Yiyuan Winery makes a strategic investment in Wang Defang, a time-honored brand in Guizhou.
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Tether makes a $20 million strategic investment in Mercado Bitcoin to accelerate on-chain infrastructure development in Latin America.
Mars Finance reports that stablecoin issuer Tether has announced a $20 million strategic funding round for Latin American on-chain financial services platform Mercado Bitcoin. This funding will support Mercado Bitcoin's development in asset tokenization, payments, lending, capital markets, and compliant digital financial services. Founded in 2013, Mercado Bitcoin has expanded from a digital asset trading platform into a comprehensive on-chain financial infrastructure platform, covering trading services, tokenized investment products, lending, stablecoin payments, banking infrastructure, and cross-border financial services. The funds raised will primarily be used to expand payment infrastructure, increase the scale of tokenized products for institutional and retail investors, develop lending business, advance on-chain capital markets, seek strategic partnerships, and drive international expansion.
Hengdian Capital makes a strategic investment of 200 million yuan in Tianbing Technology
Mars Finance reported on July 7th that Hengdian Capital, a subsidiary of Hengdian Group, recently announced the completion of a 200 million yuan strategic investment in Tianbing Technology, a private commercial rocket company. Tianbing Technology's existing shareholders include national-level capital firms such as CICC Capital and China Orient Capital. Hengdian Capital stated that this investment reflects its confidence in the long-term development of commercial aerospace and the company's technological barriers. It will subsequently leverage Hengdian Group's internal industrial resources to empower rocket R&D and mass production, as well as the group's overall industrial upgrading. Hengdian Capital focuses on Hengdian Group's four major industries: electrical and electronic engineering, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, film and television tourism, and modern services. This investment is also an important step in its strategic positioning of key companies in the commercial aerospace industry chain. (Venture Capitalist CLUB)
Ant Group completes strategic investment in Mint Health, holding over 28% stake and becoming its largest external shareholder.
According to Mars Finance, on July 8th, Ant Group and Mint Health jointly announced a major strategic investment partnership. Following the transaction, Ant Group becomes Mint Health's largest external shareholder, holding over 28% of the shares; Mint Health's founder and CEO, Ma Haihua, remains the company's largest shareholder. The two companies will collaborate to build professional-grade AI health services, focusing on core scenarios such as weight management. The first phase of features is currently available on the Ant Afu App.
Goooo receives strategic investment from Cipher 9, continuing to advance its global prediction market aggregation and intelligent execution infrastructure development.
According to BlockBeats, on July 7th, Goooo secured a $2 million strategic investment from Cipher 9. This investment will support Goooo's continued development in areas such as prediction market aggregation, probabilistic data integration, and AI-powered intelligent analysis and execution systems. This strategic investment from Cipher 9 will further enhance Goooo's resource support in product development, market expansion, ecosystem cooperation, and globalization, providing long-term assistance for Goooo's future prediction market infrastructure construction. Goooo positions itself as an AI-driven global prediction market aggregation and execution gateway, aiming to connect global prediction markets, external data, probabilistic information, and execution systems to provide users with an integrated prediction market experience from event discovery and probability comparison to intelligent execution. Goooo drives the prediction market from a decentralized platform structure to a unified infrastructure network through multi-market aggregation, a unified probabilistic view, cross-platform comparison, and intelligent routing execution. This strategic investment from Cipher 9 marks a new stage in Goooo's global prediction market infrastructure development.
Wang Ruomeng of the National Development and Reform Commission: Sales of AI smartphones and AI computers are expected to surpass those of non-AI products for the first time this year.
According to Mars Finance, at 10:00 AM today, the Shanghai Municipal Government held a press conference. Wang Ruomeng, Deputy Director of the Innovation and High-Tech Development Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, stated that last year, my country's annual shipments of AI-powered smartphones, AI-powered computers, and other smart terminals exceeded 100 million units, and this high growth is expected to continue this year. Sales of AI-powered smartphones and AI-powered computers are projected to surpass those of non-AI products for the first time this year. Currently, my country's AI-native office intelligent agents receive over 20 million monthly visits, with daily meta-calls reaching trillions of times, a significant increase compared to last year. This demonstrates the vigorous development of new products and business models driven by "AI+". (Cailian Press)
SEMI: Global investment in 300mm wafer fab memory equipment is expected to exceed $50 billion for the first time in 2026.
According to BlockBeats, on July 2nd, SEMI, in its "300mm Wafer Fab Outlook Report," indicated that global investment in 300mm wafer fab storage equipment is projected to surpass $50 billion for the first time in 2026, growing by 29% to $52 billion, and further increasing by 11% to $57 billion in 2027. This growth, supported by increased investment in AI infrastructure, data centers, and next-generation computing systems, reflects the continued AI-driven demand for advanced storage. Looking ahead, SEMI projects that global investment in 300mm wafer fab storage equipment will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19% from 2024 to 2029. Global 300mm storage capacity is also expected to continue increasing, reaching 4.1 million wafers per month in 2026 and 4.2 million wafers per month in 2027.