The first cup of start-up coffee sold four years ago has now hatched more than 1400 service startup teams.

At 3 p.m., Tong Wei, partner of "very Lianchuang", is convening a monthly work meeting in the creative industry park of Jinjiang District and the office area on the 22nd floor of Block D of Huirong International Plaza. On the glass partition of Tong Wei's office, the layout of the 12 branches in Chengdu is clear at a glance.

Before August 2016, "very joint venture" was also called "very coffee". In September 2012, the first store of "Ten Coffee" officially opened. Entrepreneurs spend 18 yuan here, order a cup of coffee, and they can sit all day. Funds, projects and policies collide here. More than four years have passed, and "very Coffee" is becoming more and more popular among entrepreneurs and investors. In 2015, "Ten Coffee" was rated as "Chengdu Ten Volkswagen Creative Space" and was recognized as a national mass creative space. Today's "very joint venture" is not just about selling start-up coffee.

The "ten" family already has 12 entrepreneurial carriers.

As the housekeeper of the "very" family, Tong Wei has a full schedule every day. In addition to the deployment of the current 12 branches in Chengdu, we are also discussing cooperation with more than 10 cities across the country to lay out the national market.

In 2012, Ma Lin, founder of Ten Coffee, opened the first start-up cafe in Chengdu, a service platform intertwined with coffee and entrepreneurship, attracting investors and entrepreneurs, talent headhunters and even government and financial institutions. Ma Lin recalled that when the first event was held, there were only a dozen people. Two years later, stores in Tianfu New District and area An of the Software Park opened one after another. "Ten Coffee" became more and more popular among entrepreneurs and investors, and at least hundreds of people participated in an event.

As the first batch of innovative incubator cultivated in Chengdu, "very Coffee" is not willing to sell a cup of entrepreneurial coffee. "We want to make 10% Coffee bigger and stronger." Tong Wei, an alumnus and good friend of Ma Lin, witnessed the growth and development of "very Coffee". Tong Wei resigned from his post as COO and vice president of a software services company in October 2015 to join Ten Coffee. From 2015 to 2016, the number of new "ten coffee" stores increased by nine. Tong Wei told Chengdu Evening News that at present, 12 entrepreneurial carriers have been operated by the "very" family, covering Chengdu Tianfu New District, High-tech Zone, Jinniu Zone, High-tech West District, Longquanyi District, Pidu District, Jintang and other districts (cities), with a total operating area of more than 30,000 square meters.

From Chengdu to Zhongguancun Entrepreneurship Street

"We don't just sell start-up coffee, but we build a whole chain of services for start-ups." Tong Wei said that in August 2016, "very Coffee" was upgraded to "very Joint Innovation", which means "unite you and me to create the future". It has service brands such as "very Coffee", "very Capital", "very Entrepreneurship Service system", "very Space" and "very Industrial Park". In terms of service content, from the beginning only relying on coffee shop venues to do activities, entrepreneurs can now provide joint office space, enterprise service registration, personnel recruitment, media promotion, administrative office and other one-stop services. "what is provided to entrepreneurs is mainly people, money and services." Tong Wei said that "very Lianchang" cooperates with many large recruitment platforms to provide human resources for start-up enterprises; "very Capital" has signed up with more than 300 investment institutions to provide capital support for start-up projects, and regular meetings between investors and entrepreneurs are held to promote the exchange and docking of capital and projects.

The reporter saw on the 21st-22nd floor of Block D of Huirong International Plaza that the office area of more than 1700 square meters was full, and 20 start-ups were stationed, involving cultural creation, intelligent hardware, Internet and other fields. In addition to a separate office area, there are negotiation rooms, conference rooms and other public service space. "We not only do not charge rent, but also provide office desks and chairs, air conditioners, printers, etc., as well as free Internet, entrepreneurs can move in with bags." Tong Wei said.

The Red Hat legal Guardian, who is well-known in the industry, is an excellent project incubated by "very Coffee". This is a legal O2O software dedicated to giving every user free legal protection. "very Coffee witnessed the Red Hat legal Guard's process from 0 to 1 and provided as much help as it could." Wang Chao, co-founder of Red Hat legal Guard, said frankly that "very Coffee" fully supports the provision of venues, media publicity, project guidance or investment and financing docking. Subsequently, the Red Hat legal Guard completed 10 million yuan of angel + round financing and made its debut in Zhongguancun Entrepreneurship Street.

It is understood that "very joint venture" has signed 82 entrepreneurial mentors, held more than 700 large and medium-sized entrepreneurial salons and entrepreneurial activities, and absorbed 311 "ten capital" cooperative investors and 330entrepreneurial cooperation institutions. So far, it has incubated and served more than 1400 entrepreneurial teams, with a total valuation of more than 20 billion yuan.

The ecology of mass entrepreneurship and innovation in Chengdu has reached the domestic first-class level.

"Chengdu is the fourth city of mass entrepreneurship and innovation worthy of the name." Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling window on the 22nd floor, Tong Wei said. In 2006, after graduating from the School of Information Technology of Southwest Jiaotong University, Tong Wei went to work at Huawei headquarters and worked from the operation level to the COO assistant and operation manager of Huawei consumer BG for seven years. With the opening of the national mass entrepreneurship and innovation curtain, especially the upsurge of innovation and entrepreneurship in Chengdu, he had the idea to break away from the big platform and venture out on his own.

Tong Wei said that "very joint venture" has been inseparable from good policy support and a good entrepreneurial atmosphere. "all kinds of government policies encourage people to innovate and start businesses." In this context, as the first innovative incubator in southwest China to engage in entrepreneurial services, the "very" team sets up theme points in different regions, such as the pan-entertainment theme of the high-tech zone, the theme of cultural creation and Internet intelligent devices in Jinjiang District, the agricultural theme of Internet + in Jintang County, and the automobile market theme of Longquanyi District. At the same time, vigorously support high-quality entrepreneurial teams, each joint office space, built within 3 months to achieve 100% occupancy rate.

The reporter learned from the Municipal Science and Technology Bureau that as of 2016, there were 231 mass entrepreneurship and innovation carriers in our city, covering an area of 16.03 million square meters. By the end of 2016, various innovative and entrepreneurial institutions in Chengdu had carried out 2442 activities, with more than 300 venture capital institutions docking with more than 6000 start-up enterprises and 400000 people participating in them. According to incomplete statistics, the actual financing amount of start-up enterprises in Chengdu reached 3.6 billion yuan in 2016. Sichuan University, Pidu District and China Telecom (Chengdu) were selected as the country's first 28 mass entrepreneurship and innovation demonstration bases in 2016, according to a person in charge of the Municipal Science and Technology Bureau. As the only vice-provincial city with three demonstration bases of schools, prefectures and enterprises, Chengdu's innovation and entrepreneurship ecology has reached the domestic first-class level.

Chengdu Evening News reporter Huang Haiying reported by photography.

Chengdu: the fourth city of mass entrepreneurship and innovation

335000 households

In 2016, the main body of the newly registered market in Chengdu was 335000, an increase of 34.63 percent over the same period last year, with an increase of 922.8 billion yuan in registered capital, an increase of 40.98 percent over the same period last year, ranking second among vice-provincial cities in the country.

12000

In 2016, Chengdu added 12000 science and technology enterprises, an increase of 9.1% over the same period last year; the whole society invested 25.8 billion yuan in R & D, an increase of 16.8% over the same period last year; 98000 patent applications and 39000 invention patent applications, up 26.7% and 32.6% respectively over the same period last year The number of high-tech enterprises reached 2098, and the output value of high-tech industries reached 838.7 billion yuan. Chengdu continues to remain in the forefront of the vice-provincial cities, and is the only one of the vice-provincial cities approved as a national demonstration city of intellectual property pledge financing and patent insurance.

10 billion yuan

In 2016, Chengdu set up various financial support funds with a scale of no less than 10 billion yuan, such as venture capital guidance funds, industrial investment guidance funds, talent venture investment funds, and angel investment guidance funds of 230 million yuan. set up 370 million yuan of science and technology debt financing risk compensation funds to provide 1.33 billion yuan of "science and technology loans" to 581 science and technology small and medium-sized enterprises. In the whole year, 120 new "new third board" listed enterprises were added, and the cumulative number of listed enterprises reached 215.