Asian companies are bullish on why U.S. companies are investing more in investment.

March 16--The investment boom that began in 2014 has not abated, with Asian technology companies continuing to grow in enthusiasm for us start-ups, and Alibaba Group's 200 million-dollar cheque investment photo-sharing app Snapchat, which has Snapchat valuations at $15 billion trillion. China's technology companies, Japan's consortium, the Middle East's oil rich have been bullish on U.S. companies, the reason for increased investment?

Ali invests in Silicon Valley companies to grab a bit of mobile social focus

Silicon Valley is a place full of opportunities and money, bringing together the most creative technology people in the United States, angel investment of more than 20 billion dollars a year, Chinese technology companies have also started in Silicon Valley branch, but investment growth in the last three years especially obvious.

Ali's investment may not be due to economic interests, Ali had previously wanted to invest in Snapchat, but the negotiations were unsuccessful. Ali will restart the injection of Snapchat in a year's time, while Snapchat's valuation has risen 50% per cent compared to the December 2014 financing. According to its reported earnings, as of December 31, 2014, Alibaba Group held a cash of about 21 billion U.S. dollars, although Ali is not bad money but the difference in the value of a few months before and after the huge price of Ali pay is not small, can be seen Ali into mobile social urgent.

Ali in the domestic mobile social field by Tencent's micro-letter repression, Tencent's flow to Beijing and east to support even the impact of Ali Electric Maxleaf, Ali before and after the social already have a number of investments but always can not shake the status of micro-letter, domestic no way than the United States to find new small partners, Ali also spent 280 million dollars last year to invest in another Mobile information application Tango,tango's valuation is only 1 billion dollars far less than the Snapchat volume, Snapchat is a mobile social software with more than 100 million users, and it is self-evident that it is possible to enter China for Ali.

Tsai, executive vice president of Alibaba Group, has said that Ali invests and focuses on us start-ups to ensure that similar products and services are not controlled by other companies when they come to China.

The billion Dollar Startup club growing investment is a good business

Statistics show that Asian companies and institutions were involved in 86 of investments in American start-ups in 2014, doubling the number of transactions over three years ago. The Billion Dollar startup club (1 billion dollar start-up) was also a good vantage point for the expansion last year, the billion Dollar startup The club is a statistic for companies that are not listed globally but have accepted a 1 billion dollar valuation of venture capital. There are already 73 companies on the latest list, with the number of companies joining the list in 2014 in particular: 48, which can be seen as a boost to start-up valuations in the 2014 investment wave. When listed, these companies tend to bring good investment income to investors, Asian investors have huge cash and badly needed investment, the prospect of high valuations of technology companies become a reasonable choice.

 


1. The dollar has returned to strength, devaluation of important currencies, such as the euro and the yen, has led to a revaluation of the value of the renminbi, which is also expected to depreciate, for various reasons, and to invest in US property as a way of investing in U.S. real estate, but with high property taxes and slow property appreciation, Investing in tech start-ups can be more profitable--better business.


 


2. The global economy is in a slump, with big-money commodity investments not a good investment, and Chinese companies often have to undergo harsh scrutiny from the US and European governments, and technology companies are not in trouble, and mobile software, gaming, digital media, electricity and payment technology are all hot investment areas, China's investment is also spread across 30 states, with California attracting the most investment.


 


3. As domestic competition intensifies, technology companies are holding huge sums of cash in search of good investments to reach the most promising areas of advance layout. Tencent's investment in the US was considered to be the most localized, diversified and professional, but when it was wrong, Tencent's 2013 investment in Fab, which was valued at more than $900 million trillion, was soon on the verge of bankruptcy and the sale of assets.


 


4. U.S. start-ups are also eager to open up overseas markets, into more and bigger markets to help boost their valuations, and Baidu's cooperation with Uber should fall into this category.


 


5. Build contacts and teams and build a new company whenever you need it. The biggest force in Silicon Valley is Indians, Chinese or Chinese, which is relatively small, and setting up companies and investments in Silicon Valley is a good way to expand connections.


 


"1 billion dollar start-up Club" list:


 


1: Millet, latest valuation: 46 billion USD; Total fund-raising: USD 1.4 billion;


 


2:uber, Latest valuation: USD 41.2 billion; Total fund-raising: 2.8 billion USD;


 


3:palantir, Latest valuation: USD 15 billion; Total fund-raising: 1 billion USD;


 


4:spacex, Latest valuation: USD 12 billion; Total fund-raising: 1.1 billion USD;


 


5:fipkart, Latest valuation: USD 11 billion; Total fund-raising: 2.5 billion USD;


 


6:airbnb, Latest valuation: USD 10 billion; Total fund-raising: 800 million USD;


 


7:dropbox, Latest valuation: USD 10 billion; Total fund-raising: 607 million USD;


 


8:snapchat, Latest valuation: USD 10 billion; Total fund-raising: 615 million USD;


 


9:theranos, Latest valuation: USD 9 billion; Total fund-raising: 600 million USD;


 


10: United States Network, the latest valuation: 7 billion U.S. dollars; Total fund-raising: USD 1.1 billion;


 


11:square, Latest valuation: USD 6 billion; Total fund-raising: 495 million USD;


 


12:pinterest, Latest valuation: USD 5 billion; Total fund-raising: 764 million USD;


 


13:wework, Latest valuation: USD 5 billion; Total fund-raising: 569 million USD;


 


14:cloudera, Latest valuation: USD 4.1 billion; Total fund-raising: 670 million USD;


 


15:spotify, Latest valuation: USD 4 billion; Total fund-raising: 521 million USD;


 


16:stripe, Latest valuation: USD 3.5 billion; Total fund-raising: 190 million USD;


 


17:jawbone, Latest valuation: USD 3.3 billion; Total fund-raising: 531 million USD;


 


18:fanatics, Latest valuation: USD 3.1 billion; Total fund-raising: 320 million USD;


 


19: Every guest, the latest valuation: 3 billion U.S. dollars; Total fund-raising: USD 512 million;


 


20:legendary Entertainment, Latest valuation: USD 3 billion; Total fund-raising: 900 million USD;


 


21:pure Storage, Latest valuation: USD 3 billion; Total fund-raising: 470 million USD;


 


22:bloom Energy, the latest valuation: 2.9 billion U.S. dollars; Total fund-raising: 1.2 billion USD;


 


23:powa, Latest valuation: USD 2.7 billion; Total fund-raising: 156 million USD;


 


24:inmobi, Latest valuation: USD 2.5 billion; Total fund-raising: 216 million USD;


 


25:houzz, Latest valuation: USD 2.3 billion; Total fund-raising: 215 million USD;


 


26: Public comment Network, the latest valuation: 2 billion U.S. dollars; Total fund-raising: USD 569 million;


 


27:trendy Group, Latest valuation: USD 2 billion; Total fund-raising: 200 million USD;


 


28:nutanix, Latest valuation: USD 2 billion; Total fund-raising: 312 million USD;


 


29:magic Leap, latest valuation: 2 billion USD; Total fund-raising: 592 million USD;


 


30:snapdeal, Latest valuation: USD 2 billion; Total fund-raising: 1 billion USD;


 


31:coupang, Latest valuation: USD 2 billion; Total fund-raising: 418 million USD;


 


32:instacart, Latest valuation: USD 2 billion; Total fund-raising: 275 million USD;


 


33:delivery Hero, Latest valuation: USD 1.9 billion; Total fund-raising: 1.2 billion USD;


 


34:intarcia Therapeutics, Latest valuation: USD 1.8 billion; Total fund-raising: 598 million USD;


 


34:intarcia Therapeutics, Latest valuation: USD 1.8 billion; Total fund-raising: 598 million USD;


 


35:mongodb, Latest valuation: USD 1.6 billion; Total fund-raising: 311 million USD;


 


36:docusign, Latest valuation: USD 1.6 billion; Total fund-raising: 237 million USD;


 


37:adyen, Latest valuation: USD 1.5 billion; Total fund-raising: 500 million USD;


 


38: Pocket Shopping, Latest valuation: USD 1.4 billion; Total fund-raising: USD 364 million;


 


39:jasper Technologies, Latest valuation: USD 1.4 billion; Total fund-raising: 204 million USD;


 


40:deem, Latest valuation: USD 1.4 billion; Total fund-raising: 474 million USD;


 


41:social Finance, Latest valuation: USD 1.3 billion; Total fund-raising: 399 million USD;


 


42:sunrun, Latest valuation: USD 1.3 billion; Total fund-raising: 295 million USD;


 


43:appnexus, Latest valuation: USD 1.2 billion; Total fund-raising: 251 million USD;


 


44:automattic, Latest valuation: USD 1.2 billion; Total fund-raising: 190 million USD;


 


45:fab, Latest valuation: USD 1.2 billion; Total fund-raising: 335 million USD;





46:gilt Groupe, Latest valuation: USD 1.1 billion; Total fund-raising: 275 million USD;


 


47:slack, Latest valuation: USD 1.1 billion; Total fund-raising: 180 million USD;


 


48:actifio, Latest valuation: USD 1.1 billion; Total fund-raising: 208 million USD;


 


49:proteus Digital, Latest valuation: USD 1.1 billion; Total fund-raising: 354 million USD;


 


50:appdynamics, Latest valuation: USD 1.1 billion; Total fund-raising: 177 million USD;


 


51:ironsource, Latest valuation: USD 1.1 billion; Total fund-raising: 177 million USD;


 


52:home24, Latest valuation: USD 1 billion; Total fund-raising: 20 million USD;


 


53:yello Mobile, Latest valuation: USD 1 billion; Total fund-raising: 112 million USD;


 


54:cloudflare, Latest valuation: USD 1 billion; Total fund-raising: 72 million USD;


 


55:evernote, Latest valuation: USD 1 billion; Total fund-raising: 302 million USD;


 


56:good Marvell, Latest valuation: USD 1 billion; Total fund-raising: 388 million USD;


 


57:eventbrite, Latest valuation: USD 1 billion; Total fund-raising: 200 million USD;


 


58:tango, Latest valuation: USD 1 billion; Total fund-raising: 367 million USD;


 


59:insidesales.com, Latest valuation: USD 1 billion; Total fund-raising: 139 million USD;


 


60: Mushroom Street, Latest valuation: USD 1 billion; Total fund-raising: USD 200 million;


 


61:kabam, Latest valuation: USD 1 billion; Total fund-raising: 245 million USD;


 


62:lookout, Latest valuation: USD 1 billion; Total fund-raising: 284 million USD;


 


63:justfab, Latest valuation: USD 1 billion; Total fund-raising: 250 million USD;


 


64:honest Co., Latest valuation: USD 1 billion; Total fund-raising: 122 million USD;


 


65:credit Karma, Latest valuation: USD 1 billion; Total fund-raising: 194 million USD;


 


66:qualtrics, Latest valuation: USD 1 billion; Total fund-raising: 220 million USD;


 


67:razer, Latest valuation: USD 1 billion; Total fund-raising: 50 million USD;


 


68:shopify, Latest valuation: USD 1 billion; Total fund-raising: 122 million USD;


 


69:ola Cabs, Latest valuation: USD 1 billion; Total fund-raising: 277 million USD;


 


70:shazam, Latest valuation: USD 1 billion; Total fund-raising: 170 million USD;


 


71: Beibei NET, the latest valuation: 1 billion U.S. dollars; Total fund-raising: USD 124 million;


 


72:grabtaxi, Latest valuation: USD 1 billion; Total fund-raising: 340 million USD;


 


73:moderna, Latest valuation: USD 1 billion; Total fund-raising: 625 million USD;