Introduction of Tencent M&A Investment Department

20 1 1 At the beginning of the year, Tencent announced the establishment of an industrial * * * win fund with an initial scale of 5 billion. According to informed sources, its investment scale has exceeded10 billion yuan at the beginning of 20 14, and its investment projects cover program software, mobile phone application software, games, online travel, finance, maps and e-commerce.

Tencent has invested in M&A for a long time. Together with WeChat, it belongs to the Enterprise Development Department of Tencent and reports directly to Liu Chiping, President of the Group. The investment direction is mainly divided into sub-sectors, including e-commerce, games, O2O, hardware, technology and media.

Tencent's M&A investment department has only about 20 employees. The recruitment advertisement of the department impressively shows: "Our investment team comes from Google, Microsoft, Bertelsmann Investment, Jingwei Venture Capital, Morgan Stanley, and all have the background of Peking University, Tsinghua or overseas famous schools."