Chapter 1466 scramble
A single stone has caused a thousand waves. The entire technology industry has been a little turbulent in recent years. The butterfly effect caused by Onyx fan in the past two years has become increasingly fierce.
Onyx Technology's revenue has increased sharply. The industry that Chuke Technology has heavily bet on has become more and more dazzling in the past two years. No one would have thought that Onyx Technology, which was originally ignored and even considered by many domestic technology companies to be just a money-burning machine, would have such a day!
Those investment institutions that missed investing in Onyx Technology before were all regretful. If they could make some decisions at the beginning, how could they miss an industry like Onyx Technology?
Not only these investment institutions, even those vultures in the investment industry and major venture capital companies, did not expect that Onyx Technology can really take off. If the explosion of e-readers is still a coincidence, then smartphones and Onyx Technology can compete with Apple and have the upper hand, which is not a matter of luck to explain. In recent years, the huge amount of funds invested by Onyx Technology in R&D every year has begun to pay off.
There are countless people who want to invest in Onyx Technology now, but most of them know that there is probably no chance at all. Onyx Technology has passed the time when it is most short of money.
E-readers, smartphones, graphics cards and other businesses continue to bring sufficient cash flow to Onyx Technology. Even if you want to invest in Onyx Technology, you have to bring the various technologies that Onyx Technology needs the most, otherwise you will get the investment rights of Onyx Technology.
Although Onyx Technology's investment rights are not easy to obtain, major investment institutions did not give up. In a blink of an eye, they set their sights on Onyx Laboratory and several major companies from the laboratory.
Needless to say, Sequoia Investment and KPCB, relying on Chuke Technology in the past two years, these two major venture capital companies are well-known in Asia and have almost become the most famous venture capital company. When there are emerging companies in Asia and want to raise funds, the first thing that comes to mind is these two major venture capital companies.
This time, Sequoia Investment and KPCB Ventures are preparing to invest more than 300 million US dollars in Onyx-X Laboratory, hoping to obtain 10% of the shares of Onyx Laboratory. The profits generated by this laboratory and 10% of the patent rights will belong to these two venture capital firms.
With a big investment in a laboratory, and not knowing what scenario will be in the future, it may not even get any returns. The two major venture capital companies are willing to invest in Onyx Laboratories. The scene is magical.
This is no longer a simple investment, but it is about to become metaphysics. It is just because Onyx Laboratory was established by Chen Chu himself and may receive huge returns in the future. Because of this, major investment institutions are willing to invest at all costs. When the technology industry heard this news, the first feeling was that it was not known whether this era was too crazy or that they were really out of date.
Some technology companies even doubt whether the means of making money in this industry have changed. In the past, PPT and verbalism were used to cheat investors of money by drawing big pie. Now it has begun to upgrade and need to build a laboratory?
There are actually several strong technology companies that have begun to announce the construction of laboratories and have invested heavily in attracting several technical experts, claiming to build a second Onyx laboratory.
As for the result, it is hard to describe it. A lot of money was spent to build the laboratory and recruit a lot of technical talents. Finally, I gritted my teeth and started to develop technology. When investors came to invest money, I finally began to transform.
But more, it was basically a waste of money. The laboratory game launched by Onyx Technology is really too expensive. Even major technology companies may not be able to withstand it, let alone those small companies.
Just when various investment institutions were eyeing Onyx Laboratory, Stewart Blacks issued a statement on behalf of Onyx Laboratory that he would not accept external investment for the time being, threatening that Onyx-X Laboratory is a non-profit R&D institution and the last "pure land" in the technology industry!
These remarks made various investment institutions feel bored. Why do they sound like their investment institutions are not like good people? Once they invest in Onyx Laboratory, they are like becoming sinners in the scientific research industry.
But no matter whether this is good or not, it was praised by countless technology experts when it was introduced to the technology industry. The scientific research industry is a very special industry. For technology experts, they hope to invest capital, but they do not want too much external interference, allowing R&D personnel to continuously develop commercial products.
Everyone knows that fish and bear's paw cannot have both, but I can't help thinking. Onyx-X Laboratory, in today's era of increasingly eager for quick success and instant benefits, has become a clear stream. For a time, many technical experts are rushing to go to Onyx Laboratory to realize their ideals!
Although it is not allowed to invest in Onyx Lab, the major companies that came out of Onyx Lab did not refuse to invest outside the world.
The security camera company jointly established by Chuke Technology, Onyx Technology, Onyx Laboratory, and George Greve, among which George Greve and the R&D team jointly hold a 20% stake in the security camera company.
As a niche product in the security equipment industry, the security camera industry is not very eye-catching. However, after being branded with the seal of Chuke Technology and Onyx Technology, this security camera company, which has just been established less than half a year ago, received a US$260 million jointly invested by Sequoia and Goldman Sachs in exchange for 15% of the security camera company's equity, becoming the fifth largest shareholder.
George Greve felt the madness of the investment industry for the first time. He invested nearly 300 million US dollars without blinking, which is almost equivalent to the revenue of a security camera company for more than a year. If it were net profit, it would be equivalent to the revenue of more than two years, and now it is easy to get it.
This made George Greve understand why the old boss West House Electric, IBM, Yahoo and other companies are not doing their jobs and doing finance. After investing, they are really making money too fast. They are working hard to develop a product, but they are not selling their equity to make more money. They can make a little good news and improve their performance. They can increase their stock price by cashing out a lot. After all, most people are just paying attention to it. Who cares about the floods in a few years? At that time, they can't tell where people are.
However, after being confused for a moment, George Greve, who had been on the bench for more than ten years, returned to Qingming Festival. He had experienced the decline of Westinghouse Electric and also witnessed the decline of IBM. He also let him know the meaning of technology. Without technology, it is a castle in the air. George Greve also knew that the reason why Chen Chu asked him to be the head of this security camera company was not to let him play with those fun things, but to develop technology. This is the fundamental thing!
Seeing that Sequoia took the initiative first, invested in George Greve's camera department. KPCB was not willing to be outdone. It immediately joined forces with several institutions such as Morgan that wanted to enter the domestic venture capital industry and put forward investment requirements for Wang Tao's drones and Broad Voss' biotechnology company.
Wang Tao, who is busy establishing a drone company, just confirmed the name of the drone "DJI" and started to search for office locations through the program. In the Onyx Technology R&D Center De Park, he found a building as the headquarters of DJI UAVs. After several consecutive phases of the Onyx Technology R&D Center, the park has a large number of offices and R&D buildings that are still empty.
At present, DJI drones do not consider establishing sales channels, promotions, etc., only an experimental building and an office space are enough.
As a result, before the experimental building was transferred, Wang Tao received investment requests from KPCB, Morgan and other venture capital companies and institutions, which made Wang Tao a little confused. He didn't know why the drone company, which had not even been installed on his stall, was suddenly sought after by the venture capital industry.
If it were Wang Tao a few years ago, he would probably not have taken care of so much. It would be good if someone invested as R&D funds, and what other bicycles would be needed.
But now it is different. Wang Tao is relying on the wealthy Onyx Technology behind him, not to mention that there is a Chuke Technology headquarters behind him, so Wang Tao did not agree directly or refuse. Instead, he picked up the phone and called Chuke Technology, the largest shareholder of DJI drone.
Like Wang Tao, Broad Voss is the same. He is worse than Wang Tao. Wang Tao at least has a R&D team, while Broad Voss' biotechnology company is purely empty. Even so, several venture capital companies have come to the door and invest hundreds of millions of dollars directly, which makes Broad Voss a little dizzy.
As the hottest industry in recent years, Onyx Technology is involved in this field, and the investment industry is not surprised. As the saying goes, the icing on the cake is now on the rise. It involves so many industries and is called diversified development. When Onyx Technology fails one day, it will be criticized as being unemployed!
Like Wang Tao, Broad Vos did not dare to make a decision without authorization, but instead came to Chen Chu.
Chen Chu, who was in the Dongshan Villa, received multiple calls in succession, including Chuke Technology Headquarters, Onyx Technology, Wang Tao, Broad Voss and the like, and the rest were also called by KPCB and Sequoia Investment. Chen Chu could guess what these investment institutions wanted to do without listening to it.
These days, Chen Chu, Zhou Danping, Chen Guohua and others are basically at the Dongshan Villa. They are about to leave tomorrow. Zhou Danping, who was disliked by Chen Meng in the past, was reluctant to leave at this time, and her eyes were red for the past two days.
"She will be back in half a year. If you want to go in the middle, I will accompany you at that time!" Chen Chu said to Zhou Danping.
Seeing that the phone rang again, Chen Chu got up and walked upstairs. Wang Tao told Chen Chu about the news that several venture capital investors in KPCB were asking for investment.
Chapter completed!