Hardware investment this week peak smell: You come to me, the market or other people's good

In the era of globalization, if not open up the international market, investors are not satisfied with their own heart can not pass, so this week appeared the following two financing news:

Misfit to invest in Jing Dong, financing 40 million dollars

3rd this month, wearable equipment manufacturers Misfit announced the acquisition of 40 million U.S. dollars in the C round of financing, the financing Yugiyuan Capital (GGV), which millet, Beijing and east to participate in the form of strategic investment.

Misfit, CEO and founder of Sonny Vu, said in an interview that this round of financing and funding is not big, because the upper 15 million U.S. dollars also put in the Bank (money!). , hardware sales alone can make ends meet. Their acceptance of the investment in Jingdong and Millet is more strategic, and they hope to get help in production management and Chinese sales channels. In addition, he said Misfit about One-third of the business from China. After one day:

Hua mi financing 35 million dollars to enter overseas

At the media conference in Beijing on the afternoon of 4th this month, the development of millet hand ring Hua-MI technology announced 35 million U.S. dollars, the value of more than 300 million U.S. dollars, Gao, Morning Hing, Sequoia, Shun for the following, this is also Gao and Chen Xing combined casting the second case, the first is millet.

Huami said that the round of financing will be used to attract more international talent, to open offices in Silicon Valley, the most important is to attract design talent, to enter the European and American markets. Nest has been a full range of product backbone designers Yu Tao incur under the command.

It seems that the market is better for others. However, Huami and Misfit, the former is a low-cost civilian route, the latter is high-end fashion fan, two companies in charge of Huangwang and Sonny Vu, in the "competition" the word Kenge are relatively mild. So, both sides are squeezed into each other's empty file, just good.

Uber completed 1.2 billion dollars in financing, valued at 40 billion dollars

Uber again this week, it was not a privacy event, but a $40 billion trillion in financing 1.2 billion dollars. Only half a year ago the company received $1.2 billion trillion in financing, valued at $18 billion.

In the face of Uber growth, some people think it is blowing water, is a bubble, and some people will it with the logistics companies, as well as the car companies to compare, that this is normal valuation. Uber is no longer just a car rental company, it has a freight service, which allows it to compare with a logistics company, and its ideal is to keep people from owning cars, using cars as a service, and making it comparable to companies like Tesla or GM. The valuation is not high, see how you compare.

Another investment failure and a "fake" investment event this week.

Microsoft and the Nook break up

In Thursday, Barnes announced that it would buy 62 million dollars and 2.7 million shares to repurchase Microsoft's 17.6% stake in the Nook business. Two years ago, Microsoft and Barnes reached a strategic partnership in which Microsoft invested 300 million dollars in a separate nook business.

At the time, Microsoft was trying to get into the e-reader market and expand its ecosystem. But the strategy didn't work, and the Nook has been suppressed by Amazon. And Microsoft's promise to launch the E-reader has never appeared, now quit, seems to want to give up the e-reader market.

Sonos 130 million is actually employee benefits

Number 4th, domestic and foreign media have reported Sonos a sum of 130 million dollars of financing. The cause of this is a public document showing that Sonos has recently accounted for 130 million of the money.

But then sonos the rumor that it was just employee benefits. Sonos Chinese students in the interview with the Lei Feng network had revealed: As a welfare, the company every year to help some employees to sell some equity. And this time a lot of money is the employee and early investors of the stock transfer brought.