Investment

China Materialia Venture fund invests in companies with technologies and products that are relevant to the China market in our covered industries, with a focus on IT, biotech, advanced materials,industrial and clean technologies. We invest in innovative early stage companies in China and in China-foreign Joint Ventures that will allow foreign technology companies to transfer technologies to China for further commercialization. We leverage various support from the Chinese government for high-tech companies to supplement our equity investments.


            
Our investment criteria are:

Attractive market: the company or the technology addresses a large and growing market and is the leader in its sector.

China relevance: the company must have an interest in expanding to the China market (for R&D, for manufacturing or China market).

Beyond proof of concept: the technology must be proprietary and beyond proof-of concept.

High entry barrier: the technology/product or business model must be advanced, differentiated and sophisticated so that there is a high entry barrier.

Highly capable management team: the management team must be knowledgeable about the industry, have deep understanding of the market and strong execution capability, commitment, passion and integrity.

In addition to our investment capital, we help our portfolio companies as an active investor by contributing our knowledge and expertise, by introducing them to corporate strategic partners, by assisting in their business development and by sharing our extensive network. Our foremost goal is to assist entrepreneurs in the making of great companies.
Current Portfolio
China Materialia partners with exceptional companies and management teams to build successful industry-leading companies. We offer much more than just capital. Our deep connection within each industry and the commercial experience of our management team significantly contributes to the success of our portfolio companies. Our investment horizon is between three and seven years, and we realize returns through either a strategic sale, M&A, buyout or IPO. Our current and prospective portfolio of investments is focused on leading technologies in IT, Cleantech, Biotech, Consumer, Industrial and Business Services.

Thingple is a new company formed to play in the UHF-RFID (ultra-high-frequency radio frequency identification) hardware space, more specifically in the handhold readers and reader module space.

http://www.thingple.com