Yi Cao: Inclusive Finance Enters an Era Where "Internet Plus" and "AI Plus" Work in Tandem
"New finance" is an even bigger opportunity than social media, search, e-commerce, O2O, and what came before.
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"New finance" is an even bigger opportunity than social media, search, e-commerce, O2O, and what came before.
Recently, Synced closed its Pre-A funding round, led by ByteDance with participation from Source Code Capital, Xunchan Tou, and 5Y Capital.
As the rental installment market matures and capital flows in, this startup — born from a simple frustration with how much of a hassle renting can be — is growing fast.
A monthly transaction volume of 1 million means roughly over 30,000 transactions per day — a new loan is originated on the Yongqianbao platform every three seconds. And many of the people initiating these loans have no credit cards and no access to traditional financial services...
The 2016 Chuangye Heima Community Conference was held today in Beijing, where Yi Cao, founding partner of Source Code Capital, was named "Investor of the Year 2016."
Yimi Dida, a well-known domestic logistics network platform, completed its Series A+ funding round today, raising over 100 million yuan.
Source Code Capital was named to the "Top 30 Emerging Investment Firms of 2016" list in Wuzhen.
Yi Cao pointed out that in the future, energy won't be scarce, land won't be scarce, and housing won't be scarce either. What will be truly scarce is good technology, the ability to allocate resources well, and people who continuously strive to create value.
In the 2015 Fintech 100 ranking, Qudian placed fourth; in this year's list, it has broken into the top three.
On November 3, we'll be waiting for you at Tsinghua University's PBC School of Finance.