Black Sesame Intelligence always talks about the amount of financing and the future of autonomous driving chips, but it needs to be verified by the market

Operator Finance Network Intern Liu Wenyan/Wen

Recently, Black Sesame Intelligent Technology Company announced that it has completed a strategic round and a C round of financing under the leadership of Xiaomi. After this financing, the company's market valuation is close to $2 billion, which really sounds quite powerful, and the operator finance network is also trying to demystify the founder of this company.

According to the data, Shan Jizhang's own academic qualifications are very outstanding, he graduated from Huanggang Middle School in 1986, he successfully admitted to the radio major of Tsinghua University, and was guaranteed a direct doctorate with excellent results during the university.

During his studies, Shan Jizhang actively participated in various professional practices and taught himself computer programming, for example, he wrote a MIS (information management) system for a coal mining company to contact chip technology, and it was because of this practice that he laid a solid foundation for his future career development.

As a result, Shan Jizhang founded Black Sesame Intelligent Company in 2016 and served as the chairman of the company, and began to enter the autopilot chip industry, and his co-founder was his friend Liu Weihong in high school.

At that time, the industry was at the cusp of the storm, but there were few enterprises involved in China, and Shan Jizhang's courage to seize this outlet was due to his own solid professional ability and previous 20 years of work experience in Howey Technology.

Although Howey Technology is now an authoritative enterprise in the field of sensors, in fact, when Shan Jizhang graduated from college and joined, Howey Technology was just founded. And when I first joined Howey Technology, although the company had very few personnel, Shan Jizhang still ranked last among employees. But he was not discouraged, but seized every opportunity to hone himself, insisted on working in Howey Technology for 20 years, from the bottom of the R & D personnel step by step to the vice president of the department, becoming a chip industry veteran.

It can be said that Shan Jizhang grew up with Howey Technology, so his understanding of the establishment of the enterprise will be deeper; and Shan Jizhang has been from the R & D personnel to the manager, his management ability is also vividly reflected.

In this regard, the most prominent performance is that black sesame intelligence has been recognized and invested by many institutions in only 6 years since its establishment, and has a great influence in the industry. Moreover, it is said that none of the entrepreneurial team members of that year left.

Interestingly, when the college entrance examination was selected at the end of the year, Shan Jizhang originally wanted to choose a physics major, and only modified the voluntary radio major under the guidance of the admissions teacher, and then shined.

It is said that up to now, Black Sesame Intelligence has achieved successful tape-out with three large computing chips, and will also achieve mass production this year.

However, so far, no company has used the chip of Black Sesame Intelligence, and its products still need to be proved by the market.

(Editor-in-Charge: Linghua Kang)