With the growing popularity of yuancosmos investment, Li Ka Shing's Victoria Harbour investment has also taken the first step in the field of yuancosmos investment.
It is understood that the first goal of Victoria Harbour investment is wonder dynamics, an AI technology provider. The company was founded by Tai Sheridan, starring in the number one player, in cooperation with Nikola Todorovic, a visual effects expert.
Wonder dynamics raised a total of US $9 million in round a financing, which not only won the leading investment of Victoria Harbour investment, but also attracted Epic Games, which owns the famous game fortress night, and Samsung next, a venture capital fund of Samsung in South Korea.
The initial goal of Victoria Harbour investment was very obvious. Zhou Kaixuan, executive director of Li Ka Shing Foundation and founder of Victoria Harbour investment, once disclosed in the written reply of Forbes Asia: in 2002, she founded Victoria Harbour investment together with her long-term business partner Zhang Peiwei (63 years old) to look for investment opportunities in the high-tech field. Nowadays, all the capital of Victoria Harbour investment comes from Li Ka Shing, so Victoria Harbour investment only needs to be responsible to Li Ka Shing.
In 2007, it was rumored that Li Ka Shing only took five minutes to make a decision to invest in Facebook, which was soon established. Victoria Harbour investment bought 0.8% of Facebook shares for $120 million, followed by additional investment. Finally, the return on investment of Facebook was as high as 580%.
However, there is a provision of Victoria Harbour investment, that is, all the money earned must be donated to Li Ka Shing charitable fund. If there is a loss, Li Ka Shing will bear it personally.
In 2013, Victoria Harbour investment participated in zoom's round B financing with us $6.5 million, becoming the company's first institutional investor. Zoom is a technology enterprise providing cloud video conference services, which was founded in 2011. After its listing on Nasdaq, zoom has a market value of US $15.8 billion. According to conservative estimation, the return rate of Victoria Harbour investment is 100 times.
When Xiaomi was listed in Hong Kong in 2018, Li Ka Shing generously invested US $100 million. Now Li Ka Shing has earned about two or three times this share, which is also a very good investment.
In early August this year, DOMA, a start-up invested by Victoria Harbour investment, was listed with a market value of US $2.5 billion.
Today, more than 100 companies have been invested in Victoria Harbour investment. The projects invested in Victoria Harbour are mainly concentrated in the United States, Israel and the United Kingdom, including 47 projects invested in the United States, 15 projects in Israel and 11 projects in the United Kingdom.
On May 6 this year, Li Ka Shing's private investment company Victoria Harbour investment will focus on Southeast Asia because the digital economy in the region is booming. Solina Chau, a long-term close friend and co-founder of Li Ka Shing, said that Victoria Harbour investment will pay special attention to Indonesia, the largest market in Southeast Asia.
Victoria Harbour investment is working with alpha JWC venture capital in Jakarta, one of the largest venture capitalists in Southeast Asia, to identify young companies that may become the next most popular in the region. Over the past year, Victoria Harbour investment and alpha JWC have invested in Ajaib, an Indonesian online stockbroker, kopi kenangan, a rapidly expanding coffee chain, and bobobox, a capsule hotel operator.
It is not difficult to see the importance it attaches to "future technology" by counting the investment of Victoria Harbour in recent years. This year, Zhou Kaixuan said at the 2021 UBS sustainable development finance conference that the two important sectors of future investment will be related to social sciences and women.
(Securities Times · venture capital exchange)
