Abstract Innovation Workshop partner Wang Zhaohui resigned, and founded a new fund "Ruchuan Investment Fund", the new fund size of 200 million yuan, will focus on cultural content and sports, it is said that the fund has invested in Huang Lei, Huang Xi, Gu Ye and other projects, in some projects, Xu Xiaoping, Shen Nanpeng and other investment bigwigs have also participated in the investment.
<b>Investment community</b> <b>April</b><b></b> <b>25</b> <b>news </b>Innovation Workshop partner Wang Zhaohui left, and founded a new fund "Ruchuan Investment Fund", the new fund size of 200 million yuan, will focus on cultural content and sports, it is said that the fund has invested in Huang Lei, Huang Xi, Gu Ye and other projects, in some projects, Xu Xiaoping, Shen Nanpeng and other investment bigwigs have also participated in the investment.
Many VCs who left from the original fund avoided announcing the news of their departure in a high-profile manner, and Wang Zhaohui generously said in his circle of friends, "'Ruchuan Investment Fund' officially debuted today. We have just been on the road, dear seniors, colleagues more to carry, more advice! Perhaps such generosity is inseparable from the maintenance of Wang Zhaohui's good relationship with his old owner, even if he leaves, Kai-Fu Lee has publicly stated, "This new fund uses Zhaohui's good connections and can form a complementary relationship with the innovation workshop."
In addition, Shen Nanpeng, Xu Xiaoping, Cai Wensheng, Chen Kexin, Han Han, Hu Haiquan and even football star Zheng Zhi are its LPs, and it can be seen from the LP lineup that Wang Zhaohui's network maintenance ability is not ordinary. At the same time, the LP resources spanning the VC circle, the deduction circle, the writer circle, and the sports circle are also very consistent with the starting point of Ruchuan Investment Fund's focus on culture and sports.
After Wang Zhaohui left, his successor at Innovation Factory will be Wang Chao, former founder and editor-in-chief of IT Manager World Magazine, who will serve as the operating partner and CMO of Innovation Workshop.
In recent years, the number of investors who have set up new funds from their old owners has gradually increased, and tong Weiliang, the former partner of Gobi Venture Capital, left his post to establish Wutong Capital; zhang Zhen and Gao Xiang, former IDG partners, left IDG to establish Gaorong Capital; former Dexun Investment Deng Haitao established Zhicheng Capital...
Compared with traditional investment institutions, the new institutional funds established by these VCs are smaller, the field of concern is more vertical, the playing style is more flexible and free, and there are also breakthroughs in the fund innovation mechanism, in the "best era of entrepreneurship", investment is also entering the "best era", the new fund is facing a better situation of fundraising, and also have to accept the screening difficulties brought about by the outbreak of entrepreneurial projects, but the arrival of the new era of VC is also the best response to the arrival of the best era of entrepreneurship.
![Wang Zhaohui, who helped the innovation workshop get Ma Dong, left and set up the "Ruchuan Fund" to dig up projects from the address book[fig]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=)