On November 6, Shanghai Securities News published an article titled VC community overwhelmed with excitement: Sci-tech Innovation Board is great reform, general direction, general trend, and interviewed Shanghai Sci-tech Capital under Shanghai International Group (SIG) about the establishment of the Sci-tech Innovation Board. Here is an excerpt from the article:
Shanghai Sci-tech Capital set up by SIG has a scale of 30 billion yuan. Yesterday its management told Shanghai Securities News that the Sci-tech Innovation Board is a major move to strengthen the strategies of innovation drive and technology power, push for high-quality development and support the building of Shanghai into an international financial center and a technology innovation center. From the perspective of enhancing the effectiveness of the capital market and adding quality technology innovation resources, it is a "supply-side structural reform" for the capital market. It will make up the deficiency of the capital market in serving technology innovation, and help better promote technology innovation, guide value investment and foster quality technology innovation enterprises.
The management added that the establishment of the board and the pilot implementation of the registration system are just like "a spring breeze arriving overnight". The VC market is characterized by long investment period, weak market liquidity and limited exit channels. The launch of the board will effectively improve capital exit channels, and create an equity investment closed loop of "raising, investment, management and exit", thus guiding more capital in supporting technology innovation enterprises.