ePlanet Capital is a growth investor that provides venture capital and investment for telecom, media, and technology companies. It is focused on companies that display considerably high growth and development in emerging and developing countries of the world.

ePlanet Capital

IDG Capital is an investment firm that funds early- to growth-stage companies in the technology sector. Today they work with private equity and venture capital fund managers, investment advisors, and business entities from around the world. Their limited partners include many internationally reputable investors, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, institutional investors, major charities, university endowments, family offices, and business luminaries. IDG Capital brings a powerful combination of global perspective and local experience to investment management. As long-term value investors, they are highly skilled at mobilizing global resources to address local needs, especially for Inbound and outbound opportunities in China and the rest of Asia. Their highly skilled team has an in-depth understanding of the Chinese market and enjoys close relationships with many influential business leaders.

IDG Capital

Integrity Partners believes that in the highly competitive early-stage sector, technology alone does not win. Rather, exceptional entrepreneurs sufficiently financed and expertly guided, clear real market hurdles to move past the competition in establishing world-class companies. They are eager to invest in exceptional management teams that can execute in large and rapidly growing markets.

Integrity Partners

Peninsula Capital Partners is an investment company specializing in subordinated debt and structured equity investments in superior middle-market companies. Through their management of four private limited partnerships, they control over $800 million of investment capital and have made dozens of investments in a wide range of industrial, consumer products, retail, food and distribution concerns.  Founded in 1995 by its three senior partners, the Company is today owned entirely by its founders and senior management team members. Major investors include state and corporate pension funds, insurance companies, banks, funds-of-funds and wealth management firms. As their first three investment partnerships have been completely invested, they are currently focused on investing the $335 million of committed capital in Peninsula Fund IV.

Peninsula Capital

Google is a multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. Their products address a wide range of use cases, including email, navigation, cloud computing, web browsing, video sharing, productivity, operating systems, cloud storage, language translation, photo storage, video calling, smart home, smartphones, wearable technology, music streaming, and more.

Google

[Bridger Capital Partners](http://www.bridger-capital.com/) is a boutique firm offering M&A advisory services, capital formation and business and strategic planning advisory in select industries.

Bridger Management

Founded in 2000, the company was formed to manage China specific funds for Venture TDF. It raised its first fund Venture TDF China LP in that same year. Presently the company has a team of 6 investment professionals, (4 partners & 2 staff) each with significant industry experience, based in Shanghai.

Venture TDF

ChinaEquity is China's private merchant bank engaging in VC, PE, Direct investments as well as investment management. It provides one-stop cross-border VC PE and direct investments to high-tech enterprises throughout the Greater-China Region. The company uniquely positions itself to the booming Chinese technology, media, telecommunications, biotechnology and environmental technology, sports, medicine and the natural resource industries, and aims to equilibrate the demand and the supply in the capital market and provide total solutions to all parties on the capital flow chain. Clear development strategy and innovative business model has helped ChinaEquity to achieve outstanding performances. Its resources and networks extend all over the Silicon Valley, Wall Street, Europe and Greater China. International strategic alliance and partnerships allow the company to be able to cover all stages of investment and financing. Since inception, ChinaEquity has achieved a promising portfolio of investments and has established a high-quality customer base. ChinaEquity fully understands the political, economic and cultural environment in Greater-China, is well experienced in international capital market operations, and familiar with development trend. The company maintains long-term and favorable communications with Chinese governmental bodies, international financial institutions and high-tech enterprises. ChinaEquity was founded in 1999 by Mr. Chao Y. Wang, formerly the Vice President and Beijing Chief Representative of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. The senior partners and executives joined ChinaEquity from international and domestic renowned financial institutions and high-tech enterprises.

China Equity

China Value

Baidu

Artificial intelligence is identifying and testing new therapies faster than ever.

AI Drug Discovery

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 China-based BioMap specializes in discovering the intricacies of life using AI foundation models. The company's flagship platform, xTrimo, a cross-modal transformer representation of interactome and multi-omics, is reportedly the first and largest protein-centric LLM platform that has been trained on an extensive proprietary dataset, containing over 6 billion proteins, 100 billion protein-protein interactions, and trillions of single-cell gene expression measurements. The platform facilitates the rapid and precise generation of diverse proteins, even with limited labeled data. Its applications span therapeutic antibodies, industrial enzymes, and novel proteins across various fields.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 
 
 BioMap has established strategic partnerships with leading entities in academia and industry to leverage its foundation and task models for the development of proteins. In December 2023, BioMap collaborated with 
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 GeneQuantum Healthcare
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 Sanofi
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 in October 2023 to co-develop AI modules for biotherapeutic drug discovery.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
 
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 In August 2021, the company secured USD 100 million in a 
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 funding round led by GGV Capital. The funds were earmarked to accelerate the R&amp;D of BioMap's biocomputing technology.
 
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Using AI to automate, enhance and optimize marketing activities

Marketing Automation

Taboola connects advertisers with relevant and personalized content via its AI-powered content discovery platform in order to drive brand engagement. Taboola also offers a news discovery service (Taboola News) that allows personalized news feeds to be directly incorporated into mobile devices. The fiirm has introduced a number of enhancements to its solutions including an <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/8071">AI-powered homepage personalization tool</a>, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/6981">SmartBid Dimensions</a>, an automated ad bidding technology, and a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/23550">Generative AI AdMaker</a>. In July 2024, the company launched <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/31939">Taboola for Audience, </a>offering AI-powered personalization capabilities consolidated into a single audience development platform.&nbsp;A competitive edge Taboola has over its peers such as Outbrain, is the large number of partnerships it has established with leading media publishers (9,000+ by November 2022) including Bloomberg, USA Today, and NBC, which are exclusive long-term partners. In addition, in November 2021 the firm upgraded its automated ad bidding system with the launch of ‘SmartBid dimensions’ which uses granular customer readership data to provide unique insights on customer intent.&nbsp;Taboola has also executed on a number of acquisitions including Connexivity, one of the largest ecommerce advertising media platforms on the open web, which it acquired in In July 2021 for USD 800 million. Taboola expects the incorporation of the ecommerce data provided by Connexivity and the upselling opportunities created to drive higher yields for Taboola’s publishers and advertisers. In May 2022, Taboola <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/10734">acquired Gravity R&amp;D</a>, a developer of an ad personalization engine to further enhance its customization capabilities.&nbsp;In November 2022, Yahoo <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/14914">acquired a 25% stake</a> in Taboola, becoming its largest shareholder. The firm deepened its relationship with yahoo and entered into a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/15746">30-year partnership</a> to become the exclusive native advertising partner for all of Yahoo’s digital properties and is expected to generate ~USD 1 billion in annual revenue.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsBy December 2023, Taboola’s content discovery platform was reportedly used by 15,000–20,000 advertisers who provide content to more than 1.4 billion daily active users. Taboola News discovery service was offered by leading mobile device manufacturers in at least 80 countries as of July 2021.&nbsp;The firm has entered into a number of partnerships to enhance its product offerings including with Microsoft to launch a <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/7479">new ad bidding service</a> as well as with PMC to bring <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11521">personalized content to leading entertainment websites</a> in its portfolio which includes Rolling Stone, Billboard and Varierty. In February 2023, in partnership with TIME, the firm entered the ecommerce space with the launch of ‘<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/16361">Taboola Turnkey Commerce</a>’, which allows premium publishers to create trustworthy content that helps readers make informed purchase decisions.

Electrifying passenger and commercial travel

EV Economy

NIO is a Chinese EV manufacturer focusing on a battery-as-a-service model. As of April 2024, the company had deployed over 2,300 battery swap stations across China and Europe, with plans to install a further 1,000 within the year. Instead of charging a built-in battery like in other EVs, discharged batteries of NIO vehicles can be swapped with charged ones at these stations. The removed battery will be then slow-charged at the station before being swapped for a discharged battery from another NIO vehicle. This model enables NIO to separate the vehicle from the battery. The customers can subscribe to either a standard 75 kWh battery or a long range 100 kWh battery.&nbsp;NIO also offers a range of electric SUVs and Sedans. The company’s portfolio ranges from the ES8 (six-seater SUV), the ES7/EL7 (five-seater SUV), the ES6/EL6 (five-seater SUV), the EC7 (five-seater coupe SUV), the EC6 (five-seater coupe SUV), the ET9 (executive sedan), the ET7 (sedan), the ET5 (mid-side sedan), to the ET5T (tourer).As of April 2024, NIO has sold over 450,000 EVs, globally, with over 160,000 of these sold in China over 2023. Following its initial launch in China, NIO started deploying vehicles in Norway in September 2021. In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13642">October 2022 </a>, the company also announced its plans to enter Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden, and plans to reach 25 countries by 2025 including the US. In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/21231">August 2023 </a>, NIO also completed the assembly of the world's first photovoltaic self-consumption system with a V2G (vehicle-to-grid) charger in Qilian Mountain National Park.Key customers and partnershipsIn <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24263">November 2023 </a>, NIO partnered with Changan Automobile to develop standards for swappable batteries, construct a network dedicated to swapping batteries, and produce vehicles that accommodate swappable batteries. During the same <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24541">month </a>, the company also partnered with Geely on battery swapping technology.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25137">January 2024 </a>, NIO partnered with Longi Green Energy Technology, a Chinese solar panel manufacturer, to incorporate solar panels into its battery swap stations to expand the use of photovoltaic power in EV charging. In the same <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25505">month </a>, the company partnered with Anhui Province Energy Group, Anhui Transportation Holding Group, and Wenergy Group to build 1,000 integrated battery swap stations.&nbsp;In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/26991">February 2024 </a>, the company signed a technology license agreement with Forseven Limited. This allows the latter to to use NIO’s existing and future technical information, technical solutions, software, and intellectual property rights of its smart EV platforms to carry out R&amp;D, manufacturing, sales, import, and export of Forseven’s vehicle models. In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27851">March 2024 </a>, NIO partnered with CATL to develop long-lasting EV batteries that can last up to 15 years. In&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/34249">October 2024</a>, the company partnered with Monolith, ​​an AI software provider, to deploy AI technology to improve EV battery monitoring and performance. In the same&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/34661">month</a>, NIO partnered with Abu Dhabi-based CYVN Holdings to form NIO MENA, a JV to expand into the Middle East and North African markets.In&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/36125">November 2024</a>, NIO partnered with Green Car to enter the Azerbaijan market and with Avatr Technology to provide access to charging networks across China.Funding and financialsNIO’s latest funding was in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/25098">December 2023 </a>, when the company entered a share subscription agreement with CYVN Holdings, where the latter intended to invest an aggregate of USD 2.2 billion in cash to subscribe for 294,000,000 newly issued Class A ordinary shares at a per share purchase price of USD 7.50. NIO planned to invest the funds in core technologies and system capabilities.Prior to this, in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22638">September 2023 </a>, NIO raised USD 1 billion in a two-tranche convertible bond. The company intended to use the funds to repurchase a portion of its existing debt securities, strengthen its balance sheet, and for general corporate purposes. In <a href="https://ir.nio.com/news-events/news-releases/news-release-details/nio-inc-announces-strategic-equity-investment-cyvn">July 2023 </a>, NIO received a USD 738.5 million strategic equity investment from CYVN.NIO was listed on NYSE in September 2018 and raised USD 1 billion. The company reported revenue of USD 7.8 billion and an operating loss of USD 3.2 billion in FY2023.

Autonomous and connected technologies shaping the future of the auto industry

Auto Tech

ECARX is an AutoTech company that offers a range of turnkey hardware and software solutions for smart vehicle manufacturers. Its offerings span across advanced in-vehicle infotainment, digital cockpits, vehicle chipset solutions, a core operating system, and driver assist solutions. The company regularly collaborates with a range of system-on-a-chip (SoC) technology providers to power its in-vehicle computing products. The company’s flagship digital cockpit platform, Makalu, leverages AMD’s Ryzen Embedded V2000 processors and AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series GPUs to offer advanced computing power and visual graphic rendering capabilities for in-vehicle applications such as 3D navigation systems and gaming.In March 2024, ECARX unveiled the Atlas and Pikes computing platforms powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs to power global OEMs' infotainment and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). It also introduced the Qogir computing platform, co-developed with Xingji Meizu Group, to support 8K displays and hardware ray tracing in infotainment systems as well as the AD1000 SoC, developed with SiEngine, for autonomous driving applications.The company’s other notable products include the Super Brain and Skyland Pro central computing platforms for ADAS and the Cloudpeak cross-domain software stack. It claims that Super Brain can enable OEM’s to reduce wiring throughout the vehicle by 5% as well as reduce R&amp;D and components costs by up to 15% and 20%, respectively.As of March 2024, ECARX is based in 11 major locations across China, the UK, the US, Sweden, Germany and Malaysia.&nbsp;ECARX generated revenue of USD 657.1 million and reported a non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA of USD 100.2 million in the year ended December 2023. The company has been listed on the Nasdaq since December 2022 via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), which valued the combined entity at USD 3.8 billion.Key customers and partnershipsAs of March 2024, ECARX has deployed its solutions in over 6 million vehicles worldwide across 16 large global automotive OEMs and 25 brands including Lotus, Lynk, Polestar, Smart, Volvo Cars, FAW, and Dongfeng Peugeot-Citroën.The company has entered a range of strategic partnerships to further enhance its product offerings. In February 2023, the company partnered with SiEngine, an automotive semiconductor company FAW, a Chinese automaker, to develop digital cockpits based on the former’s SE1000 SoC for FAW vehicles. In May 2023, it went on to partner with video game development company Epic Games to leverage its Unreal Engine to power in-vehicle digital cockpits and infotainment applications with advanced 3D rendering capabilities.&nbsp;ECARX partnered with Microsoft in March 2024 to leverage Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service and Azure Cloud Computing Services to integrate large language models (LLMs) into its intelligent cockpits and autonomous driving solutions. Furthermore, ECARX also partnered with companies such as <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/30796">DXC Luxoft </a>, Tencent Smart Transportation, and Lianyou Zhilian Technology to jointly develop intelligent driving and cockpit solutions.

Embedding environmental, social, and corporate governance factors into investments

Sustainable Finance

Circle is a leading financial technology company focused on developing digital currency solutions and blockchain-based infrastructure for the internet. Its flagship product, USD Coin (USDC), is a fully-reserved stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the US dollar. As of March 2023, USDC had over USD 43 billion in circulation, making it one of the most widely held and liquid digital currencies globally.
USDC is built on an open-source protocol and designed to facilitate fast, low-cost transactions on various blockchain networks. It serves as a digital dollar API, enabling seamless integration into financial services, digital wallets, and commerce platforms. Circle has made USDC available on nine blockchain networks, with plans for further expansion to enhance interoperability across different blockchains.
In addition to USDC, Circle offers developer tools like programmable wallets, allowing businesses to embed digital asset capabilities into their existing applications. The company has also introduced the Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP), a solution for seamless USDC transfers between supported blockchains, simplifying cross-chain transactions.
Circle's vision is to create a new global operating system for money, leveraging the programmability of digital currencies to facilitate innovative financial services and streamline cross-border transactions. The company aims to democratize access to financial services by enabling seamless integration of digital currencies into existing infrastructures and platforms.
Key customers and partnerships
Circle has established partnerships with various companies to drive the adoption of USDC and blockchain-based financial services. Notable collaborations include:
- MoneyGram and Stellar: Enabling MoneyGram customers to instantly send money globally using USDC, with collection in local currencies.
- Mastercard: Exploring opportunities for USDC integration into Mastercard's products and services.
- Plaid: Integrating USDC into Plaid's financial data network, enabling developers to build applications with digital currency capabilities.

Data Infrastructure & Analytics

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 TigerGraph is a graph analytics software company with an AI platform that allows large amounts of data to be loaded and analyzed in a short time span. Its products include TigerGraph DB, which is for scalable graph database and analytics; TigerGraph Cloud for graph database-as-a-service; and GraphStudio is an easy to use application with all phases of graph data analytics. The software is advertised to increase revenue, manage risk, and improve operations in the advertising, media and entertainment, healthcare and life sciences industries. Ford, Jaguar Land Rover, and Xbox are among its customers. TigerGraph has offices in 14 countries worldwide.
 
 
 
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Cryptocurrencies

Circle is a leading fintech company specializing in stablecoins and blockchain-based financial services. Its flagship product, USD Coin (USDC), is a fully-reserved digital currency backed 1:1 by cash and cash equivalents, allowing users to convert money into a format for faster, cheaper, and more secure transactions in digital environments. As of June 2022, USDC had over USD 55 billion in circulation, and Circle projects this figure to reach USD 110 billion by the end of 2022.
USDC is designed to be blockchain-agnostic and currently operates natively on nine blockchain networks, with plans for further expansion. Circle recently introduced the Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) in April 2023, enabling seamless transfer of USDC across supported blockchains. The company also offers Circle Accounts, which function as digital currency business bank accounts, allowing businesses to manage, store, and earn yield on their USDC holdings.
In addition to its stablecoin offerings, Circle provides programmable wallets and developer tools, enabling businesses to embed digital asset capabilities into their existing applications. The company aims to create an internet-native financial infrastructure, positioning USDC as a "dollar API" for innovative financial services built on open blockchains.
Circle has formed partnerships with various companies, including MoneyGram, Mastercard, and Plaid, to facilitate the adoption of USDC in remittances, ecommerce, and other use cases. In May 2024, Circle officially launched its services in Brazil, partnering with BTG Pactual, Latin America's largest investment bank, to distribute USDC and provide local banking rail capabilities.

Automation to improve business efficiency

Workflow Automation Platforms

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 Ripcord offers a document processing platform that leverages physical robots to autonomously scan and convert paper documents into digital files. These robots can detect and remove fasteners, classify documents, and extract relevant data, such as invoice numbers, locations, names, and dollar amounts based on a user&rsquo;s requirement. Ripcord also provides an integrated SaaS platform called &ldquo;Canopy&rdquo; that enables users to upload scanned documents to the cloud and convert them to searchable PDFs. Moreover, Canopy also integrates with a range of third-party business intelligence and data processing software.&nbsp;
 
 
 In October 2023, the company announced plans to launch a GenAI-powered document discovery tool called &ldquo;Docufai.&rdquo; The tool enables users to ask natural language questions about scanned documents and receive AI-generated answers. Ripcord also planned to include a document translation, related documents search and sharing features, as well as a collaborative notebook. The company aimed to onboard 1,000 users by the end of Q3 2023 and release multiple pricing tiers for the product in 2024.
 
 
 The company has also leveraged acquisitions to integrate new technology into its product portfolio. In 2020, Ripcord acquired Engine ML, a deep-learning infrastructure development company, to offer document intelligence solutions to its customers. The company went on to acquire LearningPal, an optical character recognition (OCR) and document processing technology provider, for an undisclosed amount in April 2022. The company integrated LearningPal&rsquo;s technology into its own platform to offer native Japanese language extraction capabilities and improved large-format document processing to its customers.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships&nbsp;
 
 
 Ripcord leverages a number of partnerships with logistics firms to transport physical files from customers to its facilities. In 2020, the company launched a joint venture with Fuji Xerox to expand its operations in Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, and by October 2023, it operated three facilities (one in the US and two in Japan).
 
 
 In 2020, the company reported that it had processed over one billion pages per year for customers like Coca-Cola, BP, Chevron, UCLA, Cantium, and the IRS.
 
 
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 In October 2023, the company raised USD 20 million in new funding (which included a USD 8.5 million bridge note) out of an ongoing USD 35 million round. Ripcord reportedly generated revenue of USD 11.8 million in 2022 (up 100% YoY). Furthermore, it expects to reach a revenue of USD 22.5 million in 2023.
 
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Sports Tech

Pixellot is an Israeli company that provides AI-automated video production and analytics solutions for sports events. Its technology streamlines the video production workflow by deploying unmanned multi-camera systems that cover the entire playing field. Advanced computer vision algorithms automatically track the flow of play, identify highlights, generate replays, and insert advertisements without human intervention. Pixellot's solutions enable affordable and high-quality video coverage of sports events across all levels, from professional leagues to amateur competitions.
In June 2020, Pixellot acquired VidSwap, an analytics and video platform for coaches and analysts, enhancing its offerings. As of April 2022, the company had deployed its systems at over 8,000 fields and venues, producing more than 90,000 live hours per month from over 140 leagues and tournaments. Pixellot's business model revolves around providing its solutions to sports organizations, enabling them to broadcast and monetize their events.
In June 2022, Pixellot raised USD 161 million in funding led by PSG, a growth equity firm, to accelerate its global expansion and enhance its video, analytics, and highlights capabilities. The company aims to expand into new territories and verticals, such as Asia, Latin America, and the global youth sports market.

Small Design is a jellyfish-smart logo design company. They also offer logo design and image generation online. Additionally, they also offer patent data for engineering design services.

Mirror Technology is a mental health technology service provider.

HiBug is an AI programming solution provider that focuses on the research and development of important technologies for natural language processing and huge models.

Shengshu Technology is a generative AI infrastructure that develops multi-modal large-scale models, integrating text, images, videos, 3D, and other multi-modal information.

Light & Magic is a team of industry experts dedicated to creating innovative technology solutions that empower artists and creators to unleash their unlimited potential.

Baiying Technology Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as: Baiying Technology) was established in September 2016. It has established branches in Shanghai and Chengdu and established a research and development center in Seattle. It is a data intelligent technology service company focusing on big data and artificial intelligence technology. And apply it to the commercial field. The company has mastered core technologies such as artificial intelligence, speech recognition, and industry knowledge maps, and holds a number of technical patents and copyrights. Its self-developed Baiying intelligent voice robot, Baiying electric sales robot, Baiying customer service robot, Baiying customer service assistant/training robot, Baiying intelligent call center, Baiying enterprise data center, dedication to help enterprises upgrade to obtain customers , insight into the market, the way to serve customers. It will promote the transformation and upgrade of the customer acquisition method and customer service mode, and realize the transformation of sales and customer service from labor-intensive to technology-intensive.

Infinigence is dedicated to providing AGI computing power solutions based on its large model energy efficiency optimization tools, with the goal of resolving the challenge of efficient and unified deployment of large model algorithms to large computing power chips.

StarFive Technology offers RISC-V-based CPU IP, SoC, development board, and other series of products.

Internet Portal: Search the web, Latest news from Nepal and the world, Finance, and more! Discover more!

Wavarts Technologies provides software and hardware solutions for audio industry.

Zvision provides automotive-grade solid-state LiDAR solution for autonomous driving applications. The company's first-generation laser radar products use MEMS technology, and plan to achieve scale-up in the L3-class autonomous driving and unmanned logistics fields in the next five years, and layout the next generation optical-based phased array (OPA) through its integrated chip research and development capabilities. The technical laser radar is aimed at the L4/L5 level autopilot market after 5-10 years.

iQiyi is a Chinese ad-supported television and movie portal providing fully-licensed, high-definition, professionally produced content.   iQiyi launched a large copyright procurement plan to create a comprehensive copyright content database covering movies, TV dramas, variety shows, documentaries, animation and travel, and other content. The company also enables brands to maximize their ROI with the SWS (Search-Watch-Share) model.  Launched on April 22, 2010, as Qiyi, the company received investment funds from Baidu and Providence Equity Partners. On November 26, 2011, Qiyi announced its rebranding with the iQiyi brand name and a new logo.   As of August 2012, iQiyi had over 370 million PC users, with a total monthly time spent of over 1,374 million hours, along with 90 million activated mobile users.  iQiyi's major competitors include Youku.com, Tudou.com, and PPTV.

Jidu Auto is an electric car manufacturing company that creates Robocar combining both intelligence and emotion. Jidu is a joint venture between Baidu, China's largest search engine, and Geely, a Chinese manufacturer that produces electric vehicles. The company was founded in 2021.

Qingyun Zhitong is an intelligent manufacturing enabling enterprise in the chemical industry. It is a continuous transformation platform for the scientific and technological achievements of the department of chemical engineering and the department of automation of tsinghua university. The company is committed to empowering industrial big data technology, industrial intelligent control technology, 5G technology, and AI technology. It can help chemical industry parks and chemical enterprises to help the construction of new infrastructure and industrial Internet in the chemical industry, and promote the intelligent transformation and upgrading of chemical enterprises and the construction of intelligent factories.

Microcore designs and sells RISC-V open-source general-purpose CPU chips. Their fundamental technology covers general-purpose CPU system architecture design, physical design, advanced technology, basic software, and other significant sectors, as well as the unique ability to coordinate architectural optimization and process evolution in chip design.

Qiangua Technology is a Chinese autonomous driving truck company that provides logistics and transportation services based on automated driving technology.

Founded in 2020 by Robin Li and Wei Liu, BioMap is a disruptive life science AI company responsible for building xTrimo, the first and largest protein-centric large language model platform. Their technology allows scientists to model life more accurately, from proteins to a system level, and extract novel insights and predictions from limited data. Supported by an international, cross-functional team of over 300 experts, BioMap is solving critical, protein-related drug development problems and charting a course to radically improve patients’ lives.

Yaoshibang is a Chinese B2B pharmaceutical trading platform.

Disruptive Antenna and Sensor Technology for 5G and Autonomous Driving

ECARX (Nasdaq: ECX) is a global automotive technology provider with the capabilities to deliver turnkey solutions for next-generation smart vehicles, from the system on a chip (SoC), to central computing platforms, and software. As automakers develop new electric vehicle architectures from the ground up, ECARX is developing full-stack solutions to enhance the user experience, while reducing complexity and cost. Founded in 2017 and listed on the Nasdaq in 2022, ECARX now has over 2,000 employees based in 11 major locations in China, UK, USA, Sweden, Germany and Malaysia. The co-founders are two automotive entrepreneurs, Chairman and CEO Ziyu Shen, and Eric Li (Li Shufu), who is also the founder and chairman of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group — with ownership interests in global brands including Lotus, Lynk & Co, Polestar, Smart, and Volvo Cars. ECARX also works with other well-known automakers, including FAW and Dongfeng Peugeot-Citroën. To date, ECARX products can be found in over 5.6 million vehicles worldwide.

WM Motor is an automotive company that designs, manufactures, develops, and markets energy and battery-operated vehicles. It provides energy vehicle products and travel solutions to its customers. The company aims to conserve electronic vehicles in addition to intelligent data hardware, enabling consumers to utilize smart cars that are efficient and energy conserving. WM Motor’s products are built with three core technologies, the Living Motion electric powertrain, the Living Pilot intelligent driving assistance system, and the Living Engine operating system, which offers industry-leading smart connectivity and interactive features.

Zhangyue Technology is a China-based developer of the iReader e-book reader.

Ripcord is a company that creates a robotic digitizing platform for paperless document management. The company creates a digital twin of information using sensors and software automation, as well as document scanning and accurate recognition, as well as vision-guided robots, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to capture, enrich, and organize important content, allowing clients to streamline their business processes with high speed, quality, and accuracy.

Yusys Technologies Co., Ltd. is mainly engaged in providing bank-oriented financial institutions with information services, such as consulting, software products, software development and implementation, operation and maintenance, and system integration.

TGitee is a collaboration platform for software development and code hosting. They provide enterprise services and are a SAAS provider in the developer business. Gitee enables professional code management, effective project collaboration, increased R&D efficiency, and comprehensive security protection.

Neusoft (东软集团) is a Chinese company providing industry solutions, product engineering solutions, related software products, platforms, and other IT services.  Neusoft regards software technology as the nucleus. It combines software and services, software and manufacturing, and technology and industrial management in order to provide services for customers.  The relevant areas of industry solutions include telecommunications, energy, finance, government, manufacturing and trade circulation, medical and health, education, transportation, and other industries. In the field of product engineering solutions, Neusoft has its own brand of medical and network security products.  Neusoft carries out cooperation with worldwide multinational corporations, providing embedded software development and services of digital home appliances, mobile terminals, mobile information products, IT products, and many other products.

QKids is a software that offers online English language teaching for children. Teachers teach the English language through live video streaming to children. They also use animation, game interaction, and peer motivation to teach English in the live streams. Jiuqu English products, as a language learning product designed to provide online live English teaching for children aged 6-15, are distinguished by carefully selected high-quality teachers, a scientific curriculum system, interesting interactive teaching, and an excellent user experience. Technology, high-quality educational resources, and affordable prices can cultivate children's interest in learning, improve their language expression skills, communication skills, and critical thinking skills, and aid in their overall development.

Zhihu (知乎) is a Chinese socialized website for questions and answers. It differs from traditional online question and answer forums by enabling users to obtain information through questions that provoke the opinions and views from answerers as individuals. The number of registered users on Zhihu has surpassed 300,000 by the end of January 2012.

Qima Holdings is an e-commerce service provider.

Kaishuo Jianggushi is a children's content provider. Also known as Kaishu Story, the brand is focusing on children’s stories with additional products such as audio series and online parenting courses.

Xinchao Media targets household consumption by placing advertisements in elevators. It provides customers with more accurate and cheaper community media traffic with smart hardware and software. The company is currently covering 95 cities, nearly 610,000 elevators, covering an average of more than 100 million middle-class people. The trendy media elevator TVs are distributed in the elevators of the middle and high-end residential communities across the country. The TV screen is installed 1.5 meters away from the elevator floor. The sound is clear and the people are not disturbed so that the audience can watch it comfortably in the elevator and let the advertising information spread effectively. Xinchao Media was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Chengdu, China.

NetEase Cloud Music operates an online music platform and offers streaming services. It also develops music applications for smartphones. William Lei Ding founded NetEase Cloud in 2013, with its headquarters in Beijing in China. NetEase Cloud Music operates as a subsidiary of NetEase.

Jeemaa.com is a provider of language services and language technologies. It combines artificial intelligence, content management, cloud computing, and other technologies to imaginatively deliver comprehensive language technology services, building a language service platform that balances supply and demand.

Baidu Video became independent in 2016, aiming to become the No. 1 professional generated content video platform in China. Baidu Video will focus on platform development and continue to provide audiences with video search and content aggregation services.

Lionbridge is a commercial vehicle smart finance and service platform that creatively combines financial capital and industrial operation. It specializes in services for industries such as logistics transportation, auto finance, health care, new energy & new equipment, etc. The company is committed to the concept of connecting symbiosis and uses technology tools and financial instruments to empower partners to develop new operating models and gain greater value. Lionbridge was founded in 2012 and is based in Beijing, China. In September 2014, the company was acquired by [Bain Capital](/organization/bain-capital-2), a US-based private equity firm.

iSpace designs and develops commercial space shuttle.

Visual Threat is an end-to-end car network security solution provider based in Silicon Valley, USA. Through its ''FUSE'' car network security defense framework, it provides automotive manufacturers with patented technologies including on-board firewalls and cloud-adaptive adaptation technologies (Tesla uses similar The overall technical solution, including technology), incremental update algorithm, and second-level real-time monitoring technology, provides a comprehensive security protection strategy for intelligent connected cars.

DO Global is a global mobile application and DAP advertising platform based on advanced machine learning algorithms.

PearVideo is a leading information video platform in China. Created by a team of professionals with a strong media background and a network of racquets all over the world, PearVideo is dedicated to providing the younger generation with short video products suitable for viewing and sharing of mobile terminals.With its deeply edited aggregated content and exclusive original coverage in areas such as business, social, technology, entertainment and lifestyle, Pear Video offers new standards for video production and consumption in the Mobile Internet era, combined with innovative technologies and tools.Pear video is a cross-platform, open new media company. Through a flexible and extensive collaborative and revenue-sharing system, more and more high-quality short video content is gaining more influence through the pear video channel. Meanwhile, short-video content updated daily by the pear video not only in its own mobile app Applications and websites, and more effectively distributed in various formats on social networks and video platforms in China and around the world to reach more users.

IDRIVERPLUS, founded in 2015, is deeply involved in developing a “brain” that allows vehicles to be self-driving. It is one of the few Chinese domestic companies providing multi-functional solutions for autonomous driving systems. The company’s team of professional talents continues to advance technologies related to OEMs, electronics, the Internet, artificial intelligence, and manufacturing. The company’s cumulative test mileage for autonomous driving vehicles exceeds 400,000 km. IDRIVERPLUS is one of the first enterprises to mass-product and commercialize the autonomous driving vehicles, and it stays at the forefront of the industry.

A.I. Nemo develops hardware, home appliances, and a family companion robot. A.I. Nemo was established in March 2014 and is an innovative company dedicated to developing Internet hardware and smart home appliances. The company at the beginning of the creation of the speed of light to get the vibration and innovation workshop A round of investment.

Founded in 2006, Coocaa develops both smart TVs and smart consumer electronics hardware. Its products include games TVs, high-end smart TVs, a remote control device for Apple's smart phone which allows users to control home appliances remotely, a Bluetooth game handle, and Bluetooth earphones. The company also said it is launching a new anti-blue light education TV for children that protect their eyesight.

XGimi is a developer and manufacturer of multi-functional projectors. It manufactures high-definition projector embedded with an Android operating system and comes with a three dimensional viewing function. XGimi is on a mission to devote its attention in creating the best and affordable giant-screen projection to the world. The company was established in year 2012 and is based in Chengdu, China.

Broad Link Electronic Technology is a high-tech corporation specialized in the research, development, manufacture, sale, and service of hardware and software products.  The Wi-Fi IoT transmission module, cloud computing platform, and intelligent terminal application, researched and developed by the company have provided mature and integrated appliance solutions for many different household appliance manufacturers.  Broad Link Electronic Technology also provides DIY intelligent sockets, intelligent remote controls, family air quality analyzers, and other intelligent household products for customers.

Healthcare service company based in Beijing focusing on ophthalmology. It provides clinical ophthalmic diagnosis and treatment solutions for medical institutions.

RR.TV is a video sharing platform based in China.

Ren Ren TV is an oversea cultural video streaming platform.

JoinQuant is an Investment trading service platform.

Shouqi Limousine & Chauffeur is a Chinese limo booking app and offshoot of the state-owned Shouqi Group.

Sound Technology is a science and technology innovation company that specializes in acoustics frontier technology and artificial intelligence interaction. It is committed to lead the more interactive experience of artificial intelligence in the real environment and realize the human-computer interaction vision that ''listen to you and know what you think''.

TigerGraph is a platform for advanced analytics and machine learning on connected data. Based on the industry’s first and only distributed native graph database, TigerGraph’s proven technology supports advanced analytics and machine learning applications such as fraud detection, anti-money laundering (AML), entity resolution, customer 360, recommendations, knowledge graph, cybersecurity, supply chain, IoT, and network analysis. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, USA. Start free with tigergraph.com/cloud.

China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd. (Briefly named ''China Unicom'') was established on January 6, 2009 on the basis of the former China Unicom and China Netcom, which used to play the important roles on china's telecom market with their own advantages in different professional areas respectively.  China United Network Communications Group Co.,Ltd (''China Unicom'') was officially established on 6 January 2009 on the basis of the merger of former China Netcom and former China Unicom. It has subsidiaries in 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across China and many countries and regions around the world.

Hesai Technology designs a laser radar that facilitates autonomous driving. It uses smart sensing technology to develop laser radar for autonomous cars and natural gas leak detection systems, enabling car companies to monitor mixed gas composition, control industrial processes, and detect hazardous gas leaks. Hesai Technology was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

Dynamic Yield helps companies quickly deliver and test personalized, optimized, and synchronized digital customer interactions. Marketing, Product, Development, and eCommerce teams from more than 350 global brands are using Dynamic Yield’s Experience Optimization platform as the technology layer on top of existing CMS or Commerce solutions, to iterate faster and algorithmically match content, products, and offers to each individual for the acceleration of long-term business value.

58fangdai is a national rental staging leader living under the scenes of consumer financial service providers.

Bitauto Holdings Limited (NYSE: BITA) is a provider of internet content & marketing services, and transaction services for China's fast-growing automotive industry. Bitauto’s business consists of three segments: advertising and subscription business, transaction services business and digital marketing solutions business.

NIO Inc. is a pioneer in China’s premium smart electric vehicle market. NIO’s mission is to shape a joyful lifestyle by offering premium smart electric vehicles and being the best user enterprise. NIO designs, jointly manufactures, and sells smart and connected premium electric vehicles, driving innovations in next generation technologies in connectivity, autonomous driving and artificial intelligence. Redefining the user experience, NIO provides users with comprehensive, convenient and innovative charging solutions and other user-centric services. NIO began deliveries of the ES8, a 7-seater high-performance premium electric SUV in China in June 2018, and its variant, the six-seater ES8, in March 2019. NIO officially launched the ES6, a 5-seater high-performance premium electric SUV, in December 2018 and began deliveries in June 2019. NIO officially launched the EC6, a 5-seater smart premium electric Coupe SUV, in December 2019 and plans to commence deliveries in 2020.

Ricequant focuses on creating a new generation of quantitative asset management systems. Ricequant is dedicated to developing an industry-leading solution for the asset management industry that integrates financial data, investment research, portfolio optimization, portfolio management, and performance/risk attribution, and promotes the deep integration of financial business scenarios with the latest technology and quantitative methodologies.

oTMS is the leading one-stop transportation platform. oTMS aims to build the first successful business community based transport management & e-sourcing platform in China. With cloud computing and mobile internet technology, oTMS provides SaaS (software as a service) to users in order to seamlessly connect the shippers, logistics and transport providers, drivers and consignees to tender, execute, track and bill for transport services in an entirely digitalized, real time workflow to boost customer service experience at a much better cost.

Velodyne Lidar, the first public pure-play lidar company, is an industry leader in lidar globally. Their innovation, technology scope and manufacturing capabilities make them world-class in the lidar industry. Under the leadership of CEO Anand Gopalan, the company’s key objective is to transform lives through safe mobility and smart communities with high performance lidar solutions. The mission of Velodyne Lidar is that their solutions will provide new mobility choices through universally accessible transformation, while providing security, efficiency and sustainability in smart cities. One of the many aspects that makes Velodyne Lidar stand out in the industry is their revolutionary software and hardware solutions meet the needs of a broad range of industries. These include advanced driver-assistance systems, autonomous vehicles, robotics, smart cities, security, delivery, industrial and more. For instance, their solutions power autonomous tractors to create ease and efficiency in airport logistics and enable autonomous robots to perform dirty and often dangerous jobs including rescue missions, construction support, enhanced agriculture processes and more.

Yintai Group is an industrial investment group founded by Mr. Shen Guojun in Beijing in 1997. Comprising Intime Retail Group, Yintai Land Group, Yintai Resources Group, Yintai Tourism Group, Yintai Investment & Finance Group, it has a number of listed companies as well as more than 100 holding or joint-stock companies at home and abroad. Till now, over 100000 job oppotunities have been created by Yintai Group，thus becoming one of the strongest private enterprises in China. They also endeavor to assume their social responsibility by initiating a Yintai Foundation that advocates Platform Thinking and Shared Value, and devote their selves to strategic philanthropic establishments. They combine industries with investment, and commercial values with social responsibility, which helps them not only grow into a successful paradigm in China's modern new business, but also contribute to the revolution and development in many areas and industries through their own commercial revolution and innovation, and adds new vigor to the national economy and society through shared value.

The firm aims to develop a consumer-centric automotive transaction platform which connects consumers with a partner network that includes automakers, auto dealers, financing and insurance partners, as well as aftermarket service providers.

Zest AI makes the power of machine learning safe to use in credit underwriting. The Zest Model Management System enables lenders to analyze vast amounts of credit data to help increase approval rates and reduce the risk of faulty credit decisions. The platform also provides the ability to explain data modeling results to measure business impact and help comply with regulatory requirements. Lenders using Zest AI software make better decisions and better loans—increasing revenue, reducing risk, and automating compliance.  Zest AI was founded in 2009 with the mission of making fair and transparent credit available to everyone.

Circle is a financial technology firm that utilizes stablecoins for payments and e-commerce. Circle uses blockchain technology with Circle Pay to ease and improve how users send money. Circle expands its services with a crypto-currency investment product with Circle Invest, enabling anyone to buy and sell crypto assets. It provides crypto-coins and offers OTC trading services via Circle Trade. Its crypto-trading desk provides one of the largest global liquidity pools for digital asset trading and averages $2 billion in monthly volume. Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville founded Circle in 2013. $140 million from investors including Jim Breyer (Facebook), Goldman Sachs, IDG Capital (Baidu, Tencent), General Catalyst (AirBnB, Snapchat) and Accel Partners backs the company, with its headquarters in Boston, and branches in New York, San Francisco, Dublin, London, and Hong Kong.

Lianjia offers real estate brokerage services. It operates online based real estate services platform which covers secondary residential property transactions, new property transactions, leasing and decorating services.

Exands is a business-to-business wireless service provider that aims to enable interactions and engagements between brands and their consumers. It spearheaded a series of innovative moves in China's fast-growing information technology market. It is committed to providing both chain enterprises and consumers with simple, reliable and secured intranet and internet service by leveraging wireless technology.

Uber connects riders with safe, reliable, and convenient transportation providers at a variety of price points in cities around the world. Uber's China unit was acquired by Didi Chuxing in August 2016 after being valued at $7 billion (pre-money) earlier in the year.

China’s top pro gamers make millions streaming their games online

Womai net is a B2C healthy food shopping website in China. It insists on providing customers with convenient shopping ways and purchase healthy food.  Womai net was founded by World Top 500 Enterprises COFCO Corporation in 2008. The COFCO(COFCO) is China’s leading diversified products and services supplier of agricultural products and food field, which is committed to utilizing the constantly renewable natural resources to provide human with nutrient and healthy food, high quality life space and life service, and contribute to the prosperity of human society.

Meiwei Buyongdeng is a professional smart food service providers. Through B-side SaaS services and C-side products, solve the restaurant's efficiency, management, marketing, cost and customer dining experience and other issues. In 2017, Meiwei Buyongdeng provides integrated solutions for smart food and beverage services for nearly 100,000 restaurants. At the same time, it provided a high-quality catering service experience for nearly 1 billion consumers. At present, yummy has already connected the restaurant service with consumers through the nationwide sales service network. Based on 2017, the 2018 delicious delicacy will start from the aspects of compacting product base and optimizing service experience and build a new ecology of smart food and beverage with partners.

Cloudflare is a web performance and security company that provides online services to protect and accelerate websites online. Its online platforms include Cloudflare CDN which distributes content around the world to speed up websites.

Quyi Network is a technology company based in China.

Mia.com is an e-commerce platform that offers maternity dresses, milk powders, diapers, shoes and blankets. It provides an online retail platform for baby products such as toys, diaper and formula products.  Liu Nan founded Mia.com in 2011. Its headquarters is in Beijing in China.

Edaixi, an O2O (online-to-offline) laundry services mobile app company. Launched in 2013, Edaixi provides standardized laundry services of RMB99 per bag. Customers can have their laundry picked up, cleaned, and returned within 72 hours.

IndoorAtlas offers solutions to developers in building location-based apps and scaling their plans worldwide. IndoorAtlas helps users answer the key question indoors. With no additional hardware, no BLE or Wi-Fi needed, its technology offers a moving blue dot with 1-2 meter accuracy on your smartphone in real-time.

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VisionChina Media Inc. operates an out-of-home digital mobile TV advertising network in China.  Using digital mobile television broadcasts to deliver content and advertising to displays on mass transportation systems such as bus and subway networks, its network delivers real-time programming, including news briefs, stock market updates, weather and traffic information, sports highlights, and entertainment shows mixed with TV advertisements.  As of June 30, 2011, its extensive network had over 137,000 digital television displays on mass transportation systems.   VisionChina Media currently operates mobile digital television displays on bus networks in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Suzhou, Wuxi, Chengdu, Ningbo, Nanjing, Wuhan, Dalian, Shenyang, Zhengzhou, Changchun, Changzhou, Changsha, Taiyuan and Xiamen, and also operates on the subways of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Tianjin, Chongqing, and Hong Kong. Its combined bus and subway networks reach over 221 million residents across China.  In each of the cities in which it operates, it has contractual or direct investment arrangements with the local television station as well as the station’s mobile broadcast subsidiary. These long-term relationships provides domestic and multinational corporations a unique media opportunity to reach massive Chinese audiences. As of December 31, 2012, the companys advertising network included 108,567 digital television displays on mass transportation systems in 19 cities.  VisionChina Media was founded in April 2005 and went public on December 6, 2007, raising US$124 million.

Keruyun Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., founded in 2012, is the world’s leading and China’s largest cloud-based SaaS company. Keruyun is devoted to providing new generations of intelligent management systems integrating software and hardware to merchants engaging in catering, retailing and other service businesses. Keruyun was successfully listed on the NEEQ (OC: 835268) in December 2015 and was included into the innovation level of NEEQ in May 2017. The company is headquartered in Beijing, with a Sales Center established in Wuhan, a Software R&D Center in Chengdu and a Hardware R&D Center in Shenzhen. Currently, the company has set up 34 branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Wuhan and so on.This is more than 2000 employees, more than 100 authorized agencies nationwide and more than 40,000 merchants. In 2016, the company registered a year-on-year revenue growth by 640%.  December 2015, Keruyun successfully listed on the NEEQ (Code: 835268), which provides the company a new platform for the operation of the capital market. On August 5, 2016, Keruyun released a new product OnPOS mini and lauched a new financial service, the Wallet Payment. After four months it has completed its B+ round with an investment of 72 million RMB. To meet the increasing market demand, Keruyu decided to issue an 150 million RMB inverstment for its C round on December 20th. Keruyun has been committed to connecting people and services more intelligent, efficient and simple,  hoping to change the future of the service industry.

Tonara is a music education company that empowers music educators and their students through technology and innovation. We offer a set of products that function as an ecosystem, connecting music teachers and students around the world (‘Tonara Connect’ - a global marketplace), and enabling music teachers to manage and motivate their students throughout their music learning journey (‘Tonara Studio’ - a lesson management platform).

Tiantian Yongche is a carpool and ridesharing app. Tiantian Yongche currently operates in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Tianjin, Chengdu, and a handful of smaller cities.

51yongche is a Chinese carpool app company. 51yongche is a relatively new entrant to China’s ridesharing market. 51yongche may have the funding of some major players, but at present its reach is still quite limited; the service operates in just four cities right now.

Uxin operates a used car e-commerce platform in China through its subsidiaries. It operates Uxin Used Car, an application that provides consumers with customized car recommendation, financing, title transfer, delivery, insurance referral, warranty and other related services, and Uxin Auction, an application that helps business buyers to source vehicles through online auctions.  Uxin facilitates used car transaction services and financing solutions offered by third-party financing partners to buyers for their used car purchases. Dai Kun founded it in September 2011, with its headquarters in Beijing in China.

Taboola is a content discovery platform that connects people with content they may like but never knew existed. It is serving over 360 billion recommendations to over 1 billion unique visitors every month on some of the Web’s most innovative publisher sites, including USA TODAY, Business Insider, Chicago Tribune, and The Weather Channel. Headquartered in New York City with R&D in Israel, Taboola also has offices in Pasadena, London, and Bangkok. Publishers, marketers, and agencies leverage Taboola to retain users on their sites, monetize their traffic, and distribute their content to drive high-quality audiences.

Jiankang Zhilu formed a medical service system. They cover medical support, diagnosis and treatment, and rehabilitation tracking. They provide users with digital health medical services, digital health medical marketing, and enterprise solutions. They provide services in network system integration, security engineering construction, engineering construction, and other engineering construction.

GWC exists to enable innovation that improves the world.  The GWC Membership is an invitation-only, private network for innovators and executives from leading mobile companies worldwide to build trusted relationships, share insights, explore collaboration and develop international growth strategy.  GWC produce’s the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) in Beijing, Silicon Valley, Bangalore, Tokyo, Jakarta, Sao Paulo, New York and Shenzhen. GMIC draws tens of thousands of mobile industry executives, entrepreneurs, developers, and investors to build partnerships, to learn from industry thought leaders, to better understand mobile technology trends, and to highlight how mobile is positively changing the world.  GWC actively invests in innovative startups who have the potential for global growth.  GWC has offices in Beijing, Mountain View and Tokyo.

Uber develops, markets, and operates a ridesharing mobile application that allows consumers to submit a trip request that is routed to crowd-sourced partner drivers. Its smartphone application connects drivers with people who need a ride. Its application enables users to arrange and schedule transportation and/or logistics services with third-party providers. They take on big problems to help drivers, riders, delivery partners, and eaters get moving in more than 600 cities around the world. It also provides  Windows Phone App,  iPhone App, Blackberry App, and Android App. Uber serves customers in North, Central, and South Americas as well as Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific Garrett Camp, Oscar Salazar, and Travis Kalanick founded UberCab in March 2009 which became Uber Technologies in October 2010, with its headquarters in San Francisco California, and an engineering center in Bengaluru in India as well as a regional office in Singapore.

Pixellot is a leading sport media company that offers automatic production solutions for the amateur and semi-professional market. Pixellot’s patented technology streamlines the production workflow by deploying an unmanned multi-camera system that covers the entire field. Advanced algorithms enable dynamic coverage of the flow of play and highlight generation. The company streams more than 11,000 live video hours each month to fans, players, and coaches on a variety of platforms. Founded in 2014 by seasoned video and media technology experts, Pixellot has sold over 2,000 systems around the world, deployed with minor leagues, high schools, as well as at youth academies and top league clubs.   Pixellot’s partners include ESPN, PlayOn Sports, the US’ biggest high school sports media company and right holder, Sporttotal.tv, Germany’s  largest amateur league media platform, global coaching solution provider STATS, SeeUPlay in Mexico and Hockey TV, North America’s largest non-NHL ice hockey streaming platform. The company also works directly with leading clubs such as Bayern Munich, Spain’s Real Sociedad, Dutch AZ Alkmaar and Maccabi Tel-Aviv.

Peixeurbano is an online platform that enables users to find and book deals on restaurants, air tickets, beauty services, entertainment activities, and trade services according to their localities and preferences. The company was voted ''Best International Startup of the Year'' by the Crunchies Awards, the United States' top prize for Internet and technology startups.  Peixeurbano was established in 2010 and is headquartered in Florianópolis, Brazil.

The movement using the Internet to facilitate educational reform is gaining momentum, and teaching and learning with great efficiency and interaction has become the trend of the future. In this new era where the Internet is integrated with education, InnoBuddy has emerged in response to the right time and conditions.  InnoBuddy was co-founded by Xiaoliang Wei, Shaocheng Zhai, and the Guozhang Xu English Foundation. It advocates the learning philosophy of “30% learning, 30% practicing, and 40% correcting,” and is dedicated to building a smart learning ecosystem based on the Internet and mobile Internet. InnoBuddy boasts two major product systems: SmartStudy and SmartPigai, which provide users with comprehensive “learning, practicing, and learning management services,” bringing you a unique online learning experience.  Moreover, InnoBuddy is committed to providing colleges and universities, enterprises, and other public institutions with excellent online learning services, such as an English teaching management system, multimedia learning platform, etc. InnoBuddy is a comprehensive online learning services provider that integrates content research and development, product design, technology development, and user behavioral analysis modeling and mining.

Chi lesson Network (SmartStudy), China's most authoritative online learning platform exam abroad, under the Beijing Innovation Technology Co., Ltd. 's website partner education.  Chi lesson Network (SmartStudy) is ''capable of gathering experts from the industry's top teaching, research and development of high-quality content and depth system knowledge slices as the core, the integration of advanced user behavior analysis for online education in the field of data mining algorithms few, while experience design expertise in online learning products and learning experience design ''B2C online learning platform. New Oriental is the former executive Wei Xiaoliang, Dishao Cheng Xu Guozhang English Foundation and co-founder, assembled Chinese TOEFL, IELTS, SAT, GRE, GMAT exam abroad five most authoritative teaching experts and chief subjects from Harvard, Yale, Columbia and other world Full-time teachers teaching content prestigious R & D, to provide users with ''top expert systems course'' and popular textbook exam ''questions succinctly by learning video library'' of online courses.

Quhuo provides tech-enabled, end-to-end operational solutions to blue-chip on-demand consumer service businesses in industries with significant e-commerce exposure, including food delivery, ride-hailing, housekeeping and bike-sharing. Quhuo’s platform helps its industry customers mobilize a large team of workers and utilizes a combination of training, performance monitoring and refinement, and incentives to transform them into skilled workers who can follow industry-specific, standardized and highly efficient service procedures.

Baidu is a search engine that enables individuals to obtain information and finds what they need. Baidu offers functional online search, Tieba community search, industry-based vertical search, mp3 search, portal channels, and instant messaging services. Its products include Baidu Webpage, Baidu Video, Baidu Map, hao123.com, BaiduPedia, Baidu Input, Baidu Toolbar, TTPlayer, Iqiyi, and Sky Software.

<div> Baidu, Inc. (Nasdaq: BIDU) is China's leading search engine and a global artificial intelligence company. Founded in 2000 by Robin Li and Eric Xu, Baidu is headquartered in Beijing's Haidian district. The company's name comes from a Chinese poem about searching for one's dreams amid distractions. Baidu offers a wide range of internet-related services and products, with its core search engine as the foundation. Other key offerings include Baidu Baike (an online encyclopedia), Baidu Tieba (a social forum), Baidu Maps, Baidu Cloud, and iQIYI (a video streaming platform). The company has also invested heavily in artificial intelligence, developing technologies for autonomous driving, voice recognition, and natural language processing. As of June 2022, Baidu's mobile app had 628 million monthly active users. The company dominates China's search market with over 60% market share. Baidu generated revenue of USD 19.54 billion in 2021, with the majority coming from online marketing services. Looking ahead, Baidu aims to further expand its AI capabilities and cloud services to drive future growth. </div>

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Generative AI Applications

Companies that offer solutions to generate text from a prompt, where output is independent of previous interactions, such as specialized content creation tools

Companies that offer solutions to create and edit images and GIFs, including techniques such as inpainting, outpainting, upscaling, and stylizing

Companies that generate or synthesize voice and audio, including voice cloning, text-to-speech, and language translation

Companies that specialize in generating 3D content, including the creation of game assets (virtual worlds, non-playable characters), product visualization, and other 3D models

Companies that offer solutions to create and edit video content, including scene generation, background replacement, stylizing, and frame interpolation

Companies that offer solutions to generate contextually relevant text responses across multiple conversational exchanges, such as natural language chatbots

Foundation Models

Foundation models that can handle a range of natural language processing (NLP) use cases. Typical tasks include generating summaries, translating, answering questions, and classifying text. These models typically use text inputs and generate text outputs.

Fine-tuned versions of large language models, which are focused on specific tasks and applications (e.g. code generation, medical event prediction, financial NLP tasks, etc). These are usually developed by training LLMs using custom data and also serve as foundation models that can be developed even further. These models typically use text inputs and can generate text and/or code outputs.

Foundation models that translate visual data based on features and contextual information identified during training. This enables models to interpret images and video, applying those interpretations to predictive or decision-making tasks. Typical tasks include image recognition and classification into categories. These models typically use image and/or video inputs and generate text outputs.

Foundation models that are trained to understand and work with two or more forms of input data (e.g., text and images) to solve problems and complete tasks using both natural language processing and computer vision. These models can also generate outputs across textual and visual modalities. Typical tasks include visual question answering, image captioning, and generating images based on text descriptions. These models typically use text and/or visual inputs and generate text and/or visual outputs.

Foundation models that use big data to suggest or recommend additional products to consumers. These models are designed to predict user-item interaction probabilities and provide recommendations to users. The models are trained to make these inferences based on historical data on customer interactions and non-interactions. These models typically use user features, item features and user interactions as inputs, and generate numeric values like ratings predictions and matching probabilities as outputs.

Foundation models that are capable of automatic speech recognition, transcription in multiple languages, and translation from these languages to English. These are sometimes referred to as audio models. These models typically use speech/audio as inputs and generate text outputs.

Foundation models that transform user text prompts into video clips.

Foundation models that generate music from text descriptions.

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 project44, a logistics technology company, is increasing its operations in China by introducing its Movement platform to the Chinese market. This advancement will allow all users in China to access its user interface.
 This growth is boosted by a recent partnership with Baidu, a renowned tech company based in China. Under this collaboration, project44's maps for over-the-road (OTR) transportation in China will be supported by Baidu. This will enhance project44's capability to give prompt, clear information to its customers in the region.
 Further supporting its expansion in China, project44 has assigned Frank Tan as the new general manager for its operations in China.
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