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Warburg Pincus Invests In Koudai

On January 1, 2012, private equity firm Warburg Pincus invested in e-commerce company Koudai

Investment Highlights
  • This is Warburg Pincus’ 1st transaction in the E-Commerce sector.
  • This is Warburg Pincus’ 24th transaction in China.

Investment Summary
Date 2012-01-01
Target Koudai
Sector E-Commerce
Investor(s) Warburg Pincus
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

Koudai

Beijing, China
Koudai shopping has introduced two products – lead-generation platform “Koudai Shopping” and the Wechat-based online shopping platform, Youshop (Weidian). Leveraging its search and mobile technologies, Koudai plans to build a leading e-commerce ecosystem on the mobile Internet, consisting of one of the largest seller marketplaces on mobile and a mobile shopping traffic gateway. Koudai was founded in 2011 and is based in Beijing, China.

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Investor

Warburg Pincus

New York, New York, United States

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Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1966
PE ASSETS 83.0B USD
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Warburg Pincus is a mega-sized, global private equity firm focused on investment opportunities across North America, Asia, and Europe. Warburg will consider investing at various company stages, from early-stage opportunities to distressed situations. Warburg Pincus is organized by industry groups. Verticals include financial services, healthcare, technology, media & telecommunications, energy, consumer & industrial, and real estate. Within financial services, Warburg will consider asset/wealth managers, banks, exchanges, financial technology, insurance, transaction processing, private banking, and specialty/consumer finance. Within healthcare, specific areas of interest include medical devices, healthcare services, and biotech/pharmaceuticals. Within technology/media/communications, Warburg targets software, media/internet/information, financial technology, telecom, business services, and systems/semiconductors. Within energy, specific areas of interest include oil/gas exploration, power generation/transmission, and alternative energy. Warburg Pincus raised its first fund in 1966 and is based in New York City.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 208 of 492
Sector: E-Commerce M&A 1 of 2
Type: Growth Capital M&A Deals 47 of 159
Country: China M&A 24 of 68
Year: 2012 M&A 4 of 23
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