Since 2017, financial technology companies have been increasingly favored by capital. In the first quarter of 2018, the venture capital market was still in a state of flux. Under the background of strict supervision, the "pig" on the market and the "black horse" who had been killed halfway still handed in good financing transcripts.
Last year, with the tide of the listing of financial technology companies, the global financial technology development momentum is rapid. According to the incomplete statistics of Zero Zhi think tank, at least 649 financing events occurred in the global financial technology field in 2017, an increase of 8% year-on-year; the total amount of funds involved was 139.7 billion yuan, an increase of 19% year-on-year. Among them, there are 328 financing events in China with a financing amount of 79.6 billion yuan.
At the beginning of this year, the ability of financial technology to absorb gold is still unabated. The data from the Zero Securities think tank provided to the Securities Daily reporter shows that there were at least 204 equity financing events in the global financial technology field in the first quarter of 2018, with a total financing amount of about 50.71 billion. yuan. In January, there were 83 financings. In February, only 33 were affected by the Spring Festival and strong supervision, and 88 were raised in March. Among them, there were 97 domestic investment and financing events, accounting for nearly half of the world's total, and the financing amount was about 32.29 billion yuan.
In other words, in the first quarter of 2018, the domestic financial technology sector has been able to absorb gold in the first half of last year.
Liu Xiaofeng, a small financial CEO, told the Securities Daily reporter: "The construction of a large number of financial infrastructure, the rapid growth of emerging models, and the accelerated follow-up of traditional financial institutions have made financial technology a huge potential for development. This is also a deep financial technology. The reason for the favor of capital is that many areas of financial technology have not yet reached their full potential, such as online credit is still infiltration, and there is still a lot of room for development."
Blockchain financing exceeded last yearAccording to the data provided by the Zero Think Tank, in the first quarter of 2018, the total financing of the global financial technology sector was approximately 50.71 billion yuan, an increase of 97.1% year-on-year and a 7.4% quarter-on-quarter increase. Among them, domestic financing was 32.29 billion yuan, accounting for 63.7%; the United States and India were 10.73 billion yuan and 3.96 billion yuan respectively; the financing amount of China, the United States and India has accounted for 92.6% of the global total.
The reporter noted that in the first quarter of 2018, 54 and 33 financings were seized in the blockchain and online lending sectors, respectively, and the corresponding financing amount was 6.72 billion yuan and 4.87 billion yuan respectively. The number of financing in the fields of big data, wealth management, Internet insurance and payment also exceeded double digits; the number of financing in the integrated finance and auto finance sectors was small, but the total financing amount was as high as 13.1 billion yuan and 6 billion yuan respectively.
The reporter noted that in the global financial technology field, in the first quarter of 2018, the investment and financing boom in the blockchain sector continued to rise, 18 in January, 8 in February, and 28 in March (if third-party information is included) Market institutions such as Block House, Mytoken, and the world of coins have 31).
At the same time, the "Securities Daily" reporter found that the 2017 blockchain + digital currency field financing record in the first quarter of 2018 has been broken. The data shows that in 2017, there were 63 incidents related to financing in the blockchain + digital currency sector, and the financing amount was 4.9 billion yuan. In the first quarter of this year, the amount of financing in the blockchain sector has reached 6.72 billion yuan.
Not only that, from the financing type, there are 25 seeds/angel round financing in the global financial technology + blockchain field, and the domestic seed/angel round, Pre-A round and A round financing events are 10 and 4 respectively. And 4 pens, the United States is 9 pens, 2 pens and 6 pens respectively, and another E round of financing.
"It can be seen that China and the United States have the same amount of financing in the blockchain field, but the development stage and investment are quite different." Analysts from the Zero Think Tank told this reporter. He believes that although the blockchain has attracted many companies and capital to join, it is still in the early stages of development.
“The blockchain technology segment enterprises are looking for follow-up financing to support further development, which indicates that the maturity of blockchain technology and business model is accelerating.†Liu Xiaofeng said.
From the perspective of the main body of foreign investment, BAT has appeared frequently in the new economic field including financial technology, and seems to be the competition for the Internet giant represented by BAT.
On September 28 last year, Zhongan Online, the “Three Horses†car, was listed in Hong Kong, raising 9.7 billion yuan, setting a record for the highest financing in the global financial technology field since 2017.
Yang Sheng, an analyst at Minsheng Securities, analyzed that from the perspective of investment logic, BAT's investment follows the core business and strategic direction. Based on rich technical reserves, industrial resources and talent advantages, BAT has expanded its complex business landscape, extended its industrial chain and entered the industrial economy on the basis of its core business.
From the public data, since 2017, the layout of BAT has been concentrated on recent hotspots, including new energy vehicles, o2o, health care, sharing economy and artificial intelligence. Looking closely at the investment and acquisition routes of the above-mentioned giants, their investment in the past years has its own distinct characteristics and similar logic.
In March of this year, the car-based car company, the good car group, announced that it had completed the 5.15 billion yuan C round of financing, led by Tencent. Last year, Alibaba invested in the big search car, Tencent Investment's Yi Xin Group is also in the automotive finance field.
In addition, the reporter found that the insurance industry in 2017 showed great performance in the field of financial technology. Last year, the world's insurance technology sector carried out 50 financings, raising a total of 15.99 billion yuan, accounting for 11% of all areas of funds. Industry insiders pointed out that with the continuous influx of capital, insurance-related institutions such as Internet insurance and insurance technology are reshaping the ecology of the insurance industry in their own way and forming new patterns and characteristics.
In addition to venture capital, BAT is also actively involved in insurance technology investment. As of the end of 2017, Internet giants BATJ, Sina, and Suning had a total of 12 companies with insurance-related licenses. Last year, a number of institutions predicted that insurance technology could become a new enthusiasm in 2018 after the deepening of cognition and the deepening of cognition in the context of giant capital support and strong public demand. But in the first quarter that has just passed, the blockchain seems to have overshadowed the momentum of insurance technology.
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