SoftBank Group Corp. is a multinational telecommunications and internet corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1981, it provides a wide range of services including mobile and fixed-line communications, broadband, and digital television. The company operates through several segments, including the SoftBank Vision Fund, which focuses on investing in technology sectors such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and fintech. Additionally, SoftBank manufactures and distributes mobile devices and offers services in e-commerce, internet advertising, and IT solutions. The firm also engages in renewable energy by generating and supplying electricity. Beyond telecommunications, SoftBank has interests in various sectors, including media, professional sports, and fashion through platforms like ZOZOTOWN. With a global presence, SoftBank actively invests in growth-stage companies, aiming to foster innovation and technological advancement across diverse industries.
CertiK Global Ltd. is a company specializing in blockchain security, focusing on the formal verification of smart contracts and blockchain ecosystems. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Beijing, Seoul, and Seattle, CertiK provides a range of services including security audits, penetration testing, and custom formal verification. The company has developed advanced techniques to mathematically prove the correctness and security of blockchain applications, distinguishing its approach from traditional security audits. By employing artificial intelligence and leveraging both on-chain and off-chain data, CertiK offers developers real-time insights into the security of decentralized finance and other critical applications. With a commitment to securing over $6 billion in assets, CertiK has established itself as a leader in the blockchain security industry, serving many of the world's top projects.
Sobot Technologies specializes in developing artificial intelligence-based customer care solutions. The company provides a range of services, including online customer service robots, intelligent call-in robots, manual online customer services, intelligent outbound robots, cloud call centers, and work order systems. Additionally, Sobot offers customer service applications, call integration, localized deployment, and human resource operation management services. The firm caters to various industries, such as education and training, e-commerce, corporate services, domestic services, game entertainment, and banking. Founded in 2012, Sobot Technologies is headquartered in Beijing, China.
Wangdiantong ERP is an enterprise-level e-commerce ERP, supporting Taobao, Tmall, Jingdong, Amazon, Dangdang, No. 1 shop, Alibaba and many other platforms, supporting multi-warehouses, support online stores and physical store cashiers. Including goods management, inventory, orders, purchasing, after-sales, accounts, statistics, CRM and other rich features.
Agile Robots AG, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Gilching, Germany, specializes in developing artificial intelligence-based software for robotic solutions. The company focuses on creating intelligent robot systems that incorporate perception, intelligence, and actuation. Its core products include a lightweight 7-degree-of-freedom robotic arm, a general-purpose robot controller, and a robot vision system. Agile Robots emphasizes full-body force sensitivity and vision intelligence, enabling their robotic systems to interpret the shape, material, and measurements of various objects. This technology facilitates applications in manufacturing, medical assistance, and service robotics. With an additional office in Beijing, China, Agile Robots is dedicated to advancing the integration of AI with physical robotics.
PicsArt, Inc. is a prominent creative platform and social editing app that provides a comprehensive suite of tools for photo and video editing. The company offers a mobile application that features a photo editor and collage maker with customizable filters, effects, masks, frames, stickers, and text options. Additionally, PicsArt includes GifsArt, a GIF generator, and PicsArt Kids, an app designed for children's drawing and coloring. The platform fosters a vibrant community of over 150 million monthly active users who create and share nearly one billion images each month, contributing to one of the largest open-source collections of content globally. Available in 30 languages, PicsArt operates on a freemium model with both free and subscription-based options across major platforms. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company also has offices in several international locations, including Yerevan, Armenia, and Beijing. Founded in 2010, PicsArt has collaborated with notable brands and celebrities, enhancing its reputation as a leader in visual storytelling.
AInnovation owns and operates a company that offers products and services based on artificial intelligence to different companies. Its platform uses technologies such as recognition of vision in computers, learning machines, and processing natural languages and offers advantages on efficiency and algorithm that permit companies to improve productivity and performance, enabling businesses to enhance efficiency and value and achieve digital transformation.
Beijing Beisen Cloud Computing Co., Ltd. is a Chinese company that specializes in developing a software as a service (SaaS) integrated talent management platform. Founded in 2005 and based in Beijing, the company offers a comprehensive suite of services, including recruitment management, talent assessment, performance management, succession planning, and talent development. Beisen also provides platform as a service (PaaS) solutions for third-party developers, alongside system implementation and custom development services. Additionally, the company focuses on internet recruitment through its Human Resource Service Platform and operates a Business People Service Network that facilitates information exchange and recruitment services. With integrated functionalities for feedback and employee surveys, Beisen aims to enhance talent management for its clients.
Keep is a young team that loves sports and is also a group of Geeks who pursue the ultimate experience. They focus on application development in the field of mobile sports, advocate the spirit of open sharing, do not imitate, do not follow suit, and only do cool products. In the age of their lives, the fitness culture is awakening, there should be more professional tools, a more pure community, and make the body easier. This is what Keep is doing. They hope that through technology-driven, more people will love fitness and enjoy sports.
Zuoyebang currently cooperates with 113 educational organizations and 370,000 primary schools and high schools in China. Zuoyebang, which started as a phase of Q&A website Baidu Zhidao, is a platform where scholars can seek answers to study-related problems, and also supply method to peers who are trying to find assistance.
Zuoyebang currently cooperates with 113 educational organizations and 370,000 primary schools and high schools in China. Zuoyebang, which started as a phase of Q&A website Baidu Zhidao, is a platform where scholars can seek answers to study-related problems, and also supply method to peers who are trying to find assistance.
Didi Woya
Venture Round in 2020
Didi Woya develop self-driving technology and related businesses.
DiDi Autonomous Driving, focusing on advanced AD technology research and development, product application and other expanded businesses. DiDi’s advanced technologies, massive data, rich experience along with complete ecosystem in the mobility field will equip DiDi Autonomous Driving to build and operate world’s leading autonomous fleets.
Chehaoduo designs an online car trading platform that sells used cars. Its online car trading platform directly links individual car sellers and buyers, which help buyers remove the middlemen as well as purchase used cars easily. Haoyong Yang founded Chehaoduo in 2014, with its headquarters in Beijing in China, with branches in Chinese cities such as Hangzhou and Chongqing.
Ziroom Shenghuo Asset Management owns and operates an online long-term apartment leasing service platform. The products include Ziru Youjia which provides shared accommodation, Ziru Zhengzu that offers independent accommodation; Ziru Yu, a facility for serviced apartments; and Ziru Luxury. The platform also provides travel accommodation products Ziroom Guest House and Ziroom B&B. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Beijing, China.
KE Holdings Inc. operates an integrated online and offline platform for housing transactions and services in China. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Beijing, the company facilitates a range of housing-related activities, including the sale and rental of existing and new homes, home renovation, and real estate financial solutions. It owns Lianjia, a prominent real estate brokerage brand. In 2018, the company launched Beike, a technology-driven multi-service property platform aimed at enhancing user experience and supporting real estate agents. Beike serves as an open platform that connects accredited partners with resources to create a high-quality ecosystem for second-hand, new, and rental properties. The platform also addresses the needs of Chinese families seeking overseas properties, covering 11 countries with over 10,000 listings. KE Holdings aims to expand its reach across more than 300 cities in China and to establish a robust network of partners and agents to serve millions of households.
Ziroom Shenghuo Asset Management owns and operates an online long-term apartment leasing service platform. The products include Ziru Youjia which provides shared accommodation, Ziru Zhengzu that offers independent accommodation; Ziru Yu, a facility for serviced apartments; and Ziru Luxury. The platform also provides travel accommodation products Ziroom Guest House and Ziroom B&B. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Beijing, China.
Ucaidao
Venture Round in 2019
Ucaidao was launched in 2016 to provide paid investment information. Its business involves two parts: the "exclusive information" about the market’s cutting-edge opportunities and first-hand news, and the "investment boutique courses" which provide investment skills summarized by specialists in the investment field.
Chehaoduo designs an online car trading platform that sells used cars. Its online car trading platform directly links individual car sellers and buyers, which help buyers remove the middlemen as well as purchase used cars easily. Haoyong Yang founded Chehaoduo in 2014, with its headquarters in Beijing in China, with branches in Chinese cities such as Hangzhou and Chongqing.
Coupang Corp. operates an online retail platform that offers a wide range of products, including baby goods, fashion, beauty products, electronics, and home decor, along with daily discounted deals on various goods and services. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, the company emphasizes a customer-centric approach, aiming to provide competitive prices and a personalized shopping experience through its mobile application. Coupang leverages innovative technology to enhance operations, focusing on improving the end-to-end customer experience, particularly in areas like last-mile delivery and product discovery. With additional offices in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Los Angeles, and Seattle, Coupang has established itself as a significant player in the global e-commerce market.
Alibaba Bendi Shenghuo Fuwu Gongsi
Funding Round in 2018
Alibaba Bendi Shenghuo Fuwu Gonsi focuses on on-demand online services. It was established by Alibaba Group as the holding company for [Ele.me](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ele-me#section-overview) (food delivery service) and [Koubei](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/koubei) (online restaurant guide business), which merged in August 2018.
SenseTime develops face recognition technology that can be applied to payment and picture analysis, which could be used, for instance, on bank card verification and security systems. Ranked fifth in China Money Network's China AI Top 10 Ranking in 2017, SenseTime currently provides its face recognition technology to over 300 companies including China Mobile Communication Co, China UnionPay, Huawei Technologies Co., Xiaomi, and JD.com.
Founded in 2014, SenseTime says its face recognition technology has an error rate below one in 100,000. It also provides text, vehicle, and image recognition to mobile Internet companies, financial services, and security companies.
Didi Chuxing is a mobile transportation platform that offers app-based transportation services. The company offers a mobile tech-based mobility option for users across, including taxi hailing, private car-hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), DiDi Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Test Drive, DiDi Car Rental, and DiDi Enterprise Solutions. As a practitioner in the sharing economy initiative, DiDi is committed to working with communities and partners to solve transportation, environmental challenges, and employment problems using big data-driven deep-learning algorithms that optimize resource allocation. Bo Zhang and Wei Cheng established the company in 2012 in Beijing, Beijing.
Didi Chuxing is a mobile transportation platform that offers app-based transportation services. The company offers a mobile tech-based mobility option for users across, including taxi hailing, private car-hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), DiDi Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Test Drive, DiDi Car Rental, and DiDi Enterprise Solutions. As a practitioner in the sharing economy initiative, DiDi is committed to working with communities and partners to solve transportation, environmental challenges, and employment problems using big data-driven deep-learning algorithms that optimize resource allocation. Bo Zhang and Wei Cheng established the company in 2012 in Beijing, Beijing.
Didi Chuxing is a mobile transportation platform that offers app-based transportation services. The company offers a mobile tech-based mobility option for users across, including taxi hailing, private car-hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), DiDi Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Test Drive, DiDi Car Rental, and DiDi Enterprise Solutions. As a practitioner in the sharing economy initiative, DiDi is committed to working with communities and partners to solve transportation, environmental challenges, and employment problems using big data-driven deep-learning algorithms that optimize resource allocation. Bo Zhang and Wei Cheng established the company in 2012 in Beijing, Beijing.
Coupang Corp. operates an online retail platform that offers a wide range of products, including baby goods, fashion, beauty products, electronics, and home decor, along with daily discounted deals on various goods and services. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, the company emphasizes a customer-centric approach, aiming to provide competitive prices and a personalized shopping experience through its mobile application. Coupang leverages innovative technology to enhance operations, focusing on improving the end-to-end customer experience, particularly in areas like last-mile delivery and product discovery. With additional offices in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Los Angeles, and Seattle, Coupang has established itself as a significant player in the global e-commerce market.
Quixey, Inc. is a mobile technology company based in Mountain View, California, with additional offices in Beijing, Bengaluru, and Tel Aviv. Founded in 2009, Quixey operates a platform designed to enhance user access and engagement with mobile applications. The company's primary offering, Deep View Cards, enables users to connect seamlessly with app functionalities through a combination of content acquisition techniques and application mining technology. This solution facilitates the display of search results, native ads, and visually engaging links across various platforms, including social and messaging services. By allowing users to search for mobile apps based on specific actions they wish to perform, Quixey streamlines processes such as booking hotels or ordering rides, ultimately delivering a more efficient and relevant app experience.
Coupang Corp. operates an online retail platform that offers a wide range of products, including baby goods, fashion, beauty products, electronics, and home decor, along with daily discounted deals on various goods and services. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, the company emphasizes a customer-centric approach, aiming to provide competitive prices and a personalized shopping experience through its mobile application. Coupang leverages innovative technology to enhance operations, focusing on improving the end-to-end customer experience, particularly in areas like last-mile delivery and product discovery. With additional offices in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Los Angeles, and Seattle, Coupang has established itself as a significant player in the global e-commerce market.
Wandoujia is China’s search engine for mobile entertainment, creating innovations with widespread influence over China’s mobile internet industry. Wandoujia has been installed more than 350 million times, with new installations each day exceeding 800,000. Its search index provides over one million choices in multiple content verticals: apps, videos, and ebooks, as well as supplying wallpapers, music, and themes from more than 130 content providers. It was one of the first startups incubated by [Innovation Works](www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/innovation-works-china). Wandoujia launched its first product in 2010: a desktop phone manager for Android and has since pioneered mobile search products to help users discover and consume content. Wandoujia has a track record of successful international partnerships with those that share its commitment to mobile user experience. It has helped foreign developers like Flipboard, Evernote, Pocket, and LINE release their apps in China. Wandoujia has a [developer center here](http://developer.wandoujia.com/intl/). And Wandoujia's international version, [SnapPea](www.snappea.com), was launched in June 2012. Wandoujia also publishes [The Mobile Search Index](http://appindex.wandoujia.com/), a monthly report on Chinese trends in mobile search. The team is based in Beijing, with more than 250 employees and four cats.
E-Book Systems Pte Ltd (www.ebooksys.com) was founded in 1998 with a mission to bring the natural look and feel of the paper-based book into the domain of consumer products, computers and the Internet. E-Book Systems' products make use of its patented Digital Flip(R) technology to deliver multimedia content such as digital photographs, animations, text, audio and music via a 3-D Page-Flipping interface, which appears as a virtual book. These contents could be streamed or delivered both online and offline through E-Book Systems' OpenFlip(TM) format. E-Book Systems also offers Digital Rights Management, FlipBook tracking ASP services and Flip Enterprise solutions for publishers and corporations. E-Book Systems, a private ongoing corporation, has offices in Santa Clara, Calif., Beijing, China and Singapore. E-Book Systems' products are distributed worldwide, including the U.S., Europe, Japan and Asia Pacific Region.
SINA is an online media company based in the People's Republic of China, serving both domestic and global Chinese communities. It operates a network of localized websites, including SINA.com for news and content, Weibo.com for microblogging, and SINA Mobile for mobile value-added services. The company provides a diverse range of offerings that include online portals, microblogging, video and music streaming, photo sharing, online games, e-commerce, and enterprise solutions. The majority of SINA's revenue comes from online advertising and mobile services, with additional income from fee-based offerings. SINA focuses on delivering targeted content tailored to specific regions, aiming to enhance user engagement and broaden its audience. The company strives to be a preferred platform for users seeking information, sharing opinions, and building social networks, while also providing businesses with effective marketing opportunities.