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.


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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.


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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."

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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.

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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.

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Haiyin Capital's Portfolio Companies Take Tech on the Road in Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Beijing

by Haiyin Capital

In a tightly-organized and high-energy road show, about a dozen futuristic U.S. tech companies toured China's economic hubs and drew attention from government officials, national media and well-known Chinese businesses.

The trip represents the vision of Haiyin Capital, a small venture capital firm based in Beijing and eyeing team expansion to the U.S..  Haiyin's founding partner, Yuquan Wang, sees an opportunity to identify investable U.S. tech companies and connect them to manufacturing and distribution partners in China, helping the companies grow and penetrate the largest market in the world.

"The trip showed our companies what we know to be true:  China is the ideal partner if you want explosive growth," Wang said.  

The trip started in Hangzhou, home to automaker Geely Automotive (parent company of Volvo) and global tech giant Alibaba.  Haiyin portfolio companies including LightSail Energy (energy storage, based in the Bay Area), WiTricity (wireless charging, based near Boston), Terrafugia (flying cars, based near Boston), and 1366Tech (silicon solar wafers, based near Boston), met with rising entrepreneurial stars at Lakeside University, founded by Alibaba CEO Jack Ma, and presented their companies at Hangzhou Normal University near Alibaba's headquarters.

In Guangzhou, home to 16 million and a manufacturing powerhouse, Chinese companies heard presentations from each of Haiyin's tech companies and waited for up to two hours to meet with them about potential partnerships.  The city's mayor welcomed the companies and hosted them for dinner. 

On the third stop of the tour, Qinghua University hosted a taping of the CCTV show "Dialogue," featuring Silicon Valley investors Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel, and spotlighting four of the Haiyin Companies: Wicab, Hanson Robotics, LightSail Energy and WiTricity.

Haiyin companies showcased their products before a standing room-only crowd at the T-Edge Summit, sponsored in part by Titanium Media.  The event was held at the Park Hyatt hotel in Beijing, and drew dozens of reporters from the capital city and beyond. 

On the companies' final day in China, Beijing University hosted senior economists and Haiyin Capital at an event highlighting the importance of intellectual property protection, and leveraging the strengths of U.S. and China in growing technical innovations on both sides of the Pacific.

钛媒体注：在钛媒体联合《商业价值》举办的首届钛媒体边缘创新夏季峰会上，专注于无线充电底层技术的公司Witricity CEO Alex Gruzen作为嘉宾发表了演讲，他提到公司创立的过程，无线充电技术的应用原理，并且对无线充电技术未来适用的领域做了深入的分析，此前钛媒体也首次完整整理无线充电技术的来龙去脉，查看文章《下一商业爆点：关于无线充电的一切》。

Witricity 是由MIT一位非常知名教授创立，已经公司已经拥有100多项专利。Alex Gruzen 提到目前包括手机、平板等电子设备都需要电池，但很多时候受限于电缆和插线板的局限，于是想到我们可以隔离这些电子波来传输电力，之后可以在充电端进行传输，Witricity 的目标就是解除插线板的附属，实现真正的无线充电。事实上，无线充电还可以促进物联网的发展，因为在未来家里从床头柜到厨房一直到电子设备是无处不在。

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