“Tencent’s Allied Army.”
Editor’s note: This article is from the WeChat public account “Financial Doodles” (ID: caijingtuya), author Stone Jin.
According to the company’s intelligence expert “Financial Graffiti” news, the fast-handed recently completed the investment of Hangzhou Cross Star Culture and Creative Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Doji”, the latter is the main body of the animation service studio Doji.
This is another investment event in the short-term comic circuit after Tencent has added the code to watch the comics.
天眼 According to the information, on August 22nd, Beijing Fast Hand Technology Co., Ltd. became a new investor in Doji. The founder and CEO of Su Qiao, the wife of Suhua, became the company’s director.
Founded in 2013, Cross Star is a two-part business in comic creation and game development, providing clients with solutions for copywriting, IP development, and localization at home and abroad. According to the official website, the current cross-star team has more than 60 members, including copywriting team, comic author, illustrator, and professional game localization team of more than 30 people.
Company founder and CEO Lu Mu’s pen name “Drilling Coffee”
He is a senior contributor who has worked in game industry journalists, columnists, light novels and comic script writers. His masterpieces include “Foxconn Young” and “Innocent City” animation.
As of At present, Cross Star Studio has 12 works on Tencent Animation, among which
There are always 600,000 and 500,000 collections in “There are always monsters” and “Black”.
. In terms of games, the cross star independently developed the love dress up adventure mobile game “Spiral Waltz”, and participated in the design of “Yuanqi Idol Season”, “Tenth Field”, “Spiral Boundary Line” and other works.
It is worth mentioning that before this fast-selling, Cross Star has received millions of RMB Pre-A rounds of financing from Tencent, as well as dreams from Tencent and Hong Kong listed companies. Tens of millions of RMB A round of financing.
Just a week ago, Comics Content Platforms also saw a $125 million investment from Tencent and will continue to grow independently.
In view of the well-known strong binding relationship between Tencent and fast-hand (Exclusive | Tencent plans to invest $1-15 billion in quick hands, and heavyweight institutions are out), so from another perspective, Tencent is already short In the time, it completed the further reach of the upstream and middle reaches of the animation industry, namely the creative layer of the PGC comic studio and the comic layer of the operation layer.
Tengxun Investment Management Partner Li Zhaohui also said after completing the aforementioned investment in Quick Look: ”
Tencent is optimistic about the long-term animation industry
Over the years, it has invested in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, including many platforms and comics, animation studios and so on. This investment reflects the continuation of this strategy and is one of the important layouts.
Another point worth noting is that the event that the comics laid the status of the industry was the C round of financing at the end of 2016. Tiantu Capital led the investment, and there was a byte jump in the shareholder list; Year is just the first year and the only year in which bytebeats are frequently deployed in the content field.
However, Chen Anni, the founder and CEO of Comics, said in an interview with the media recently.
Byte Beat did not previously hold a large share of the company and has completely withdrawn after this round of financing
.
Plus Baidu+ fast-handed in mid-August for knowing the $434 million F-round financing, it can be said that includingNews, Baidu, fast-handed, knowing, and so on. The battle between the Allied forces and the beating of the bytes has already begun. The situation of “Three British Wars” will continue to exist for a long time to come.