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<h3>Enterprise Services</h3>
Financing follow-up
36 Kr starter | "Hiretual" has received more than 100 million yuan of Series B financing and will continue to expand its R&D team in China
36Kr learned that AI recruitment platform Hiretual recently received a Series B financing of more than 100 million yuan led by Haisong Capital. Previously, the company had received a Series A financing from Northern Lights Ventures. This round of financing is mainly used for the recruitment of R&D teams in China.
Hiretual was founded in Silicon Valley in 2015, and its main product is an AI recruitment SaaS platform based on talent knowledge graph. As a SaaS product, Hiretual's ARR grew from $1 million to $10 million in just 24 months. This indicator represents the outlook for SaaS company revenue growth, putting Hisretual among the fastest growing echelons of SaaS companies...
36 Kr starter | Focusing on the construction of an industrial Internet platform for electronic engineers, "Huaqiu" has obtained nearly 100 million yuan of B+ round financing
36Kr learned that the electronic industry Internet platform "Huaqiu" recently completed nearly 100 million yuan of B+ round of financing, this round led by the old shareholder Tongchuang Weiye, several investment institutions to follow. This round of financing will be mainly used to increase the capacity and capacity of supply chain services such as high-layer PCB manufacturing, electronic component BOM matching, and PCBA processing. "Huaqiu" has received angel round financing from Huaqiang Group, A round financing from Qifu Capital, and Series B financing from Tongchuang Weiye, China Merchants Fund, Hongyan Investment and Hunan High-tech Investment.
"Huaqiu" was first evolved from the electronics enthusiast network, an electronics engineer community founded in 2009, and 36Kr has reported on it. The founder Chen Suibo is an electronic engineer, so the company's business layout ideas initially came from the problems encountered by the founder Chen Suibo in his work, such as the lack of a good communication platform, difficulty in finding goods, many fakes, small and medium-sized needs are not valued, small and medium-sized enterprises are not standardized in services, low service efficiency and poor experience. At the same time, 70% of the decision-making power of electronic products comes from R & D engineers, Huaqiu also regards engineers as a core user group, electronic enthusiast network currently has more than 4 million registered users, of which more than 2 million are engineers...
36Kr's initial | "Hanging Mirror Safety" completed tens of millions of yuan of PreA round of financing, and Sequoia China Seed Fund exclusively led the investment
36Kr learned that on June 8, the industry's leading DevSecOps agile security company Suspension Mirror Security officially announced the completion of a PreA round of financing of tens of millions of yuan, which was exclusively led by Sequoia China Seed Fund. After the financing is completed, Suspension Mirror Security will further improve the product layout, expand the professional sales and marketing team, and accelerate the entry into the financial, power, energy and Internet enterprise security markets.
It is reported that the suspension mirror security was founded by the network security technology research team of Peking University "XMIRROR", focusing on devSecOps software supply chain continuous threat integration detection and defense, its original suspension mirror DevSecOps intelligent adaptive threat management system mainly covers from threat modeling, threat discovery, threat simulation to detection response and other key links of the development and operation of integrated agile security products and government and enterprise security services featuring actual combat attack and defense confrontation...
36Kr exclusively | "one hand" to complete a $40 million Series C financing, which will increase investment in the research and development of recommended algorithms
36Kr exclusively learned that the apparel supply chain e-commerce platform "First Hand" has completed a $40 million Series C financing, led by CMC Capital, the old shareholder Huaxing New Economy Fund continues to follow, and China Renaissance Capital serves as the exclusive financial advisor. Among them, the first hand is already the third startup invested by CMC Capital in the field of apparel supply chain.
According to founder and CEO Jiang Yun, this round of financing funds will be mainly used in three aspects: 1) accurately recommended big data algorithm iteration; 2) live broadcast sales related support services; 3) marketing promotion for platform users to further expand the market...
<h3>Energy technology</h3>
The forefront | "Yi Siwei Calculation" completed a financing of 2 billion yuan: the founder is Wang Dongsheng, former chairman of BOE, and The Alliance and IDG lead the investment
36Kr learned that Beijing Yisiwei Computing Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Yisiwei Computing") announced the completion of a new round of financing, with a total amount of more than 2 billion yuan. Yi Siwei calculated that the financing will be mainly used for product research and development, IP and tape-out expenditure, as well as team expansion and talent recruitment, and strive to improve the layout of the entire product line and strengthen the ecological attributes to continuously enhance the core competition.
This round of financing is jointly led by Legend Capital and IDG Capital, followed by Haining Juanhu Science and Technology City Development Investment, Sunshine Ronghui, Haining Industrial Assets, Light Source Capital, etc.; the old shareholders Core Kinetic Energy, Sanxing and Bowa made additional investments. Light Source Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor for this financing...
36Kr's first | virtual live broadcast into the e-commerce with goods market, "Zhongke Shenzhi" received tens of millions of yuan of angel round financing
36Kr learned that Zhongke Shenzhi, an expanded reality imaging technology research and development company, completed a tens of millions of angel round financing, led by Innova Angels, and followed by HCH and Guizhou Cloud Big Data (AC Accelerator). This round of financing will be used for team scale expansion and sales system construction; at the same time, the company will continue to carry out core technology research and development and product iteration.
36Kr had reported at the beginning of the year that zhongke shenzhi, the company was founded in 2016, the team focused on expanding the research and development of the underlying technology and application of realistic images, and has launched dreamMaker real-time animation production and DeepArt intelligent shooting two core products. Cheng Weizhong, founder of Zhongke Shenzhi, said that the biggest progress in the business in 2020 is mainly in the expansion of the DreamMaker product line...
36 Kr starter | Promoting the research and development of AI and cloud game virtualization, "Trend Technology" received tens of millions of dollars in Pre-A round of financing
36Kr learned that the resource pooling software startup "Trend Technology" recently completed a nearly 10 million US dollar Pre A round of financing, which was led by Gobi Partners China, Hillhouse Venture Capital and Kexun Fund, as well as the previous round of angel investors Yonghua Investment and former Deepin Technology CEO Yao Song continued to follow suit. This round of funding will be used to expand the R&D, marketing, and customer service teams for resource pooling and virtualization products in the high-growth areas of AI and cloud gaming. The company completed an angel round of financing in December 2019...
The skid-loading and refueling chain brand "Energy Hui" completed nearly 100 million yuan of Series A financing, and China Merchants Venture Capital and Jianfeng Qiyun jointly invested
36Kr learned that the skid-loading and refueling chain brand "Energy Hui" completed a round of financing of nearly 100 million yuan in May, jointly invested by China Merchants Venture Capital and Jianfeng Qiyun, and jointly served as financial advisers by Extreme Capital and Daopu Capital.
Energy Hui is an energy Internet service platform for enterprises to solve the problem of oil consumption, and completed a Pre-A round of financing of 20 million yuan in December last year, and 36Kr has had it.
According to Wang Lei, founder and CEO of Energy Hub, this round of financing is mainly used to lay a pre-warehouse for skid oil products across the country and develop a digital information management system. In addition to the financial support, the investment institutions introduced this time also contribute to the company's channel resources, business development and industrial cooperation, and are of strategic significance for the future layout; for example, China Merchants has several domestic ports, Sinotrans and other large logistics groups, and energy exchange is part of its development logistics industry ecosystem...
<h3>E-commerce consumption</h3>
36 Kr starter | The barbecue chain brand "Lamb Kebabs A Long Ago" received nearly 100 million yuan of Series B financing, and Black Ant Capital invested exclusively
36Kr learned that the barbecue chain brand "Lamb Kebabs A Long Ago" has recently completed nearly 100 million yuan of Series B financing, which is exclusively invested by Black Ant Capital.
Founded in 2008, Lamb Kebabs (hereinafter referred to as "A Long Time Ago") is a smoky-free barbecue experience with a selection of high-quality lamb as the main item. By the end of 2019, lamb kebabs had opened 59 stores in Beijing, Shanghai and other places a long time ago.
The 12-year-old restaurant chain wants to be the "Haidilao of the barbecue world". In terms of specific details, the company's consumption upgrade of the Chinese barbecue industry is reflected in various dimensions such as products, brands, stores, and services...
<h3>Venture Capital Watch</h3>
The "Truth" for FinTech Companies Under the New Accounting Standards
Since June, listed financial technology companies such as 360 Finance, Lexin, Qudian and Xinye Technology have successively announced their first quarterly reports for 2020.
Many companies seem to have a huge separation between business development and finance, and some head companies with relatively fast business growth have suffered unprecedented losses. Even different financial data is extremely difficult to "self-consistent", such as high revenue growth, but profits have fallen sharply.
This is partly because starting in the first quarter of 2020, the SEC required the implementation of the new accounting standard ASC326, which subverted the logic of calculating revenue and expenses of financial technology companies in the past, resulting in uncoordinated growth and contraction of revenue and profit in the financial statements of many companies.
So, under the new accounting standards, how can we see the "truth" of these fintech companies? How to eliminate interference factors and restore the real operating conditions of each company? Try to sort it out today...
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