Fosun International

Fosun International, a Chinese international investment company, is investing $5 million in Israeli Fintech Start-up The Floor.

Founded in 2016, The Floor is listed at Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and is a Fintech Innovation Center working with six of the world's largest financial institutions. Their focus is on areas like digital banking, capital markets, big data analytics, blockchain and insur-tech. (Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Shanghai, Fosun International is incorporated in Hong Kong in 2004. Fosun started its business by doing market research and then extended its business into the healthcare industry, real estate and other areas). More details here.

Fosun is listed in the Chinese Investors Directory with the code MA156.

Chinese investment firm Fosun Property Holdings have acquired stake in French property firm Paris Realty Fund (Paref) for $48 million.

French firm Paref Group operates in two areas of commercial/residential investments and management on behalf of third parties. At the end of 2016 Paref Group owned €167 million in property assets and managed assets worth €1.3 billion on behalf of third parties. (Fosun Property has more than 120 projects in 40 cities across the globe. Total asset under management is around $38 billion).

Fosun is listed in the Chinese Investors Directory with the code MA156.

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Chinese investment firm Fosun Capital have acquired a 16.7 percent stake in Portuguese lender Banco Comercial Portugues for $185 million.

Founded in 1985, Banco Comercial Portugues is Portugal's biggest publicly traded lender by assets. According to Bloomberg, Fosun has been one of the most acquisitive Chinese firms in the past three years, buying foreign assets such as French resort chain Club Mediterranee SA and Canadian circus operator Cirque du Soleil.

Fosun is listed in the Chinese Investors Directory with the code MA156.

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Three Chinese investment firms, China's Tencent, Fosun International and China Broadband Capital, have invested $35 million in Silicon Valley firm Scanadu.

Scanadu is a firm that is making a handheld device that measures five vital signs in about 30 seconds. Other investors in this round include Iglobe Partners of Singapore and A round investors Relay Ventures, Redmile Group, Ame Cloud Ventures and Three Leaf Ventures, an affiliate of The Broe Group. Scanadu has raised $49.7 million in funding to date.

To see a list of investors from China similar to Tencent Holdings and Fosun International, check the Chinese Investors Directory

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