Weekly summary of investment and financing in the hard technology field: WM plans to list Apollo Travel via a reverse backdoor merger of US$2 billion
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This week (January 7-13, 2023), there were a total of 61 investment and financing events in the hard technology field, 19 financing events occurred in the artificial intelligence field, accounting for 31%; 16 financing events occurred in the semiconductor field, accounting for 27%; There were 9 financing events in the biomedicine field, accounting for 15%; 9 financing events occurred in the new energy field, accounting for 12%; 4 financing events occurred in the 3R (VR/AR/MR) field, accounting for 6%; Block There were 2 financing events each in the blockchain, aerospace, and Internet of Things fields, accounting for 3% respectively.
On January 12, Hong Kong-listed company APOLLO Travel (HK.00860) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary had reached an agreement with WM Motor shareholder Fang WM Holdings Co., Ltd. on January 11. The company (hereinafter referred to as "WM Motor Holdings") entered into an acquisition agreement to acquire the entire issued share capital of its wholly-owned subsidiary WM Motor Global Investment Limited at a price of US$2.023 billion (approximately RMB 13.707 billion), at a price of 0.55 per share. Settlement will be carried out by allotment and issue of consideration shares at an issue price of Hong Kong dollars.
Subsequently, WM Motor officially announced that Apollo Travel and WM Group had reached a conditional sale and purchase agreement, and proposed that the total amount of the placement of shares would be approximately HK$3.918 billion, and that the temporary financing would be approximately RMB 720 million. Yuan. At the same time, Weimar shareholders have committed to standing financing of HK$1.5 billion (approximately 1.3 billion yuan).
This also means that with the strategic merger with Apollo Travel, WM Motor has clarified its listing path through reverse takeover (RTO).
Artificial Intelligence
SwissDrones
SwissDrones has completed a new round of financing, led by DiamondStream Partners, which focuses on the aerospace industry.
SwissDrones is a manufacturer of long-range unmanned helicopter systems. Focus on developing, manufacturing and deploying unmanned helicopter systems for critical air operations beyond line of sight. Task.
Captured Dimension
Captured DimensionAcquired by Gearbox Protocol.
Captured Dimension is a 3D capture and scanning solution provider. Focus on using 3D to scan human bodies, props, scenes, and perform 3D modeling, texture mapping, and create VFX Special effects are widely used in movies, TV, games, AR/VR and other scenes.
Aerones
Aerones received US$39 million in Series A financing.
Aerones is an industrial heavy-duty drone developer. The main product is a giant drone with 28 motors and 16 batteries. Can reach 400 lbs. The equipment can put out fires, perform search and rescue missions, and clean the walls of high-rise buildings, among other functions.
Rio Tinto Cloud Computing
Rio Tinto Cloud Computing completed a series A financing of 10 million yuan, exclusively funded by Chuanggu Capital invest.
Rio Tinto Cloud Computing is a provider of digital intelligent solutions for production control. The company specializes in providing production control for process-based enterprises (such as chemicals, steel, etc.) Digital and intelligent solutions. Rio Tinto Cloud Computing has deeply applied digital intelligence solutions to key process control in phosphorus chemicals, compound fertilizers, steel coking and other fields, empowering enterprises to reduce staff, increase efficiency, reduce costs and improve quality through digitalization.
Gaoxian Robot has completed hundreds of millions of yuan in financing. This round of financing was invested by Jintuo Capital.
Gaoxian Robot is a developer of commercial automatic sweeping robots. Mainly engaged in automated commercial products such as automatic navigation trucks, automatic commercial sweeping machines and service robots. . Products of Shanghai Gaoxian Automation Technology Development Co., Ltd.
Poly
Poly received strategic financing.
Poly is a developer of generative artificial intelligence tools. It is committed to building generative artificial intelligence tools for designers to create customizable high-definition design assets such as Textures, illustrations, icons, sound effects and more.
Tongji Intelligent Medicine
Tongji Intelligent Medicine completed a Pre-A round of financing of 20 million, led by Xin Capital Group led the investment.
Tongji Zhiyi is a sterile smart unmanned pharmacy operator. The pharmacy uses 222 nanometer far ultraviolet germicidal lamp technology. The pharmacy service function can also quickly disinfect the surrounding environment and reduce the risk of cross-infection. Committed to actively promoting the digital transformation of the pharmaceutical retail industry with the power of technology.
PreAct Technologies
PreAct Technologies completed $14 million in Series B financing. This round of financing was funded by new investor I Squared Capital led the investment.
PreAct Technologies is an American automotive safety solutions provider that provides pre-crash sensing and response systems designed to significantly reduce the number of traffic accidents in the short term. of harm. It uses precise near-field sensors operating at extremely high speeds to sense the vehicle's surroundings and track all objects in real time. The sensors used by PreAct are also ideal for slow-speed ADAS functions such as self-parking, curb detection and pedestrian warnings. This allows automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to multitask sensor suites to address ADAS and pre-crash issues, resulting in a superior combined package.
Oxbotica
Oxbotica raised $140 million in Series C investment.
Oxbotica is a developer of self-driving software and vehicle products. The company develops software that can turn ordinary cars into self-driving cars, and uses vision systems, Radar systems and other systems obtain data information, and then use algorithms to determine the location of the target and indicate the direction of movement.;At the same time, the company's vehicle products include automatic logistics transport vehicles, automatic small travel vehicles, etc.
Nanoprecise
Nanoprecise received a new round of financing.
Nanoprecise is an automated predictive maintenance solution provider. Provides AI-based condition monitoring and predictive maintenance solutions to monitor machine health in a differentiated manner. , driving value with meaningful insights for manufacturers and operators across a variety of industries. Nanoprecise uses ultra-low-power wireless sensors and cloud-based AI-driven software to detect small changes in machine performance and predict the remaining useful life of any industrial asset.
Climate Alpha
Climate Alpha received US$4 million in seed round financing from Masik Enterprise, Gaw Capital Partners, Jungle Ventures , PTK Capital, tc capital investment.
Climate Alpha is an industry data intelligent analysis and prediction platform. Mainly uses proprietary machine learning algorithms and comprehensive data flows to provide real estate, financial services and technology Industry provides data-driven adaptation strategies.
Zhongke Huiyan
Zhongke Huiyan completed Series C financing. This round of investment was led by Zhongding Holdings and iFlytek Haihe Fund.
Zhongke Huiyan is an intelligent vision solution provider. It provides vehicle-mounted 3D environment perception solutions and active safety systems based on binocular vision algorithms. It is the first high-tech company in China to launch mass production of vehicle-mounted rear-mounted, quasi-front-mounted, and front-mounted stereo vision sensors. Zhongke Huiyan's new generation AEBS active safety system has further improved detection accuracy and has been widely used in the fields of passenger cars and commercial vehicles.
Antai Microjing
Angtai Microjing completed the A+ round of financing.
Angtai Micro EssenceIs a developer of high-precision surgical robots. The company is committed to building the first ultra-microscopic, high-precision surgical robot platform focusing on the global market. It provides pioneering micro-operation solutions that can not only help doctors overcome hand problems. It can also significantly reduce the fatigue and learning curve of doctors, thereby improving the accuracy and quality of surgery. At present, Angtai Micro Precision has mainly developed three types of surgical robots, namely general-purpose microsurgery robots, ophthalmic surgery robots, and gastrointestinal endoscopy robots.
Ottopia
Ottopia received US$14.5 million in Series A financing from Next Gear Ventures, IN Ventures, MizMaa Ventures, AI Alliance Fund, ComfortDelGro investment.
Ottopia is an autonomous driving teleoperation platform operator. Its software platform allows human drivers and on-board artificial intelligence systems to realize linkage during remote control. Human drivers can assist autonomous vehicles in making complex situational decisions.
Jinggong Robot
Jinggong Robot was acquired.
Jinggong Robot is an intelligent equipment system solution provider, creating a digital smart factory with robots as the core.
InstaDeep
InstaDeep was acquired by BioNTech AG.
InstaDeep is an artificial intelligence decision-making system developer. Using knowledge in GPU accelerated computing, deep learning and reinforcement learning, it has built an artificial intelligence system to provide users with Two services include DeepChain and DeepPCB.
Hao Sanyou
Hao Sanyou has raised tens of millions of yuan in Series A financing. This round of financing was jointly invested by Hongfeng Capital and Nanjing Gaochun District State-owned Assets.
Good three reasons areAn information technology platform company that integrates the entire industry chain of inland and coastal shipping. It is committed to using the user data accumulated by information platforms and trading platforms, based on the Internet and big data, and using intelligent management as tools and technical means. Reduce the empty sailing rate of ships, reduce idleness and waste of transportation resources, improve transportation efficiency, create a data information platform connecting the three dimensions of ships, cargo, and people, and integrate ship cargo matching and container distribution, refueling, repair and maintenance, finance, insurance, Second-hand ship trading and other comprehensive services.
Coho AI
Coho AI received US$8.5 million in seed round financing.
Coho AI is a customer data analysis platform. By allowing GTM and product teams to use data to understand how users use products and how to effectively optimize and sell and upsell products, thereby increasing revenue.
Origin Security
Origin Security completed Series A financing.
Origin Security is an enterprise-level cloud data security (Cloud Data Security) product and service provider. Through the "Cloud Data Protection Platform" products and services, the company can implement unified data security control and compliance strategies for its cloud data configuration, and achieve integrated security protection of sensitive data in multi-cloud and hybrid cloud scenarios. Effectively protect the digital assets of enterprises and meet compliance requirements for personal information privacy protection.
3R(VR/AR/MR)
The popular Qitian
Danghong Qitian completed the B++ round of financing, with investment from NetEase Capital.
The popular Qitian Group uses virtual reality (VR) as its main technological means and is committed to creating the ultimate immersive social entertainment experience. The company has several major sectors including VR technology, VR content production, VR product marketing, VR brand design management, and IP licensing. Using the SoReal brand as a window, we provide the best immersive experience for the entertainment and professional application markets.
Stoic Entertainment
Stoic Entertainment completed 6 billion won in Series A financing. Participating shareholders in this round of financing include Hanwha Investment & Securities, KB Investment, Hana Securities, Well to Sea Venture Investment, SW Investment and ES Investor.
Stoic Entertainment is a VR game developer. It has core technologies related to VR content and will develop blockchain games in the future.
Worlds
Worlds completed US$21.2 million in Series A financing, led by Moneta Ventures.
Worlds is an American XR technology developer. The company uses multiple cameras to track 3D space over time. Worlds trains its AI model to discover locations. Unusual patterns within and across locations, Worlds With deep learning models, we are able to load videos into the system and leverage prior learning to make predictions immediately. As the system learns from one environment, it can transfer what it learned to other environments.
Xinjing Technology
Xinjing Technology completed an A+ round of financing amounting to tens of millions of yuan.
Xinjing Technology is a VR medical service provider. Combining clinical treatment technology and VR technology to create highly immersive simulation situations to provide users with An effective and interesting way to conduct psychological and mental rehabilitation training, suitable for clinical hypnotherapy, mental rehabilitation, psychotherapy and other fields.
Internet of Things
Natural Defense Security
< div> Tianfang Security completed Pre-A round of financing. The amount of financing in this round is in the tens of millions of yuan.The investor is Sky Eagle Capital.
Tianfang Security is a professional technology company focusing on Internet of Things security. It integrates Internet of Things security technology research, security product development, and security consulting services.
Kaihong Zhigu
Kaihongzhigu has received strategic investment from Hubble Investment.
Kaihongzhigu is an open source Hongmeng operating system provider. Focuses on the open source Hongmeng operating system and product business, focusing on education, transportation, smart cities and other fields. Relying on the "software + hardware" cooperation and industry integration solution experience between Tuowei Information and Huawei based on Kunpeng, Shengteng, and Hongmeng, it has entered the Hongmeng industry to provide operating systems.
New energy
TENWAYS
TENWAYS completed RMB 300 million in Series A+ financing, led by L Catterton, a world-renowned consumer investment company.
TENWAYS is a R&D and manufacturer of electric-assisted bicycles. Its main business is the R&D, production, sales and service of electric-assisted bicycles. It is committed to R&D and production of high-quality The main brand of E-bike is "TENWAYS", which is sold through crowdfunding, independent websites, third-party platforms and offline channels.
Caven New Energy Vehicles
Kavin New Energy Vehicles received a strategic investment of 500 million yuan, jointly produced by Foton Motors It was jointly funded and established by Bosch Venture Capital, Boyuan Jiacheng, Yihuatong and Fuyuan Wisdom.
Caven New Energy Vehicles is a new energy commercial vehicle company. It will focus on the research and development of pure electric and hydrogen fuel commercial vehicles and related core components and systems. It produces, sells, and develops drive-by-wire and intelligent driving technologies as well as related vehicle leasing, data platforms, green energy and other industrial ecological businesses, striving to become a global leader in new energy commercial vehicles.
Tianmu Light Energy
Tianmu Solar has completed tens of millions of yuan in seed round financing. This round of financing was led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Venture Capital, with participation from Green Dong Capital and Ningbo Government Angel Fund.
Tianmu Solar is a household new energy product and system service provider. The company mainly promotes intelligent micro photovoltaic power managers and flexible lightweight thin film solar cells Products such as distributed photovoltaics, building energy-saving power generation, electric vehicles, mobile energy, aerospace and other high-end new energy markets.
Allmet
Allmite completed tens of millions of yuan in Pre-A round of financing. This round of financing It is invested by Dongfang Fuhai, Zibo Jingneng and Capital Science and Technology Development Group.
Amate is a developer of positive and negative electrode materials for new energy batteries. Main business: lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries and solid-state batteries and their key Sales of materials, technology development, manufacturing and engineering services. The company is developing disruptive products for new energy battery cathode and cathode materials. This project replaces traditional pure copper foil with new technology, greatly improves battery safety, reduces costs, reduces environmental pollution and carbon emissions, and further improves battery cycle life. .
JiaNa Energy
JiaNa Energy completed the Pre-A round of financing, with a total financing amount of tens of millions of yuan. Exclusive investment from Lightspeed China.
Jia Na Energy is a manufacturer of key materials for sodium-ion batteries. It is committed to the research, development and manufacturing of high-safety, long-life, and low-cost sodium-ion battery systems. The main products include polyanionic sodium-ion battery cathode materials and biomass hard carbon anode materials.
Weima Automobile Subsidiary
WM Motor Subsidiary was acquired by APOLLO.
Weima Motors is an automobile design, R&D, production, sales and service company. It is committed to new energy smart car brands based on user needs in the Chinese market. Provide Internet of Vehicles and after-sales services, etc.
Scorpio Electric
Scorpio Electric completed strategic financing.
Scorpio Electric is a Singaporean smart electric motorcycle manufacturer. The company will introduce artificial intelligence and data analysis technologies to electric motorcycles to improve motorcycle riding efficiency. , thereby standing out from the competition.
Aerospace
NorthStar Earth & Space
NorthStar Earth & Space received US$35 million in Series C financing.
NorthStar Earth & Space is a space monitoring service provider. The company is committed to providing space-based space situational awareness (SSA) services and deploying them through Spire space infrastructure. The 24-satellite constellation monitors all low-Earth orbits from space and provides target detection, tracking, orbit determination, collision avoidance, navigation and proximity alerts to the satellite community.
Hangxing Transmission
Hangxing Transmission completed angel round financing.
Hangxing Transmission is engaged in the development, production, sales and service of servo systems in the aerospace field. It has rich experience in industry development and batch production, and has various R&D and design capabilities. There are more than 40 people including personnel, craftsmen and technical personnel.
Semiconductors
Sien Technology
Xian Technology completed tens of millions of angel rounds of financing, exclusively invested by Heilongjiang Ronghui Industry and Innovation.
Sion Technology is a developer of servo systems and servo drive chips. Focusing on high-end servo drive products, the current main product is the modular drive system M18 , is a high-precision algorithm integration platform.
Core lengthZheng Technology
Core Changzheng Technology completed hundreds of millions of yuan in Series D financing. This round of financing was led by China Life Equity Company.
Xin Changzheng Technology is a high-tech technology enterprise integrating the design, development, packaging and manufacturing of new power semiconductor devices. Core businesses include: IGBT, coolmos, SiC and other chip products and technology development, IGBT module design, packaging, test foundry, etc.
Lemon Photonics
Lemon Photonics completed the B2 round of financing, funded by Shenzhen Innovation Investment Group and Shenzhen High-tech Investment Group jointly led the investment.
Lemon Photonics is a one-stop laser chip and light source solution provider. Through the three core technologies of laser chip, optical design and application module, we Provide ultra-high performance laser chips and laser engine products to the market.
Yuze Semiconductor
Uze Semiconductor completed Series B equity financing, with an amount of more than 1.2 billion yuan. The post-investment estimate Worth nearly 10 billion yuan. Investors include National Green Development Fund Co., Ltd., Jinshi Investment, SDIC Chuanghe, Zhejiang Seaport Group, Ningbo Kaitou Group and Chuxiong Urban and Rural Investment.
Yuze Semiconductor is a R&D and manufacturer of N-type solar monocrystalline silicon rods and silicon wafers. Focus on the development of N-type solar monocrystalline silicon rods and silicon wafers. A national high-tech enterprise serving global N-type HJT, IBC and TOPCon battery customers. The company is committed to the R&D and manufacturing of N-type silicon wafers, building a high-purity, low-defect, thin, and large-size technical route.
Haitu Microelectronics
Haitu Microelectronics completed tens of millions of yuan in A+ round of financing. This round of financing was funded by Joint investment from Jintong Capital, Yida Capital and Xingtai Capital.
Haitu Microelectronics is a high-tech company specializing in the design, development and sales of high-end, high-speed image sensor chips. Focus on the development of high-speed, high-end image processing sensors The chip adopts self-developed large area array drive technology and high-speed readout circuits such as high-speed and low-power AD converters to achieve high full-frame frame rate and high resolution, coveringvisible, infrared, ultraviolet and X-ray fields.
Shiguangxinke
Shiguangxinke received tens of millions of yuan in Pre-A round investment. This round The financing was led by BV Baidu Ventures, followed by Inovance Investment, Pulco Investment, Falcon Investment and Xinhe Capital.
Shiguangxinke is committed to redefining lidar with chips, and provides single photon-based (SPAD) solutions for terminal application markets such as autonomous driving, robots, and the metaverse. dToF 3D sensing solution for detection technology.
Ruidiwei
Ruidiwei completed the C round of strategic financing, led by SDIC Venture Capital and Ceyuan Capital follows investment.
Ruidiwei is a comprehensive high-tech enterprise focusing on the design, development, production, sales and service of antennas, components, chips and other fields in microwave and millimeter wave bands. . The company has independent design and development capabilities, and has developed multiple types of microwave and millimeter wave components and various types of special antennas and other products.
Lianshengde Microelectronics
Lianshengde Microelectronics has received strategic investment from Guosen China Digital.
Lianshengde Microelectronics is a supplier of wireless communication chips for the Internet of Things. It is committed to the development and application of dedicated wireless communication chips in the field of Internet of Things. The company's products are mainly used in In IoT fields such as smart home, medical monitoring, video surveillance, and industry applications.
Huafeng Technology
Huafeng Technology completed nearly US$50 million in Series B+ financing.
Huafeng Technology is an equipment manufacturer that provides technologies and solutions for advanced semiconductor packaging. The company is positioned in the field of advanced semiconductor packaging and provides a new generation of semiconductor assembly and packaging equipment for semiconductor back-end processes, such as high-precision and high-capacity semiconductor placement machines, flip-chip semiconductor packaging machines, and wafer-level semiconductor packaging machines. POP semiconductor packaging machine, etc.
Xinxin Technology
Xinxin Technology received tens of millions of yuan in angel round financing from Yuanhang Capital.
Xinxin Technology is a millimeter-wave integrated circuit developer. It integrates microwave and millimeter-wave integrated circuit design, testing and modeling, and can provide users with millimeter-wave integrated circuits. Wave integrated circuit design, millimeter wave integrated circuit testing, millimeter wave device modeling and other services.
Aiste
Aeste completed strategic financing of over RMB 300 million.
With the third-generation semiconductor silicon carbide material as the core, Aste develops high-power power electronic power device design and product diversified applications. It is engaged in SiC MOS chips A national high-tech enterprise specializing in design, module production and system development.
Jiuling Guangyu
Jiuling Guangyu received tens of millions of yuan in Pre-A round financing, controlled by Yuanhe Its subsidiary Guochuang Zhihui Fund led the investment, and Yongwan Capital followed.
Jiuling Coslight is a developer of high-end semiconductor materials and optical products. Mainly engaged in the research, development, production and sales of high-end semiconductor materials and optical products. It independently owns all ceramic plate metallization technologies and has broken through the "stuck neck" technology of AMB copper-clad ceramic packaging substrates and narrow-band filters. Its product performance is at the leading level in the industry.
Kentuo Fluid
Kentuo Fluid completed Series C financing of over 100 million yuan.
Kentuo Fluid is a leading brand of precision fluid control in China, focusing on precision fluid control components and subsystem solutions. Products include solenoid valves, diaphragm pumps, plunger pumps, fluid control modules, bonded manifolds and precision machined parts. High-reliability product design, refined quality control, and mature application in mid-to-high-end microfluidic control and analysis applications.
Liding Semiconductor
Liding Semiconductor completed strategic financing.
Liding Semiconductor is a high-end semi-A developer of conductor packaging carrier boards,focusing on the R&D, production and sales of high-end semiconductor packaging carrier boards. The products are mainly used in high-speed computing, 5G, AI, IoT, automotive electronics and other market applications, corresponding to high-performance large-scale data center servers, 5G network equipment, driverless driving, personal computers and consumer electronics products.
Dry Crystal Semiconductor
Dry Crystal Semiconductor completed Pre-A round of financing.
Dry Crystal Semiconductor is a developer of third-generation semiconductor materials. Focusing on the field of third-generation semiconductor materials, it is a semiconductor silicon carbide single crystal growth, wafer A high-tech enterprise integrating processing and equipment development.
Zhongke Yihaiwei
Zhongke Yihaiwei received Series B+ financing from Chongqing Southern Asset Management Industrial equity investment funds led the investment.
Zhongke Yihaiwei is the only industrialization platform of the Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Zhongke Jiudu (Beijing) Space Information Technology Co., Ltd.The core technical team of the Joint Research Institute in the field of programmable chips and systems research, in compliance with the national innovation-driven development strategy trend, jointly initiated the establishment of an artificial intelligence chip design and development center with "FPGA" (field programmable gate array) as its technical characteristics. Application services for high-tech enterprises.
Blockchain
Rainmaker Games
Rainmaker Games completed 4.7 million A new round of financing in U.S. dollars, co-led by Placeholder and Hivemind Capital.
Rainmaker Games is a blockchain game platform, committed to building a Play-to-Ear game platform, aiming to connect potential players with guilds owning NFTs Connect with conversational services to introduce players to new blockchain-based games and provide tools to recruit and manage players.
OFP
OFP completed seed round financing.
OFP is a carbon-neutral blockchain platform. Through its blockchain-based Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) technology, it has engaged with global partners. Cooperation on 40 afforestation/reforestation projects.
Original title: Weimar’s last gamble: Plans to list Apollo Travel with US$2 billion reverse backdoor | Meike.com’s weekly summary of investment and financing in the hard technology field
