Star Market Daily x 2021 Pioneers to the Star      

On December 15, Shanghai United Media Group | StarMarket Daily released the "2021 Pioneers to the Star" list and the sub-track list. The competition lasted for 3 months. The selection system is authoritative, objective, and standardized, and is based on six dimensions: market performance, financing, innovation, government support, industry chain position, and corporate reputation. Covering more than 100 science and technology companies in the primary market and analyzing multiple industry sectors, 2021 Pioneers to the Star has selected the most innovative companies. At the same time, focusing on the most popular segments in the field of science and innovation, six other related sub-lists are launched to provide comprehensive analysis from the current financial status and financing performance of enterprises. The purpose of this award is to convey the spirit of corporate innovation, provide reference for the comprehensive development of science and technology innovation in various industries, encourage the research and persistence of the core of science and technology innovation, and promote the healthy development of China's science and technology innovation business. 2021 is an extraordinary year for the chip semiconductor industry. Globally, the shortage of chips continues, and domestic and foreign technology majors begin to manufacture chips. News of semiconductor giant companies merging and other news continue to come out, making the semiconductor track is of great concern to capital. In the past five years, the overall annual registration volume of chip-related enterprises in China has shown an upward trend, with an annual growth rate of over 30%. The criteria for the selection of the Pioneer-10 of chip semiconductor companies are the innovation capability, business capability and capital market performance of the company, measured in terms of core team members, R&D staff ratio, order growth rate and benchmark customers of the company in the natural year 2018-2020, and the financing valuation of the company and whether it has the support of relevant industrial funds, respectively.  

◆  Awards  ◆

V Fund has five portfolio companies in the Pioneer-10, namely:

SemiDrive - an in-car chip and smart cockpit chip company

X-EPIC - a global leader in EDA software and systems

AkroStar - an advanced semiconductor IP development company

NETINT - the world's leading VPU chip company

Eigencomm - head of cellular IoT chip development in China