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   Visits, Xiaomi, Cheetah, Xiaomi

It's been fun and exciting to make the rounds of leading China tech companies during a recent visit to  Beijing.
Stops at  Tencent, Xiaomi, Didi, JD.com and Cheetah Mobile show how fast things are moving here in China's innovation scene.
Ultra-modern headquarters, fun-loving staff, sleek PR teams, Powerpoints and videos, mascots, well-rehearsed executives accustomed to handling media and stock analysts, and a slew of new innovations andDidi, China's Uber business models at startups and big tech alike all show how far China has come in a few short years.

This is a long way from when I was researching my first book in 2008 and did interviews at what were then unknown companies in the West: Baidu , Alibaba, Renren, Focus Media and many others. 

Read more at Forbes: China Tech Today

  





 
 
   

 VIDEOS
Silicon Dragon Beijing 2016

VC/ Dealmakers: Anna Fang, Akio Tanaka, Hans Tung, Rui Ma, Wendy Pan, Barrett Parkman at Silicon Dragon Beijing 2016, April 28.
 

Edward Tse, author of China's Disruptors with Vijay Vaitheeswaran of The Economist at Silicon Dragon Beijing 2016. 
 

Yuanbo Wang, Co-founder & CEO of Nihao Pay with KPMG partner State Shi. 

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TRENDSPOTTING:

 
 
Baidu's Driver-less Car,
The Hover Flying Camera,
DCM Moves
 
Ruby Lu, long-time DCM general partner in Beijing and backer of several high-profile Chinese tech companies, has teamed up with ex-Tiger Global managing director Xiaohong Chen, at H Capital in Beijing.

DCM Ventures exits portfolio company Happy Elements, a Beijing-based developer of social media games, through a management buy-out. Earns a gross IRR of 53% on an initial investment of $10 million in 2010.

Beijing-based mobile Internet company Cheetah Mobile plans to invest $50 million in robotics, especially deep learning and AI intelligence research and development, through a new Cheetah Robotics R&D and investment venture.

TRENDS

Baidu car Search giant Baidu has taken a huge step of bringing its autonomous car ambitions to Silicon Valley, creating a self-driving car unit that plans to employ more than 100 engineers by the end of 2016.

Shanghai's government has set a new regulation that will offset as much as $1 million of a VC firm's losses, from public funds via the city's Science and Technology Commission. The idea is that compensating bad investments will boost innovation in the sector by encouraging VCs to take risk and look at a broader number of startups. The policy has drawn much criticism, however.
In a related development and a reflection of the domestic China downturn in VC, Chinese investor Tsinghua Unigroup is reportedly withholding funds from Hong Kong-based Acadine Technologies, a renovator  of old school flip phones.


  DEALS   
   * Renren has participated in the $72 million investment round in Israel-based smartphone maker Sirin Labs.

* IDG Capital Partners, GSR Ventures and ZhenFund are among investors in a $23 million funding of Zero Zero Robotics, the maker of the Hover Camera.

 * Ant Financial, Alibaba's finance arm, is now valued at $60 billion following a record-breaking $4.5 billion funding round. 

 * PayPal cofounder Max Levchin has made his first investment in India, participating in the $1.3 seed round of New Delhi-based ClearTax. 

* Japan-based bitcoin exchange BitFlyer has raised $27 million in Series C funding led by SBI Investment, with participation from existing backer Venture Labo Investments.

Woowa Brothers, operator of food delivery app Baedal Minjok, has raised $50 million in funding from a consortium led by Hillhouse Capital Group.
 
  FUNDS  
 * H Capital in Beijing, with Xiaohong Chen and Ruby Lu,
is raising a $500 million fund to invest in China tech. 
 
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