As early as April 24 this year, Hellobike submitted an application for listing on Nasdaq. However, three months later, the company withdrew its application and said that it would promote IPO in a timely manner according to the national regulatory requirements and the capital market environment.
According to public information, the investors behind Hellobike have assembled well-known financial investment institutions such as Ant Group, GGV, Becoming Capital, Fosun Group, Chunhua Capital and Greater Bay Area Fund. In addition to the heavy shareholding of Ant Group, in March this year, Contemporary Ampere Technology Co., Ltd. invested in Hellobike for the first time. Up to now, Hellobike has received two financing in the middle of last year and March this year, with financing amounts of $235 million and $240 million respectively.
Stir up electric vehicles in the new rivers and lakes
In recent years, after breaking through the bicycle "war", Hellobike has continuously expanded its travel boundaries and gradually evolved into a diversified travel and life service platform including two-wheel travel, four-wheel travel, wine travel and shop service, forming four new services: Hello hitchhiking, Hello taxi, Hello electric car and Xiaoha wire transfer.
From building electric cars to changing electricity, compared with other travel brands, Hellobike seems to be "different". Since the implementation of the new national standard for electric vehicles from 2065438 to April 2009, the two-wheeled electric vehicle industry has entered a transitional period in which lithium batteries replace lead-acid batteries, and the mode of replacing batteries has gradually become popular. Qi Haijun, president of Beijing Teyi Sunshine New Energy, said that Xiaoha's power exchange can be exerted from areas where the demand for power exchange is highly concentrated, and the prospects are very good. However, at present, the problems such as non-uniform power exchange standards and few power exchange modes in the market also restrict the development of power exchange modes, and the profitability of power exchange modes is still worrying.
Behind financing, healthy development is needed.
It is worth noting that Hellobike is also the second player favored by the capital market after Cao Cao announced the completion of the B round of financing. On the evening of September 6, Cao Cao just announced the completion of the B round of financing, with an amount of 3.8 billion yuan.
In contrast, behind the two companies, there are endorsements from major shareholders. Cao Cao traveled with Geely Group, a car company, and Hellobike relied on Ali resources to develop markets and scenarios. From the business model, the business layout of the two companies also involves the power exchange model. Hellobike mainly studies the power exchange mode of electric vehicles. Cao Cao travels to combine hardware technologies such as new energy and power exchange with software technologies such as big data and car networking.
In fact, with the return of rationality of capital market to * * * travel, the era of irrational investment of capital in * * * travel industry has ended, and the financing amount and frequency of * * * travel are gradually declining in recent years. According to the statistics of Ai Media Data Center, there were only 20 domestic investment and financing incidents last year, but in 20 17 years, this figure was as high as 1 16.
It can be seen that the capital market's investment in the cultural tourism industry has flocked to rationality. At present, the most important thing is to promote the networking, standardization and standardization of the tourism industry and guide the healthy development of the tourism industry. On September 1 day, members of the Inter-Ministerial Joint Conference on Coordination and Supervision of New Transport Forms interviewed 1 1 the online car sharing platform, emphasizing the need to strengthen the awareness of fair competition, respect market rules, and not to use capital for vicious competition and disorderly expansion, and not to exclude or restrict competition. According to media statistics, this year, the traffic control department has interviewed the new transportation platform company four times.