Last week, there were 45 investment and financing events in the hard technology field, with 22 financing events in the field of artificial intelligence, accounting for 49%; 13 financing events in the field of blockchain, accounting for 29%; 3 financing events in the field of biomedicine and optoelectronic chips, accounting for 7% respectively; 2 financing events in the field of new energy, accounting for 4%; 1 financing event in the field of 3R (VR/AR/MR) and the Internet of Things, accounting for 2%.
During the financing last week, three companies attracted attention. One is the AI chip startup Suiyuan Technology, which was established in March this year and completed several rounds of financing in less than five months, including the latest Pre-A round of financing led by Tencent. The second company is Yingpu Technology, which has received investments from SenseTime, SoftBank China, and its Series D financing reached RMB 1.36 billion, setting a record for the highest financing in the field of image production. The third one is VR startup Ruilishi, which won 80 million yuan in the A round. At present, it has signed a R&D project contract with the Science and Technology Commission of the Central Military Commission.
Artificial Intelligence
Hui'an Jinke
Artificial Intelligence financial risk control and anti-fraud technology provider Hui'an Jinke completed a round A financing of RMB 100 million, led by Innovation Works, followed by Hillhouse Capital , Danhua Capital, Changfeng Zhiqing and others.
Hui'an Jinke uses semi-supervised learning method to model using a small amount of data without even labels, which can greatly reduce the cost of obtaining labels, increase data usage, and generate higher quality models. It adopts the active machine learning platform, organically combining the ultra-large-scale data processing capabilities of the artificial intelligence big data system and the rich experience of risk control experts, helping the artificial intelligence system automatically learn unknown fraud patterns, track new fraud methods, and constantly adapt to the changing environment, thereby generating machine learning models that can fight fraudsters, making it difficult for fraudsters to avoid detection.
qianyun Technology
hybrid cloud application management provider Qianyun Technology completed a US$5 million A+ round financing led by Qingliu Capital and followed by Yunqi Capital.
Qianyun Technology takes resource cloudization and management intelligence as the entry point to help enterprises build an IT management platform in the era of intelligent and automated clouds. The core product SmartCMP is based on cloud trends, integrating ITOM and ITSM, managing all IT cloud resources of the enterprise, and providing enterprises with a one-stop IT management platform. The platform has been delivered in productively and has been successfully launched in financial, automobile, energy, medical care, government and enterprise industries and other industries.
KUBO Kubao
Warehouse intelligent robot KUBO Kubao received tens of millions of RMB Series A financing, and the investors are Best Logistics and Tsinghua Tongfang Holdings.
KUBO Kubao is mainly engaged in the research and development design of warehousing and logistics equipment, mobile robots and sample processing. It mainly serves e-commerce warehouses or general warehouses, helping them to automate material handling and sorting.
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computer vision company Yingpu Technology completed a round D financing of RMB 1.36 billion. The investors include SenseTime, SoftBank China, Industrial Investment Fund under Oriental Pearl, PAC, Qianhai Wutong M&A Fund, Lanxes Capital, Ge Weidong and other more than ten investment institutions and strategic partners. Relying on the company's leading advantages in the fields of image recognition technology, network video technology, etc.,
Xiangpu Technology is committed to developing a native image interactive platform with revolutionary significance and commercial value. Under the premise of technology-driven, Film and Television Technology has created a new development model, created a native image ecosystem, and achieved a win-win situation for all parties in the industrial chain. It is China's largest intelligent image production technology company.
EasyStack
Open source cloud computing enterprise EasyStack completed a C++ round of financing, invested by JD Group.
EasyStack was established in February 2014. It is a leader in open source cloud computing in China. It provides open, stable, secure, reliable and high-performance cloud computing products and services to enterprise users based on a series of open source technologies such as Linux, OpenStack, Ceph, Kubernetes, Docker, etc. At present, it has built a cloud platform for more than 300 large and medium-sized enterprise customers and has gained a group of overseas customers in its internationalization strategy.
Yingjia Technology
Advanced driving assistance system developer Yingjia Technology received a round A financing of tens of millions of yuan, led by Langmafeng Capital and followed by Kaiying Capital.
The new generation of Hawkeye system developed by Yingjia Technology uses Huawei HiSilicon 3520 chip, which can seamlessly splice the bird's eye view effect and accurately depict the reverse track line using accurate algorithms. In addition, the system also has a panoramic display function. At present, its products have passed many inspections such as parking lots and military, and have obtained many invention patents and utility model patents.
MOV.AI
Industrial robot operating system developer MOV.AI completed a $3 million seed round of financing led by Viola Ventures and NFX.
MOV.AI's operating system uses artificial intelligence to locate, navigate and object recognition. Its operating system-friendly management interface helps optimize complex ROS network management, reducing the complexity of setting up and maintaining large-scale robotic automation systems.
Rui'an Technology
Rui'an Technology has received strategic financing, and the investor is aerospace development.
The company was founded in 2003. It is one of the earliest high-tech enterprises engaged in big data analysis and information mining in China, and is also the earliest supplier of network security big data products and solutions in China. It is committed to the technology research and development, product sales and overall services of big data. The Ayena enterprise-level big data analysis platform developed has formed an interactive comprehensive big data platform product based on data and application-centered through technologies such as data collection, real-time stream processing, objectized entity modeling, online index analysis, offline mining and computing, and open data services. At present, its business direction covers two major industry directions: network security big data and operator big data. It has complete big data solutions and a complete supporting product system, and has been widely used throughout the country.
Tianxiang Aviation
Tianxiang Aviation, which is committed to the development and industry application of plant protection drones, has received a round A financing of tens of millions of yuan, and the leading investor set sail for Jiazi.
Tianxiang Aviation’s current drone products are two models: “Rui R-16” and “Rui R-10”, which are 16kg and 10kg plant protection drones respectively. Both plant protection drones use folding bodies, smart plug-in batteries, smart batteries, autonomous flight, etc. The 16kg level is a six-axis design and the 10kg level is a four-axis design. Users can choose products according to their own needs. In addition to general intelligent functions, Tianxiang Aviation has also installed wheels on the bottom of the drone, which can improve a lot of efficiency during transportation.
Tianran Intelligent
Tianran Intelligent completed a round A financing of 180 million yuan, led by China Merchants Bank International and Gaorong Capital, followed by Ziniu Fund and Wacai Technology.
The company is committed to building the first platform for general artificial intelligence, and through professional AI technologies and services, it helps enterprises, government agencies and individuals build proprietary AI engines to solve problems in daily life and work. At present, Tianran Intelligent's AI technology has been explored and implemented in many fields such as commercial operations, urban management, finance, and education. Among them, in the commercial field, Tianrang Intelligent has developed a number of online marketing intelligent optimization products such as Tianzhuan, Tianche, and Tiantong, helping merchants realize the marketing and operation automation of multiple online advertising platforms such as Alibaba Smart Diamond, Alibaba Express, and Tencent Guangdiantong.
Itanium Innovation
Itanium Innovation completed an angel round financing of tens of millions of yuan, invested by Angruo Capital.
This is a technology company focusing on providing integrated solutions for distributed edge computing microdata centers. The entire solution includes systems such as power supply, monitoring and cooling of microdata centers, and is characterized by movable and rapid deployment.
Zhisiyun
Zhisiyun received strategic financing of tens of millions of yuan, and the investor was Saiyi Industrial Fund.
is a cloud-based talent management and performance management platform. It is committed to providing enterprises with an integrated experience of employee communication, employee collaboration, and employee management. Its characteristics are full-staff connection, data intelligence, and integrated symbiosis, which can make enterprises more convenient to connect employees, information, tasks, and results.
alpha icon
fintech IT solution provider Alpha icon received a 30 million yuan Series A financing, with the investor being Kesbo.
AlphaEnvironment provides financial technology services and solutions such as big data risk control, SaaS-level business systems, supply chain finance, etc. by using related technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data learning, live body recognition, and cloud computing. Their main products include Internet micro-loan systems, real estate mortgage loans, auto loan systems, supply chain finance, etc. In addition, they also have the "AlphaEnvironment Finance Academy", which is committed to providing financial technology education and guidance services to users.
Youfuou
Artificial intelligence technology provider Youfuou Intelligent Technology has completed an angel + round of financing of tens of millions of yuan.
Youfuou is committed to creating an intelligent series of products in the field of artificial intelligence industry and shaping an open smart ecological industrial chain. With NLP technology as the core, Youfuou uses unstructured data analysis to provide AI upgrade solutions, which can be used in enterprise intelligent customer service, financial intelligence, Internet intelligent recommendation, data visualization large screen, etc.
Root AI
US smart agricultural robot developer Root AI received $2.3 million in financing, with investors including First Round Capital, Accomplice, Schematic Ventures, Liquid2 Ventures and Half Court Ventures.
Root AI is committed to using robots to improve the harvesting efficiency of crops. The mobile robots under development are mainly used in the field of indoor planting. They can pick tomatoes, evaluate their health by checking the crops, and perform simple operations, such as pruning vines, observing and picking mature fruits.
Kodiak Robotics
US long-distance freight autonomous driving technology provider Kodiak Robotics completed a US$40 million Series A financing led by Battery Ventures, with CRV, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Tusk Ventures participating.
Kodiak Robotics uses a light detection and range-testing radar system known as LiDAR, as well as camera and sonar technology, focusing on providing autonomous driving solutions for long-distance freight trucks to help improve transportation efficiency and safety.
OckyPocky
OckyPocky completed an angel round of financing, and the investor is a well-known entrepreneurial incubation venture capital ah! Ventures.
is an interactive personalized language learning application for preschoolers that provides English language learning, powered by speech recognition technology, providing children with personalized learning experiences to promote brain development and skills development through the use of natural language processing and artificial intelligence.
Henghai Ocean
Underwater tourism submersible manufacturer Henghai Ocean received a angel round financing of RMB 5 million, and the investors were Chuangshi Capital and a famous angel investor.
Henghai Ocean is committed to the design and research and development of underwater equipment such as underwater sightseeing submersibles, underwater robots, underwater unmanned vehicles, underwater amphibious vehicles, and underwater restaurants.
Yi+
computer vision engine service provider Yi+ (Beijing Moshanghua Technology Co., Ltd.) received a B+ round of financing of RMB 100 million, and the investors are Zhongguancun Development Group, Zhongguancun Bank, etc.
Yi+ provides enterprises with intelligent and commercialized visual content solutions, and is committed to "exploring the value of visual information." The company's brand Yi+ is an artificial intelligence computer vision engine, and Yi+ is a fashionable product search engine. At present, Yi+ provides solutions for "TV+AI", "camera+AI" and "marketing+AI" and "marketing+AI" and "marketing+AI" based on the accumulation of faces, objects, scene detection, recognition, search, and recommendation technologies in video and images.
Xuanyu Technology
Xuanyu Technology completed a round A financing of tens of millions of yuan, led by BV Baidu Venture Capital and Hillhouse Zhicheng, followed by Qingliu Capital and Mingshi Capital.
The company is a high-tech enterprise established by senior managers and overseas returnees, and is committed to the implementation of technology with Industry 4.0 as the blueprint.The company focuses on intelligent construction and transformation in the field of 3C manufacturing: through machine learning and big data analysis, it deeply explores the value of industrial data, and builds an intelligent brain for the entire factory to increase efficiency, reduce costs, reduce staff, and improve yield rates. It has now completed the implementation of multiple processes in multiple factories.
Navya
French autonomous bus company Navya received 30 million euros in equity financing, and the investor was the European Investment Bank.
Navya is a driverless shuttle manufacturer. The product can achieve complete electric automation, can carry 15 people, and the maximum speed can reach 45 kilometers per hour. Previously, Navya also participated in a one-year trial run in Las Vegas, providing passengers with a half-mile (about 1.6 km) loop journey around the city center and launched a number of projects in its domestic market, using a version of its flagship brand Autonom shuttle. To date, it has produced 100 autonomous buses, 89 of which have been sold to 17 countries, including the United States, France, Germany, , Switzerland, , Japan and Australia. Currently, the company is also developing a small version called Autonom Cab, which will begin testing in the near future.
Hazy
Cloud-based AI solutions provider Hazy received a $1.8 million seed round of funding led by UCL (University College London) Technology Fund, and other investors include Nationwide Building Society, Pentland, Amadeus Capital Partners and AI Seed.
Hazy focuses on providing cloud-based AI solutions. The AI platform developed by it is automated through machine learning, allowing organizations to share data through workflow tools that automatically anonymize data, and helps enterprises build a shared system that enables data sets to comply with GDPR standards.
3R (VR/AR/MR)
Ruilishi
Optical motion capture technology and motion recognition technology overall solution Ruilishi completed a round A financing of RMB 80 million, invested by Guangzhou Science City Group.
Ruili Vision mainly captures optical marking points through high-speed cameras, and recognizes and tracks the motion trajectory of objects to achieve three-dimensional large-space human-computer interaction in various environments including VR. In addition, just in July this year, the Science and Technology Commission of the Central Military Commission and Ruilisi successfully signed a R&D project contract to promote the actual product and technology development of the military-civilian integration policy in the direction of the implementation of the project.
IoT
Youfang Technology
IoT wireless communication module product developer Youfang Technology has obtained strategic financing, and the investor is Vanke Property.
Youfang Technology provides industrial module products and industrial Internet of Things solutions with LTE, WCDMA, EVDO, GPRS, CDMA 1X, short-range wireless and other communication standards, including industrial Internet of Things solutions, including cloud products, GPRS modules, CDMA modules, 4G LTE modules, etc., and provides M680, CM180, WM620 and other products.
Biomedical
g Rui Gene
g Rui Gene completed a US$17 million Series A financing led by Qiming Venture Capital and jointly invested by Qingsong Capital and Shengding Investment.
The company was founded in July 2016 and focuses on the development of original applications of CRISPR technology in the fields of novel medicines and molecular diagnosis to solve the clinical needs of incurable tumors and complex hereditary diseases. At present, it has built a gene editing technology platform and a gene delivery platform: on the one hand, drugs and therapies based on gene editing technology are used to promote the market launch of new medicines; on the other hand, it has expanded the high-precision recognition capabilities of applying gene editing technology, and built a technology platform for molecular diagnosis to promote the development and industrialization of original products.
Dongyao Pharmaceutical
Dongyao Pharmaceutical completed a US$102 million Series B financing. Investors include Huitianfu and many well-known domestic and foreign investment institutions. The existing investors include Shengde Group, Weiwu Capital, Cheng Capital, Yuanda Financial Holding Group, and Cathay Venture Capital continue to follow up.
This biomedical high-tech enterprise was founded in July 2010. It specializes in the research and development, production and marketing of new anti-tumor drugs, and specializes in therapeutic biological products, anti-tumor chemical drugs and special dosage form drugs.
SQZ Biotech
cell extrusion technology developer SQZ Biotech has completed a US$72 million Series C financing, with investors including Everblue, Illumina Ventures, Invus, Orient Life and Viva Ventures Biotech Group.
SQZ Biotech's technical principle is to use air pressure to briefly squeeze out some small holes on the cell. These small holes that can only last for a few seconds can transport proteins and other molecules into the cell more effectively without causing any harm to the cell. In oncology, SQZ's extrusion technology can "squeeze" tumor antigen into patients' B cells, allowing them to activate killer T cells to attack tumors.
New Energy
Ample
US electric vehicle charging service provider Ample received a $31 million Series A financing led by Shell Ventures, and other investors include Moore Strategic Ventures, Repsol Energy Ventures, Hemi Ventures and TriRec.
Ample has built a universal charging service station based on automated robots and intelligent battery technology, through which it can fully charge any electric vehicle in a few minutes.
Charging Network Technology
Charging Network Technology completed a Pre-B round of financing of tens of millions of yuan, and the investor was CITIC Capital.
Charging Network Technology was established in July 2014 to serve the electric vehicle market and be positioned in the downstream industry. The company starts from charging operation services, and uses "IoT SaaS cloud service" and AI as its core technology to provide charging operation, operation and maintenance and big data value-added services to electric vehicle manufacturers, charging operators, charging pile manufacturers and commercial real estate and property companies. It is also Tesla's official partner in China.
optoelectronic chip
Suiyuan Technology
Suiyuan Technology received a Pre-A round of financing of RMB 340 million, led by Tencent, followed by Yihe Capital (a fund under Wuyuefeng Capital), Zhen Fund, Datai Capital, Yunhe Capital.
Suyuan Technology was established in Shanghai in March this year. Its product is a deep learning high-end chip developed for cloud data centers and is positioned as an artificial intelligence training platform. Its chip adopts a unique innovative architecture independently developed, with high computing power, high energy efficiency ratio, programmability, low cost, and support for mainstream machine learning frameworks. It is specially designed and optimized for cloud AI training. The main members of the company's R&D team have more than 15 years of experience in the development and mass production of high-end chips and related software ecosystems, and have rich practical experience in engineering and productization, and have successfully developed and mass-produced too many large chips.
Feixin Optoelectronics
lidar chip-level solution provider Feixin Optoelectronics received tens of millions of yuan in pre-A financing, led by Bosch and Obi Zhongguang.
Feicin Electronics focuses on the B2B business model, with the main business of research and development and production of lidar systems and core chips. Its future customer base will mainly target domestic and foreign automobiles, robots, drones and other production and development manufacturers, allowing them to realize obstacle detection, environmental monitoring and other functions. In the early stages of the company's development, the company mainly cooperated with domestic and foreign automotive electronics, vehicle manufacturers and driverless high-tech companies, and has reached strategic cooperation agreements with its main target customers.
Royole Technology
flexible display and sensor developer Royole Technology received a round E financing, and the investors include Yingke Capital.
Royole Technology focuses on the research, development, production and sales of new display and sensing and related electronic products. Its products are widely used in the next generation of flexible display technologies, including new smartphones, wearable electronic devices based on the Internet of Things, and smart homes.
blockchain
coins novice
coins novice received a round of financing, and the investor was Huobi Capital.
This is a professional blockchain ecological information big data platform, aiming to provide users with data mining and analysis, data docking and matching services by aggregating blockchain's entire ecological industry data.
everiToken
everiToken received a cornerstone round of financing of millions of dollars, led by distributed capital, followed by Yuandao Capital, Qianfang Fund, Shuimu Fenghua Fund and Prince Zhuzou Gong.
This is a public chain centered on the token economy. It is necessary to digitize the proof of equity such as assets, certificates, vouchers, event tickets, coupons and other rights in the real world through issuing tokens, and ultimately build it into a system for issuing tokens and circulation.
ELONCITY
ELONCITY received a cornerstone round of investment from Powerlink Labs. The existing investors in this round include OK Capital, Jinkr Capital, Xinghe Capital, Distributed Capital, Lede Capital, Homan Capital, Keyin Capital, Interblock Capital, JRR Crypto, Fly Fund, Qingzheng Capital, and Decentrust Capital.
This is a clean energy blockchain project of POMCube. It is a clean energy power solution based on blockchain technology based on blockchain technology.
Deuro
Deuro completed an angel round of financing of tens of millions of yuan, led by Keyin Capital, Shuimu Tsinghua Blockchain Fund, Taiyou Fund, and followed by AlphaCoin Fund, Skylight Investment, MainNexus Capital, EOS Raychain and other institutions.
The company is committed to breaking information silos by developing an independent and closed-loop sharing incentive mechanism, making it possible to freely flow and share AI data, models and computing power. Deuro will build a high-performance AI public chain. This public chain will carry two blockchain networks, the AI GPU network with Vectority as the consensus and the Turing complete blockchain network that can run smart contracts. It will implement cross-chain technology through Relayer, Gathers, and Linkers to connect two different networks. In addition, Deuro will also solve storage, crawler, evolution, profit and other problems through gStorage, gCrawl, gPredict, and gCompute AI DApp contracts. These four DApps can also solve the pain points currently facing the AI industry.
Use Chain
Use Chain, which focuses on blockchain, has received strategic financing, and the investor is Keyin Capital.
Use Chain links blockchain technology with community construction, social media, merchant promotion, advertising promotion, and e-commerce. By accumulating verifiable transaction data, establishing a personal credit platform, combining user identity, transaction data and credit system, building a new blockchain ecosystem based on identity credit, and committed to developing a decentralized resource sharing ecosystem with self-evolution capabilities.
Ellipal Cold Wallet
Ellipal Cold Wallet received an angel round financing of tens of millions of yuan, led by JRR Crypto, lighting up capital follow-up investment.
This is the world's first one-stop mobile transaction digital asset cold wallet. It is committed to providing users with one-stop blockchain entry tool. The APP provides one-stop services such as multi-currency asset management, transactions, redemption, and market trends, news, and application recommendations.
PalletOne
Distributed cross-chain protocol PalletOne has added strategic investments from seven institutions including Danhua Capital, Chuangshi Capital, Bisheng Capital, LinkVC, BW-Fund, Node Capital, and Lede Capital. So far, there are 16 institutions that have reached strategic investment agreements with PalletOne.
PalletOne is committed to solving the problems of scalability, user-friendliness and the migration of applications in different chains, providing users with applications between different chains that can achieve value, information, and functional interoperability.
Lianxing Capital
blockchain investment banking service provider Lianxing Capital has obtained strategic financing, and the investors are Huobi Ecology, JLAB, Gobi Venture Capital and other institutions.
Lianxing Capital mainly provides investment banking services such as consensus mechanism design, white paper writing, domestic and foreign digital currency fund docking, exchange coin issuance, etc., to promote the combination of blockchain and digital currency.
8bank
digital currency financial management platform 8bank received millions of dollars in strategic financing, invested by Shangbi.
8bank uses quantitative trading strategies and asset security management systems to manage and quantitatively add value to mainstream digital assets such as BTC, ETH, and USDT, and provides digital asset holders with product services such as digital fund wealth management, deposit and withdrawal, mortgage loans, and credit life.
Audius
US blockchain music sharing platform Audius received a US$5.5 million Series A financing led by General Catalyst and Lightspeed Capital.
is based on blockchain technology. Audius helps artists manage shared music by using tokens and a decentralized voting-based mechanism to obtain benefits for contributing content, and will also provide artists with intellectual property control services.
Libra Services
Blockchain tax company Libra Services completed a US$15 million Series B financing, led by a European family business that participated in Libra’s initial financing.
Libra Services focuses on the development of blockchain-based accounting and tax software, focusing on the enterprise-level market, and mainly provides financial report preparation services for the cryptocurrency industry.
TribeOS
Blockchain digital advertising service provider TribeOS received a seed round of financing of US$3 million, with the investor being Bitmain.
TribeOS has cross-domain tracking, attribution system and internal testing service tools, and is committed to helping advertisers and publishers deliver ad fraud-free ads online, thereby improving the ROI of advertisers.
EOCH
Blockchain medical service provider EOCH has received a new round of financing, and the investor is Danhua Capital.
EOCH is the world's first highly confidential medical data system that is user-centered and highly confidential that cannot be achieved by existing medical information management systems. It is the world's leading medical big data blockchain health service system aimed at promoting medical institutions and across data platforms.
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