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gold nine silver ten, after the Mid-Autumn Festival National Day holiday, there will be no holidays except weekends in 2020. Starting the sprint of Q4, your 2020 has 59 working days.
Around the holidays, the giants are relatively silent, and there are many good news about venture capital financing.
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Giant News: Alibaba and Shanghai start strategic cooperation
Shanghai Municipal Government signs strategic cooperation agreements with Alibaba Group and Ant Group
On October 10, the Shanghai Municipal Government, Alibaba Group and Ant Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Shanghai yesterday.
According to the agreement, Shanghai will cooperate with Alibaba Group and Ant Group on new online economy, digital new infrastructure, financial technology, cross-border business, digital life, cloud exhibition and other aspects to accelerate the construction of "three headquarters and three centers". Increase the research and development of new technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain to better serve Shanghai's overall national development, boost the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, improve the city's energy level and core competitiveness, and create a new benchmark for a digital life city Provide strong support.
In addition, Alibaba Group and Ant Group will further utilize their advantages, continue to optimize the industrial layout in Shanghai, and increase investment.
IBM will complete the split of the hosting infrastructure service department before the end of 2021 to focus on the hybrid cloud business
According to Reuters, IBM will split the hosting infrastructure service department into a new listed company so that it can focus on red Hybrid cloud business including the cap.
IBM’s current split is its IT infrastructure service department. After the split is completed, the department will continue to provide technical support to 4,600 customers in 115 countries and regions around the world from the perspective of an independent manufacturer, and complete a total of up to 60 billion US dollars. The backlog of orders will be officially completed before the end of 2021.
IBM’s Chief Financial Officer James Kavanaugh said in an interview that the new listed company will be launched as the world’s largest managed infrastructure service provider. This new company will have 90,000 employees. The leadership structure is planned for the next few years. Confirmed within the month.
IBM currently has a total of more than 352,000 employees, and it is expected that the divestiture and operational changes will bring nearly $5 billion in operational expenses.
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Capital dynamics: financing without holiday
team collaboration SaaS product "ant division of labor" completed tens of millions of Pre-A round financing
September 29 news, team collaboration SaaS product "ant division of labor" completed tens of millions of Pre-A In the round of financing, the investor is Guangyun Technology, a listed company in the e-commerce SaaS industry. This round of financing will continue to be used for product technology research and development, industry partner linkage, marketing system optimization and customer service upgrades.
Ant Division is an enterprise service SaaS on the DingTalk platform under Alibaba. It aims to help companies improve team collaboration efficiency and achieve digital upgrades, creating an integrated intelligent office solution. Facing the two perspectives of management and employees, ant division of labor can provide scene solutions such as organization and arrangement, execution of collaboration, tracking and landing, human efficiency evaluation, and experience reuse.
EventBank, an integrated and innovative CRM cloud platform, upgraded its brand to "Glue Up Future Link" and completed the B2 round of financing.
News on October 9th, an integrated and innovative CRM cloud platform "Glue Up Future Link" (original brand name) (“EventBank”) recently announced the completion of the B2 round of financing. This round of financing was led by Venture Workshop, followed by Sands River Ventures and Jingya Capital.
This year, EventBank completed two rounds of financing during the epidemic, with a total financing amount of more than tens of millions of dollars. It doubled its business and valuation within six months, and upgraded its global products and brands to "Glue Up Future Link".
「Glue Up"Lai Link" was established in 2013 and is the global upgraded brand of EventBank. It helps event organizers to better operate and manage events through intelligent cloud technology.
Customer relationship management solution provider "Qunmai SCRM" received tens of millions of A round of financing
On September 28, customer relationship management solution provider "Qunmai SCRM" announced that it had received tens of millions of A round of financing. This round of financing was led by Zhongya Capital, co-invested by Sike Ruixin Capital, and Danshi Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor. Funds from this round of financing will be used to build a SCRM-centric SaaS product + PaaS platform, establish a closed loop of full life cycle user conversion, improve the link efficiency between brand owners and C-end users, and build their own global user operation platform for customers. Brand digital upgrade.
"Qunmai SCRM" was established in 2019 and is a global user operation platform independently developed by Shanghai Qunzhimai Information Technology Co., Ltd. The company focuses on the SaaS platform-level service model to provide industry-leading customers with customized and comprehensive customer relationship management solutions. At present, "Qunmai SCRM" has served companies including Unilever, Master Kong, Liby, vivo, Medela, Wanda, GSK, Yunnan Baiyao, Parkson, Vanke, etc., covering FMCG, mother and baby, daily chemical, medical , Real estate and other industries.
Automated Marketing Company "SendinBlue" raised US$160 million in Series B financing.
Niutoushe learned that recently, automated marketing startup SendinBlue announced that it has received US$163 million in Series B financing. Armand Thiberge, co-founder of SendinBlue, said that the new funds will be used for product development and global market expansion.
SendinBlue is a multi-functional automated marketing platform that provides automated marketing management for multiple channels such as email, SMS marketing, social networking, and CRM. SendinBlue's email robot MailClark uses AI and machine learning to automatically extract relevant data from emails, classify them, and forward them again. It also supports integration with third-party applications through APIs.
Currently, SendinBlue has more than 400 employees and 180,000 corporate customers in more than 160 countries/regions. It helps global users automatically send 100 million marketing messages every day. It is understood that SendinBlue’s business growth rate has remained above 50% this year and last year’s growth rate was above 60%. In the future, SendinBlue will focus on developing the global market.
Payment service provider "Xunlian Data" received US$40 million in Series C financing
On September 28, the payment service provider "Xunlian Data" received US$40 million in Series C financing from Japanese investment institution TIS Corporation. This round of financing will be mainly used to build its Asia-Pacific mobile payment infrastructure network "EVONET".
Previously, "Xunlian Data" received a 100 million yuan A round of financing from Sequoia Capital in 2014.
"Xunlian Data" was established in 2010, focusing on China and cross-border payment transaction processing and data services. Its service areas include domestic UnionPay card acquiring processing, international card acquiring processing, international card issuing processing, overseas integrated payment processing, O2O new payment processing services, etc.
“Yuntian Lifei”, a digital city overall solution provider, has received RMB 1 billion in strategic financing.
On September 28, the digital city overall solution provider “Yuntian Lifei” has recently completed a strategic financing of more than RMB 1 billion. The investor It is the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Construction and Development Group and China Power International Information Service Co., Ltd. and China Power Financial Investment Holdings Co., Ltd. under China Electronics Information Industry Group. After the completion of this round of financing, Tejianfa became the largest institutional shareholder of "Yuntian Lifei".
"Yuntian Lifei" was established in August 2014. It is a digital city total solution provider with AI algorithm chip capability.Use AI technology to structure the physical world to create a digital twin city.
Xiaozong Agricultural Products B2B platform "Chaoliangwang" received 10 million U.S. dollars in Series A financing
On September 28th, Xiaozong Agricultural Products B2B platform "Chaoliangwang" recently received 10 million US dollars in Series A financing exclusively invested by Wuyue Capital. According to Zhuang Liang, the founder of Chaoliang.com, this round of financing will be mainly used for the construction of a standardized storage system and the development and upgrading of IT systems.
"Super Grain Network" was established in 2016. It is a small agricultural product B2B trading platform that provides users with agricultural product B2B e-commerce services and facilitates transactions between agricultural products buyers and sellers. The main agricultural products traded include sesame, peanuts, oils, oils, and miscellaneous grains. Wait for small agricultural products.
Tax declaration SaaS service company "Shenzhou Yunhe" received tens of millions of yuan in Series A financing, and Sequoia Capital China Fund exclusively invested
牛透社 September 29 news, tax declaration SaaS service company Beijing Shenzhou Yunhe Data Technology Development Co., Ltd. The company ("Shenzhou Yunhe") announced today that it has received tens of millions of yuan in Series A financing, exclusively invested by Sequoia Capital China Fund. This round of financing will be mainly used for sales, market expansion and service system construction.
Previously, China Yunhe had received tens of millions of yuan in Pre-A round financing invested by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Shenzhou Cloud is a company that focuses on providing tax declaration SaaS services for enterprises. Since its establishment in July 2016, it has been doing research and development to move the traditional offline taxation process to online. In 2019, it officially launched a large-scale B The user's Caiyuntong platform.
Caiyuntong uses the SaaS model to charge companies on an annual basis. The customers it has served include China Telecom, State Power Investment, China Resources Sanjiu, Wumart, China Broad, Wufangzhai, Country Garden, Meicai.com, Hot Air, Ideal Auto, Chongqing Medicine, Yipin Store, etc.
Data service company "Zhongke Xinyan" received ten million yuan financing
On September 28, Beijing Zhongke Xinyan Technology Co., Ltd. recently announced that it has completed the joint investment of 10 million yuan by Guoding Capital and Zhongke Chuangxing at the beginning of this year. Yuan-level financing, this is also the first round of financing obtained by "Zhongke Xinyan". According to reports, "Zhongke Xinyan" plans to launch the second round of financing before the end of the year.
"Zhongke Xinyan" was established in 2017. It is a data service company driven by artificial intelligence technology jointly initiated by in-service researchers from the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the institute.
Fintech unicorn company "Airwallex" received US$40 million in D+ round financing
September 29 news, Fintech unicorn company "Airwallex" announced that it has received an additional US$40 million from existing investors D+ round of financing. Previously, in April this year, it completed a series D financing of 160 million US dollars. After the completion of this additional round of financing, the D-round financing of "Sky Cloud Exchange" reached US$200 million, and the cumulative financing scale exceeded US$400 million.
This round of financing will be used to help "Sky Cloud Exchange" further integrate the entire cross-border payment chain, accelerate business development in markets such as Asia Pacific, the United Kingdom and Europe, and expand the coverage of the global payment network to the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa, etc. More emerging regions and lay the foundation for entering the US market in the first quarter of 2021.
"Sky Cloud Exchange" is a financial technology company founded in 2015. The company is headquartered in Hong Kong and has offices in Shanghai, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, London, Singapore and San Francisco. "Sky Cloud Exchange" provides digital financial technology products for enterprises of all sizes by building a global financial infrastructure, as well as web-side applications and API solutions.
One-stop e-commerce content integrated marketing platform "Jasmine Media" received hundreds of millions of yuan in Series B financing
September 29 news, one-stop e-commerce content integrated marketing platform "Jasmine Media" received hundreds of millions of yuan in Series B financing, this round The financing was jointly invested by Debon Securities, a well-known fund of domestic top investment institutions, Zhongkai Holding Group, and Guangzhou Xinxing Fund. At the same time, Moli Media announced its upgrade to Moli Digital Group, committed to promoting the use of big data and technological innovation to lead content broadcasting The development of the business industry.
Established in 2014, "Molly Media" is a one-stop e-commerce content integrated marketing platform. At present, it has cooperated with more than 1,500 domestic and foreign well-known brands such as Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Clinique, and CPB.
Fresh food e-commerce platform "GrubMarket" completed US$60 million in Series D financing
News on October 6th, US fresh food e-commerce platform "GrubMarket" completed US$60 million in Series D financing. Celtic House Asia Partners (CHAP, CelticHouse Asia Partners) ) Leading the investment, BlackRock, Reimagined Ventures, Trinity Capital Investment, Marubeni Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital, Mojo Partners, as well as old shareholders GGVCapital, WI Harper Group, Digital Garage, CentreGold Capital, Scrum Ventures and other unnamed investors participated in the investment.
"GrubMarket" was established in 2015. It is a fresh food e-commerce platform that connects organic farms with consumers and enterprises and provides warehousing and delivery services related to organic food. The company's business lines include B2C and B2B2C.
"Qiqin Technology", a digital service provider for corporate procurement, has received hundreds of millions of yuan in financing
On October 10, it was reported that "Qiqin Technology" has recently received hundreds of millions of yuan in a new round of financing. This round of financing was led by Tencent, Zhongguancun Longmen Fund, Yuanhe Chenkun and Xingwen Investment, as well as the old shareholder Junlian Capital, followed the investment, and Light Source Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor for this round of financing.
"Qiqin Technology" was established in 2007. It is a corporate procurement digital service provider jointly incubated by the listed IT company Neusoft Group and Donghua Software. It provides companies with a unified supplier platform to centrally process customer sourcing, orders, and distribution. A series of services such as cargo and financial reconciliation. Up to now, "Qiqin Technology" has provided services to 700 companies and has become a strategic partner of Tencent Cloud and a global platinum partner of SAP.
RPA robot research and development company "Shanghai Fanxi" received angel round financing
On September 30th, RPA robot research and development company "Shanghai Fanxi" recently announced that it has received angel round financing. According to reports, this round of investors is an important partner of Shanghai Fanxi , This round of financing funds will be mainly used to expand the team and increase research and development efforts.
"Shanghai Fanxi" was established in 2017. The company's products include monitoring platforms, continuous delivery, ITSM and other traditional operation and maintenance products, as well as new platforms that help customers easily go to the cloud, use the cloud safely, and simply manage the cloud. Products cover finance and sports , Games, e-commerce and many other industries use RPA to operate and maintain robots to help users increase productivity.
"Bozhiyanxin" completed a series B financing of more than 100 million yuan
On September 30, "Bozhiyanxin" recently completed a series B financing of more than 100 million yuan. This round of financing was led by Yangtze River Innovation, with Kaishi Capital and the old shareholder Xingfu Capital following the investment. This round of financing funds will be used for the construction of an FDA-certified preparation production pilot base, and combined with the existing CRO of "Bozhiyanxin", to realize the research and development and industrialization of innovative drugs and innovative preparations.
Shanghai Bozhiyan New Drug Technology Co., Ltd. Bozhi was established in 2012 in Shanghai Zhangjiang Medicine Valley. The company has two R&D centers in Shanghai and Nanjing, a clinical subsidiary in Chengdu, and has established an efficient R&D team. The company’s comprehensive R&D platform mainly focuses on small molecule innovative drugs, improved innovative drugs, highly difficult pharmaceutical preparations, DMF, MAH, etc., providing global pharmaceutical companies with highly competitive drug varieties, and creating international and cutting-edge pharmaceutical R&D and Innovation platform.
"Qinhuai Data" landed on Nasdaq
News on October 1, Qinhuai Data Group was officially listed on Nasdaq in the United States yesterday, with a public offering of 40 million shares at an issue price of US$13.50 per share.
"Qinhuai Data" was established in 2015 and is aAn ultra-large-scale data center solution operator that takes the pan-Asian-Pacific emerging market as the core area of business development, and is also an integrated service provider focusing on the planning, investment, design, construction and operation of the ecological infrastructure of the information technology industry. Qinhuai Data Group provides core customers with the best business deployment solutions in important countries (regions) in the region, including but not limited to the provision of important asset ecosystems such as industrial bases, data centers, network services and IT value-added services in important countries (regions) in the region Chain service.
3D printed orthopedic medical device developer "Zhisu Health" received US$2.5 million in angel round financing
October 1st, 3D printed orthopedic medical device developer received US$2.5 million in angel round financing.
"Intelligent Health" was established in 2017. It is a 3D printed orthopedic medical device developer with "SaaS platform + hardware products" as its marketing path. The company designs and develops orthopedic devices and uses the SaaS platform to provide orthopedic device design services.
Intelligent robot developer "Han's Robot" received 165 million yuan in Series A financing
On October 9th, intelligent robot developer "Han's Robot" has recently received 165 million investment from Suzhou Fujishin, Beijing Honghan, Shenzhen Zhongxiaodan and other institutions For Yuan A round of financing, Fang Rui Capital acted as the exclusive financial advisor for this financing. This round of financing funds will be mainly used to accelerate the R&D and market promotion of Han's intelligent collaborative robots, and promote their applications in the fields of industry, medical care, logistics, and services.
Previously, "Han's Robot" had received an angel round of financing from Han's Laser Investment.
"Han's Robot" was established in 2017. It is a holding subsidiary invested by the listed company, Han's Laser Technology Industry Group Co., Ltd. (stock name: Han's Laser, stock code: 002008). A high-tech enterprise incubated on the basis of a multi-person team. The company is committed to the research, development, promotion and application of intelligent robots in the fields of industry, medical care, logistics, and services.
AR head-up display technology company "Envisics" received US$50 million in Series B financing
News on October 9th, AR head-up display technology company "Envisics" recently received US$50 million in Series B financing. Investors include Hyundai Motor Group’s Hyundai Mobis Sri Lanka, General Motors Ventures, a venture capital of General Motors Group, SAIC Motor, and Van Tuyl Companies, a subsidiary of Van Tuyl Group, a US automobile dealership group.
"Envisics" was established in 2010 and has experience in mass production of head-up displays based on dynamic holographic technology. At present, Envisics has cooperated with Jaguar Land Rover and other automobile companies under Tata Motors to integrate its technology into cars.
Brain-inspired intelligent technology and application technology innovation company "Zhongke Brain" received 100 million yuan in Series A financing
News on October 9th, Hefei Zhongke Brain Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. ("Zhongke Brain") recently announced the completion of 100 million yuan A round of financing. This round of financing was led by Hefei Industrial Investment, with participation from institutions such as Jinke Junchuang, Chuangdongfang, Huafu Jiaye, Quantum Fund and Guoyuan Equity. This round of financing funds will be used for continuous technology research and development, product upgrades and market layout in the field of energy intelligence.
Previously, "Zhongke Brain" had received angel round financing from Hefei High Investment.
"Zhongke Brain" was established in 2017 and is an innovative company of brain-like intelligent technology and applied technology. The company relies on the National Engineering Laboratory of Brain-Like Intelligent Technology and Application, takes the R&D of Brain-Like Intelligent Technology as its strategic direction, and takes computing, data and technology as its three main businesses to create a trinity of "basic research, achievement transfer, and industry incubation" The industry-university-research coordinated innovation model implements a platform-based, ecological and capitalized integrated development strategy, popularizes artificial intelligence technology, and empowers and upgrades traditional industries.
National Engineering Laboratory for Brain-like Intelligence Technology and Application is a national engineering laboratory approved by the National Development and Reform Commission of the People’s Republic of China and led by the University of Science and Technology of China. It is composed of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fudan University, and Microsoft, Baidu and other scientific research institutes and enterprises jointly undertake the construction.
Cloud hosting service provider "Anchang Networks" completed 100 million yuan D1 round of financing
On October 9, cloud hosting service provider (Cloud MSP) AnchNet announced the completion of 100 million yuan of D1 round financing. This round of financing was led by Tencent, with Lenovo, SAIF Investment Fund and Guo Yumei, the actual controller of the listed company Donghua Software, following the investment. This round of financing funds will be used to increase technology research and development and service delivery capacity building in the field of hybrid multi-cloud management, cloud native, and expand market sales and channel ecology.
"Anchang Network" was established in 2007. It is a professional next-generation cloud hosting service provider (Cloud MSP) in the Chinese market. Anchang is driven by customer needs and based on Tencent Cloud, it provides cloud-native technology services and digitalization to corporate customers. Solutions to help customers get better on the cloud, manage the cloud and use the cloud well, build the next generation of cloud infrastructure and technology for customers, provide intelligent fully managed cloud operation and maintenance and management services, and develop modern cloud native applications. Become a connector between the new IT ecosystem and the industrial Internet.
Commercial space short-term rental platform "Linhuiba" completes a new round of financing
News on October 10th, commercial space short-term rental platform "Linhuiba" has completed a new round of financing, led by Oriental Chuangfu, the old shareholder angel Bay Ventures followed suit.
This year, "Linhui Bar" has completed the B+ round of financing from Huina Technology and Krypton Fund Investment, and the B++ round of financing from Yuhang Fund and Krypton Fund Investment.
"Linhui Bar" was established in 2015. The company provides information and data services for idle commercial spaces on the flow of offline people, and provides offline promotion for brands, pop-up stores and unmanned retail equipment. Marketing activities, providing data-based site selection and venue reservation services.
currently has 20,000+ pop-up venues on the platform, covering commercial complexes, large shopping malls, office buildings, CBD parks, residential buildings, schools, subway stations, high-speed rail stations and other scenarios. The rentable space is 1.6 million square meters, and its business covers Beijing and Shanghai. , Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and more than 50 cities.
AR engine ecological software platform developer "Rise Huachuang" received 10 million yuan in Pre-A round financing
News on October 10th, AR engine ecological software platform developer "Rise Huachuang" recently completed a 10 million investment from Oriental Fortune Yuan Pre-A round of financing.
"Rise Huachuang" was established in 2019. It is a company that develops innovative applications for in-vehicle AR display products. It provides customers with a highly reusable AR engine ecological software platform that can continuously embed the vehicle's human-machine interface system Independent software algorithm/application, and converted to AR display graphics and visual effects. The main products are AR-HUD products installed in the simulated cockpit.
"Maixing Medical", a provider of integrated artificial intelligence solutions for intensive care, received a tens of millions of RMB investment.
News on October 10, "Maixing Medical", a provider of artificial intelligence solutions for intensive care, recently received from Shulan Junjie Capital's tens of millions of RMB financing. This round of financing will be used for product R&D investment and market development.
Hangzhou Maixing Medical Technology was established at the end of 2016. It is a high-tech company focusing on medical artificial intelligence and the first domestic provider of artificial intelligence solutions for intensive care (ICU). Focusing on the layout of the ICU intelligent medical field, deep integration of artificial intelligence technology and clinical application scenarios, the ICU intelligent auxiliary decision-making platform MaxAide (AI+CDSS) has been developed.
At present, "Maixing Medical" has cooperated with Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Zhejiang Hospital, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, and the Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, etc. Cooperation with well-known domestic top three hospitals.
Smart device solution provider "Chengrui Optics" completes strategic financing
News on October 10th, smart device solution provider "Chengrui Optics" completed strategic financing. This round of investment was jointly led by Sequoia China and SDIC Innovation , CICC and other well-known investment institutions followed up the investment, with a total investment of RMB 1.658 billion peoplecurrency.
Previously, "Chengrui Optics" had received a total of RMB 1.15 billion in strategic financing from Xiaomi Yangtze River Industry Fund, OPPO Strategic Investment Department, Huiyou Investment, and Jiangsu Huarui Investment.
"Chengrui Optics" was established in 2008 and is a smart device solution provider. Based on simulation technology and combined with big data management, the company continues to provide technical solutions that integrate hardware and software for smart devices such as mobile terminals, robots, and driverless cars.
"Two Sentences of Niu Kan"
Qinhuai data is on Nasdaq; Qiqin Technology received hundreds of millions of yuan in financing; Qunmai SCRM received tens of millions of yuan in Series A financing; Sky Cloud Hui received 40 million US dollars in D+ round of financing; Yuntianli Fly received 1 billion yuan in strategic financing...
Whether it is the angel round, the A round, or the D round, large and medium-sized enterprises have not stopped financing because of the arrival of the long holiday. Maybe it will be better at the end of the year to take advantage of the long holiday. To run.
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Industry News
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology launched the "Smart Manufacturing Entering the Park" activity
9 News on 29th, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology held the launching ceremony of the "Smart Manufacturing Entering the Park" event in Quanzhou, Fujian from September 27-28. The first event was for the textile and footwear industry. .
It is reported that the activity of "intelligent manufacturing into the park" is mainly for parks with industrial agglomeration, upstream and downstream concentration of the industrial chain, and obvious resource supporting advantages. Aiming at the pain points and difficulties of the intelligent transformation of enterprises, the overall level of intelligent manufacturing capabilities in the park will be improved, and the small and medium-sized The transformation and upgrading of enterprises will radiate key links in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain.
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