Recently, Ground Rail, a digital operation service platform for new energy logistics vehicles, announced that it had completed a series D financing of US$ 2 million. The D1 round was led by CICC Shandong Green Development Fund, and the D2 round was led by an internationally renowned investment institution. The existing shareholder Ingeca Group followed suit, and Taihe Capital continued to be the exclusive financial advisor.
36Kr understands that this round of funds will be used for the deep layout of the whole value chain of the industry, the construction of digital platforms and the expansion of operation and maintenance networks.
Ground Rail was established in 215. It just needs to cut into the light truck market from the "car rental" encouraged by the policy, providing new energy logistics fleet rental (long-term rental, short rent and time-sharing rental), sales and operation supporting services for major express logistics and urban distribution enterprises, and becoming a digital operation service provider of new energy logistics vehicles.
The company is positioned as an "intelligent asset service provider" (IASP), and has built an "offline+online" digital service network. By building a green, intensive, intelligent and safe operation service platform, it links ecological partners such as logistics enterprises, urban drivers, commercial vehicle enterprises, core spare parts enterprises, charging and energy storage, insurance finance, maintenance and ladder utilization, and realizes standardized customization and flexible rental and sale of scene tools and vehicles. Up to now, the Ground Rail has served nearly 4, customers, and the total number of vehicles operated by the platform is nearly 5,, covering 2 cities across the country. There are more than 8, service stations nationwide, nearly 2, charging piles are linked and operated, and more than 5 maintenance service providers are connected.
In 221, Ground Rail and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited reached a strategic cooperation, and established the management around battery scenarios, which developed from service standardization to asset standardization. At the same time, we have cooperated with SMRT Group, a Singapore urban transport service operator (the leading urban transport service operator in Singapore), and Itochu Corporation to develop the commercial operation and management of pure electric logistics vehicles in Singapore, Southeast Asia and Japan.
Ms. Zhang Haiying, founder and CEO of Ground Rail, said: The new energy logistics vehicle has the attributes of intelligent terminal, distributed mobile energy and mobile warehouse, so the value chain of vehicles and users in the whole life cycle will definitely undergo qualitative changes through operation, and Ground Rail is deeply involved in the whole industrial value chain around the segmentation scenes, helping to accelerate the upgrading of urban smart transportation and smart logistics.
According to public information, in May last year, Ground Rail just completed its own C round of financing. In June 219, the Ground Rail received a B+ round of financing, with investors including Idinvest Partners, Jeneration Capital and Far East Hongxin; In October 218, it announced the completion of the B round of financing, with investors including Bojiang Capital, ITOCHU Corporation, Qiming Venture Capital and Jingwei China; In March 218, it announced the completion of the A round of financing, led by Jingwei China and Qiming Venture Capital, followed by Guodian Investment and Zhong Ding Venture Capital; In May 217, it won the Pre-A round of financing, which was led by Qiming Venture Capital.