Summary of investment and financing in the Internet of Things industry in one week

We have reviewed 26 investment and financing events in the industry last week (2018.07.09 - 2018.07.15), covering a number of fields including smart manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and smart campuses.

Financing Details

Time: 2018.07.09

Round: Round C

Investors: Gaosi Education, Shanghai Beichen Venture Capital Management Co., Ltd.

Amount: Undisclosed

Field: IoT application layer - smart education

Anhui Qitian Education Technology Co., Ltd. is a high-tech Internet company with independent intellectual property products in the fields of image recognition, distributed computing, cloud storage and distributed large-scale data acquisition. It focuses on low-cost, high-quality educational data storage, analysis and application, and uses online learning space as the basic element to provide data-focused and online interactive services for teachers, students and parents.

Time: 2018.07.09

Round: Angel round

Investor: Shiling Venture Capital

Amount: Undisclosed

Field: IoT application layer - intelligent manufacturing

Changzhou Luoyuan Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. is committed to becoming a technology and market leader in the field of high-performance servo drives in China. It focuses on the research and development, production and sales of full-function general-purpose servo drives. Its products and services are positioned at mid-to-high-end customer groups at home and abroad, and are widely used in machine tools, 3C, printing, packaging, textiles, robots, new energy and other fields.

Time: 2018.07.09

Round: Strategic Investment

Investors: Undisclosed

Amount: US$700 million

Field: IoT application layer - Internet of Vehicles

Xpeng Motors was founded in 2014. Angel investors include UC founder He Xiaopeng, YY founder Li Xueling, Cheetah Mobile CEO Fu Sheng, Tencent executive Wu Xiaoguang, Matrix Partners' Zhang Ying, etc. Xpeng Motors is committed to applying new technologies, processes and business models to create smart electric vehicles that young people love, and to change the way users use, experience, purchase and maintain cars.

Time: 2018.07.09

Round: Seed Round

Investor: Northern Light Venture Capital

Amount: Undisclosed

Field: IoT application layer - artificial intelligence

Hangzhou EyeCloud Smart Home Technology Co., Ltd. (EyeCloud) is a foreign-funded high-tech enterprise that focuses on the design, R&D, production, sales, and operation services of smart products. The company has an experienced algorithm R&D team in the fields of computer vision and deep learning, and attaches great importance to the product AI user experience.

Time: 2018.07.09

Round: Seed Round

Investor: Mumian Capital

Amount: Millions of RMB

Field: IoT application layer - smart campus

No Reserved Seat is a seat IoT management system based on WeChat applet. Its main principle is to connect every seat in the library to the Internet of Things through the seat code, and users only need to use WeChat to scan the code to directly obtain the usage information of each seat, so that "every seat can speak for itself."

Time: 2018.07.09

Round: Angel round

Investor: Saijia Fund

Amount: tens of millions of RMB

Field: IoT application layer - smart medical care

Hangzhou Jiangyu Innovation Medical Technology Co., Ltd. was established on September 19, 2016. It is an innovative company in the medical field created by the IDSBG business group of Foxconn Technology Group. Its main business scope includes: medical devices, medical robots, medical testing equipment, health testing equipment, smart health wearable devices and other products.

Time: 2018.07.09

Round: Angel round

Investors: Undisclosed

Amount: RMB 50 million

Field: IoT application layer - smart medical care

Hangzhou Jiangyu Innovation Medical Technology Co., Ltd. was established on September 19, 2016. It is an innovative company in the medical field created by the IDSBG business group of Foxconn Technology Group. Its main business scope includes: medical devices, medical robots, medical testing equipment, health testing equipment, smart health wearable devices and other products.

Time: 2018.07.09

Round: Round B

Investors: StarVC, Qianhai Fund of Funds

Amount: Undisclosed

Field: IoT perception layer - AI chip

NextVPU focuses on artificial intelligence and computer vision systems and chips. NextVPU means Next Vision Processing Unit, which is the future vision processor. "Zhaoguan" means "open vision". The company is committed to "giving vision" to all smart devices: drones, driverless cars, robots, VR, AR, etc., opening a new era of artificial intelligence.

Time: 2018.07.09

Round: A+ round

Investors: Alpha Commune, AdMaster, Cathay Integrity Holding Limited

Amount: tens of millions of RMB

Field: IoT application layer - unmanned retail

Mars Rabbit is a QR code scanning payment tool based on LBS technology. After users purchase goods in the supermarket, they can pay through the App without queuing. The app is committed to providing users with a mobile shopping experience.

Time: 2018.07.10

Round: Strategic Investment

Investors: CMB International, Morningside Venture Capital, China Chuang Shenzhen Capital, Hongsheng Investment

Amount: Undisclosed

Field: IoT application layer - intelligent manufacturing

Lyric Robot is a national high-tech enterprise specializing in customized R&D of high-end intelligent complete sets of equipment, overall integration of factory automation and application of industrial robot systems. Lyric Robot's intelligent equipment mainly covers seven fields: new energy, automobile body and parts, precision electronics, hardware locks, security, fine packaging and medical fields.

Time: 2018.07.10

Round: A+ round

Investors: Shunwei Capital, Pengchen Investment, Huiyou Capital

Amount: RMB 50 million

Field: IoT application layer - artificial intelligence

Gaoshi Technology is a computer image processing system solution provider, focusing on the research and development of machine vision products using machine vision detection, measurement, image recognition and other technologies. They are widely used in LCD, electronics, new energy, metal processing and other industries.

Time: 2018.07.10

Round: Pre-A round

Investors: Xiaomi Technology, Qualcomm

Amount: tens of millions of RMB

Field: IoT application layer - artificial intelligence

Elephant Acoustics focuses on the application development of deep learning in the field of speech enhancement. It provides companies with comprehensive far-field speech enhancement solutions through sound signal processing technology. It currently focuses on providing comprehensive far-field speech enhancement solutions for smart hardware, robotics and communications companies.

Time: 2018.07.10

Round: Strategic Investment

Investor: China Merchants Fund

Amount: $8 million

Field: IoT application layer - autonomous driving

Pony.ai is an autonomous driving solution provider. It is committed to creating artificial intelligence for robots. Its main product is Pony.ai, which uses radar, lidar, GPS and computer vision technologies to sense its environment and achieve autonomous driving.

Time: 2018.07.10

Round: Strategic Investment

Investor: Tsinghua Unigroup

Amount: RMB 12 billion

Field: IoT platform layer - cloud platform

Tsinghua Unigroup Cloud Computing is a public cloud platform under Tsinghua Unigroup. Its first phase of basic services and platform services include 12 categories and 267 cloud service products. Basic services cover five categories: computing, storage, network, security and monitoring. Platform services include database, big data, development and testing, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, video and other types of services.

Date: 2018.07.11

Round: A+ round

Investor: Qianhai Zhongwei Capital

Amount: RMB 50 million

Field: IoT application layer - artificial intelligence

Lipper Technology is an industrial equipment supplier with software as its core, mainly engaged in system solutions and image algorithms. It is committed to equipping more mechanical equipment with eyes and brains, and is affiliated to Hangzhou Lipper Technology Co., Ltd.

Date: 2018.07.11

Round: Pre-A round

Investors: Undisclosed

Amount: RMB 10 million

Field: IoT application layer—AR/VR

CandyBook is an Internet company focusing on AR (augmented reality), providing customers with one-stop AR content solutions such as creative planning and content production, focusing on the emotions and experience of the products.

Date: 2018.07.11

Round: Round B

Investors: Yuanxing Capital, Binhai Venture Capital, Everest Venture Capital

Amount: RMB 250 million

Field: IoT application layer - Robotics

Jinshenzhilan Marine Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the research and development of underwater robots. Focusing on the two major themes of marine resource exploration and marine environment monitoring, the company provides the society with relevant technical solutions and products for small underwater motion carriers such as autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), underwater gliders, and cable-controlled underwater robots (ROVs).

Date: 2018.07.11

Round: Strategic Investment

Investors: Baidu Investment, Ronghui Capital

Amount: RMB 1 billion

Field: IoT application layer - transportation

Shiqiao Group is a commercial vehicle intelligent service platform. It involves transportation, commercial vehicle intelligent service platform, travel services, automobile transportation and other fields

Date: 2018.07.11

Round: Pre-A round

Investor: National Small and Medium Enterprise Development Fund

Amount: tens of millions of RMB

Field: Internet of Things Application Layer - Navigation and Positioning

Boshengshang is a high-precision satellite navigation and positioning solution provider. Its products can be used in lane-level positioning and navigation, driverless cars, drones, unmanned ships, high-precision vehicle-mounted, ship-mounted, and airborne positioning and navigation, geographic information collection and mapping terminals, robots, military and police use, waterway management, mechanical control and other fields.

Date: 2018.07.12

Round: Strategic Investment

Investor: Lens Technology

Amount: RMB 90.47 million

Field: IoT application layer - smart hardware

Haun Acoustics has long been committed to the design, research and development, production and sales of electroacoustic products. Its main products include miniature microphones, voice recognition modules, speakers/receivers, wired/wireless headphones and smart speakers.

Date: 2018.07.12

Round: Pre-A round

Investor: Challenger Capital

Amount: RMB 10 million

Field: IoT application layer - Robotics

JiChuang Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. is a private enterprise focusing on the research and development, production and sales of robot chassis. Its products are mainly tracked, wheeled, electric and oil-powered chassis. It mainly provides robot mobile chassis systems for robots used in firefighting and rescue, intelligent inspection, exploration and bomb disposal, high-altitude operations, and special transportation operations.

Date: 2018.07.13

Round: Round B

Investors: IDG Capital, Shenzhen Capital Group

Amount: US$100 million

Field: IoT perception layer - electronic chips

Founded in 2015, ASR is a baseband chip IC design company dedicated to mobile communication terminals, the Internet of Things and other consumer electronic chips. Its current products are mainly divided into two categories: communication data and smart phones.

Date: 2018.07.13

Round: Angel round

Investors: Individual investors

Amount: RMB 5 million

Field: IoT application layer - smart hardware

Emotion Smart Fitness Assistant is positioned as an intelligent movement and assessment robot. Through advanced infrared cameras, independently developed recognition optimization algorithms and multi-sensor fusion, it can detect joint function and sports injury risks, evaluate users' body control, perception and movement strategy awareness, and monitor overall physical fitness levels.

Date: 2018.07.13

Round: Round B

Investor: Rushan Capital

Amount: Undisclosed

Field: IoT application layer - Internet of Vehicles

Hangzhou Weilian Technology Co., Ltd. adheres to the business philosophy of "sincerity, innovation, and responsibility" and is committed to the research and development and manufacturing of automotive electronic components and accessories. Facing the increasingly competitive automotive electronics industry, we adhere to the creed of "technology-oriented, quality excellence". We continue to invest in product research and development to become a company with innovation, leadership and customer demand orientation. At present, we mainly sell a series of automotive products such as car-mounted full LCD instrument panels and smart keys.

Date: 2018.07.14

Round: Strategic Investment

Investor: Weier Shares

Amount: Undisclosed

Field: IoT perception layer - sensor chip

The main business of Beijing OmniVision is operated by its subsidiary OmniVision USA, which is a leading digital image processing solution provider. Its main business is the design, production and sales of high-performance, highly integrated and cost-effective semiconductor image sensor devices. Its image sensor chips are widely used in consumer and industrial applications, including smartphones, notebooks, tablets, webcams, security monitoring, entertainment equipment, digital cameras, camcorders, automobiles and medical imaging systems.

Date: 2018.07.15

Round: Angel round

Investor: Zhejiang Guodu

Amount: RMB 15 million

Field: IoT application layer - autonomous driving

Huanyu Zhixing is committed to the technical research of autonomous driving, and has deep roots in autonomous driving planning algorithms and vehicle control technologies, providing autonomous driving solutions for vehicle manufacturers and technology giants.

Source: IoT Capital

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