Global Monopoly of Technology

Different from the previous technology venture capital summits of Shengfeng Capital, this year's conference attracted too many people. Silicon Valley technology giants such as Microsoft, Apple, Google, NVIDIA, Intel, IBM, Qualcomm are all secretly observing .

The two technology groups, Bluestar Technology and Cote d'Azur, are competitors with these long-established technology giants in Silicon Valley. Some compete in core areas such as cloud computing and consumer terminals, while others are crazy outside the border. Tentative.

Wall Street is no exception, the same is highly concerned.

Although the main crowd of the venture capital summit is mainly people from the technology circle, the name of this summit is called the Venture Capital Summit. How can the venture capital and venture capital circle be absent?

And Wall Street is the most powerful spokesperson for capital.

It's just that technology shines in front of the stage, and behind the scenes support must be capital. Without capital to set up the stage, this play cannot be sung.

At this moment, on the big stage at the summit, the three giant screens were originally for Luo Sheng's camera. After he pressed the small remote control in his hand, a video appeared on the screen of the giant screen.

It was a picture of the interconnection of virtual network nodes with a very futuristic sense of technology, and then jumped to another picture.

Luo Sheng's voice also resounded throughout the audience:

"First of all, let's take a look at the field of cloud computing services. Among the 12 start-ups we have invested in, 4 are focused on this field, namely CloudGenix from North America, VenueNext from England, and Lingque Cloud from China. and Changxin Information Technology Company.”

Under Luo Sheng's control, the giant screen turned to the logo of a company called CloudGenix and a recording of some engineers working in the laboratory of the company's R\u0026D department.

"CloudGenix, established in February last year, its main business is a new network architecture service, that is: a 'software-defined wide area network', as the name suggests, is to rationally plan bandwidth through intelligent software control, and achieve the lowest network connection cost. More efficient virtual private networks are laid out in public networks all over the world.”

"Given that the current real private network installation costs are still very high, and most large multinational companies need to connect their data centers to their branches in various regions of the world, even medium-sized enterprises also need to A secure and hidden private network is used to conduct some remote business meetings, so the market prospects in this field are very imaginative.

I am optimistic. "

People in the industry seem to understand that Bluestar Technology announced last year that it would reduce its corporate profits independently and make a lot of money less, so it will definitely find a way to find a lower-cost solution to make up for the lost profits.

Since last year's technology war, many companies have benefited continuously today, further reducing the investment in IT costs. Originally, it was necessary to pay 30% more to obtain Bluestar Technology solutions.

Luo Sheng: "VenueNext was established in May last year. The core business of the company is to provide O2O services based on cloud computing technology for various event venues. The company's software can currently provide audiences with services such as online ticket booking, on-site catering distribution, etc. It can also provide venue operators with various data analysis services based on audience behavior.”

Obviously, all kinds of sports events can be connected to cloud services, and investors on the scene are aware of this, and this field definitely has great application prospects.

Luo Sheng has already started, but it is not too late to enter.

"The domestic Lingque Cloud technology company was established in February last year. The company's co-founder team, including the CEO and CTO, were all from the core employees of the Bluestar Technology Nebula StarCloud cloud platform. They went out and founded Lingque Cloud, The company's main business is to provide enterprises with cloud services based on the concept of 'container cloud', and to optimize customers' software operating environment in the cloud. Lingque Cloud's future customers will include finance, manufacturing, energy, aviation, automobiles, etc. A promising start-up technology company in the field.”

Luo Sheng on the stage couldn't help but lowered his head and was silent for a while after he finished speaking, but for a moment he raised his hand and pressed the small remote control in his hand, and the screen of the giant screen changed again.

"Established in January 2012, Changxin Information Technology Co., Ltd.'s business mainly focuses on the chip integration of IoT devices. The company mainly develops cost-effective Wi-Fi and Bluetooth dual-mode chips, which can be widely used in the future. Tablet PCs, cameras, wearable devices and smart homes and other segments, and its integrated development concept of software and hardware is what I value and appreciate about it.”

"By the way, the founder of Chang Xin went out of the Cote d'Azur laboratory. I am very happy and I look forward to his success in his new business. As his former boss, I will be proud. ."

At this moment, the founders of two startups, Ling Queyun and Chang Xin, were present at the conference, and they were quite excited to hear that their former bosses and idols had their real names flipped on the spot.

Well, in fact, none of them had face-to-face communication with Luo Sheng. If it wasn't for this venture capital summit, Luo Sheng might not have known them.

After all, the total number of employees of its major companies has now reached 600,000 to 700,000, and it is normal to not know each other.

"Artificial intelligence. In the field of artificial intelligence, five of these 12 start-ups cover multiple artificial intelligence segments from algorithms to processors to solution integration."

"The Avaamo company is from Seattle, and it is mainly engaged in the development of language processing and speech synthesis algorithms. Its core research is the neural network technology that enables people to have multiple conversations with artificial intelligence and perform complex tasks. At present, the company's customer base has rapidly expanded to Finance, telecommunications, medical and other fields. This is not unrelated to the birth of the founder Mono's previous marketing department. He joined the marketing department of Bluestar Technology in 2006 and was promoted to the vice president of North America in 2011. It has also spread to more than 100 countries and regions around the world.”

Another executive from your company?

Many of the audience at the meeting were stunned for a while, and they were relieved when they thought about it. Among the several companies under Luo Sheng, any one was full of talented people.

"Another invested company, Syntiant, was established in mid-June last year. In addition to developing neural network algorithms that can make autonomous decisions, it is also developing supporting AI processors that can be applied to miniaturized electrical products. Therefore, the company The focus of technology research and development is also more focused on the efficient operation of chips in ultra-low power consumption environments.”

"The remaining three companies, Fitiv, Gamalon and Ruiwei Technology, are all committed to using artificial intelligence technology to provide customized solutions for enterprise-level customers in different fields."

"Fitiv's core business solution is reflected in the collaborative optimization of customer workflow teams. Team members can prototype designs on the software, mark real-time prices and receive real-time feedback from the production department, thereby improving product iteration efficiency. Currently blue Star Technology, Cote d'Azur, Lens Semiconductor and Xiongxin Electronics are all important customers of the company."

Some IT practitioners off the field are simply envious.

As long as you get on Luo Sheng's thigh, it is equivalent to giving start-up capital and business orders, and it can take off under a complete set of internal circulation mechanism.

Luo Sheng on the stage pressed the small remote control in his hand, and the founder's photo appeared on the giant screen.

"Fitiv founder David Kress graduated from Stanford University with a degree in mechanical engineering. Before founding this startup, he worked in user big data analysis at the Bluestar Technology Innovation Workshop."

All right……

It's your ex-employee who left to start a business, and then went back to his old employer to invest.

This has a great relationship with the "departmental company system" formulated by Bluestar Technology. Employees want to go out for solo flights? It doesn't matter, the parent company will not stop you, but will also fully support you and support you to take off as soon as possible.

This "departmental company system" is also a popular model for many large groups at present. It has to be said that Luo Sheng has always been leading this trend in the technology and business circles, and behind him is a batch of imitators.

"Gamalon has launched a machine learning platform that can be used for intelligent analysis and processing of customer information. The company's artificial intelligence system can be used to build custom text, such as generating chat records, trouble tickets, etc., and even self- Customized questionnaires. It can help companies quickly record customer needs and optimize and upgrade products.”

"The founder, Ben Weida, received a Ph.D. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, emmm... Before starting his business, he was a senior project manager on the Cote d'Azur and was in charge of deep learning technology research."

Audiences:"……"

Your talent output is a bit too much.

Luo Sheng said calmly with a bright smile: "Ruiwei Technology Co., Ltd., founded in China, focuses on the research of computer vision perception technology. Its core technology is a face recognition technology called RF. Based on this technology , the company's products are future-oriented security, smart home and other fields. The founder of Ruiwei Zhang Donghui joined the Cote d'Azur in 2005 as the senior director of the course project, and the opportunity to establish Ruiwei Technology came from his work in I realized the strong application potential of artificial intelligence technology in the field of video surveillance during a customer service, and I am very optimistic about the future of Ruiwei."

Many people in the industry couldn't help but take a deep breath to calm down. The company under Luo Sheng's command is too terrifying. The speed and extent of supporting internal high-end talent output...

It's no wonder that as long as people who come out of companies like Bluestar Technology or Cote d'Azur are in high demand in the industry.

Really strong generals without weak soldiers ah.

"Chip technology. This is the focus of Shengfeng Capital's investment. Among all project investments, the investment in the chip field accounts for about 68%. In the field of cutting-edge chip technology research and development, Shengfeng Capital also focused on investing in these three chip companies. design company."

Luo Sheng looked back at the big screen to confirm the screen jump and continued to introduce: "Lynan Technologies was established in 2002. The reason why we are included in the 12 companies is because the company is the world's first company. A company that studies compact X-ray light sources does not seem to pay attention in the industry, but we believe that this technology can be used to improve the processing technology of chips, which can play a very important role in breaking through the bottleneck of the current chip process of Xiongxin Electronics. effect."

"In contrast, Movellus, which was established last year, is mainly engaged in the development of digital chip design programs. This program can improve the work efficiency of early chip circuit design in the chip processing process, shorten the overall time required for chip design, and ultimately Realize the improvement of the yield rate." The fastest computer update::/

"SiFive, a start-up company established in Russia last January, is committed to providing customizable chips based on the RISC-V open source instruction set design. Customized chip products, so compared with other types of chips, it has good advantages in R\u0026D cost and iteration efficiency, as well as maintaining long-term and stable cooperative relations with customer partners."

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These 12 companies were named and exposed by Luo Sheng at this investment summit, which is equivalent to an unexpected "gold-plated" move. It is certain that these 12 start-up companies will become the darling of capital after today. A rising star in the industry.

But what people are even more amazed and even terrified of is that Luo Sheng's future layout, he has placed a number of "chess pieces" in almost every frontier field that has potential and is still unclear. The boundaries of the territory have unknowingly extended to a degree of extreme exaggeration.

At this moment, those Silicon Valley tech giants who are paying attention to this summit have been extremely uncomfortable stimulated by Luo Sheng.

As for the melon eaters, they were hooked. Under the personal guidance of the archbishop, they spy on a corner of the future of the digital world together. Such opportunities are really rare.

"Mr. Meng, your 12 start-ups are obviously very optimistic about Mr. Luo, but it's not good to show off like this, right?" An investor from the capital circle under the venue whispered to Meng Qiu who was sitting next to him. .

"You mean that Mr. Luo has been attacked by Laomei recently. Are you afraid that these 12 start-ups will be targeted?" Meng Qiu said in a private chat with a smile. He is the general manager of Shengfeng Capital and is regarded as the number three of the real power faction. People, in Shengfeng Capital, are the managers second only to Luo Sheng and Qin Weimu. In fact, they should be the second person, because Luo Sheng basically doesn't care about Shengfeng Capital, and Meng Qiu is also a big boss in the capital circle. figure.

Whoever is rich is the master, and Shengfeng Capital is super rich.

The VC nodded and said bluntly: "That's right, isn't it obvious that the other party stretched out his neck to cut it, shouldn't he hide it?"

Meng Qiu looked at the young boss on the stage and replied with a smile: "Mr. Li, everything has dual attributes, Shengfeng Capital itself has a 20% foreign investment ratio, and foreign public funds and sovereign funds have invested in Shengfeng. Capital, this time we will show you 12 companies..."

Speaking of this, Meng Qiu retracted his gaze and turned his head to stare at him: "... Now, don't you want to invest in these 12 start-ups to take a hole?"

As soon as these words came out, the other party couldn't help but subconsciously froze for a while.

Immediately understood, he clapped his legs and whispered: "So it is, so it is, it's because my pattern and cognitive boundaries are a notch lower, Mr. Luo is indeed a rare super planner, and he has inadvertently played chess. Fall silently."

"To put it bluntly, I will join you if I can't beat you. Boss Luo's move is to give them a reason to join and indicate how to join." Meng Qiu said with a smile, he was indeed very fond of Luo Sheng, the young boss. Admiration from the heart.

The so-called "they" are actually the people from Goldman Sachs, Wall Street capital.

Obviously, Luo Sheng's move has a deeper meaning and layout. Bluestar Technology now has not much Wall Street interests in it. After the breakup last year, Wall Street's overall shareholding in Bluestar Technology Group is less than 20%. .

But then again, there are no eternal enemies in this world, there are only eternal interests.

This time the covenant broke, for the next re-alliance soon?

This time, Luo Sheng took the initiative to expose these 12 start-ups and show them off in front of the world, which means that they are targeted by the capital circle and paid attention to by Wall Street, so the follow-up financing will be occupied by other Wall Street VCs.

This is equivalent to indirectly tying the interests of both parties together, and at the same time, it also serves as a bridge to ease the relationship in the future. The boat of friendship will come when you say it...

Everything has two sides, and looking at it from different perspectives will yield different results.

Luo Sheng knows the face of Wall Street, but he is not afraid to deal with it, not to mention he has a hand in it. These 12 start-ups are not all from abroad, such as Ruiwei, Lingqueyun, and Changxin. These companies are all domestic, and the investment is strong. double that of several other foreign start-ups.

Grasp with both hands, this is the correct way to build a technical moat.