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The venture capital market has gone through several years of continuous decline and logical transformation, with less and less room for innovative projects to survive, while industrial technological innovation continues to accelerate forward. Half of 2023 has already passed, what is the most focused track for investment institutions in the first half of the year? Which companies are the most important targets for investors? How to discover high-quality investment opportunities from massive projects? In order to further eliminate the information gap between the two ends of venture capital and provide a new perspective for the market, 36Kr Venture Capital Platform has launched a semi annual collection of "Most Concerned Projects by Investors" based on the preferences and connection situation of more than 3000 certification agencies' front-line investors, including 130 companies from more than ten emerging tracks.
According to data from the 36Kr venture capital platform, nearly ten million visits related to projects were generated within the platform in the first half of the year, and tens of thousands of companies successfully established connections with investment institutions through the platform. Thanks to the continuous exploration, inclusion, exposure, and promotion of high-quality enterprises, the search and docking frequency within the venture capital platform has maintained significant growth despite the market downturn.
Analyzing the focus of investors from the distribution of tracks, advanced manufacturing has taken the lead in terms of quantity, quality, and frequency with absolute advantages; With the breakthrough and continuous popularity of ChatGPT, local start-ups in big models, AIGC and other related directions have also sprung up, becoming the absolute hot spot in the first half of the year; In recent years, cutting-edge technologies, medical and health care, energy and environmental protection, and enterprise services, as well as domestically produced alternative directions such as chip semiconductors and intelligent hardware, are still being focused on by investment institutions.

In addition, with the official opening of the state-owned era of equity investment and the further enhancement of regional industrial development demands, "specialized, refined, unique and new" enterprises, as an important support for China's intelligent manufacturing and industrial upgrading, have also gained significant favor from capital. Among the companies that were connected to the platform in the first half of the year, 17% were identified as specialized, refined, new, small, or small giant enterprises, which not only accounted for a high proportion but also showed a very rapid growth trend. It is expected that the trend will further amplify in the second half of the year.
In summary, based on the data from 36Kr Venture Capital Platform, and through comprehensive calculation and selection of big data such as search, browsing, and docking of platform certification institutional investors since the first half of 2023, while considering the openness and acceptance of enterprises, 36Kr Venture Capital Platform has released an exclusive project list of "Top 30 Most Popular Projects in the First Half of 2023- Specialized, Refined, and New" and "Top 10 Most Popular Projects in the First Half of 2023- Top 10 Fields". From the market dynamics in the first half of 2023, we anticipate the future market trends and jointly focus on the most popular entrepreneurial projects in the most favored fields by investors.

Top 30 Most Popular in the First Half of 2023- Specialized, Refined, Unique and New
Composed of the most popular and open new projects among investors on the platform in the first half of 2023, all projects support one click contact.

【 Special Reminder 】 The 36Kr Venture Capital Platform has included the above project roster in the form of a collection on the "36Kr Venture Capital Platform". You can click on the poster or scan the mini program code on the poster to view the detailed information of each company. If you are interested in a company, you can click "Contact" to initiate a direct contact.
The 36Kr Venture Capital Platform combines strong media power, data mining research capabilities, and professional service capabilities to deeply connect with China's innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, and is committed to becoming the preferred connection platform for participants in China's new economic ecosystem. Since its launch, the platform has attracted over 200000 high-quality enterprises and active investors from more than 3000 first tier institutions. In the past six months, over 10000 enterprises have received capital attention and advanced financing actions on the platform. At the same time, the enterprise integration innovation platform is about to be launched to help small and medium-sized innovative technology enterprises connect with large enterprises in the industry chain and seek common development.
You can view the latest news in the venture capital market and high-quality projects in various fields through the official website, app, and mini program of "36Kr Venture Capital Platform". Certified institutional investors can also experience one click quick connection.