On December 15th, the "11th China Innovation Capital Annual Conference and the 4th China Venture Capital Responsible Investment Summit" sponsored by 21st Century Business Herald and other institutions under the Southern Finance and Economics All Media Group was grandly held, and the "2020-2021 China Equity Investment Competitiveness List" of 21st Century Business Herald was unveiled at the event site. Mr. Wang Yizhe, Managing Director of Everbright Holdings, was awarded the "2020-2021 Private Equity Investor in the Hard Technology Field" for his solid layout and excellent investment achievements in the field of hard technology investment.
The China Innovation Capital Annual Conference was initiated in 2010 by 21st Century Business Herald, a subsidiary of China Southern Finance & Economics All Media Group. Relying on the accumulation of 21st Century Business Herald, a leader in digital think tank financial media, and the 21st Century Innovation Capital Research Institute, an innovative think tank, in the field of capital markets, PE/VC and high-growth innovative enterprises, the annual meeting has become an annual event in the equity investment industry.
The China Innovation Capital Annual Conference released the list of 2020-2021 China Equity Investment Competitiveness, 21st Century Equity Investment Competitiveness Research Case, and 2020-2021 Most Influential Elite Investors. Through performance indicators such as fundraising and investment management and ESG benchmarks, we are committed to discovering capital value, gaining insight into capital direction, encouraging institutional innovation, seizing value investment opportunities, tapping market unicorns, commending annual investment achievements, and promoting the healthy development of the venture capital industry.
This time, he was awarded the "2020-2021 Private Equity Investor in the Field of Influential Hard Technology", which is a high recognition of Mr. Wang Yizhe's investment ability in the field of hard technology. Mr. Wang Yizhe's advanced investment philosophy in the field of science and technology, the front-end ability of technology industry incubation, and the ability to integrate global resources in the industrial ecological chain also provide a new model sample and investment benchmark for the investment and cultivation of hard technology enterprises.
As a "veteran" in the investment community, Mr. Wang Yizhe graduated from the School of Software of Tsinghua University, has more than 15 years of investment and financing and enterprise management and operation experience, has successfully participated in the construction of China's leading real estate fund Everbright Anshi, and has served as the general manager of the first light holding asset management company of the public fund subsidiary. During his tenure, the asset management scale of First Glory Everbright Reached a peak scale of 150 billion yuan, and set up an equity investment FOF fund of funds and equity direct investment fund with a scale of more than 10 billion yuan. Since then, Wang Yizhe has successfully built a world-class semiconductor and artificial intelligence dollar series fund- Everbright Walden Global Fund, focusing on equity investment in semiconductor and artificial intelligence fields, and managing a number of funds such as everbright Hong Kong Innovation Center cooperated with Hong Kong Science and Technology Park and the Everbright Hong Kong Venture Capital Dollar Fund.
In recent years, the fields of scientific and technological innovation and cutting-edge technology have attracted much attention. In terms of macro policies, due to the attention to the new infrastructure at the bottom brought about by the Sino-US trade war, the investment community and the industrial community have ushered in unprecedented opportunities. With his rich knowledge reserves in the technology track, forward-looking investment logic and accurate insight, Mr. Wang Yizhe has successfully built the world's leading semiconductor and artificial intelligence fund, Guangkong Walden Global Fund, to capture the cross-border investment opportunities brought to China during the shift of the development focus of the global semiconductor and electronic information industry chain to the Asia-Pacific region.
During this period, Everbright Walden Global Fund keenly explored Aquantia Corp (NYSE: AQ), ACM Research (NASDAQ: ACMR), Indie (NASDAQ: INDI), Kateeva, Silicon Micro Technology and other segmented leading enterprises in the field of hard technology in the world. In addition, Wang Yizhe has also presided over and participated in investment projects such as Rainbow, Brain, Innovium, Magic Acoustics, and Tongdun Technology, and has achieved excellent returns.
Among them, Optical Control Walden invested in Aquantia Corp (stock code: NYSE: AQ), the first Ethernet technology company in the field of PHY transceiver chips to break through 10G, which completed the investment in August 2017 and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in November. As the first IPO company harvested by Everbright Walden, the project not only invested at an astonishing speed, but also provided considerable returns to the fund. In addition, Optical Control Walden has invested in ACM Research, an American monolithic cleaning equipment company focused on the development, production and sales of semiconductor manufacturers, which was listed on the NASDAQ in November 2017.
In June this year, indie, invested by Everbright Walden, was successfully listed on the NASDAQ through SPAC. Founded in 2007, California-based inDie is the world's leading provider of integrated solutions for automotive electronics semiconductors. It is reported that in the field of automotive electronic semiconductors, 1 in every 5 vehicles in the world uses indie products, and the products have now covered the global 100 billion-level automobile market.
In the field of printed display, Light Control Walden has laid out Kateeva, one of the world's leading OLED screen equipment manufacturers, which mainly provides inkjet equipment required for large-scale manufacturing of OLED screens, focusing on providing customized and large-scale solutions for OLED screen manufacturers.
In 2020, Wang Yizhe participated in and led the Everbright Hong Kong Innovation Center project jointly established by Everbright Holdings and Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, aiming to build an emerging technology incubation ecosystem through the Everbright Digital Infrastructure Innovation Incubator, Everbright Digital Infrastructure Research Institute and Everbright Hong Kong Venture Capital Fund, focusing on cultivating early-stage start-ups related to semiconductor and hardware technology, and helping Hong Kong become a global innovation and technology center.
"The next 10 years will undoubtedly be a golden age of hard technology." Wang Yizhe said that scientific and technological innovation is a long and continuous process, we will firmly optimistic about the future-oriented cutting-edge technology, around the national strategic emerging industry planning, focus on cultivating and developing a new generation of information technology, semiconductors, chips, artificial intelligence and other key emerging industries, so that the breakthrough innovation of the underlying hard technology will become the core engine of China's high-quality economic growth under the new pattern.