Yuhang "Dream Town", covering an area of 3 square kilometers, adopts the integrated development of "Internet entrepreneurial town" and "Angel Town". The town was opened on March 28, 2015, and has gathered 58 fund and investment institutions, with a capital management scale of more than 11.5 billion yuan; 7 incubator companies have been introduced; nearly 100 projects have been declared and the number of entrepreneurial teams has exceeded 2,000. Its goal is to gather 10,000 college student entrepreneurs, 2,000 entrepreneurial projects, and 300 funds (management) and related institutions within three years.
1. The superposition of incubation and funds, strangling the key links of the entrepreneurial ecosystem
Dream Town adopts the integrated development of "Internet Entrepreneurship Town" and "Angel Town". Among them, the Internet Entrepreneurship Town focuses on encouraging and supporting "pan-university students" groups to establish enterprises in Internet-related fields such as e-commerce, software design, big data, cloud computing, and animation design. Angel Town focuses on cultivating and developing technology finance and internet finance, gathering angel investment funds, equity investment institutions, and wealth management institutions.
Through incubation and fund stacking, Dream Town firmly grasps the two most critical and difficult links in entrepreneurship, so that "talent" and "capital" are seamlessly connected.
Construct the entire incubation chain of "entrepreneurship nursery + incubator + accelerator". Many crowd-creation spaces only provide a place to incubate ideas, while the dream town wants to build a complete incubation chain, providing targeted and professional incubation services for startups and teams at different stages of development: nursery stage, through Select or recommend from venture capital operators, give the nursery enterprises a zero-cost incubation period of 3 to 6 months, and set up a strong lineup of mentors to advise on the project; in the incubator stage, the incubating enterprises can enjoy the town’s various policy preferences; In the accelerator stage, high-growth companies that have graduated from the incubator can enter the accelerator and can enjoy the follow-up customized service of the management committee's "incubation plan" until the merger and listing.
Create "full-stage financial services" covered by the three major funds. Aiming at the venture financing link, Angel Fund Town has perfected the venture investment and financing mechanism, established angel investment guidance funds and venture loan risk pools, cooperated with banks to innovate financial products, and used government investment to drive venture capital, and venture capital to drive incubation services, thereby enhancing the government Benefits of fund use. At present, the town has gradually established a financial service system covering different stages of enterprise start-up, growth, and maturity. The three main funds are angel funds, venture capital, and government industry guidance funds; it has absorbed the Provincial Information Industry Fund, Sequoia Capital, IDG capital and other high-quality projects settled in.
2. Promote innovation with competition, and vigorously support the innovation and entrepreneurship of the "pan-university student group"
Dream Town strives to support the innovation and entrepreneurship of the "pan-university student group". According to statistics from Hangzhou Administration of Industry and Commerce, as many as 8,876 enterprises have been founded by university students in Hangzhou, and more than 19,000 entrepreneurial undergraduates. Among them, Zhejiang University is the mainstay, and the electronics and computer related fields are the hottest. The entrepreneurial atmosphere far exceeds Tsinghua University and Peking University. The location of Dream Town is just adjacent to Zhejiang University, Hangzhou Normal University and other universities, and a special Zhejiang University alumni incubator is set up, determined to firmly grasp the trump card of talents.
To this end, the Hangzhou Future Science and Technology City Management Committee, based on the characteristics of college students’ innovation and entrepreneurship, actively builds a platform, promotes innovation through competitions, and builds an "Entrepreneurship Pioneer Camp". Current students and college students within 10 years of graduation) gather.
For these “four no youths” who have no capital, experience, market, and support, the government proposed that “I am responsible for the rain, dew and sunshine, and you are responsible for thriving”, and give super-strong preferential support: there are “3+2” rent concessions , Resident companies are rent-free for three years. If they obtain the first round of financing of 3 million yuan and above within three years, they can also increase the two-year rent-free period. 300,000 yuan of commercial loan discounts and various property, cloud services, and intermediary subsidies.
In addition, Yuhang District has also established the Science and Technology Park Innovation and Entrepreneurship Mentor Group to implement the entrepreneurial mentor system for college students; employ entrepreneurship trainers, successful entrepreneurs and experts from relevant government departments to provide assistance in the form of individual guidance, consultation guidance, lecture guidance, and consultation guidance. The college students who settled in the dream town will improve their entrepreneurial practice ability and cultivate future entrepreneurs.
3. Strengthen government service functions and optimize public supporting facilities
The Yuhang District Government and relevant departments specially formulated "Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of Dream Towns—Angel Towns" and "Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of Dream Towns—Internet Entrepreneurship Towns for College Students", forming two policies Support. At the same time, prepare for the establishment of an entrepreneurial service center, and strive to provide professional entrepreneurial services to ensure that the policies are in place.
As the manager of the dream town, the Future Science and Technology City Management Committee has transformed its service consciousness under the Internet thinking, created a one-stop service hall and a "cloud platform" service system, and realized a combination of "online + offline" characteristic services.
In addition, the district government and the Future Science and Technology City Management Committee continue to optimize public supporting facilities around the town’s industrial form and development requirements, and strive to build the town into a charming town suitable for business, living, and travel:
Put forward the principle of "three births" development, ecological first. The town is close to Xixi Wetland and Xianlin Harbor, which highlights the "ecological" characteristics in environmental construction. Put forward the principle of "three births" for town building: "Ecology first, life second, and production again". Embedded development is carried out on the natural floor. One-third of the area of the core area will maintain the original ecology, including rice fields, vegetable fields, water systems, etc. .
Improve the holographic life supporting facilities. The town builds a perfect town life from the four aspects of food, housing, transportation and fun. In terms of spatial layout, it is set up according to the three-thirds of entrepreneurial office, life and spiritual culture, creating three characteristic supporting facilities for business, residence and network. Commercial facilities include the canteen operated by Diandian Wanxi Nian Company, Youyizhan convenience store, etc.; for residence, the introduction of Xiaomi "U+ Apartment"; for network facilities, the three basic networks of broadband, boutique 4G network and wireless WiFi are fully deployed to form A special zone for entrepreneurs with all the internal organs.