China's investment market information consulting services, ChinaVenture, said on Wednesday that in April China Venture Capital (VC) investment and private equity (PE) market have raised seven new funds to reach $2.52 billion U.S. dollars.

Two of these funds are the RMB funds with size of $64.3 million, accounting for 2.5 percent of the total scale; five are foreign funds with size of $2.46 billion, accounting for 97.5 percent.

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