Christopher Mumford

BabyCare operates 20 centers in 16 cities and plans to expand to eight more cities in 2006. BabyCare is the brainchild of Matthew J. Estes, a 39-year-old San Diego native who has lived and worked in China for 15 years, part of that time as a sales manager for pharmaceutical maker SmithKline Beecham, now GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK ). He founded BabyCare to exploit what he saw as a big potential market in China for nutritional supplements for expectant mothers and infants. BabyCare's rapid growth has, predictably, attracted venture capitalists. The company has raised a total of $24 million in three rounds of funding since it began. Investors include Silicon Valley VC fund Sutter Hill Ventures, and Hong Kong's Pacific Group.

Yaolan New Media Ltd. operates the dominant Chinese language online parenting web portal, community, and education platform www.yaolan.com. Founded in 1999, the company has built the most highly recognized and trusted online parenting brand by offering quality information and education services to pregnant women and parents of 0-6 year-old in China. The company has around 1.55 million registered members. Yaolan attracts 190,000 unique visitors daily that account for 1.2 million daily page views.