Tagged: jd.com

May 11, 2016 @ 10:37 am By JD Alois  |  

  China is the largest market for alternative finance in the world. According to the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), China delivered over $100 billion in alternative finance, including peer to peer lending and crowdfunding, in 2015.  This was more than a 3X jump… Read More

December 4, 2015 @ 3:26 am By Spencer Li  |  

Following in the footsteps of Chinese internet giants such as Alibaba, Tencent, and JD.com, leading Chinese P2P platforms have begun evolving into one-stop wealth management platforms. Alibaba’s Ant Financial, Tencent’s WeBank, and JD.com’s JD Finance (for some background on these platforms, please refer to a… Read More

November 23, 2015 @ 3:33 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just one month after information about PepsiCo China’s smartphone, Pepsi P1, was reportedly leaked to the public, the popular beverage brand announced that it is not only working with a licensing partner to develop a line of mobile phones and accessories, but it has also… Read More

June 27, 2015 @ 10:56 am By JD Alois  |  

One of China’s largest direct sales platforms JD.com (Nasdaq:JD), and US based ZestFinance, a have formed an agreement to launch a joint venture called JD-ZestFinance Gaia.  This new partnership is designed to support the development of consumer credit in China.  The combined initiative will incorporate ZestFinance’s… Read More

June 5, 2015 @ 4:28 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

HWTrek, a platform that provides an ecosystem for digital electronics, announced this week that it has successfully raised $4 million during its series a funding round, which was led by WI Harper and ITIC. According to its description, HWTrek pairs manufacturing experts with project creators to help navigate the… Read More

April 8, 2015 @ 11:51 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cogobuy Group, an e-commerce company dedicated to serving China’s electronics manufacturing industry, announced it has implemented a strategic cooperation with JD.com, Inc. to jointly build out an intelligent hardware ecosystem. Last month, JD.com announced its crowdfunding platform’s official launch while pulling together domestic enterprises to jointly build an Internet ecosystem…. Read More

April 1, 2015 @ 10:12 am By Erin Hobey  |  

JD.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:JD), China’s leading online direct sales company, today announced its launch of a series of initiatives to help finance, develop and promote the creation of start-ups in China. The new JD Equity Crowdfunding platform, which builds upon JD.com’s success in the area of Internet finance, is expected to… Read More

December 3, 2014 @ 8:43 am By JD Alois  |  

JD.com is moving quickly to leverage their new crowdfunding platform initially titled  “Coufenzi” by signing an agreement to partner with Grameen China, a non-profit and non-governmental group dedicated to eliminating poverty.  JD Crowdfunding will be used to raise money to establish “ground operations” and then… Read More

December 3, 2014 @ 8:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Misfit Shine is a wearable activity tracker that successfully raised funding on Indiegogo in early 2013.  The company went the crowdfunding route not for the money but for the marketing exposure for the sleek device.  The product closed its crowdfunding campaign with just shy of… Read More

November 17, 2014 @ 9:25 am By JD Alois  |  

JD.com or JingDong has announced third quarter financial results today delivering a 111% increase in year over year results in Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) totaling $11 billion (RMB 29 billion).  Net revenues came  in at $4.7 billion an increase of 61% versus Q3 of 2013…. Read More