The active capital environment has a greater role in promoting the industrial cultivation of artificial intelligence and technological progress, and promotes mutual promotion with the scale of enterprises, thereby enhancing the development strength of urban AI industry. In addition, the billion euro think tank also released the TOP50 of the artificial intelligence investment agency activity for the industry reference.
Recently, Yiou Think Tank released the “China Artificial Intelligence Industry Development City Ranking†in 2017, using the analytic hierarchy process and the dimensionless treatment, from the five levels of the city's enterprise scale, policy foundation, academic foundation, industrial base, and capital environment. Evaluate the strength and prospects of urban development of artificial intelligence, and finally form a list.
In recent years, the state encourages equity investment to help the development of the real economy, innovation and entrepreneurship to develop a new economy, coupled with the secondary market volatility, high-net-worth customers have emerged in the primary market, prompting the explosive growth of venture capital private equity funds, breaking through 70,000 in 2017. The scale of 100 million yuan (statistical data of China Securities Investment Fund Association). At present, China's private equity funds are mainly concentrated in Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces, which have built a good capital environment for local emerging technology start-ups and played an increasingly important role in market cultivation and technological progress. In the artificial intelligence industry development city index of the billion-dollar think tank, the weight of the capital environment is 16%.
Although still in the early stages of commercial transformation, artificial intelligence that has been given high hopes remains a gold rush for entrepreneurs. Start-ups assume the role of pioneers and take the lead in all areas of artificial intelligence, enabling all parties to see the infinite blue ocean of AI. Since 2016, a large number of investment institutions and large enterprises have bet on artificial intelligence to protect the development of the entrepreneurial team.
We use the rough statistics of the financing of start-ups with artificial intelligence tags, and finally calculate the amount and frequency of the above chart. Beijing ranks first in the capital environment indicators, and its total AI-related investment frequency has reached 620 times, with a total investment amount of 55 billion yuan, which is much higher than other cities and has incomparable advantages. Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hangzhou are ranked behind. The cities listed on the AI ​​Capital Environmental Index also happen to be the main cities where private equity funds gather. For start-ups, having more exposure to private equity funds often has a higher chance of investing and gaining an advantage on the track.
By comparing the capital environment and enterprise size index scores and rankings of artificial intelligence cities, we will find that there is a certain correlation between the two. A city has a good atmosphere of entrepreneurial innovation, can gather a large number of high-quality start-ups, and often attracts venture capital institutions to station; to have a good dual-creation environment, it needs industry guidance funds and social funds to build and provide entrepreneurs with With convenient financing channels, both parties hope to have more transparent and rich information channels to understand each other.
Of course, with the spread of artificial intelligence, in addition to private equity funds, industrial capital is becoming more active. Baidu, Tencent, Ali, Qualcomm, Lenovo's investment institutions have repeatedly invested in AI star companies. Taking Baidu as an example, in addition to the expansion of its business by investment acquisition, Baidu Ventures was established in September 2016 to focus on early-stage startups such as artificial intelligence, AR, VR and other technological innovations. One month later, Baidu Capital was established to invest in equity in the mid-to-late private equity projects of artificial intelligence and other pan-Internet sectors. In addition, Lenovo Group, in addition to the parent company's existing Lenovo Star, Junlian Capital and other investment institutions, also set up Lenovo Venture Capital Group, with the "business + R & D + investment" strategy in the field of artificial intelligence.
In corporate investment, BAT's actions are particularly concerned. In the process of research on the AI ​​investment market by the billion-dollar think tank, Alibaba invested in technology-oriented enterprises covering various technical fields such as computer vision, speech recognition and natural language processing; Tencent adopted coverage-based play to gamble the industry. One is strategy, involving many industries such as automobile transportation, medical health, finance, smart home, etc.; Baidu Investment adopts a strategy of “less and betterâ€, both investment and acquisition, involving automobile transportation, smart home and new retail industry.
The accelerated commercialization of artificial intelligence and the pursuit of capital in the blue ocean market have led to frequent occurrences of over 100 million yuan in investment, of which 9 projects exceeded 500 million yuan in a single investment. Enterprises such as Shangtang Technology and Weilai Automobile, which have been established for only four years, have become unicorns with a valuation of more than 1 billion US dollars. With the strengthening of the application landing ability, the business realization ability of enterprises has begun to be realized. In 2018, more artificial intelligence unicorn enterprises will emerge.
Of course, while a number of corporate valuations are rising, artificial intelligence will inevitably be as Gentner reveals in the emerging technology maturity curve, due to failed business attempts, funds can not follow up, and the peak of speculation is in a trough. In 2018, investment institutions will be more cautious in following up projects, and a large number of start-ups will be eliminated due to the difficulty of landing, and investment projects will be more concentrated.
According to the statistics of the data, Yiou Think Tank combines the investment activity of the investment institutions in the AI ​​field (frequency of investment) to launch the TOP50 list of active investment institutions in the field of artificial intelligence, and the well-known investment institutions such as Zhenge Fund, IDG Capital, and Innovation Workshop are included in the list. There are 29 investment institutions based in Beijing and 11 in Shanghai. The following are the details of the list.
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