In November 2020, Forbes China launched the latest list of elites under 30, and selected 300 outstanding young people under 30 who are active in various fields in China.
This selection is called 30 Under 30 (hereinafter referred to as U30). These young elites include entrepreneurs, outstanding managers, and performers, sports, finance, technology, and culture. This year’s entry requirement is to be born after January 1, 1990 (the age of the selected candidates is also calculated on January 1).
This year's youngest candidate is 17 years old, freestyle skier Gu Ailing, from the entertainment and sports industry. The average age of those on the list is 27.9 years old, and the highest average age in the art, fashion and lifestyle industries is 28.8 years old.
Judging from the ratio of selected candidates, the male to female ratio is 7:3, the same as last year. The industries with the highest proportion of male candidates are industrial manufacturing and education. The proportion of women in the art and fashion industry and music and entertainment industry are both around 50%.
Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen are still the cities with the highest concentration of candidates, followed by Hangzhou. This year, entrepreneurs from central and western regions such as Chengdu and Xi'an also made the list. Nearly 50% of those on the list this year have a master's degree or above.
In the field of financial venture capital, who are the Chinese financial elites under 30 who are on the list this year? Come see!
Source: Forbes China
Here, Xiaobo selected three financial elites. As the younger generation of 90s, what achievements have they created in the financial industry that they love?
Feng Yao (30 years old)
Yunqi Capital Executive Director
Feng Yao, who has a bachelor's degree in finance from Peking University, joined Yunqi Capital in August 2015 and can be said to be a young “woman” in the financial circle.
Source: Yunqi Capital
Feng Yao was selected as one of the “Top 5 Young Investors of 2017-2018” by China Business News in 2017; in 2017, 2018, and 2019, he was continuously rated as “Under 30” by Fanzhuo Capital "New Investor" title; in 2019, it was listed as "Top 30 New Generation Investors of 2019" by Lieyun.com.
She focuses on the industrial Internet, corporate services, education and medical health, etc., and participated in the investment of Baibu, Xiaoyang Education, Little Fat Bear, One Zero One, United Medical Healthcare and other projects.
Chen Xiang (30 years old)
Turing Future Capital founding partner
Turing Future Capital founding partner Chen Xiang was born in 1990 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. Turing Future Capital is an early venture capital fund founded by Chen Xiang and Cai Yuedong, who is also a Chaoshan native. The latter created the comic image "Uncle Fellow" well-known to young people.
Chen Xiang grew up in Chaoshan. The business atmosphere in the Chaoshan area is strong. The entrepreneurial awareness and genes that Chaoshan people dare to dream and do, as well as the words and deeds of his parents in business at home, have made him fascinated by his childhood and received a very simple and intuitive business enlightenment and influence. In addition, he inherited Chaoshan people. With shrewd business acumen, Chen Xiang showed extraordinary business talents and abilities in his teenage years, participated in a series of business practices and accumulated a lot of business experience.
Source: Shantou Metropolis Daily
In 2013, when he was studying in the United States, he initiated the establishment of the Internet company All In Co, which integrated local car rental and tour guide resources in the United States, provided high-end customized travel routes and ultra-low discount car rental business, and operated a half-year monthly camp The income reached hundreds of thousands of dollars, and it was immediately acquired by a well-known travel platform in the United States.
In December 2013, he and two friends and partners registered and established an online study abroad platform-"PAIR Study Abroad" in Silicon Valley, USA. In May 2014, PAIR's operation mode of studying abroad was recognized by angel investors. After obtaining the first angel financing, it has made rapid progress. In a few years, it has grown into the best online study abroad platform in South China.
Later, Chen Xiang joined Hongye Group, a top 500 private company in China, as the vice chairman, and served as a director of a number of Sino-US energy, medical, and technology companies, and accumulated experience in strategic planning, personnel management, capital operation and other aspects of large enterprises. .
as aInvestment agency, Turing Future Capital's key investment areas, founded by Mr. Chen Xiang, mainly include Internet+, blockchain, new consumption, pan-entertainment, and deep technology. The scope of investment covers the initial stage, growth stage, merger and acquisition stages, and in-depth layout of the industry platform.
Chen Xiang has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in his career in venture capital for many years. There are dozens of investment cases involved, among which representative investment cases include Uncle Tongdao, Flexiv Intelligent Robot, BrainUp, Paper, Pair, Global Purchase Knight Privilege APP, Gray Zebra MCN, Grapefruit Electronics Tobacco (YOOZ), Canteen, Ji Rui Technology, etc.
Yan Jingkai (29 years old), executive director of
Chece Capital
Yan Jingkai, executive director of Chece Capital, is also one of the company's founding team members, responsible for venture capital investment in the fields of Internet, consumption, and smart technology.
Source: Forbes China
, as the winner of the National Informatics Olympiad in the middle school era, was later recommended to enter Peking University, majoring in management and economics, excellent mathematical foundation and logical thinking, rich economic and business knowledge reserves, so He is very comfortable with his current investment work.
Yan Jingkai's description of his thinking style is: independent judgment, focus on logic, careful pursuit of hot spots, and no labels. These also represent his investment style.
It focuses on online entertainment for young people (community/social/e-sports/live broadcast, etc.), pet consumption, consumer technology products, new retail (Internet consumption/community group buying/offline retail, etc.), domestic brands and channels, etc. . He has participated in the investment of projects including Fuyou, Xiaopei Pet, Ten Hui Group, Global Purchase Knight Privilege, and Wisdom Education.
He is good at using the logic of product managers to investigate startups. He is also a very early user of many emerging Internet products. This also allowed him to discover and invest in the rightmost app when the domestic content community was just emerging in 2016. Now it has become a domestic One of the most active mobile content communities born after 95/00.
In 2018, he made a good judgment on the development trend of the pet market and chose to invest in the startup Xiaopei Pet, which has the most frequent contact with users among many industry players. The latter is becoming the most influential pet industry in China. The station-based product and service platform is the future domestic PetSmart+Chewy. In the past eight years of venture capital investment experience, there are countless hot tracks and outlets created by capital. Yan Jingkai has long adhered to the concept of independent judgment to choose investment projects, while also avoiding many blindly burning money without output. Road, to help funds and LP allocate equity assets more efficiently. After
90, although they are young, with enthusiasm and professionalism, they have opened up their own days in the financial field! After
90, you, with your own efforts, devoted yourself to deep cultivation, and you will have a promising future!
