Galen Moore - Editor-In-Chief 08/14/15 @11:22am in Tech
There are at least 3 Chinese VC firms active in Boston. We talked to 2 of them.
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Haiyin Capital's Yuquan Wang is bringing some of it and yes, he is interested in the hard stuff. Haiyin has a $50 million fund, its third. It's out raising a fourth, similar in size. All for investment in robotics, consumer devices and hardware. Deals so far in Boston include 1366 (cleantech), Terrafugia (flying cars) and WiTricity (wireless charging). Wang told me he's not interested in Internet companies and he's more interested in Boston and other, smaller markets than he is in Silicon Valley (Pittsburgh, Madison, Seattle--anything near a university).

"In China if you want to show people how trendy you are you say I go to Silicon Valley," Wang said. "Lots of Chinese go to Silicon Valley like a pilgrim and they come back and they talk about Silicon Valley like a show."

Besides, Wang said, Valley companies spend too much time at networking events. "I believe there is a new wave of startups in the US, is entrepreneurs bringing technology out of universities," he said. "They’re licensing tech from universities and they make products based on that."

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US-China Hi-Tech Summit, Boston 2015

Thanks for the implementation of Bayh-Dole Act in year 1980, startups gradually became the leading force of converting research results from universities and other research institutes into hi-tech products on the market. But there’s still one bottleneck for these startups’ growth: When startups are small and only at the R&D stage, their valuation is small and the big capital they need to get to the next level can’t be raised. But they often need a big investment to reach that large manufacturing scale and to reach a big global market, which will eventually lead to a much bigger valuation.

China can be the solution! Cooperating with the existing manufacturing capability, US hi-tech startups’ capital need is reduced, and valuation is increased, not mentioning the benefit of China’s huge market potential and investment capability. 

In the US-China Hi-Tech Summit, Boston 2015, organized by Haiyin Capital, you will know from Boston-based high-tech companies what they got from China, and learn from Chinese government officials the benefits you can enjoy by entering China, and meet with Chinese investors and entrepreneurs, and, famous economist from China will tell you the current situation of China's economy, and the latest policy to the US-China hi-tech industry cooperation.

In hi-tech industry, US and China are naturally complementary, cooperating with China will accelerate your success. US-China Hi-tech Summit opens a door for your China cooperation. Please join us in Boston on October 7th.

Time: 9:00am－12:00pm, October 7th, 2015
Venue: Boston Marriott Burlington, One Burlington Mall Road, Burlington, MA 01803 

Organizer: Haiyin Capital
Co-organizer: Boston Bilingual Media & Publishing Inc.

Agenda:

9:00am-9:05am: Welcome address of the representative of Massachusetts Government
9:05am-9:10am: Opening remark of Mr. Ming Yi, Deputy Director of Guangzhou Commission of Industry and Information Technology
9:10am-9:25am: Keynote speech of Mr. Min Tang, Advisor to State Council of China, Famous Economist
9:25am-9:40am: Speech of Mrs. Xiaolei Zuo, Famous Economist
9:40am-10:00am: Speech of Mr. Carmichael Roberts, North Bridge Partner
10:00am-10:20am: Speech of Prof. Zhaofeng Xue, State Development School, Peking University, China

10:20am-10:40am: Tea Break

10:40am-10:50am: Speech of Ben Schlatka, Cofounder MC10 Inc.
10:50am-11: 05am: Speech of Mr. Frank Van Mierlo, CEO, 1366 Technologies Inc.
11:05am-11:20am: Speech of Carl Dietrich, CEO, Terrafugia Inc.
11:20am-11:40am: Speech of Alex Gruzen, CEO, WiTricity Corporation.
11:40am-11:55am: Speech of Mr. Yuquan Wang, Founding Partner, Haiyin Capital
11:55am-12:00pm: Closing Remark of Mr. David Li, Boston Bilingual Media&publishing Inc.

12:00pm: Close

12:10pm Lunch

Contacts:
Xin Ma: xin.ma@haiyinfund.com, +1(617) 992-6322

by Brooke Salkoff for China Business Review

For Alex Gruzen, CEO of wireless charging pioneer WiTricity, working with a tech-focused venture capital firm in China seemed a natural fit. Gruzen knew China well from his time at Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, and then Dell, where he led the company’s global notebook business. Since joining Boston-based WiTricity, Gruzen’s priorities included getting the tech right, growing the US customer base, and then breaking out in China, where the automotive and consumer electronics industries – the company’s primary targets for licensing and embedding its technology – have seen meteoric growth.

The Chinese investor in this case was Haiyin Capital, a Beijing-based venture firm deploying its third fund with a new cross-border focus. Yuquan Wang, Haiyin’s founding partner, had experience partnering with American firms; early on in his career as a consultant for US consulting firm Frost & Sullivan, he helped China Mobile grow to become by market cap the largest mobile telecom company in the world. With a decade of venture capital experience, Wang had a profound appreciation for the potential of untapped synergies in the Chinese and US tech worlds.

“The next Steve Jobs won’t come from China,” Wang noted, referring to Apple’s former CEO. “But he’ll need China if he expects to build a global company. Our idea is to find those companies in the US and help them use China to achieve explosive growth.”

To read the complete article click here.

by Garrett Black for PitchBook

Chinese investment in the U.S. venture market has been exploding like fireworks over the past couple years. The number of rounds U.S. companies raised with participation from China-based investors tripled from 67 in 2012 to 201 last year. In that same timeframe, the total deal value surged from $1 billion to $4.3 billion.


To read the full article click here.

by Eric Hal Schwartz for DCInno

The FDA has greenlit an unusual kind of wearable tech for medical use, one that lets people with vision problems navigate by taste. The BrainPort V100, built by Wisconsin-based Wicab, takes input from a video camera attached to a pair of glasses and converts it into different kinds of vibrations or tingling sensations given off by a small device seen above that the user holds on his or her tongue. It essentially translates sensory data into a form that is helpful to people who can't see.


To read the full article click here.

by Mike Walter of CCTV-America

Economic ties are one of the mainstays of the relationship between China and the United States. A research group in New York recently reported that since the year 2000, Chinese companies have invested 46 billion dollars in the U.S. CCTV’s Mike Walter filed this report from Los Angeles.

by Keith Wagstaff, NBCNews.com

The BrainPort V100, a gadget that claims to help blind people "see" with their tongues, was approved Thursday by the Food and Drug Administration.

Developed by Wisconsin-based Wicab, the device translates visual information from a video camera into gentle electrical stimuli for the tongue. Eventually, users are able to interpret the signals to "see" where objects are located, how big they are, and how quickly and in what direction they are moving.

"Medical device innovations like this have the potential to help millions of people," said William Maisel, chief scientist at the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said in a statement. "It is important we continue advancing device technology to help blind Americans live better, more independent lives."

To read the full article click here.

As part of a three-city stop aimed at highlighting opportunities for U.S. and Chinese cooperation in tech investment, Haiyin Capital coordinated an appearance by four companies on the popular CCTV show "Dialogue."  This episode included Silicon Valley investors Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) and Peter Thiel (PayPal), who along with a live audience at Qinghua University heard from Wicab CTO Rich Hogle, Hanson Robotics founder David Hanson, LightSail Energy Chief Scientist Danielle Fong, and WiTricity CEO Alex Gruzen.

To see the episode in full click here.

张思 for TMTPost

How docking hardware forefront of innovation resource backend quality production, the problem plagued with domestic and foreign entrepreneurs and innovative team. In the titanium joint media "commercial value" inaugural meeting Circuithub Xia Jifeng titanium edge of CEO Andrew Seddon gives us the answer.

Click here to read the full article.