17 Chinese people boarded the 2018 Forbes global best venture capitalist list Shen Nanpeng hit the top of history

Securities Times Network April 04

Securities Times reporter Zhang Guofeng

On the evening of April 3, Beijing time, Forbes "The World's Best Venture Capitalist" list of the "Oscar" award in the venture capital circle was officially announced in the 2018 list (The Midas List 2018). The Chinese forces in the venture capital circle once again prospered, 17 Chinese investors entered the list, and two Chinese investors entered the top ten, both hitting record highs.

Among them, Shen Nanpeng, the global executive partner of Sequoia Capital, ranked first in the world, once again refreshing the highest record of Chinese investors created and maintained by himself, and also the first time for global Chinese venture capitalists to win the top spot!

Next, let the Securities Times and Venture Capital Exchange reporters tell you which Chinese people have on the list.

Sequoia China: Shen Nanpeng (ranked 1st), Zhou Wei (ranked 13th), Ji Yue (ranked 90th)

Sequoia Capital is the biggest winner on this year's list, with a total of nine investors on the global list. This time, Shen Nanpeng took the first place in the world. It is worth noting that Shen Nanpeng has been the highest ranked Chinese investor in the seven years since the list was first elected in 2012.

Shen Nanpeng, known as the “Godfather of Investment”, is also the co-founder and director of Ctrip.com, the co-founder and co-chairman of Home Inns, the director of Focus Media and E-House China. Prior to founding Ctrip.com, he worked for Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers Securities and Citibank.

In the past ten years, Sequoia China has a lot of layouts in China's mobile Internet industry, becoming a co-investor of rare T (Today's headlines), M (Mei Tuan) and D (Drip). In addition to Shen Nanpeng, Sequoia China and Zhou Wei and Ji Yue were selected. Sequoia China has also become one of the two largest institutions in China.

Qiming Venture Capital: Gan Jianping (ranked 8th)

This year, Gan Jianping, the managing partner of Qiming Venture Capital, has been selected for the list for three consecutive years. He has been ranked 38th and 30th respectively in the past two years. He jumped directly to the 8th place this year, becoming the top 10 in the list this year. One of the two Chinese investors.

After learning the news, Gan Jianping said in an interview with the media that he did not think of this result. He believes that the decisive project should be the exit of Mito and Musical.ly. “After the listing of Meitu, we withdrew from Mito with more than a dozen times of cash return last year, which has a relatively large weight. Another one is that Musical.ly was acquired by today’s headline with a valuation of US$1 billion. The project should be the most decisive factor in the 2017 ranking of the rankings."

Previously, Gan Jianping served as a director of the Carlyle Group in the United States, was one of the founding employees of the company's Asian Venture Capital Department, and started an investment business in mainland China. He was also the chief financial manager of KongZhong Group, and also worked for Merrill Lynch Investment Banking and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

His well-known projects include: Meitu (01357.HK), Ctrip.com (CTRP.Nasdaq), Public Comment Network (combined with the US Mission to New America), B Station (BILI.Nasdaq), Century Jiayuan, Taomi.com, ATL (New Energy Technology Co., Ltd.) and PPS (acquired by Baidu).

GGV Jiyuan Capital: Tong Shihao (ranked 20th), Li Hongwei (ranked 74th)

Seeing this, some people will say that Tong Shihao and Li Hongqi have once again appeared on the list.

As the managing partner of GGV Jiyuan Capital, Tong Shihao has been on the list for the sixth consecutive year. After joining Jiyuan Capital as a management partner in 2013, in addition to Xiaomi's A, B, and C investors, Tong Shihao also led GGV's investment in a number of startups and served on its board of directors: video social application music.ly Cross-border mobile e-commerce platform Wish, overseas shopping community small red book, fashion trading platform Poshmark, short message application operator.

Tong Shihao also led GGV's investment in the following companies: Airbnb, OfferUp, Slack, Bustle, Prynt.

Although ranked behind Tong Shihao, Li Hongjun’s “qualification” on this list is longer. This year is the second consecutive year that Li Hongqi has made his name on the list. At the same time, he is currently the highest ranked female investor in China.

After joining GGV Jiyuan Capital as a management partner in 2005, Li Hongwei played a vital role in the entry of GGV Jiyuan Capital into China. She has led HiSoft Software International Group (NASDAQ: PACT), Century Internet (NASDAQ: VNET), Zhaori Technology (SHE: 300333), YY (NASDAQ: YY) and successfully helped them go public. She is currently a member of the board of directors of innovative companies such as Air China's drones, Keep, Kingsoft WPS, Mavericks Electric, Phononic, Xiaozhan (education), 51 bills (finance), and before UCweb was acquired by Alibaba. Its board of directors.

IDG Capital: Li Weijun (ranked 23rd), Zhou Quan (ranked 78th), and Guohong (ranked 96th)

IDG Capital has three Chinese investors selected for the list, the same number as Sequoia China, and became one of the two largest institutions in China for venture capital institutions.

Joining IDG Capital in 2004, Li Weijun completely experienced the entire process from investment manager to partner. Li Junjun focuses on investments in the Internet, mobile Internet, high technology and energy sectors, and has extensive engineering management and entrepreneurial experience in the high-tech industry. His well-known projects include: Xiaomi, App Annie, fruit shell network, 猿 question bank, 5miles, spelling goods / fight a lot, ENJOY, 梆梆 technology, Oriental shopping, Rideco, Tianmeng digital IGG and so on.

He joined IDG Capital in 1993 and has been hosting IDG Capital's investment in China since 1995. It is reported that Zhou Quan is the second employee of IDG Capital after Xiong Xiaoge. Previously, Zhou Quan presided over a number of NASA light device research, won a number of NASA awards, and holds US fiber optic device patents. Well-known projects for its investment include Tencent, Baidu, SouFun, Yixin, Dangdang, Moncler and so on.

Prior to joining IDG Capital, I worked at the Soros Fund in New York from 1996 to 1998 to assist in the management of the $3 billion Quantum Industrial Holdings hedge fund. In 1996, during his time at Salomon Brothers in New York, he was involved in various securities transactions. With the listing of Meitu listed, I have been on the list for the first time this year.

Zhenge Fund: Xu Xiaoping (No. 24)

Among the institutions of all Chinese investors listed on this list, Zhenge Fund is the only angel investment institution. This year is the third time Xu Xiaoping has made the list, and the ranking has also increased by 48.

In 2011, Xu Xiaoping and Wang Qiang co-founded the Zhenge Fund. As an angel investor, Xu Xiaoping has invested in four listed companies, including Jumei Premium, which was listed in 2014, and 14 unicorn companies such as ofo and Mei Cai. It invests in a wide range of industries, including the steel trading platform to find steel nets, the shared office of the guest hospital, the education technology company to work together and the artificial intelligence company according to the technology.

After learning that Xu Xiaoping was on the list again, Wang Qiang, the co-founder of Zhenge Fund, said that Xu Xiaoping’s precise grasp of the nature and future of business and technology development is about changing business, changing technology, changing the world, and changing life. The sincere trust and unreserved support of the entrepreneurial team that dreamed of starting him made him enter the list.

Jinshajiang Venture Capital: Zhu Xiaohu (ranked 42nd)

Zhu Xiaohu is undoubtedly the man of the world's venture capital circle in the past two years. After two huge successful investment projects, such as Didi Chuxing and Hunger, Zhu Xiaohu built the two popular outlets of shared bicycles and shared charging treasures. It is the "creator of the vent."

However, for the current hot blockchain, Zhu Xiaohu made it clear that he will not invest.

In terms of investment, Zhu Xiaohu dominated Jinshajiang Venture Capital's early investment in Didi Chuxing, Hungry and Yingke. Currently, he is going home to eat, Jingshuo Technology, Nuoxin, ofo, Xuele, Learning Bao, and Code Car Maintenance. Board members of Yunbo Cargo, Zhoutao Intelligent, Werewolf Kill and Xiaodian Technology.

Lightspeed China: 宓群 (ranked 59th)

Behind many well-known Chinese Internet and high-tech companies, there are a lot of early investment, including Baidu, public comment, financing 360, Zhongji Xuchuang, contact interaction, market, Thunder, and many more. A giant company at the unicorn level.

Yan Group joined Google in 2003 and started to establish Google China. He has served as the chief representative of Google China and is responsible for the product and strategic investment of Google Asia Pacific. During this period, he cast out Baidu, public comment, market, Thunder and other star projects.

After leaving Google in 2008, he joined Lightspeed Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley-based company, as a global partner. In 2011, he co-led the establishment of Lightspeed China Partners and began an independent decision to make early investments in the Chinese market. .

Thanks to the successful listing of the 360's wholly-owned subsidiary, Jane Technology (NYSE: JT), on the New York Stock Exchange in November last year, this year, the group entered the list for the first time.

Joy Capital: Liu Erhai (ranked 61st)

Joy Capital was established in April 2015 and is the youngest Chinese organization in this list. Since its establishment, Joy Capital's investment portfolio has been quite eye-catching, including Shenzhou Special Car, Weilai Auto, Tulu Car, Piggy Short-term Rental, Mobike Bicycle, Good Rent, Dream Plus, Angel Orange, Gravel, Eggshell Apartment and other projects. .

Liu Erhai is the first time to enter the list. Since joining the company in 2003, Liu Erhai has invested in about 80 projects, of which more than 10 have become unicorns. Such as China's excellent car, Wei Lai car, the way to raise the car, Moby bicycle, short pig rental and so on.

DCM: Lin Xinhe (ranked 64th), Zhao Keren (ranked 84th)

Lin Xinhe is a co-founder and managing partner of DCM China, helping DCM expand investment opportunities across Asia. He was the co-founder and chief operating officer of Sina and helped Sina successfully acquire Chinese IT startups, manage company operations and raise funds for listing, and even develop it into a multi-billion dollar company. In addition, he also voted for 58 famous cities, Vipshop, Tuniu, 51Talk and other well-known projects.

Zhao Keren is co-founder and managing partner of DCM. At DCM, he directs portfolio companies to develop corporate and product marketing strategies, form strong management teams and achieve domestic and international partnerships. Zhao Keren is also the chairman of the board of directors and the board of directors of Renren.com. Responsible investment projects include: 99Bill (Wanda Group), All About Japan, Inc. (JASDAQ: 2454), BitTorrent, Sling Media, SMIC, SoFi, StarFlyer, UCloud, and eDreams (ODIGEO).

Source code capital: Cao Yi (ranked 73)

Cao Yi, who is only 34 years old, is the youngest and the only one in the list.

In 2014, Cao Yi created source capital, covering innovations such as “Internet” (financial Internet, industrial Internet, service Internet), “smart+”, “global+”. The source capital is currently managed at 750 million US dollars and 3 billion yuan. The investors include sovereign wealth funds, charitable funds, pension funds, mother funds, family funds, national-level guidance funds, and large central enterprises. More than 20 new economic leaders have formed a “code meeting” for the Industrial Capital Investors Alliance.

His representative companies include: Fun Shop Group, Geshang Fortune, Yinke Group, Zhirong Group, Easy Handwriting, Asset 360, Magnetic Finance and other financial Internet companies; Easy Wine Batch, glutinous rice ticking, Baibu, Pocket Sales , Internet companies such as Ruiqi, agricultural sub-segment; US group, chain home, free, mushroom street, Baiguoyuan, Haifeng education, new homes, will find houses, easy to rent and other services Internet companies; and today's headlines, cars and homes Such as "smart +" companies, Zenjoy, Mybo and other "global +" companies.

Red Dot Investment: Yuan Wenda (ranked 76th)

Yuan Wenda, the managing partner of Red Dot China, has successfully established a successful business in Silicon Valley in his early years and is very familiar with the mature market in the United States. Since opening the Red Point Ventures China office in 2005 and leading the team to operate independently by the end of 2016, he has been rooted in the Chinese market for more than 10 years.

Yuan Wenda began his career at Intel Corporation as a design engineer for integrated circuits and a product manager for the microprocessors division. Prior to joining Red Dot Investment, Yuan Wenda was co-founder of Genesol Enterprise (one of China's first telecommunications system integration companies), co-founder of Opentel Communications (an international telecommunications operator) and iTelco Communications Founder and former CEO of the company.

On behalf of the investment case, Yuan Wenda has some technology, APUS, and interesting headlines.

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