
September 2024 Newsletter by Influence Matters
Influence Matters September Roundup: Welcome New Partnership, PRovoke Media Award Finalist, China Event Communication
September 30, 2024 | 3 min read
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Dear friends,
I am very honored to have attended the PRovoke Awards dinner in Singapore, where we proudly celebrated being named a finalist. This milestone serves as a significant encouragement for our team and partners. Thank you for the support and trust along the way.
The team in China did awesome work again this month, some examples, below, but most excitingly, we welcome a new client in Morphotonics, a pioneering leader in large-area nanoimprint lithography technology.
As we approach the first week of October, which marks a national holiday in China, let’s take a moment to celebrate our achievements and the exciting journey ahead!
Wishing you all the best,Simon Vericel
Managing Director & Founder of Influence Matters
On September 19th, Simon attended the PRovoke Awards dinner in Singapore, where we proudly celebrated being named a finalist. This recognition highlights our ongoing success and the value we deliver to our clients in the region.
Influence Matters stands out as the only agency from the Asia-Pacific region to make it to the top four finalists, underscoring the growing importance of hyper-local expertise in our industry.
Our newest client Morphotonics has successfully closed a $10M Series B funding round! We are proud to have shared this news through our PR distribution channels in China, amplifying Morphotonics’ presence in the industry.
IM secured a prime opportunity by aligning the distribution of the byline with the IoT Expo 2024 (IOTE). This strategy garnered substantial media coverage in top media, enhancing brand visibility and establishing thought leadership in the evolving IoT landscape.
IM team leveraged the Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional Chinese holiday, to help SkyCell design relevant posters and share outstanding case studies in the Chinese market, showcasing its high-quality industry achievements.
As start-up funding dwindles, investments are concentrated in a few unicorns, such as those in the integrated circuit sector
Chinese technology company Alibaba (9988.HK), opens new tab released on Thursday new open-source artificial intelligence models and text-to-video AI technology, intensifying its efforts to compete in the booming area of generative AI.
China National Nuclear Power (CNNP) released its first technical service brand “I-Nuclear” on Wednesday, aiming to further provide all-around and multi-level technical support for the safe and efficient operation of nuclear power plants.
The US has proposed rules that would hit many low-value shipments from China with new taxes – a measure aimed at curbing the flood of packages from shopping sites such as Shein and Temu.
China has strongly advised its carmakers to make sure advanced electric vehicle technology stays in the country, people familiar with the matter said, even as they build factories around the world to escape punitive tariffs on Chinese exports.
Influence Matters is a young, fast-growing & passionate entrepreneurial public relations and marketing services firm focused on helping startups, scale-ups, unicorns and mid-size B2B tech companies to create performance-driven influence in China. We serve our clients from our offices in Beijing and Shanghai.
We strive to bring a new, flexible and nimble stakeholder engagement offer to China, tailored to and accessible for fast growing businesses that need a strong partner which can focus on shaping and telling their story, building influence efficiently and consistently, so they can focus on creating technologies that make the world a more interesting place.
We are experts in Tech PR, built on years of experience bridging China and the rest of the world for technology companies with a particular focus B2B high-tech industries mainly centered around three areas: semiconductors & electronic engineering, ebusiness & ecommerce, smart industry, manufacturing and logistics. Our clients serve all industries from retail to fashion, internet to automotive, gaming to professional services, healthcare to finance.