Today's investment and financing highlights: the privacy computing track is hot; robots continue to be favored by capital; meta-cosmic wind continues

Per reporter: Tang Ruyu Per editor: Xiao Ruidong

The Spring Festival holiday is over, and the rhythm of the venture capital circle is gradually recovering. Today's primary market financing news is mainly concentrated in the field of hard technology: among them, large financing has emerged in the field of artificial intelligence privacy computing, intelligent robot track and meta-universe concept.

Metacospheric infrastructure rises

The wind of the metacosmum blows from 2021 to 2022, and entrepreneurs and capital have launched a deep excavation of various segments of the track. According to Bloomberg Intelligence, the global metacosmum market is expected to reach $800 billion by 2024; by 2030, the metacosmum market will reach $2.5 trillion.

Today, Meta-Universe Soft Infrastructure "Player" Chenjing Technology announced the completion of tens of millions of dollars in Series A financing, jointly led by Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Industry Equity Investment Fund and IDG Capital, and followed by 37 Interactive Entertainment, OPPO, Fidelity's own asset investment institutions Eight Roads, BV Capital, Sunwoda Group and Fosun Ruizheng Capital. It is reported that this round of financing will be mainly used for technology research and development, product landing and talent recruitment.

According to public information, Chenjing Technology aims to provide "soft infrastructure" services for the construction of the meta-universe, and build a 1:1 city-level three-dimensional space intelligent digital base on top of the real world. Qi Zichao, co-founder of the company, said that as the next generation of Internet interaction forms, the metacosm needs the joint participation of the entire technology industry. As a startup, we hope to build a spatial intelligence platform, as a digital base for the virtual world and the infrastructure for the ultimate form of the metaverse, and become the "soil" for metacosmic super application products.

Privacy computing reproduces hundreds of millions of financing

Today, the privacy computing platform Lanxiang Zhilian (Hangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Lanxiang Zhilian) announced the completion of a round of financing of nearly 200 million yuan. This round of financing is led by Xicheng Jinrui, followed by Yuanhe Chongyuan Capital, Lenovo Star and other institutions, and Mountain View Capital serves as the financial advisor. Prior to that, the company had received investment from institutions such as GSR Ventures and Lenovo Star.

According to public information, Blue Elephant Zhilian was founded in 2019, is a financial-grade privacy computing platform, and its self-developed first financial-grade privacy computing platform GAIA (sound: Gaia) includes a multi-party security computing platform GAIA · Edge, a one-stop federal learning modeling platform GAIA · Cube, a shared platform for the Privacy Computing Alliance GAIA · Edge-X, etc. In the past two years, it has reached cooperation with dozens of financial institutions, operators and leading Internet companies such as Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Telecom, China Mobile, and Bank of Shanghai.

It is reported that the proceeds of this round of financing will be used to further strengthen the talent layout, mainly to strengthen the underlying technology research and development, data operation and customer service, and enhance the landing ability of Blue Elephant Zhilian products in more scenarios.

Visual robots are favored by capital

Today, Lingxi Robot (hereinafter referred to as Lingxi), a supplier of robot vision intelligence solutions, announced the completion of nearly 100 million yuan of B round financing, which was led by Oriental Jiafu. The company's founder & CEO Tintin revealed that this round of financing will be used for next-generation product development, technology iteration, brand promotion and recruitment.

According to public information, Lingxi was founded in 2017 as a start-up focusing on robot vision solutions; in the past five years, it has successively launched line laser cameras and surface structured light cameras, LINX-3D vision camera series products, achieving high-precision full coverage of large, medium, and small depth of field of view.

From the practical application point, the company takes "3D vision + mechanical arm" as the entry point, expands the application of 3D vision technology to scenes such as in-and-out warehouse depalletizing, dismantling and picking, disorderly feeding, etc., and has established cooperation with logistics enterprises such as JD.com, Tian international, and Kunchuan Intelligent.