which companies did Ali invest in? A list of companies invested by Ma Yun

1. Search engines, typical cases: Yahoo China and sogou

Ma Yun once said: "The future e-commerce is absolutely inseparable from search engines." Therefore, Ali has made heavy investments in the field of search engines twice.

The two investments were unsuccessful. We still need to wait patiently for Ali to break the search engine.

Second, the local life field, typical cases: Word of Mouth, Meituan, Kuai Taxi, Gaode Map

Since the acquisition of Word of Mouth in 2116, Ali has made many acquisitions and investments in the local life field. Ali hopes to take local life service as the breakthrough point, closely focus on the development direction of localization, focus on catering, entertainment and real estate transactions, base on dozens of large and medium-sized cities across the country, and aim at improving user experience, and develop into the largest localized life community platform in China, and finally bring better user stickiness and reputation to various services under Alibaba Group.

In addition to the above, in the field of local life, Ali's actions include investing $35 million to become the controlling shareholder of Etutong Company, and investing $11 million with Citigroup in tintin network.

3. E-commerce services, typical cases: China Wanwang, Baozun E-commerce and Shenzhen Yidatong

E-commerce are Ali's main businesses, and in order to better serve customers, Ali has also made many investments in the field of e-commerce services.

Fourth, social and mobile Internet, typical cases: Weibo, Momo, UC browser

The social traffic portal can be described as a piece of fat meat. Tencent has occupied a considerable advantage in the social traffic portal by virtue of its accumulated QQ user base and god-class application WeChat for many years, while Baidu has also obtained considerable user data by virtue of its unique search and peripheral product advantages, while Ali still does not have a powerful product to compete with Baidu and Tencent, so Ali has been. Even if you launch your own contacts, you can't open the market under such fierce competition, and contacts have become Ali's chicken ribs. In this case, Ali can only open the situation through acquisition. Let's take a look at Ali's acquisition in related fields.

V. Cultural field, typical cases: Xiami.com, Youku Tudou, and China Digital Media (market research report)

After the completion of this series of acquisitions and investments, Ali's layout in the cultural field has become clear: Alibaba Pictures is responsible for the production of content in the upstream of the industry, and cooperation with China Digital can help its own Ali TV system and hardware terminals with its broadcast control license, content resources and channels, while Youtu and China Digital are responsible for the downstream. As propaganda, the media in the 21th century and the media under the original culture of China have since formed an ecological circle that runs through the upstream and downstream. As a supplement, Evergrande Taobao Football Team has done a good job in expanding the brand effect.

VI. In the financial field, typical cases: Hang Seng Electronics (market research report) and Tianhong Fund

After Ali completed the investment in Tianhong Fund, for Alipay, the micro-finance ecology of Ali will be further improved by going deep into the fund business from the channel role. For Tianhong Fund, Alibaba, backed by deep pockets, jumped to the largest amount of domestic funds overnight, and the future development space should not be underestimated.

VII. Logistics. Typical cases: Best Logistics, Star Express, gooday Logistics and Singapore Post

Modern e-commerce. Logistics may not be the only factor that determines success or failure, but it is definitely one of the key factors. In this respect, JD.COM did the best, and Ma Yun once said that "logistics is the biggest problem that restricts the development of e-commerce". Therefore, Ali's actions in this field are also very frequent.

At present, Ali's domestic and international logistics have been laid out, and its "Rookie Logistics Plan" initiated by Intime, Fuxing, Shunfeng and other enterprises was also launched in May last year. I believe that these investments can bring huge benefits to Ali.