Kuang Ziping Of Qiming Venture Capital: China'S Equity Investment Industry Ushers In The "Golden New Decade"

2020 is a challenging year. For Qiming venture capital, it is also the most fruitful year in the development process of more than ten years.

"China's equity investment industry is ushering in a new golden decade, and is entering a new deep-water area." Kuang Ziping, founding partner of Qiming venture capital, told the 21st century economic report.

According to Kuang Ziping, the biggest change in the industry in the past few years is that venture capital has increasingly entered the field of science and technology investment from mode innovation. From this perspective, China's equity investment industry is entering a new golden decade.

But on the other hand, investment in technological innovation requires investors to have a deeper understanding of technology, which will become a new deep-water area of venture capital industry.

From the perspective of the whole equity investment market, in 2020, more than 2000 investment institutions have raised new funds, of which 12 have raised more than 10 billion yuan in the year.

At the end of January this year, Qiming venture capital announced that the sixth phase of RMB fund raising was officially closed, and the fund scale reached 2.852 billion yuan. Together with the seventh phase of US dollar fund raised in September 2020, the total scale of funds managed by Qiming venture capital will reach 5.9 billion US dollars.

It is not surprising that large PE Institutions and investment institutions with full stage positioning have raised 10 billion funds. The representative of Qiming venture capital is that it mainly focuses on the early stage and growth stage. According to the traditional investment rounds, the main investment stage of Qiming venture capital is round C and before, and mainly round a and B.

"The science and technology innovation attribute of the new RMB fund will be more obvious." In an interview with reporters after the fund raising was completed, Kuang Ziping said that he would pay more attention to investment opportunities in the subdivided fields of semiconductors, enterprise services and new drug research and development, and move forward the investment stage in some popular areas.

2020 is a challenging year. For Qiming venture capital, it is also the most fruitful year in the development process of more than ten years. 21st century economic report reporter learned that Qiming venture capital completed more than 70 investments in TMT and medical and health sectors in 2020, and a total of 12 invested enterprises were listed in IPO.

Looking back on the sales of venture capital institutions in each quarter of 2020, the depressed investment enthusiasm was relieved in the second quarter, and has been rising all the way from the third quarter.

On the market outlook for the new year, Kuang Ziping said that under the expectation that the global epidemic situation can be better controlled, the global economy will usher in a recovery dividend, and the market's investment enthusiasm will not be reduced.

Regarding the investment progress of Qiming venture capital and the industry, Kuang Ziping said, "it should be relatively healthy to maintain the investment progress in 2020. If we further increase the speed, we may be a little worried."

Kuang Ziping has led the Qiming venture capital team to invest in China for 15 years. Qiming venture capital is one of the first dual currency fund management teams in China, and the "raising, investment, management and withdrawal" of RMB funds has gone through a full decade.

According to Kuang Ziping, the future of China's local venture capital industry will be more prosperous.

"In the past ten or twenty years, the industry's colleagues have made great contributions to China's innovation and entrepreneurship through their conscientious efforts. These achievements and the values created have gradually been widely accepted by the society. " Kuang Ziping expects that the venture capital industry will be more recognized by the society as a mainstream force and enter a more virtuous circle in fund raising and talent attraction.

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