Global monopoly of technology

Unlike the previous technology venture capital summits of Shengfeng Capital, there are too many people paying attention this year. Silicon Valley technology giants such as Microsoft, Apple, Google, Nvidia, Intel, IBM, and Qualcomm are all conducting secret observations. .

Bluestar Technology and the Blue Coast two technology groups, and these Silicon Valley's long-established technology giants are all competitors. Some compete in the core areas of cloud computing and consumer terminals, while others are crazy beyond the borders. Tentative.

Wall Street is no exception, as it is paying close attention.

Although the main population of the venture capital summit is dominated by people in the technology circle, the name of this summit is the Venture Capital Summit. How can venture capital and venture capital be absent from the capital circle?

And Wall Street is the most powerful spokesperson for capital.

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

At this moment, on the big stage at the summit site, the three giant screens were originally shot for Luo Sheng. After he pressed the small remote control in his hand, the giant screen showed a video.

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

Luo Sheng's voice also resounded throughout the audience:

"First, let’s take a look at the cloud computing service field. Four of the 12 start-ups we invested in 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 image turned to the trademark of CloudGenix and the recording images of some engineers in the company's R&D department working in the laboratory.

"CloudGenix was 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, it uses the intelligent control of software to rationally plan bandwidth and achieve the least network connection cost. A more efficient virtual private network is laid out in public networks all over the world."

"In view of the fact that the actual private network installation fee is 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 it. 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 it. Bluestar Technology announced last year that it has independently reduced corporate profits and made a lot of less money, so it will definitely find a way to find a lower cost solution to make up for the lost profits.

Since the technology war last year, many companies have continued to benefit today, further reducing the investment in IT costs. Originally, it was necessary to pay 30% more fees to obtain Bluestar technology solutions.

Luo Sheng: "VenueNext was established in May last year. The core business of this company is to provide O2O services based on cloud computing technology for various event venues. The company's software can currently provide audiences with online ticket booking, on-site catering, etc. Services 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. Investors on the spot are aware of this. This field definitely has great application prospects.

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

"The domestic Lingqueyun technology company was established in February last year. The company's co-founder team, including the CEO and CTO, was born from the core staff of the Bluestar Technology Nebulas StarCloud cloud platform. They stepped out and founded Lingqueyun. The company's main business is to provide enterprises with cloud services based on the concept of "container cloud", optimizing customers' software operating environment in the cloud, and Lingque Cloud's future customers will be oriented to finance, manufacturing, energy, aviation, automobiles, etc. Field, a promising start-up technology company."

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

"Changxin Information Technology Co., Ltd. was established in January 2012. Its business is mainly focused 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 computers, cameras, wearable devices, smart homes and other subdivisions, and its software and hardware integration development concept is also what I value and optimistic about it."

"By the way, the founder of Chang Xin walked out from the Blue Coast Lab. I am very happy and look forward to his new career. As his former boss, I will be proud ."

At this moment, the founders of two start-ups, Ling Queyun and Chang Xin, were on the scene of the conference, and they were quite excited to hear that they were real-named by their previous bosses and idols.

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

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

"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."

“Among them, Avaamo is from Seattle, and it is mainly dedicated to the development of language processing and speech synthesis algorithms. Its core research neural network technology enables people to conduct multi-lens 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 Bluestar Technology Marketing Department in 2006 and has been promoted to the vice president of the North American region in 2011. It has also spread to more than 100 countries and regions around the world."

Is it another executive from your company?

Many of the audience attending the meeting were stunned for a while, and they were relieved to think about it. Among the several companies under Luo Sheng, any one is full of talents.

"Another Syntiant company, which has received investment, was established in mid-June last year. In addition to developing neural network algorithms that can make independent decisions, the company is also developing supporting AI processors that can be applied to miniaturized electrical products. Therefore, the company The focus of R&D of technology is also more focused on the efficient operation of the chip in an ultra-low power environment."

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

"Fictiv's core business plan is reflected in the collaborative optimization of customer workflow teams. Team members can prototype on the software, mark real-time prices and receive real-time feedback from the production department, thereby improving the iterative efficiency of products. Star Technology, Azure Coast, Lens Semiconductor and Xiongxin Electronics are all important customers of the company."

Some IT practitioners off the court are simply envious.

As long as Luo Sheng’s thigh is placed, it is equivalent to giving start-up capital and business orders. It can take off under a set of internal circulation mechanism.

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

"Fictiv founder David Kress graduated from Stanford University with a major in mechanical engineering. Before founding this startup, he was engaged in user big data analysis at Bluestar Technology Innovation Workshop."

Ok……

It's your former employee who ran away to start a business, and then looked back to his old company for investment.

This has a lot to do with the "departmental company system" established by Bluestar Technology. Employees want to go solo?It doesn't matter. Not only will the parent company not stop you, it will also support you and support you to take off as soon as possible.

This "departmental company system" is also a popular model in many large groups. It has to be said that Luo Sheng has always been leading this trend in the scientific and technological circles and in the business world, followed by batches of imitators.

"Gamalon has launched a machine learning platform that can be used to intelligently analyze and process customer information. The company's artificial intelligence system can be used to build custom texts, such as generating chat records, trouble tickets, etc., or even by itself. Customized questionnaires 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 worked as a senior project manager on the Blue Coast and was responsible for 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 in the future-oriented security, smart home and other fields. Ruiwei founder Zhang Donghui joined the Côte d’Azur course senior director in 2005, and the opportunity for the establishment of Ruiwei technology stems from his I realized the strong application potential of artificial intelligence technology in the field of video surveillance during a customer service. I am very optimistic about the future of Ruiwei."

Many people in the industry can't help but take a deep breath to calm their hearts. Luo Sheng's companies are too terrifying. They support the export of high-end talents inside. This speed and degree of openness...

It's no wonder that anyone who comes out of companies like Bluestar Technology or the Cote d'Azur are all sought-after in the industry.

Sure enough, there are no weak soldiers under the strong generals.

"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 has also focused on investing in these three chips. design company."

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

"In contrast, Movellus, established last year, is mainly engaged in the development of digital chip design programs. This program can improve the work efficiency of the early chip circuit design during the chip processing process, shorten the overall time required for chip design, and ultimately Achieve an increase in the yield rate."

"SiFive, a start-up company established in Russia in January last year, is committed to providing customizable chips based on the RISC-V open source instruction set design. As the name suggests, the company can design the most suitable chip according to the customer’s product needs. Customized chip products, so compared to other types of chips, it has significant advantages in terms of R&D 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 tantamount to a "gold-plating" move that cannot be met. What is certain is that these 12 startups will become the darlings of capital after today. Shining star in the industry.

But people are even more amazed and even horrified that Luo Sheng’s future layout, he has laid a number of "chess pieces" in almost all the frontier fields with potential or even currently unclear, and he has realized the landing of his technological empire. The layout boundary has unknowingly extended to an extremely exaggerated degree.

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

As for the people who eat melons, they are very addicted. Under the guidance of the archbishop, they will spy on the future of the digital world together. Such opportunities are really rare.

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

"You mean Mr. Luo has been hit hard by Lao Mei recently, afraid that these 12 start-ups will be the target of the attack?" Meng Qiu smiled and chatted privately. He is the general manager of Shengfeng Capital, which is considered the third number of real power. People, in Shengfeng Capital, are the managers second only to Luo Sheng and Qin Weimu. In fact, they should be the No. 2 person, because Luo Sheng basically ignores Shengfeng Capital, and Mengqiu is now a big-timer in the capital circle. character.

Whoever has the money is the master, Shengfeng Capital is super rich.

The VC nodded and said bluntly: "Yes, isn't this showing that the neck was stretched out and let the other party chop? Shouldn't it be hidden?"

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

Speaking of this, Mengqiu retracted his gaze and turned his head to look right: "...Now, don't you want to invest in these 12 start-ups to take a pit?"

The other party couldn't help but subconsciously froze for a while.

Suddenly realized it, and suddenly realized that he clapped his legs and whispered: "That's it, that's how it is, it's because my pattern and cognitive boundaries are lower by a notch. Mr. Luo is indeed a rare super player. He has already played chess by accident. Vaguely falling."

"Just one sentence, if I can't beat you, I will join you. Mr. Luo's move is to give them a reason to join and indicate how to join." Meng Qiu said with a smile. He is indeed the young boss of Luo Sheng. Admire from the heart.

The so-called "they" are actually the Goldman Sachs gang, Wall Street Capital.

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

But speaking of it, this world has no permanent enemies, but only permanent benefits.

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

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

This is equivalent to indirectly tying the interests of both parties together, and at the same time, it also serves as a bridge for easing the relationship in the future. The boat of friendship is here...

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

Luo Sheng knows the face of Wall Street, but he is not afraid to deal with it, not to mention that he still has a hand. Not all of these 12 start-ups are from abroad. Companies like Ruiwei, Lingqueyun, and Changxin are all domestic. It is twice that of several other foreign start-ups.

Grasp both hands, this is the correct way to open the technological moat.

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(Ps1: Supper in the afternoon, three shifts today. At the beginning of the month, asking for a monthly pass is not excessive. If you dare not vote, you can only ask tomorrow.)