36Kr learned that the vehicle-road collaboration solution provider Beijing Xingyun Internet Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Xingyun Internet") announced that it had received a B+ round of financing of over 100 million yuan. This round of financing was jointly invested by Zhongguancun Science City Technology Growth Fund , Qualcomm Venture Capital, and Changjiang Capital. StarBridge Capital continues to serve as the exclusive financial advisor for this round. This is the company's second-year gain of favor from the capital market after half a year after the company's round of financing in March this year. The new financing will help Nebula Internet to "accelerate" in the intelligent network league track and continue to consolidate the company's leading position in the vehicle-road collaboration industry.
Nebula Internet received over 100 million yuan in B+ round financing
It is reported that the new round of financing will be mainly used to upgrade the entire series of "Chelu Cloud", especially deepening the research and development of the on-board mass-produced V2X software and hardware platform and polishing in-depth commercial scenarios; accelerating the expansion of market resources, building high-quality projects, and working with partners to build a large-scale networked application ecosystem; further absorbing industry talents, continuously empowering industry development, and maintaining the leading position of the industry.
Nebula Internet was established in 2015. It focuses on intelligent networking and vehicle-road collaborative application services, actively promotes the industrialization of cutting-edge technologies, focuses on C-V2X vehicle networking standards research, technological innovation, product research and development, and production services. It has launched an overall solution for vehicle-coordinated safety assisted driving (C-DAS) and road traffic active control in vehicle-road collaborative environments, becoming an important support for autonomous driving, smart transportation and smart city construction. It is a high-tech enterprise powered by innovation.
Intelligent connected car , as an emerging high-tech industry, is still in the rapid growth stage of the industry, with huge growth potential, and competition among various segments is particularly fierce. In the complex market environment, there are repeated impacts of the epidemic. Nebula Internet has been working hard in the field of vehicle-road collaboration, continuously increasing the construction of innovative products, and has made strong efforts to target the target market, promoting mass production applications and smart transportation construction, and has achieved "acceleration" in the intelligent network league track, demonstrating Nebula's strength, and gaining the attention and favor of capital.
"Neiyun Internet has always been committed to promoting the development of vehicle-road collaboration industry, participating in the development of many Internet of Vehicles-related national standards, industry standards, group standards and research reports, leading and promoting the establishment of domestic intelligent networking and vehicle-road collaboration related technical standards systems, unifying industry standards and consensus; at the same time, strengthening internal strength, facing the new market environment, large-scale and deep-level organizational structure changes have been implemented; in terms of technical products, a full-stack C-V2X service capability has been built, from the lowest-level automotive-grade modules, to intelligent road-side equipment and vehicle-mounted terminals, as well as edge computing , vehicle-road collaborative cloud services, and to vertical industry application scenario solutions built on the software and hardware product system, continuously consolidating technical strength." Pan Jun, chairman of Neiyun Internet, said.
Nebula Internet Product system
"From the long-term future, traffic should be efficient and orderly. Everyone yearns for a safe and comfortable traffic environment, which can save a lot of time for travel. To achieve such a traffic environment, in addition to improving the capabilities of the vehicle itself, the evolution of the external traffic environment is also required." Pan Jun introduced to 36Kr : "Because smart cars are still discrete and random individuals on the road, it is difficult to use a unified model to define each node in the complete system, in order to solve the problem of the system The complexity and uncontrollability of the system must be needed to integrate vehicle-road and cloud collaboration to improve the intelligence of the entire transportation system. "
vehicle-road collaboration establishes information interaction between people, vehicles and roads, which can not only improve the safety, efficiency and comfort of travel, but also promote the development of high-level autonomous driving. On the one hand, it can provide strong guarantees for traffic safety, effectiveness and convenience based on data. On the other hand, this information can better serve the future commercial field of autonomous driving.
Countries are also increasingly aware of the importance of vehicle-road collaboration to the smart transportation system. At the end of 2021, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued the "Notice on the Second Batch of Pilot Cities for the Coordinated Development of Smart City Infrastructure and Intelligent Connected Vehicles", namely the "Double Intelligence" pilot cities. The two ministries and commissions jointly acted to develop 16 cities in two batches to create a "double intelligence" pilot.
This year, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Hefei and other dual-intelligent cities issued a series of outlines and regulations to promote the construction of intelligent networked ecosystems, aiming to build a national leading intelligent networked ecosystem, create a high-quality model to support industrial development with a basic platform, and take the lead in carrying out large-scale and multi-scenario demonstration applications in the country, and achieve full coverage in the demonstration area based on vehicle-road and cloud integration perception, decision-making, control and other services, and promote the rapid development of smart transportation.
Pan Jun further stated: Nebula is not only providing cost-effective products and solutions for the current market, but also focusing on cutting-edge market areas with rapid development in the future. At present, the construction of "Shuangzhi" cities is undoubtedly an important focus in the field of vehicle-road collaboration. Driven by application scenarios means that Shuangzhi must take the lead in launching large-scale hardware facilities, which is a major market component for vehicle-road collaboration enterprises represented by Nebula. Nebula already has a product system and solutions to fully respond to market demand to adapt to market changes.
Neblue Internet Solution
At present, Nebula Internet has created multiple benchmark projects in the construction of "dual intelligence" cities. The pilot application of the "C-V2X" autonomous driving pilot application of the Hefei Binhu National Forest Park, which was built and operated in Hefei, was selected into the first batch of pilot application of intelligent transportation pilot projects.
The project is based on C-V2X multi-terminal interconnection technology, invests in vehicle-road collaboration equipment, and builds an intelligent networked cloud platform. Relying on the real-time interconnection of intelligent roadside terminals, intelligent vehicle-mounted terminals and cloud control platforms, as well as Nebula Internet's self-developed C-DAS assisted driving voice reminder, it will improve the vehicle's perception of risk factors, give the vehicle a "smart brain", create innovative application scenarios based on vehicles, vehicles, roads, vehicles, people, vehicles and platforms, realize the entire region perception and intelligent management of the smart park, and build a comprehensive intelligence, digitalization and networking of the park. It is not only a model of vehicle-road collaborative smart parks, but also forms the first batch of replicable national intelligent networked park construction templates.
In addition, Nebula Internet has also participated in the construction of vehicle networking pilot areas in many places such as Liuzhou , Tianjin, Chengdu, Xiangyang , Wuxi , Chongqing Liangjiang New District, etc., completed the transformation of intelligent networked roads, and built the construction of public basic service platform for vehicle networking pilot areas, including the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Science and Technology.
In terms of mass production and application of OEM C-V2X products, Nebula Internet is also accelerating its progress. It has established cooperation with dozens of domestic OEM and Tier 1 companies, and the total number of V2X software protocol stacks is authorized to exceed 3 million sets. Focusing on the different application needs of intelligent connected vehicles, we have developed and customized intelligent vehicle terminals in different forms suitable for front and rear installations, adapted to different models, supported new intelligent connected vehicles electronic and electrical architectures, and coordinated with the domestic roadside and cloud vehicle-road collaborative technology evolution.
Speaking of the future, Pan Jun said: "As a provider of full-stack vehicle-road collaboration overall solution, product and operation service, Nebula has always maintained its entrepreneurial intention of "solving safety and efficiency problems with technology". It has received twice a year of capital support, which fully demonstrates the market's high recognition of Nebula. This round of financing will further enhance Nebula's industrial service capabilities, accelerate the company's strategic advancement, focus on the "dual intelligence" city and the pilot zone of the Internet of Vehicles, fully empower the large-scale mass production and application of V2X of the OEM factory, and serve the China strategy of intelligent connected vehicles that integrates vehicle-road and cloud."
Investor's opinion:
Zhongguancun Science City Science and Technology Growth Fund Manager Zhu Ping, general manager of Zhongguancun Science City Innovation Development Co., Ltd., said: Nebula Internet has the earliest research and industrialization team in China for vehicle-road collaboration technology. Its V2X solution covers the communication, perception and algorithms of vehicle-road cloud, and provides services to multiple intelligent networking demonstration zones, pilot zones, and vehicle manufacturers. With the iteration of communication technology, vehicle-road collaboration technology will be fully deployed, thereby solving the safety and economic problems that restrict the promotion of autonomous driving. Although vehicle-road network integration is the future trend and there are many ways to go now, the Nebula team is highly professional, steady and down-to-earth in doing things, and has a profound technical foundation. We hope to work hand in hand with Nebula to jointly accelerate the construction of the Zhongguancun Science City intelligent networking ecosystem.
Qualcomm Global Vice President and Managing Director of Qualcomm Venture Capital China said:"Carbon Road Coordinated Development is an important strategy to support the transformation of China's intelligent connected vehicle industry and smart transportation industry. Nebula Internet is a leading domestic intelligent connected vehicle and vehicle-road collaboration enterprise, and has been deeply engaged in C-V2X technology and product research and development. We are very happy to invest in and support Nebula Internet's innovation in the field of vehicle-road collaboration, accelerate the pace of large-scale commercial use of C-V2X, and jointly open a new era of intelligent connected vehicles." Chen Yong, investment director of Changjiang Capital, said: vehicle-road collaboration can improve driving safety and improve traffic management efficiency, which is the industry consensus after the development of bicycle intelligence is hindered. At present, the demonstration effect of vehicle-road collaboration in various places is gradually emerging, and is in the stage of penetration of first-tier cities to second- and third-tier cities, gradually from closed to semi-closed, partially open roads, and key intersections. As an important component of 's new infrastructure , large-scale commercialization is expected in the future. With its excellent team originating from Tsinghua , Nebula Internet has a V2X full-stack product matrix, leading the industry in terms of project and application scenarios, and is also the first to deploy the front-end vehicle-end market, and will soon achieve large-scale mass production of front-end, with a promising future. We look forward to long-term cooperation with the company, continuously serving the company well, and helping the company's value growth.
