C-Bridge Capital, a Shanghai-based private equity firm focused on China's healthcare sector, hopes to profit handsomely by bringing better drug know-how from developed markets to the underdeveloped Chinese pharmaceutical industry.

Headed by finance veteran Fu Wei, the US$700 million-under-management firm led a follow-on US$100 million round in Chinese pharmaceutical start-up Ascletis earlier this month. Ascletis has licensed and conducted clinical trail on a hepatitis C treatment drug developed by an American company, and is launching the drug in China during the first half of this year.

The sheer scale of the Chinese market makes the investment attractive, says Fu, a University of Chicago Booth School of Business graduate. With 40 million hepatitis C patients in China, compared to just four million in the U.S., he is confident that the drug will hit it big and bring a lucrative return on his investment.

Since an early age, Wang Jun has been fascinated with the fundamental philosophical question: What is life?

The former chief executive of Chinese genome sequencing giant BGI and founder of China's highest-valued precision healthcare start-up iCarbonX, pursued that interests by studying artificial intelligence at Peking University during the early 1990s.

In an early experiment in artificial intelligence he discovered that computers could actually figure out how a lady beetle maneuvers to catch food, exactly like it does in real life.

The closing months of 2016 have been kind to Qiming Venture Partners. The US$2.7 billion-under-management Chinese venture capital firm saw three of its portfolio companies list in public markets during the past month: in Shanghai, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Meitu Inc., a phone retouch app and smartphone maker backed by Qiming, IDG Capital and others, was valued at HK$35.9 billion (US$4.6 billion) following its Hong Kong IPO. It was the biggest IPO by a technology company in Hong Kong since Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. went public in 2004.

The IPO marks the latest high point of a "harvest season" Qiming has entered to cash out of investments made over the past decade, says JP Gan, Qiming's managing partner. The firm just celebrated its tenth anniversary with a lavish party in Shanghai's Ritz Carlton featuring U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps and Chinese national volleyball coach Lang Ping. Now into the second decade, Qiming must identify the industries from which the next great Chinese tech companies will emerge.

Not surprisingly, the sectors cited by JP Gan included artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality, Internet-of-Things (IoT), all of which are the buzzword in today's venture world.

For artificial intelligence, Gan likes mission-specific products that can be commercialized quickly, such as voice recognition, image recognition and driver-less cars.

In terms of VR and AR, he believes the hardware platform will evolve away from head-mounted goggles to something more user friendly. As for big data, he thinks Chinese start-ups in that field face greater challenges than their U.S. peers as the country's technology giants typically like to do things in-house.

Grant Horsfield, founder of Shanghai-based resort and co-working space operator naked Group, always see things differently.

When others saw dilapidated farm houses, he envisioned seclusive magnificent resorts. Now, a year after entering the co-working space, the South African entrepreneur is convinced that the future lies somewhere else than most people in China believe.

The tomorrow of co-working is moving HSBC or Coca-Cola from their "ugly offices" to much cooler and lively space, such as his own shared office unit naked Hub, Horsfield said at the annual MIPIM Asia Summit in Hong Kong last week, not hiding his disdain for "cubicles" and "grey boxes" commonly seen at rigid corporate headquarters.

In this episode of China Money Podcast, guest Jixun Foo, managing partner at GGV Capital, spoke with our host Nina Xiang, on GGV's new funds, China's travel and education sector, and why Chinese companies have a better record of avoiding "down rounds."

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Foo spoke to China Money Network on the sidelines of the 29th Annual AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Forum in Hong Kong.

In this episode of China Money Podcast, guest Jixun Foo, managing partner at GGV Capital, spoke with our host Nina Xiang, on GGV's new funds, China's travel and education sector, and why Chinese companies have a better record of avoiding "down rounds."

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Foo spoke to China Money Network on the sidelines of the 29th Annual AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Forum in Hong Kong.

In this episode of China Money Podcast, returning guest Dr. Marc Faber, renowned investor and publisher of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, speaks with our host Nina Xiang.

Dr. Faber played a game of Long & Short, where he spelled out his view on central banks, currencies and commodities, among other items. Then, he gave probabilities on a number of possible world events and explained his reasoning.

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In this episode of China Money Podcast, returning guest Dr. Marc Faber, renowned investor and publisher of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, speaks with our host Nina Xiang.

Dr. Faber played a game of Long & Short, where he spelled out his view on central banks, currencies and commodities, among other items. Then, he gave probabilities on a number of possible world events and explained his reasoning.

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In this episode of China Money Podcast, guest Herry Han, partner at Lightspeed China Partners, spoke with our host Nina Xiang, on making early-stage investments in China's media and mobile healthcare sector.

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In this episode of China Money Podcast, guest Roger Wu, a partner at consumer-oriented private equity firm Maison Capital, spoke to our host Nina Xiang on China's O2O (online-to-offline) bubble and the firm's investment in a Chinese healthcare device maker.

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