Take child care as an example. Scientific early education can stimulate the learning potential of 1-3-year-old infants, and child care institutions that provide early education services can also solve the problem of "no one to take care of children" among contemporary parents. Since 2115, child care institutions that provide early education services have been favored by capital. Although the market prospect of the child care industry is promising, the industry as a whole is still in the primary stage, and there are many problems in the development of the industry. At the same time, investment opportunities for industry development are constantly emerging, and the child care market is still a blue ocean.
child care can not only solve the problem of children without children, but also help to stimulate the potential of infants. China child care is favored by capital.
Relevant research shows that children aged 1-3 are at the peak of intellectual development and have the strongest plasticity. There are two main reasons: 1) The development speed of intelligence is consistent with the development of the brain, and the brain of children aged 1-3 is the fastest, and the weight of the newborn's brain is between 361-391 grams, and it will grow to about 1,111 grams by the age of 3, which has reached 3/4 of the average level of adults (about 1,411 grams); 2)1-3 years old is also a period when children's brain networks are rapidly formed. Scientific early education can promote the development of brain cells and the rapid formation of brain networks.
In addition, from the psychological point of view, early education is the inherent demand of children's growth. We should make full use of the characteristics of critical and sensitive period and active exploration of infants at this stage, and achieve the goal of developing infants' intelligence through scientific early intervention, and at the same time promote infants to continuously absorb and explore different environments. While developing infants' learning potential, we should improve their interest in learning and enhance their learning ability, so as to promote infants to better adapt to their future study life and create a good start for their lifelong development.
The child care institutions with the nature of early education, while helping parents to solve the problem of children without children, lay a good foundation for children's intellectual development through scientific early education intervention. This is exactly the rigid demand of contemporary parents, so large and medium-sized chain brand infant care education institutions are favored by the market.
According to the incomplete statistics of Prospective Industry Research Institute, there have been nearly 41 investment events related to early childhood education and child care since 2115, involving more than 711 million yuan.
Since p>2118, early childhood education institutions such as singing Enlightened English, English prodigy, Dole Bear, Nuno Parenting, Beyond Education, Kangaroo Mama, etc. have all received investment. Among them, Kangaroo Mama, a chain platform for children's custody, has gone through angel round, Pre-A round and A round of financing since 2115. On June 9th, 2118, Kangaroo Mama's Series A financing received tens of millions of RMB investments from Lightspeed China, Shuanghu Capital and Zhang Tao.
On October 2, 2118, Ivy League dad, who focuses on preschool children's education, received a series A+ financing of RMB 51 million from Yuanxing Capital. Since 2115, the organization has experienced angel round, Pre-A round, A round and A+ round of financing, with a total investment of more than 81 million RMB.
The fiery capital market will help to promote the further development of the industry, and at the same time accelerate the competition and integrated development of the industry. Driven by the wave of capital, China child care will enter a period of accelerated development.
the development of the industry is in the primary stage, with many problems, and the market is still a blue ocean.
Although the market prospect of the child care industry is promising, the industry as a whole is still in the primary stage, and the development of the industry faces many problems. For example, there are many child care institutions in China, but the scale is generally small, and most of them do not have relevant qualifications, lack of teachers, large price differences, and many security risks.
Among them, the lack of legal supervision is one of the reasons that restrict the healthy and orderly development of the industry. Lack of legal management and constraints, both industry practitioners and clients can not get the corresponding legal protection. In the face of possible legal disputes, it lacks strong legal protection, and at the same time it cannot meet the requirements of standardizing the healthy development of the industry and fundamentally improving the development level of the industry. Therefore, strengthening the legislative provisions and policy guidance in this field will be an important driving force to promote the healthy development of the field, and will also be an important exploration direction for the development of China's child care industry in the next few years.
the imperfection of industry development is both a challenge and an opportunity. For child care participants, there are also many market investment opportunities in the child care industry.
From the perspective of regional distribution, at present, child care mainly appears in first-tier cities such as Beishangguangshen and Shenzhen, but the market is still not fully satisfied. In other cities outside the first-tier cities, with the improvement of residents' income level and the change of educational concept, there is also a large market growth space.
from the perspective of industrial chain, the development of the industry is still in the exploratory stage, and the resources for the development of the industry have not been fully met. With the continuous expansion of the industry scale, the demand for various elements needed for the development of the industry will also expand rapidly in the next few years. Therefore, all kinds of factors that affect the healthy development of the industry will also usher in an investment opportunity period, such as the training of preschool teachers that affect the service quality of educational institutions, the supply of preschool education content, the supply of preschool education hardware, the supply of preschool catering and other fields that are currently unsatisfied or whose demand will increase rapidly in the future will be more and more favored by the market. The child care market is still a blue ocean.
—— For more data, please refer to the Analysis Report on Market Prospect Forecast and Investment Strategic Planning of China Infant Custody Industry issued by Prospective Industry Research Institute.