
ABCDE presses the pause button. What is the current state of survival of Chinese VCs?
Source: ChainCatcher Author: Nian Qing Recently, ABCDE Co-Founder Du Jun (Du Jun) officially published an article announcing that ABCDE Capital has stopped investing in new projects and suspended the second phase of the fund raising plan, and announced the launch of a new incubator product, Vernal. ABCDE has launched 19 times in the past year and isn't particularly conservative. Despite having plenty of ammunition, it still can't resist the current boring crypto market. After the FUD VC revolution began, Crypto VC began pressing the pause button under hell-level difficulty. Some chose not to take action and only keep core personnel to maintain post-investment services, and some VCs began to seek transformation to second-level investments, projects, incubators, and crypto marketing. Compared with European and American VCs in the same period, Asian VCs seem to be more conservative. ABCDE investment and research partner Lao Bai asked the question a month ago — why while we are “out of fire” in Asia, Europe and the US are still “firing”; why are they daring to pull the trigger in this valuation? In response to this, he speculates that the reasons may include different exit cycles, differences in investment decisions, and values, Asian VCs are more concerned about yield, and European and American peers are idealistic and long-term. Furthermore, according to investor data from the RootData platform, in terms of the number of launches in the past year, most VCs in Chinese-speaking regions have adopted a more conservative investment strategy, and the number of shots taken was less than 10. Of course, there are also leading venture capitals such as Animoca Brands, OKX Ventures, HashKey Capital, SNZ Holding, Waterdrip Capital, Mask Network, Nomad Capital, and NGC Ventures, which still maintain high-frequency transactions, and have launched more than 20 times in the past year. Although IOSG Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, SevenX Ventures, LongHash Ventures, PAKA, etc. have launched more than 10 times in the past year, the number of investments has decreased significantly compared to the previous year. This article sorts out the current situation of major Chinese-language VCs/VCs founded by Chinese people that have had few launches in the past year. (Note: The data in this article is based on publicly disclosed investments. It is not ruled out that there may be undisclosed internal operations or investments, which may differ from actual investment data.) Continue Captial, founded by Continue Captial Coin Circle OG Pima (Pima), has invested only 0 in the past year. The most recent investment was in March of last year, and participated in io.net's Series A financing. Pima is a senior investor in the cryptocurrency industry. He entered the digital currency field in 2013 and has invested in many well-known blockchain projects. Currently, both the two co-founders and Continue Captial are in a “lying flat” state, and neither the official blog nor Twitter are operating. The latest news about Continue Captial was in October of last year. Lin Xiahong, the co-founder of Continue Capital, is suspected of having stolen 35 million dollars. Lin Xiahong himself wrote on the X platform in response: “I accidentally revealed that I haven't left the ring; I passively made charity headlines.” LD CapitalLD Capital has made only 8 investments in the past year. The most recent investment was in September of last year, which is a significant reduction in the frequency of previous investments. LD Capital also has businesses such as secondary market investments and trading funds. Its funds include Beco Fund, FoF, hedge funds, and Meta Fund. In 2023, LD Capital also established Cycle Ventures, an early-stage investment fund focused on Infra, AI, and Dapps. In response to the VC dilemma, Lee Lihua, founder of LD Capital, said that the decline of Web3 investors was due to changes in hedging rules, low investment success rates, and “good projects, undervaluation, and large amounts” constituting a “triangular problem” that investors cannot balance. He also pointed out that in the end, many investors only get a quota of a few points, and may not only bear financial losses, but also face reputational risks. Bixin Ventures, founded by OG Starry Sky in the Chinese currency industry, has invested only 5 transactions in the past year. The most recent investment was in January of this year, compared to 202...







