Introduction

Walden CEL Global Fund I, co-sponsored by CEL and Walden International Group, concentrates on investments into the companies of Semiconductor and Electronic Information industrial chains, consisting of innovative enterprises in microchip, Artificial Intelligence, integration of hardware and software, etc.

Strategy

Walden CEL Global Fund I primarily focuses on global investment opportunities or M&A deals in equity and equity-related securities of growth or mature stage companies in semiconductor or electronic information industries or in or related to the upstream or downstream of these industry chains; especially concentrating on cross-border investments caused by the relocation of semiconductor and electronic information industry development in Asia and Pacific area. Currently, enterprises in Artificial Intelligence sector are still at the early stage, and exploring related technology development and testing, which implies large scale of commercialized application have not emerged in practice. The fund would excavate edge technologic companies with promising applicable potential. 

Advantage

The fund is expected to leverage CEL’s experiences in cross-border investment and capital utilization, while Walden is able to exert its accumulated Semiconductor industrial resources and 30-year fund operational practice. The fund would create obvious synergy effects through importing high-ending technology and thriving business models of the portfolio companies into China’s market to satisfying the urgent demanding regarding Semiconductor and Electronic Engineering advanced technology and related industrial utilization. Meantime, the fund could further contribute to China’s Semiconductor industry technology improvement, upgrade, and development.

Advantage of sponsors

As a leading cross-border asset management platform owned by China’s Central Government, China Everbright Limited (”CEL”) features own principle investment and flexible fund management abilities catering to investors’ various needs. The asset management services cover Primary Market Funds, Secondary Market Funds, Mezzanine Funds and other financial products with U.S. Dollar and Chinese currency. Given that the strategic shareholders of Everbright Bank and Everbright Security, CEL is also able to seamlessly coordinate the multi-dimension resources of China Everbright Group’s banking, security, insurance and other business sectors as a whole to support the portfolio companies.

Walden International Group, an investment management institution concentrating on global Semiconductor and Electronic Information industries, takes the pioneer role of introducing Venture Capital investment to China, and has been consistently devoting in Semiconductor investment over three decades. Walden’s investments cover across 12 countries, consisting of 107 semiconductor companies; successful cases are all top tier enterprises in national and global Semiconductor and Electronic Information industries such as Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, Giga Device, Silergy Corp., DJI-Innovations, etc.