover…
WI Harper Group | November 11, 2020 | Source: Avaamo WI Harper backed Avaamo has been named a leader in the Forrester New Wave™: Chatbots for IT Operations, Q4 2020, for the second year in…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
WI Harper Group | August 27, 2020 Source: Synthego CRISPR platform company Synthego announced that it raised $100 million in a Series D financing led by new investor Wellington Management, co-led by RA Capital Management and…
WI Harper Group | July 30, 2020 Source: Techcrunch WI Harper Group recently led the USD $20 million Series B financing of EMQ, a leading financial settlement network company in Asia. EMQ will use this…
WI Harper Group | Source: Full Circle Insight Many businesses have shifted spend from in-person events like lunch-and-learn gatherings to digital marketing campaigns due to lingering public health concerns. This shift to digital highlights the…
WI Harper Group | June 16, 2020 On the weekend of June 5-6, 2020, 3DHeals held their annual Global Summit. Due to the pandemic, the summit was adapted to a virtual format, with keynote and…
WI Harper Group | June 9, 2020 Source: VentureBeat WI Harper-backed Drop, the San Francisco and Dublin based smart kitchen platform startup, announced that it had raised $13.3 million in Series A1 funding. The round…
WI Harper Group | Jun 02, 2020 Source: PR Newswire WI Harper-backed GrubMarket announces its acquisition of Hung San Foods, a leading supplier of quality produce and specialty foods, serving grocery stores and restaurants in the Seattle area.This is…
WI Harper Group | May 15, 2020 MINIWIZ announced today that it had entered into a partnership with the Center For Innovation (“CFI”) at Fu Jen Catholic University (“FJCU”) Hospital, and Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic…
WI Harper Group | May 05, 2020 Source: RWDC WI Harper backed RWDC Industries raises US $133 Million in Series B funding round. The financing was co-led by Vickers Venture Partners, Flint Hills Resources, CPV/CAP…
WI Harper Group | 04-21-2020 Although we are all in social distancing right now, solidarity is awakening in the global community. The world now feels just how intricately and intimately interconnected we all are. And…
WI Harper Group | 04.22.2020 News provided by GrubMarket At the moment, the whole country is united to battle against COVID-19. Behind the health practitioners on the front lines, many businesses, institutions and individuals are…
WI Harper Group | Apr 01, 2020 Source: PR Newswire On April 1st, WI Harper-backed GrubMarket announces its acquisition of Boston Organics, an online farm-to-table grocery delivery service in Massachusetts. This deal marks the company’s third…
WI Harper Group | 2020-03-24 The world is united in battle against the coronavirus. Two companies backed by WI Harper Group, AEONMED and Resvent Medical, have entered the European market with ventilators. They are working…
WI Harper Group | 2020-03-24 Article Source: Avaamo Avaamo is an enterprise software company. Avaamo’s bot platform uniquely combines natural language processing, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning technologies to enable enterprises to create, develop, manage…
Source: Circle Pharma March 17, 2020 South San Francisco, CA, March 17, 2020, — Circle Pharma, Inc., a macrocycle drug discovery and development company focused on intractable cancer targets, today announced that it has raised…
WI Harper Group | 2020-03-09 On March 8th, the 2020 China Equity Investment Industry Conference was held in the form of online live broadcasting with support from China Venture Capital Co., the China FOF Alliance,…
WI Harper Group | 2020-03-04 We continue to see many of WI Harper Group backed companies on the front lines of the battle against coronavirus since the outbreak. For example, the electrocardiograph of Edan Instruments,…
WI Harper Group| 2020-02-29 The following article comes from 动脉新医药 Author 徐文娟 Recently, WI Harper-backed Amwise Diagnostics,successfully completed the first close of its B round financing. This financing is led by Jiangsu Simcere Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd,…
NEWS PROVIDED BY Panorama Medicine February 25, 2020 PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Panorama Medicine (“Panorama”), a genomics and computing powered drug discovery company focusing on RNA-targeted therapeutics, today announced the appointment of Jae…
WI Harper Group | February 19, 2020 At the moment, the whole country is united to battle against the coronavirus. Behind the health practitioners on the front lines, many businesses, institutions and individuals are taking…
WI Harper Group | February 12, 2020 The constantly updated Coronavirus statistics tug at the heartstrings of hundreds of millions of Chinese. In this battle against the Coronavirus, WI Harper Group and its portfolio companies…
WI Harper Group | February 3, 2020 Health and safety are our biggest concerns during this Lunar New Year. The constantly updated Coronavirus statistics tug at the heartstrings of hundreds of millions of Chinese. In…
WI Harper Group | January 22, 2020 “Davos Global FOF Summit” has ended in Davos, Switzerland. At the end of the summit, the 2019 list of the world’s best investment institutions was released. WI Harper…
WI Harper Group | December 23, 2019 WI Harper Group attended the 2019 China AI Drug Discovery Summit held by Pharnex in Shanghai. At this summit, WI Harper Group was awarded the Top 5 China…
WI Harper Group | January 8, 2020 On January 7th, the 2020 Peking University Youth CEO Club Annual Conference was held in Beijing’s Zhongguancun Exhibition Center. The conference gathered nearly a thousand young entrepreneurial alumni of…
WI Harper Group | January 10, 2020 On January 9, 2020 (Beijing time), Shark Ninja, a global household appliance brand, and JS Global (01691.HK), its parent company, officially announced the strategic merger and acquisition of…
WI Harper Group | January 8, 2020 On January 7th, the 2020 Peking University Youth CEO Club Annual Conference was held in Beijing’s Zhongguancun Exhibition Center. At the conference, Earl Yu, Vice President at WI Harper…
WI Harper Group | December 23, 2019 Recently, the 2019 Future Healthcare VB 100 Conference was held in Beijing, with the theme “New Increment of Life”. The conference is focused on the current and future state of…
WI Harper Group | December 8, 2019 On December 8th, the 2019 Annual China FOF Conference was held in Beijing, with support from China Venture Capital Co., the China FOF Alliance, and the China FOF…
WI Harper Group | November 21, 2019 On November 20th, WI Harper Group held the 2019 Tai-Si Forum in Taipei, focusing on the opportunities and changes brought by the new digital economy. Given the impact…
GrubMarket continues bolstering its nationwide presence with the purchase of a prominent local and organic online grocery delivery company based in the Midwest Source: PR Newswire SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — GrubMarket today announced it…
WI Harper Group | December 2, 2019 RongCloud, a global cloud communication service provider, announced the successful completion of their Series C financing round, which was jointly invested by Orient Securities Capital Investment Co., SDIC Venture…
WI Harper Group | November 21, 2019 On November 21st, the 2019 China Finance Summit Winter Forum and Global New Business Conference was held in Beijing, with support from the China Finance Summit (CFS), Syobserve,…
November 26, 2019 | Source: Appier The leader in artificial intelligence accelerates product innovation and plans global expansion in its mission to make AI easy and accessible for everyone Taipei, TAIWAN – 26 November 2019…
WI Harper Group | October 30th, 2019 WI Harper-backed CraiditX received funding from the Fintech Fund under Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, another significant milestone for the company after obtaining financing from GP Capital Phase II…
WI Harper Group October 28, 2019 WI Harper Group attended the AI Partner Summit held by Intel’s AI Innovation Accelerator in Beijing. Sean Peng, Managing Director at WI Harper Group, spoke on the topic of…
WI Harper Group | Oct 23, 2019 WI Harper-backed Logos Data and Datablau were named “China’s New Prominent Big Data Enterprises”. Chen Zhen, CEO of Qfeeltech was awarded the “Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talent Award” from…
Appier acquires tech that nudges shoppers to buy online WATARU SUZUKI, Nikkei staff writer | OCTOBER 16, 2019 00:26 JST Source: NIKKEI ASIAN REVIEW TOKYO — SoftBank Group-backed Appier, a Taiwan-founded artificial-intelligence startup that counts Carrefour…
SS RELEASE PR Newswire | Oct. 8, 2019, 09:15 AM ET Source: PR Newswire SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — GrubMarket today announced it has completed the acquisitions of Golden Greek Fresh and Happy Farm Produce, two prominent…
09.09.19 | INNOVATION BY DESIGN See all the honorees of the 2019 Innovation by Design Awards in the Retail Environments category. Source: Fast Company- https://www.fastcompany.com/90386281/innovation-by-design-2019-retail-environments BY SUZANNE LABARRE 1 MINUTE READ Every year, FASTCOMPANY’s “Innovative Design Award”…
WI Harper Group | Sept 25, 2019 Recently, WI Harper-backed Hangzhou Yunphant Network Technology Co., Ltd. (“Yunphant”) and Zhejiang Yxassets Investment Management Co., Ltd. (“Yxassets”) successfully completed the signing of its A+ financing round. This financing…
Alex Rodrigues Sep 25 Source: Medium | https://medium.com/embark-trucks/embark-announces-70m-series-c-led-by-tiger-global-14f09a4ac77 Today, Embark is proud to announce our $70 million Series C financing. The round was led by Tiger Global, with participation from Sequoia, DCVC, YCombinator, SV Angel,…
WI Harper Group 1 week ago EdiGene Inc., a genetic editing biotechnology company backed by WI Harper Group, announced the successful completion of the Pre-B2 round of financing of RMB 81.5 million. This round of investment was…
From: Silicon Valley Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum SVIEF Sept 11, 2019 From September 7 to 8, 2019, the 9th Silicon Valley High-Tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship Summit (Silicon Valley High-Creation Conference) was successfully held at the…
Three of WI Harper’s portfolio companies have made the 2019Venture50 preliminary evaluation list: EdiGene, Histo Pathology, CreditX Source: WI Harper Group The 2019Venture50 preliminary evaluation list was just released. Since its launch earlier this April,…
Posted by ViSenze 04-September-2019 High return rates have long been one of the core problems of online fashion sellers, with preference-based reasons like fit, size, and style driving around 72 percent of returns. One way of solving this…
WI Harper-backed Neuracle Technology Co., Ltd. has officially announced the completion of a RMB 60 million financing round. To date, Neuracle has completed three rounds of financing, with a total financing scale exceeding Rmb 100million.…
At first blush, it may seem like fashion and technology have a cozy relationship. New designers are building their brands almost entirely on Instagram, and for many of us, e-commerce has fully replaced brick-and-mortar shopping.…
The creative ad platform/server now describes itself as the only ‘people-based ad server’ covering LiveRamp’s hundreds of millions of profiles. Barry Levine on September 25, 2018 at 5:54 pm MORE Thunder Experience Cloud and LiveRamp are announcing a new…
PUBLISHEDOCT 10, 2018, 11:31 AM SGTFACEBOOKTWITTEREMAILJamie Lee SINGAPORE – Biotech start-up RWDC Industries, which is based in Singapore, on Wednesday (Oct 10) said it has closed a US$13 million Series A2 round co-led by venture…
Paul Dabrowski, the chief executive officer of Synthego, which provides genetically engineered cells to scientists and researchers, worries about a future where access to the genetic technologies that will reshape the world are only available to the…
KUALA LUMPUR, 22nd November 2018 – Naza Plantation Services Sdn Bhd, the agricultural business unit of the Naza Corporation Holdings Sdn Bhd, today signed an MoU with YesHealth Agri-Technology Co Ltd. to signify a new joint venture…
WI Harper Group, the international venture capital firm , continues to implement the “ Bridge Model ” chain-linking action. This year, Asia Meet Up will be held to create a communication platform for new ventures and industries. The chairman of the US-China WI Harper Liu Yuhuan firmly believes…
Embark’s self-driving truck completes 2,400 mile cross-U.S. trip Embark’s autonomous trucking solution just demonstrated what it could be capable of in a big way: It make a coast-to-coast trip from L.A. to Jacksonville, Florida, driving 2,400…
Innovators Under 35 is an annual list that recognizes outstanding worldwide innovators under the age of 35 published by MIT Technology Review. The prestigious TR Innovators Under 35 has honored some of the world’s most…
