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Yesterday evening, the 2016 Sandlake “Venture·Capital” annual ranking list was released, Meridian Capital received two prizes of Best Fundraising Organization of the Year and Most Active Investment Organization of the Year. Meanwhile, Zhejiang SKIO Matrix Co., Ltd and www.kaistart.com, both of which are beneficiary enterprises of Meridian Capital, received Most Growth-oriented Enterprise in General Industry Award, Weimob received TMT Most Growth-oriented Enterprise of the Year Award.

Founded in September 2013, Zhejiang SKIO Matrix Co., Ltd is an emerging company with comprehensive businesses dedicated to design, manufacture, sales, and operation of new energy vehicles by leveraging Internet thinking, with four core business units of “Whole vehicle design”, “Battery manufacture”, “Energy replenishment”, “Market promotion”. SKIO Matrix aims to, with standardized modular battery as energy carrier, fuel battery consumption through sales and operation of electric vehicles, and progressively construct whole industrial chain eco system ranging from electric core, standardized module battery, modularized motor, whole vehicle, battery swap station to electric vehicle sales channel and “Internet +” usage model. In August 2015 it received Series B financing from Meridian Capital.

Relying on content as medium, www.kaistart.com acquired the first batch of “high sensibility users”, following the consumption upgrading trend, it created lifestyle-based financial trading platform, which not only links up B end and C end, but also raises financial lever. In November last year www.kaistart.com completed Series A financing totaling 33.50 million yuan, whose investment was headed by Meridian Capital. Up till now it has completed 100 million yuan Series B financing.

Founded in 2013, after 3 years of rapid development, Weimob has grown from a 16-person small startup team to a company with 2000 employees, with over 1300 global partner agents, and close to 2 million member merchants, its enterprise valuation reached 3 billion yuan. Weimob has quickly developed from the initial WeChat developing service provider to Weimob Group, a diversified Internet enterprise dedicated to mobile social networking field. Based on core value of mobile social networking, with cross-sector software development, advertising marketing, e-commerce, finance, investment and big data, Weimob develops strategic integration, and creates Weimob mobile social networking eco circle. In September 2014, Weimob received Series A investment from Meridian Capital, after subsequently completing Series B financing, in November 2015 Weimob completed Series C financing headed by HNA Group with 500 million yuan, which boosted rapid development of the enterprise.