{"id":140002,"date":"2020-09-22T12:57:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T10:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/?p=140002"},"modified":"2020-09-23T14:06:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T12:06:06","slug":"wm-motor-atrae-1-25-mil-millones-de-euros-en-ronda-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2020\/09\/22\/wm-motor-attracts-1-25-billion-euros-in-d-round\/","title":{"rendered":"WM Motor atrae 1.250 millones de euros en una nueva ronda de financiaci\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La startup china de coches el\u00e9ctricos WM Motor ha generado ya 1.250 millones de euros ($1,47Bn o 10.000 millones de RMB). La ronda de financiaci\u00f3n m\u00e1s reciente fue liderada por la plataforma de inversi\u00f3n de SAIC Motor y la Comisi\u00f3n Municipal de Supervisi\u00f3n y Gesti\u00f3n de Activos de Shangh\u00e1i.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Seg\u00fan <em>Gasgoo<\/em> La \u00faltima financiaci\u00f3n de WM Motor, de 10.000 millones de yuanes, es la cantidad m\u00e1s alta jam\u00e1s alcanzada por una sola ronda de recaudaci\u00f3n de fondos lanzada por startups de veh\u00edculos el\u00e9ctricos. La estelar startup china de coches el\u00e9ctricos destinar\u00e1 la financiaci\u00f3n a la I+D de tecnolog\u00edas inteligentes, la construcci\u00f3n de la marca, el marketing digital y la expansi\u00f3n de los canales de venta.<\/p>\n<p>Es probable que la ronda D sea la \u00faltima ronda de financiaci\u00f3n antes de que WM Motor pretenda salir a bolsa en 2021, seg\u00fan el sitio de noticias de automoci\u00f3n de China <em>Gasgoo,<\/em> citando a una fuente informada de los asuntos de la empresa.<\/p>\n<p>La ronda D de financiaci\u00f3n de WM Motor est\u00e1 liderada conjuntamente por una plataforma de inversi\u00f3n estatal (la Comisi\u00f3n Municipal de Supervisi\u00f3n y Administraci\u00f3n de Activos Estatales de Shangh\u00e1i) y el fabricante estatal de autom\u00f3viles SAIC Motor, ambos con sede en Shangh\u00e1i al igual que WM Motors (junto con la f\u00e1brica de Tesla en China). Entre los dem\u00e1s inversores figuran grandes nombres como Baidu, SIG, Yangtze River Industry Fund, Suzhou Kunshan Industry Fund, State Development &amp; Investment Corp., Guangzhou Finance Holdings, Sino IC Leasing, Tsinghua Unigroup, Hongta Group y AGILE.<\/p>\n<p>Poco antes de conocer la noticia de su financiaci\u00f3n, WM Motor anunci\u00f3 sus principales socios y proveedores: La empresa estadounidense Qualcomm, cuyos chips de cabina Snapdragon impulsar\u00e1n la experiencia en cabina de la startup; la plataforma tecnol\u00f3gica de c\u00f3digo abierto para veh\u00edculos aut\u00f3nomos Apollo, de Baidu, cuyo sistema de conducci\u00f3n aut\u00f3noma dotar\u00e1 a los veh\u00edculos de WM de capacidad de autoaparcamiento; Unisplendour, nacida de la Universidad Tsinghua de China, que se encargar\u00e1 de la parte de hardware de la conducci\u00f3n aut\u00f3noma; y, por \u00faltimo, la empresa de circuitos integrados Sino IC Leasing, que trabajar\u00e1 en la \"conectividad del autom\u00f3vil\" para WM Motor. Esta \u00faltima empresa est\u00e1 especializada en la financiaci\u00f3n de leasing, adem\u00e1s de invertir en los campos de los circuitos integrados y los semiconductores.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La startup china de coches el\u00e9ctricos WM Motor ha generado ya 1.250 millones de euros ($1,47Bn o 10.000 millones de RMB). La ronda de financiaci\u00f3n m\u00e1s reciente fue liderada por SAIC<\/p>","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":139996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9930],"tags":[3701,98,13147,13249,20996,959,3219,7405,13248,6939],"class_list":["post-140002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automobile","tag-bev","tag-china","tag-electric-suv","tag-ex5","tag-ex6","tag-saic","tag-shanghai","tag-startup","tag-weltmeister","tag-wm-motor"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":"<p>In announcing these partnerships, <a href=\"https:\/\/m.weibo.cn\/status\/4547276947590213?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WM Motors said<\/a> these technologies would go into: &#8220;A smart car with the Internet of Everything, Xiaowei and friends built together! In the field of intelligence, Weltmeister Motors teamed up with Qualcomm, Baidu, Ziguang, Xinxin and other partners to build the strongest intelligent ally of the car, making the car smarter and understand you better!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The startup recently announced its plans for the next 3-5 years. The company aims to allocate 20 billion yuan (2.95 billion US dollars) and 3,000 engineers to work on 5G-powered smart cockpits, Level-4 driving and other emerging auto technologies. These will be directed into mass-produced products and services placed in mainstream price ranges. WM Motors aims to manufacture what they are calling &#8216;Everything Connected&#8217; mobility terminals, which they say will best suit Chinese spec users&#8217; demands and road conditions.<\/p>\n<p>WM Motor currently offers two series models: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2018\/04\/26\/wm-motor-starts-selling-debut-model-ex5\/\">The EX5 was launched in China in April 2018<\/a>. The 30,000th unit is scheduled to be delivered at the beginning of July. This was followed in November 2019 by the EX6, of which almost 900 units were registered in the first half of 2020. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2020\/07\/29\/wm-motor-plans-3-new-models-before-the-end-of-2021\/\">A further model is to follow this year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2019\/03\/09\/chinese-startup-wm-motor-raises-around-400-million-euros\/\">In March 2019<\/a>, WM Motor raised around 400 million euros in a financing round led by China&#8217;s Google, Baidu. The investment primarily went into R&amp;D as WM Motors and Baidu started their &#8216;Intelligent Vehicle Joint Research Center&#8217;. In October 2018, the company was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2018\/10\/25\/wm-motor-to-pick-up-288-million-in-additional-funding\/\">reportedly<\/a> able to raise 288 million USD for both manufacture and R&amp;D.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The closing of the D round financing indicates that investors are upbeat about the prospect of the intelligent new energy vehicle industry, and highly recognise WM Motor&#8217;s position as a technology innovation company, its long-term development strategy, outstanding core talent team and industry-leading cutting-edge technologies,&#8221; said Freeman Shen Hui, WM Motor&#8217;s founder, chairman and CEO.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/autonews.gasgoo.com\/report\/70017566.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gasgoo.com<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/09\/21\/wm-motor-1-47-billion-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">techcrunch.com<\/a><\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}