Apple iPhone X opened the era of "3D vision", the Android camp quickly followed, Huawei, OPPO, vivo and Xiaomi and other Chinese manufacturers have launched a new smart phone equipped with 3D sensing. In addition, the car 3D laser radar is also ready to go, attracting many capitals to pursue! Among them, Yaotu Capital, a venture capital fund established by a new generation of investors with professional technical background, international vision and excellent investment performance, has a clear idea and comprehensive layout, covering “underlying disruptive innovation from 0 to 1”. And "application-oriented technological innovation from 1 to N". In order to understand the investment philosophy and strategic layout of Yaotu Capital, Mames Consulting recently interviewed Mr. Yang Guang, a partner of Yaotu Capital.
Yaotu Capital is a technology-based venture capital fund that focuses on early-stage technology companies investing in the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence industries. It is active in China, Israel and the United States. It has invested in 35 high-tech companies, including underlying subversive Innovative semiconductor chips, laser pointer, sensors, cloud computing and technology application layer of financial technology, smart driving, business intelligence and other technology companies, including Innoviz, Roadstar, BondIT, Lumus, Torch Smart, Long Hui core light, get one Microelectronics, Changsheng Technology, etc. have become leading enterprises in the segmentation industry. Yaotu Capital Partners team has rich experience in high-tech industry and venture capital industry. The shareholders include domestic first-line funds, listed companies in related industries and well-known entrepreneurs. Currently, they manage two RMB funds and one US dollar fund. The recent completion of the new phase of the renminbi and US dollar funds, the total management scale will reach 1 billion yuan and 100 million US dollars.
Why choose "Internet of Things" and "Artificial Intelligence" as the two investment tracks of Yaotu Capital? What resources do you have in the relevant industry chain to help the invested companies? Thereby accelerating the development of the company.
In June 2015, I co-founded Yaotu Capital with my colleague Bai Zongyi, who had worked with Israel Fund Infinity for many years. At that time, we judged: 1. The traffic dividend of China Mobile Internet is gradually depleted, and the innovation of pure business model has already faced severe competition. Technology-driven innovation will be the main driving force for China's economic growth in the next 10 to 20 years, especially the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence. This can empower traditional industries and significantly improve the efficiency of business operations; The innovation of the business model is subject to the winner-take-all situation. Few investment institutions can continue to invest in the explosion. After the mobile Internet, we will enter the Internet of Things era of the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things realizes the perception, collection and transmission of more dimensional data. , storage and processing, these data are collected in the cloud or on the end, you can do a lot of data mining and realization, truly realize the connection from the Internet of things to all things, this is the opportunity of artificial intelligence, and the technology of the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence Innovative companies can have rigorous and professional methodologies and specialized combing research.