Venture capitalist’s weekend selection – a week of venture capital news review, and some interesting “small stories”
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One week venture capital hotspot
From August 17 to August 23, a total of 43 financing events occurred this week, focusing on e-commerce, corporate services, local life, hardware and educational circuits. Compared with last week, this week’s financing incidents increased slightly: among them, the e-commerce track was “suddenly prosperous”, and it won a total of 9 financings, surpassing the “traditional strong” such as enterprise service and medical track, which is called the most financed track; The health of the medical health track has dropped sharply. There are only two financings this week. The large-scale financing is more dispersed this week, and many tracks such as automobiles, education and hardware are harvested. According to the public information, the specific financing track and round distribution are as follows:
Important financing events
As mentioned above, the large amount of financing over 100 million yuan this week is more scattered, and multiple tracks are involved, as follows:
List of important financing events
Car TrafficField, Autopilot Truck Technology R&D Company“智加科技< /a>” In the new round of financing, it is close to raising 2 billion dollars, the largest financing this week. At the same time, Information Technology Company focusing on urban rail transit“智元汇“announced Shangtang Technology Investment A million round of A-round financing, The two sides will cooperate in the intelligent construction and operation of urban rail transit and new media, new retail and other aspects to jointly build a new era of AI subway.
Local Life, the new retail provider of pet products “very pet home >” 500 million yuan investment in the 500 million yuan pet medical institution “Xinruipeng Group”. Its physical store is located in Nanjing on August 16th, 2019. It is a scene of eight scenes covering the adoption of cats and dogs, beauty care, cat and dog products, pet foster care, pet medical care, different pets, different pets, coffee and leisure. Member retail store.
Tourism, the digital marketing service provider of “transactional SaaS+ services” direct customer service Announced the completion of more than 300 million yuan of C round of financing for technological innovation and business expansion, helping all high-star hotels and scenic spots to obtain efficient customers, helping them achieve repurchase rates andDouble growth of new users.
E-commerce, this week, a total of 3 billion yuan of financing, namely: e-commerce platform “flowers birthday” received a $300 million A+ round of financing; community e-commerce “$万万选” won $20 million in Series B financing; cross-border commodity comprehensive service platform “ Cloud Global Exchange received $100 million in B+ round financing.
Financial track, financial advisory platform “Little help planning Completed the 200 million B round of financing led by Tencent. Its model is “Insurance and Finance Education Course → One-to-One Consultation → Insurance Product Purchase”, and now has served more than 100,000 person-times, covering 32 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country.
Vocational EducationPlatform “Angkor Education ” received nearly a hundred million A round of financing this week. It is positioned at the online level of fire-fighting registered engineer training and employment, and currently has over 50,000 students.
Logistics, end-of-sale rental service provider “Intelligent Rent and Travel” has also been awarded a 100-yuan Class A round of financing, providing express delivery companies and take-away companies with a complete solution for end-delivery vehicles that are more in line with their application scenarios and reasonably planned.
Hardware, the industrial robot company “Alite” also announced that it has received $100 million in Series B financing. This round of financing was led by China Venture Capital, Yuanhe Origin, Ceyuan Venture Capital, Cableway Capital and Investment, and Index Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor for this round of financing.
Important Venture News
The first case in the United States to discover an unknown lung disease related to e-cigarettes
A patient died unfortunately after being hospitalized for an unknown lung disease associated with e-cigarettes. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), from June 28 to the present, 193 people have experienced similar symptoms due to the use of electronic cigarettes, and Illinois is particularly severe. It is unclear whether these symptoms are from a single disease. Ngozi Ezike, director of the Illinois Public Health Bureau, said in a statement: “The severity of the disease people are experiencing is worrying. We must understand that the use of e-cigarettes and steam fumes can be dangerous.”
Kechuang Board M&A Restructuring: 45-Day Review Period
On August 23, the Shanghai Stock Exchange released the drafting of the “Regulations on Major Asset Restructuring of Listed Companies of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (Consultation Draft)” (hereinafter referred to as the “Reorganization Review Rules”), and publicly solicited opinions from the market. . According to the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the “Restructuring Review Rules” emphasizes the role of the market mechanism in accordance with the basic principles of marketization and legalization, actively and steadily carries out institutional innovation, and strives to build an efficient, transparent and predictable major asset restructuring review mechanism.
The firewood hydrogen fuel cell bus is officially in volume operation
In recent days, Weifang established the hydrogen energy demonstration city and the official operation ceremony of the Weichai hydrogen fuel cell bus. The hydrogen fuel cell bus that was put into operation in Weifang in batches is a new-generation hydrogen fuel cell bus developed by Weichai Power and Zhongtong Bus. The vehicle is equipped with Weichai fuel cell engine power system, which has passed high and low temperature and reliability. And durability verification, the maximum cruising range is more than 350km.
360 financial investigations, or violation of federal securities laws
Shareholders’ rights law firm Johnson Fistel announced that it is investigating 360 financial companies, which may have violated federal securities laws. Johnson Fistel’s survey is designed to assess whether 360 Finance’s IPO prospectus submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and subsequent communications with investors contain false statements about material facts. Or omit the presentation of other necessary facts and mislead consumers in the company’s business and operations.
Interesting·Project Set
SUGAR was launched at the end of 2017, and now accounts for over 90% of the total after 95. The overall idea of the product revolves around two key words – “user quality” and “willingness”. On the one hand, it protects high-quality users through “authentication”, but still retains the matching channels of high-low quality users; on the other hand, through the “Wish” function—transfers social value from “people” to “things”.
Hundreds of design and development tools for young children to 18-year-olds, as well as space-based interdisciplinary thinking advanced courses. At the same time, the same piece of the same teaching aid can be combined with different curriculum design to achieve cross-age and interdisciplinary teaching, providing high reuse rate and cost-effective products for institutions and families; reducing the most valued teachers of the organization. Standardization pressure has increased the possibility of family parent-child interactive education.
The Mystery House was established in 2012, and was engaged in the design and operation of the offline physical room escape shop. In 2017, it began to use the physical puzzle game form to break through the space utilization and the efficiency bottleneck of the traditional secret room model; 2018 In the year, we started to cooperate with mature IP to create an explosion-proof entity interactive puzzle content product.
Bingqing was established in 2014, and it is the main product of the fruit wine, “Qingmei Liquor”. Most of the green plum wines on the market are made into sake and made into plum wine, while the ice-green is made from real fruit and made low-grade plum wine, which is different in craftsmanship.The main consumer groups of Bingqing are young women who want to attract customers with the brand image of “health, fashion and high quality”. The 350ml of green plum wine is priced at 38 yuan, which will be slightly different under different platforms and different specifications.
The recent contact with “Bohashou Biotechnology” is a smart device for sweat detection. It has launched the “Hella Bracelet”, which is a wearable, first-generation bio-smart bracelet based on biochip sweat detection. Used to monitor lactic acid and glucose indicators in human sweat.
The company established a banner in 2014 to provide Android container and solution based on ARM server. During the research and development period, it obtained two rounds of financing from Jingwei China and Huaying Capital. The project was successfully commercialized in 2017, and its customers cover different fields such as cloud mobile phones, trial advertising, mobile cloud games, and mobile game distribution.
Founded in 2017, Ube Sweet provides music literacy courses for children aged 4-12 years. The course system is divided into 4-7 years old music interest enlightenment, 5-12 years old Chinese Academy of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and children’s vocal music practice courses. The three major categories are the 1v6 small class group class based on the Classin online education live broadcast platform. As of July this year, Uber Sweet has more than 1,000 students, mainly in first-tier cities, with a monthly income of over one million, and interest courses and exam counseling each accounting for 50%.
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