This week’s financing focused on Round A, showing a trend toward continued concentration of capital to head businesses.
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One week venture capital hotspot
From November 9th to November 15th, there were a total of 60 financing events this week, mainly focusing on corporate services, hardware and educational circuits. The health care track with the largest proportion of financing events last week this week It fell out of the top three track races and only received 4 financings; the corporate service track led the capital market with 14 financings and continued to be popular.
Finance rounds, this week’s financing focused on Round A, showing the trend of capital continues to concentrate on head companies. According to the public information, the specific financing track and round distribution are as follows:
List of important financing events
At the car traffic track, “Xiaopeng Auto” announced this week that a round of $400 million in financing < /a> In addition to the original shareholders, the financing also introduced the new strategic investment partner Xiaomi Group. Xiaopeng Automobile Chairman and CEO He Xiaopeng once again held this round as an individual investor after two rounds of A and B. In addition to the $400 million equity financing, Xiaopeng Automobile has also received unsecured credit loans of several billion Chinese yuan from China and foreign banks such as China Merchants Bank, CITIC and HSBC.
The corporate service track continued to be hot this week, with 14 financings disclosed, but the class-level financing was not disclosed on the track. Among them, the tens of millions of financing includes: Touto’s catering supply chain management company “Wei Lai Supply Chain” announced a million yuan angel round financing, enterprise database products and solutions providers “Juyun Wazhi announced the completion of the 50 million A round of financing.
In the hardware track, IoT’s “Green Rice Lianchuang announced the completion of the B2 round of $100 million financing , led by far-wing investment, Kaihui Fund, Joy Capital, Yunmu Capital and investment. According to Yu Yanxi, founder of Green Rice Lianchuang, this round of financing will be used to further invest in innovative product research and development, to create a smart home explosion of Xiaomi ecological chain, improve Aqara’s own brand building, and strengthen the construction of new online and offline retail channels. .
The educational track is surrounded by two billions of financing, namely: “All in the big language” “Juvenile Get, the software officially launched in April 2018, is an app that provides educational services for young people aged 5 – 15 years; “Ubijie” is a provider of STEAM education solutions. In 2018, it was called the turning point of the education industry. From the second half of 2018, the policy environment was tightened and the capital market became increasingly cold. Despite the cold investment in the big environment, looking back at 2019, education is still gestating new opportunities due to its inherent countercyclical nature, and the industry is beginning to enter the stock game and the era of the strong and strong. About online education