The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party sent letters to GGV Capital, GST Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and Walden International
In their letter, Gallagher and Krishnamoorthi linked dozens of particular investments to human rights violations and efforts to enhance China's military, which runs counter to American interests.
The firm with the most potentially problematic investments, according to the letter is GGV Capital, which has offices in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore. The letter identified 43 different investments in Chinese AI companies from 2015 to 2021, more than any other identified by independent researchers at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology.
Gallagher and Krishnamoorthi identify GGV's investment in Megvii, a Beijing-based facial recognition software provider, as a point of concern. The company "actively supports the surveillance of Uyghurs," the letter says. Walden, a smaller firm, was identified as a particularly significant backer of Chinese AI companies. The letter said that from 2015 to 2021, at least 39% of the firm's AI deals were in that sector, including one investment in a now blacklisted company called Intellifusion.
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