Bikan received angel investment from Huawei. How did it get help during the industry bottleneck period?

Bitcoin skyrocketed in late 2013, with trading platforms raising tens of millions of dollars in financing. Mining machine developers produced tens of thousands of chips, but mining machines were expensive in China and hard to come by.

In 2014, prices continued to be cut in half, the market became increasingly depressed, and fanatical fantasies gradually gave way to calm thinking.

2015 was a year of great baptism for the Bitcoin industry. However, recently, a startup team called "Bikan" in the industry, which is jokingly called "Huawei Gang", successfully completed天使轮of financing and received hundreds of millions of RMB in investment from岚琪创投, an investment institution founded by the "former president of Huawei Wireless R&D".

So, what kind of team is this, and how did they get this investment in such an extraordinary period?

This team is the legendary "Bikan". Bikan is a website focusing on digital currency market information, and its main product is the "币看比特币" mobile application. Currently, the mobile application has realized many innovative functions such as real-time market information, industry news, trading functions, mining monitoring, and sharing and sending coins.

The ancients once said that to be successful, three elements are needed: the right time, the right place, and the right people. What is the right time? The virtual currency market conforms to the development of the times, which has caused countless people to think seriously about the nature of currency. There is a broad space and unlimited future. Technology entrepreneurs at home and abroad have focused on the fertile land of virtual currency, and have continuously made efforts in the fields of cross-border payment, transaction exchange, information transmission, etc. Bikan has set its sights on the virtual currency market and has the courage to forge ahead. It can be said that it has seized the right time.

However, the right time is not as good as the right place. What is the right place? In today's society, the Internet is well developed, and everyone has several screens. Whoever can successfully occupy the client can be the best in the world. Bikan is precisely targeting this. Since the team was established in March 2013, it has successively launched Android and iOS versions and successfully entered the market. In 2014, Bikan seized the "beauty effect" and successfully planned two marketing activities to push the Bikan brand to an unprecedented height. In January 2015, it was boldly innovative and launched the new function of "Share to Send Coins", opening a new model for advertising and promotion of virtual currency applications. In June, the overseas version was launched. Now, Bikan Bitcoin has firmly ranked first in the market share of similar products in the domestic market, which can be said to be in a good place.

The advantages of location are not as good as harmony among people. What is harmony among people? Although the Bikan team has only four people, it is a small but beautiful team with talented people. The four-person team is called the "华为帮" by people in the Bitcoin circle. Since its inception, the team has been composed of four former Huawei employees with more than 10 years of work experience:

• Liu Yang, CEO of Bikan, former department director and head of the wireless new business department at Huawei;

• Liu Aihua, founder of Bikan, worked at Huawei for 13 years and served as a senior project consultant;

• Tang Weihua, CTO of Bikan, former Huawei employee, former system architect of a US listed company;

• Yu Fang, COO of Bikan, is a former senior community product manager and operations manager at Huawei and Tencent.

Of course, this team has a lot of fun in their spare time, and they formed a small band, including guitarists, drummers, bassists, and lead singers. They wrote and adapted their own music, and the song "I Won't Sell It Even If I Die" adapted from the song of Shin Band became a big hit in the circle, which seemed hysterical but full of interest.

When the time, place and people are all right, what do investors think of this young and energetic team?

Zhu Haobing, former president of Huawei Wireless Global Strategy, Marketing and R&D, once managed R&D funds of 1 billion US dollars per year and is currently in charge of Lanqi Venture Capital. When he talked about why he wanted to invest in the Bitcoin field and firmly identified the "Bikan" brand, Zhu Haobing said:

“We don’t know what kind of revolution Bitcoin will bring to the existing financial world, how long this revolution will last, and what kind of balance will be reached in the end. But we know that we cannot be afraid of changes in the world, even if sometimes we don’t understand it. The only way is to bravely embrace change and actively participate in it, with the goal of making the world a better place, that one day dreams will change the world. The team is the core power of the enterprise, and the innovation, cohesion, international vision and operation ability of the founders of Bikan make us full of confidence in them.”

In the field of virtual currency, there is no shortage of geniuses and miracles, but those who can hold on to the end are always the ones who work hard and steadily. Regarding the primary plan after Bikan’s financing, Bikan CEO Liu Yang said:

“The first plan is在美国设立公司, enter the international market, and gradually build Bikan into a world-class Bitcoin service platform. This is also the first step that Bikan needs to achieve with the help of capital. The second step will focus on the combined application of比特币与传统领域. Einstein once said, 'I never think about the future, it comes too fast.' The Bikan team firmly believes that as long as聚焦为客户创造价值, the future development plan will be self-evident.”

Bikan not only takes the lead in显示行情conditions on mobile terminals, but also aggregates and displays real-time market conditions of dozens of domestic and foreign Bitcoin exchanges, such as BITSTAMP, okcoin, Huobi, chbtc, etc.; it also deeply integrates information, comments, transactions and other content, and cooperates with famous Bitcoin information websites such as 8btc, Bitcoin Home, CoinDesk, NEWSBTC, CoinNewsAsia, etc. to push the latest消息资讯in the first time. It has also reached agreements with交易platforms such as Bitcoin China, Yunbi.com, and Bither. Users can trade directly on Bikan by binding their accounts.

"币看，必看的比特币行情资讯". They are practicing this slogan with their actual actions, making it more realistic; "The world is a big casino, and time is the final dice." Bikan has already thrown its own dice, and what the final score will be, let all the virtual currency players who love and support Bikan wait and see!