On March 10, the domestic industrial simulation software company "Shifeng Technology" announced that it had recently completed several hundred million yuan of Series A and A+ financing. Among them, Round A was exclusively led by Gaochun Venture Capital; A+ Round is the first national-level scientific and technological investment platform in China's banking industry-Guo Kai Scientific and Technological Innovation and Gaoyao Venture Capital jointly invest.

The founder is an academician of China Academy of Sciences.

The financing was led by the head office, followed by CDB. The increase of 1 1 capital shows the attraction of "Shifeng Technology".

What is the sacredness of "Shifeng Technology" that has successively completed two rounds of financing and attracted so many institutional investments?

Chen Shiyi, 1956, from Tiantai, Zhejiang. After being elected as an academician of China Academy of Sciences, he also became a tenured professor of Peking University and the second president of south university of science and technology of china, China.

1990, Chen Shiyi entered Los Angeles, USA. Worked in the turbulence and lattice gas research group of Alamos national laboratory, and later served as fellow); In american physical society. Around 2000, Chen Shiyi continued his academic career in the United States. Department of mechanical engineering, Hopkins University, served as dean and chair professor.

Professor Chen Shiyi's most important academic achievement is that he and his collaborators have made breakthroughs in the fields of statistical physics and fluid mechanics, which can simulate the whole process of fluid mechanics and its physicalization.

Related methods have been applied to various engineering problems, including energy and environmental engineering, heat and mass transfer, combustion and multiphase flow, underground seepage and electromagnetic field simulation.

With "Shifeng Technology" completing two rounds of financing in succession, the company will further strengthen the independent research and development of engineering simulation /CAE core software and technology.

CAE simulation software, the "star" of industrial digitalization

China is one of the few countries in the world with a complete industrial system. Industrial software is widely used in China, with great demand, but the digital rate of industry is still low. Especially in the context of intelligent manufacturing, it is particularly urgent to accelerate the transformation of industrial digitalization.

It is a technical tool applied to product R&D and design process in industrial manufacturing. In recent five years, the market capacity of China's CAE industry has been released steadily, and the market scale has increased from 2.34 billion yuan in 20 14 to 4.32 billion yuan in 20 18, with a compound annual growth rate of 16.6%.

Under the background of "intelligent manufacturing" driving the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industry and the increasing awareness and attention of downstream industry users to CAE, the market capacity of CAE is expected to continue to expand, and it is expected to reach 65.438+065.438+025 billion yuan by 2023.

However, with the maturity of CAE, the research and development level of local CAE software is still low.

In the eyes of investors, the core essence of CAE software lies in mathematics+physics, which is the underlying technology; Computer science is the middle technology, and engineering is the outer layer.

At the same time, because the physical fields in the real world often exist in the form of multiple physical fields, CAE simulation software often covers soil consolidation theory, hydrodynamic simulation, electrodynamics application, computational electromagnetic field, the design of sensors (such as piezoelectric materials) and so on. "

This means that people engaged in this field need not only rich technical accumulation, but also various scientific knowledge. "This is also the fundamental reason why Shijie Technology has been hunted by many capitals."

Many CAE companies are favored by capital.

Among the listed companies in science and technology innovation board, China Net Software, which develops and designs industrial software, has been blessed by many capitals.

In 20 18, among the 80 million strategic financing of China Net Software, Chen Da Caizhi led the investment, followed by Aerospace Science and Technology Investment and Guangdong Branch Xintai Equity Investment Fund; A year later, this design industrial software company received investment from eight capitals, including Yida Capital, China Net Investment, Cai Yue Fund and Yuexiu Industrial Fund, which set the largest financing case in the field of design industrial software.

Another company, Hollevo, is also in the capital stage. On 20 19, Hollywood obtained investment from CICC Capital, Zhe Ke Investment and Haifu Industrial Fund in equity financing.

In addition, Shanghai Suochen, which provides CAE software products, has also completed five rounds of financing. Similarly, investors also appear in the form of Guo Kai technology. 20 19, Guo Kai science and technology co., ltd completed its equity investment in Shanghai suochen. Prior to this, the company has obtained investment from Langsheng Investment, Shanghao Capital, Qiyuan Capital, CITIC Juxin and Know Capital.

Guo Kai Kechuang also said earlier that the domestic CAE software market is completely monopolized by foreign software manufacturers.

According to the statistics of China White Paper on Industrial Software Industry (2020), 95% of domestic R&D and design industrial software are imported, and none of the top ten suppliers in the domestic CAE software market are domestic manufacturers.

On the other hand, the "Made in China 2025 Technology Roadmap for Key Areas" proposes that by 2025, most core technologies will make breakthroughs, and autonomous and controllable operating systems and industrial software and their standard systems will be formed, with the market share of independent industrial software exceeding 50%.

This means that there is a huge gap between the development status and vision of independent industrial software. Therefore, developing advanced, independent and controllable core software is not only the inevitable demand of the development of high-end equipment industry, but also a national strategy.