2004 China's VC Rankings was recently announced by Zero2ipo, the authoritative research institution of VC industry in China and made people throw their eyes on those conspicuous persons and events once more.
On this Rankings, Focus Media was awarded 'The Best Investment in 2004' with no regret for its wondrous development during the year. Now Focus Media has established its Commercial Building LCD-TV AD Network covering 38 domestic cities (including Hong Kong) and ten thousand of top commercial buildings and became the first digital outdoor media in China who successfully put the concept of segmented marketing into operation. Up to present, Focus Media has attracted nearlly a hundred of million USD from many well-known VC companies such as UCI, Softbank, CDH, Goldman Sachs, 3i and etc. This is also a new record of financing in domestic new media industry for decades of years.
Meawhile, Mr. Jiang Nanchun, the CEO of Focus Media was ranked NO. 3 on 'The Top Ten Entrepreneurs in 2004' after Mr. Chen Tianqiao, the CEO of Shanda and Mr. Ma Huateng, the CEO of Tencent.
UCI, the dominant and active investor for Focus Media's three rounds of financing, was awarded 'The Most Influential Investor in 2004' by Capital.
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