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SHANGHAI, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — NIO Capital celebrated its "Five and Beyond" fifth anniversary in Suzhou on August 5.
At the gathering, William Li, Ian Zhu and Nathan Yu, the firm's managing partners, shared their experience, insights, and NIO Capital's achievements over the past five years. Carl Guan, Li Yao, and Adair Lv, the investment firm's managing directors, released NIO Capital 2022 Investment Outlook. This white paper focuses on investment opportunities in Automobiles and Logistics, Energy and Deep Technologies sectors in the next five to 10 years. Representatives from NIO Capital's portfolio companies shared ideas on the industries they are involved in.
William Li, founder, chairman and CEO of NIO, and managing partner of NIO Capital, delivered the opening speech. As an investor and entrepreneur, Li has been involved in the automotive industry for many years. He gave his take on the industry and talked about starting a business from his own experience.
Li said the intelligent electric vehicle (EV) sector had entered a "speed-up" stage, behind which the core driving force is technological advancement. The automotive industry has reached the commanding height of scientific and technological innovations again, and it will create more opportunities for the Chinese market. He added that the sector is full of possibilities and will open up more chances for entrepreneurs. He also said while staying prudent, optimistic, and aggressive, NIO Capital will seize the opportunities with real actions rather than be caught in anxiety.
Ian Zhu, managing partner of NIO Capital, delivered a keynote speech titled "Equity Investments 3.0：More than Just Money".
He said that equity investment had entered a new era that requires a high-quality general partner (GP) to create multi-dimensional values for limited partners (LP) and portfolio companies. In the initial days, US dollar funds and financial institutional investors had a strong presence in China's equity investment sector. The business landscape adopted the "Copy to China" model. Now in the new era, the country's equity investment sector gives equal importance to US dollar funds and RMB funds and is more strategy- and industry-oriented. It now uses the "Copy from China" model.
As LPs vary, their demands focus not only on financial returns but also on multi-dimensional values. Since its inception, NIO Capital has been expanding its investment in an industry-oriented way. Meanwhile, the company offers its portfolio companies multi-dimensional support, with the vision "Invest in Innovations that Sustain and Advance Humankind".
Nathan Yu, managing partner of NIO Capital, spoke on the changes in …
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