Distributed relational database company PingCAP closes $15 million Series B, with FreeS Fund continuing to participate | Funding News
PingCAP builds open-source databases that change the future, freeing backend developers from drudgery.
PingCAP builds open-source databases that change the future, freeing backend developers from drudgery.
Yiwen Hao joined Source Code Capital in 2014. Over his nearly ten-year career, he previously led corporate strategy and market growth consulting projects at ASG and Frost & Sullivan, and founded Ingle Games — one of China's earliest online game publishers targeting overseas markets — with support from Sequoia Capital. Hao also worked at Tencent, where he oversaw product planning for the Enterprise QQ line. Hao graduated from
On April 22, at Source Code Capital's 2017 Ma Hui conference, Meili United CEO Chen Qi shared his insights on breaking through strategic bottlenecks, recounting the company's journey to sharpen its business focus around the theme of **"combining great content with great products."**
**"You don't realize you're in a pit until you actually step into it — you only know once you've gone in and experienced it yourself."**
At Source Code Capital's 2017 Code Conference, Zuo Hui, chairman of Lianjia, shared the company's perspective and understanding of the real estate industry.
"Context, not Control"
On March 28, Yongqianbao announced the completion of its Series C funding round. This round was led by BRIC Capital and CICC Alpha; Guoke Jiahe, Source Code Capital, Sinovation Ventures, Guangxin Capital, and other institutions also participated.
On March 20, Cijinrong — a supply-chain finance company that had been operating for seven months — announced the completion of its Series A funding round, raising RMB 65 million led by Source Code Capital, with Matrix Partners China and Yunqi Capital making additional investments.
According to Zero One Finance's *2016 China Consumer Finance Annual Development Report*, P2P consumer finance assets reached 99.1 billion yuan in 2016, up 90.9% year-over-year, with conservative estimates projecting 200 billion yuan for 2017. Consumer finance asset-backed securitization also accelerated: in 2016, 51 consumer finance ABS products were issued for a total of 93.632 billion yuan — 6.76 times the 2015 figure.
Recently, Synced closed its Pre-A funding round, led by ByteDance with participation from Source Code Capital, Xunchan Tou, and 5Y Capital. Going forward, Synced will work closely with these four strategic investors, along with its previous angel investor Legend Star Comet Labs, to deepen collaboration across content, investment, industrial services, project incubation, and technology research in the global AI space — with specific partnership details to be announced in phases.