Recently, Li Ka-Shing Harbour spent 10.25 billion pounds of investment from Spain under the hands of telecommunications company Telefonica to buy United Kingdom mobile operator O2, with Three already, United Kingdom the four mobile operators, has captured two seats, United Kingdom the largest mobile carriers. This is not, United Kingdom about 1/4 power distribution market, near 30% market for the supply of natural water supply market, near 7%, and Yes, these are his. United Kingdom love this clock, bought throughout the United Kingdom should be possible, of course, as long as the English word.
In fact, Li Ka-Shing began in 2000 will focus on industry, scientific and technological investment in Victoria Harbour was established in 2007 to invest (HorizonsVentures, hereinafter referred to as HV), entrepreneurial company database Crunchbase data, HV in 2014, invested a total of 15 start-ups, most of them in Silicon Valley technology companies. HV preference for investing in start-up companies, following which its participation, from which we can see that Li Ka-shing’s unique way of investment.
Social–Skype, Facebook
In 2005, Li Ka-Shing invested in Skype, was later acquired by eBay for us $ 2.5 billion loss. In 2007 by the Skype founders Willhelm Fliess (Janus Friis) and Sengstrom (Niklas Zennstrom) telephone network service founded by Joost received five bodies of the company injected $ 45 million, including Li Ka-Shing Foundation, and the investment is being made by Mr LI’s personal stake in Joost, then into the Foundation.
In December 2007, the Li Ka-shing, for $ 120 million to buy 0.8% shares in Facebook, measured under its financing plan was established 3 years of Facebook’s valuation of us $ 15 billion, but also in revenue can’t see what hope, and made the decision, Li Ka-shing, only took 5 minutes.
Since then, Li Ka-shing, added investment, but an undisclosed number of shares purchased, Li Ka-shing, said, however, the cost had reached 450 million dollars into Facebook.
Currently, Facebook’s market value has amounted to 231.6 billion dollars, with 1.4 billion users, and Instant Messenger Whatsapp 700 million users and Instagram photo sharing social networking application of 300 million users.
This is Li Ka-Shing in the technology industry’s highest return on investment. Perhaps because of this, social media is one of the main investment direction of HV in the past year, investing in the 870,000-dollar seed fund to a schedule set APP called Meekan and media sites Seen to the story with other investors voted in fourth round of financing of $ 4.6 million; and Crosswise put in $ 2 million to the screen advertising companies.
Speech recognition system–Siri
Speaking of Siri, as we all know is the iPhone voice Assistant, but in fact, this product is not from Apple. In 2009, the HV to 15.5 million dollars to invest in a specially crafted voice recognition system of Siri, which in 2010 with prices of us $ 200 million, the company was purchased by Apple, become a voice on behalf of the Assistant.
In 2014, Siri initially two developers to build a new voice Assistant Viv, functionally, Siri will overcome some of the short Board, not only has a strong self learning function, capable of handling complex questions and voice commands. And then watch Siri Li Ka-shing has invested $ 10 million again, became the company’s sole investor.
Internet health–Modern Meadow, MisfitWearables
Last June, Li Ka-shing, to invest $ 180 million “artificial eggs” listed before long, and spent $ 10 million to a 3D bio-Modern Meadow prints a startup, which is the company’s series a financing. marc jacob iPad case
Modern Meadow for the United States of a technology company in New York, was founded in 2011, so-called 3D bio-print refers to the container in the laboratory through bio-manufacturing and 3D printing technologies to grow beef and leather. Founder, Andras Forgacs after another 3D bio-printing company founded by Organovo, but print is the body tissues, and used in medical institutions.
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HV voted with large data to study the spread of infectious diseases medical analytics firm Bluedot; invest $ 3 million to provide consumers with MarkOne health consumer products company;
Wearable devices–MisfitWearables, FilipTechnologies
United States Misfit Wearables wearable device start-ups by former Apple CEO John Sculley (John Sculley) was founded in 2011, committed to the development of wearable computing devices, has launched the Misfit Shine series. December 2013 HV lead investor $ 15.2 million of its series b financing. Last December, the Misfit Wearables announced that it had completed financing of $ 40 million, investors include millet, Jingdong, ggv capital, and capital and other venture capital firms.
In addition, HV also invested in child watch FilipTechnologies.
Israel start-ups such as–Waze, Summly
HV was first established, colognes investment Israel start-ups, even Silicon Valley project is limited, 13 disclosures over more than 40 investment projects, almost half of it from Israel.
In October 2011, the navigation app Waze, from Yu Kaipeng TDF (KPCB) and the third round of the US $ 30 million investment in HV. Waze was not showing the current popular trend, only 7 million users, mainly in the United States, and Israel, and Italy and France conduct business. On June 11, 2013, Waze is acquired by Google for 1.3 billion dollars.
Summly is a news reading applications running on iOS, using natural semantic algorithms, content can be used as summary articles of less than 400 words. In 2012, when Li Ka-shing, decided to invest in Summly, 15 years old its founder is a venture of Australia middle school youth. On March 25, 2013, Summly acquired by Yahoo for $ 30 million.
In addition, video application software development Magisto, Ona-vo data compression application, mobile search Everyting.me and write pages claiming online video Wibbitz belongs to HV investment Israel start-ups.
HV chose to invest in the project can be divided into data analysis and disruptive technologies in two categories, Internet banking, health and Internet technology are their passion in recent years. $ 2.9 million investment and analysis of mobile Internet company Quettra, US $ 20 million investment and special recognition picture embedded advertising company Cortica,1 SentientTechnologies millions of dollars involved in the company’s c round of funding, and so on, more lists will appear in the next HV investment goals.
“Investing in high-tech feel younger”, has the oldest oldest year of Li Ka-shing has said. These successful investment cases, let him join DST founder youlimierna (Yuri Milner) as the representative of the godfather of science and technology as well. Marc Jacobs iPad cases
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New MacBook
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