Forbes China's Exclusive Interview with Ng Yipin of Yunqi Partners: An economic downturn brews opportunities for investors

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Feb 12, 2019, 05:09 ET

SHANGHAI, Feb. 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, Ng Yipin was selected as "China's TOP100 Best Venture Capitalists 2018" by Forbes China, and was ranked in the top 30 for the first time. In an interview with Forbes China, Ng Yipin looked back on his rich life experiences and introduced Yunqi Partners' investment style.

After graduating from Stanford University, he worked in the Navy and subsequently became as an engineer at Sun Microsystems. Then he started his investor career in 2000.

Believing that technology drives innovation, Yunqi Partners aspires to find technology-centered start-ups and growing start-ups. This means that the Yunqi team requires relevant industrial or entrepreneurial experience to form deep investment insights. That is why members of the team have work backgrounds and experiences with Google, MSRA, Foxconn and other leading companies. Meanwhile, the whole team adopts a relatively flattened management style and has built Yunqi Partners into a "premium" fund.

It is easy for Ng Yipin to maintain long-term friendly and close relationships with his business partners, like AAC technologies, a company he led the investment of when he was at GGV Capital. Now it has a market value of over RMB100 billion and the founder Pan Zhengmin has become Yunqi Partners' LP and investment advisor. AAC and Yunqi Partners have also forged in-depth cooperation in the field of hardware investment and cooperated with ACT Lab, the first robot incubator in China, which specializes in incubating robots and AI start-ups.

Many people say that "winter is coming" and it is now an economic downturn. In Ng Yipin's eyes, the demographic dividend, deepening urbanization, industrial efficiency transformation and so on all mean a huge market and will generate numerous opportunities. Meanwhile, as more and more Chinese enterprises go global, venture capitals in China will face new challenges and opportunities.

The original interview can be found here: http://www.forbeschina.com/review/201812/0067540.shtml

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