Among them, the intelligent strategy round of black sesame is invested by domestic leading enterprises such as Xiaomi Changjiang Industrial Fund and Fusai Automobile. Round C financing was led by Xiaomi Changjiang Industrial Fund, followed by Wen Tai Zhantou, Wu Yuefeng Capital, Horizon Capital, Yuanhe Puhua, Lenovo Venture Capital, Lin Xin Capital and China Automotive Chip Industry Innovation Strategic Alliance. After the strategic round and the C round of financing, the valuation was nearly 2 billion US dollars, and Black Sesame Intelligence officially entered the ranks of super unicorns. At present, the C+ round of financing is also progressing smoothly.
Black Sesame Intelligence has won a number of head investment institutions and industrial strategic investments by virtue of its chip+automotive advanced composite team, independent research and development of core technologies, industry-leading chip products and open ecological and business models. On the basis of capital investment, it will also provide strong industrial chain strategic resource support for black sesame intelligence. By building solid capital, industrial and technical barriers, Black Sesame Intelligence will continue to attract top talents in the industry, lead technological innovation and promote mass production of products.
In this round of financing, Black Sesame Intelligent introduced China's high-quality industrial capital and professional hard-tech semiconductor investment institutions, which provided the company with dual assistance of industrial resources and capital for its subsequent development. The leading investment of Xiaomi Changjiang Industrial Fund has conveyed the important information that the head enterprises in the industry are optimistic about the intelligence of black sesame.
Investment in many industries, such as Wen Tai and Fusai Automobile, also supports Black Sesame Intelligence. Fusai Automobile, jointly established by FAW Group, Fuao Automobile and Desai Siwei, invested in Black Sesame Intelligence this round and plans to deepen cooperation with Black Sesame Intelligence in the capital and commercial fields.
Wu Yuefeng Capital, Yuanhe Puhua and Lin Xin Capital, as well-known domestic professional investment institutions focusing on hard technology and semiconductors, are also optimistic about Black Sesame Intelligence. Black Sesame Intelligence is also a key investment enterprise of the above-mentioned institutions in the field of autonomous driving chips, which shows that industry capital recognizes and supports Black Sesame Intelligence.
Smart cars and integrated circuit industries have ushered in a golden period of development. According to statistics, the market size of AI chips will reach 9 1 billion dollars in 2025, and 8 1 billion dollars in 2030. "Intelligentization, electrification, networking and sharing" is accelerating to reshape the value chain of China automobile industry. The functional attributes of automobiles are transforming and upgrading from traditional travel tools to mobile intelligent space. At the crossroads of this industrial transformation, chips provide the underlying hardware support for the intelligent transformation of automobiles and become the new engine of the era of smart cars.
Black Sesame Intelligence was founded on 20 16, focusing on high-tech research and development in the technical fields of computing chips and platforms with large computing power and automatic driving. Since its establishment, Black Sesame Intelligent has adhered to self-developed core IP, deeply cultivated artificial intelligence, car gauge chips and autonomous driving, and released four high-performance autonomous driving computing chips of the second generation Huashan series with independent innovation technology as the driving force. Huashan No.2 A 1000Pro released this year leads the development of autopilot chip products and technologies with the super computing power of106 (int 8)-196 (int 4).
At the same time, Black Sesame Intelligence creates a highly open platform for customers, providing full-stack solutions from chips, algorithms, development platforms to tool chains, and providing different levels of product delivery and services according to different needs of customers, giving cars the ability to perceive, make decisions and interact, helping to expand the overall intelligence of cars.
At present, Black Sesame Intelligent has a huge ecosystem of self-driving friends circle, and has carried out a series of business cooperation with China FAW, Bosch, SAIC, Dongfeng Yuexiang, Zhongke Chuangda, Asia Pacific, Baolong Group, Junlian Star, Sotorion, Xinke Technology and Lianyou Technology on L2/3 ADAS and automatic driving perception system solutions.
After the completion of this round of financing, the smart valuation of black sesame is nearly 2 billion US dollars, making it a super unicorn of autonomous driving chips. Adhering to the principle of "Empowering Future Travel with Core", Black Sesame Intelligent will continue to break through higher-level technology and product innovation, cooperate with ecological partners, create future-oriented autonomous driving technologies and products, and lead the development of automobile intelligent industry in China.
Shan Zhangji, founder and CEO of Black Sesame Intelligence, said: "I am very grateful to the automobile industry and capital for their recognition and support for Black Sesame Intelligence. We will actively grasp the opportunities of the times in the strategy of "smart car" and "integrated circuit" and accelerate the innovation of autonomous driving chips. After this round of financing, relying on abundant automobile industry resources and abundant capital, we will continue to improve product R&D and commercialization capabilities, strengthen technical and product advantage barriers, actively expand the ecosystem of autonomous driving industry, and build the world's leading autonomous driving chip enterprise. "
Sun Changxu, a partner of Xiaomi Investment, said: "Black Sesame Intelligence is a leader in the field of autonomous driving chips, with world-leading technologies, products and teams. Xiaomi insists on enabling investment. In the future, we will continue to pay attention to black sesame intelligence, jointly explore black technology, and promote the popularization of technology to the people. "
Zhang Qian, founder of Sky Capital, said: "Sky Capital focuses on the electrification and intelligent layout and investment in the field of travel. Autopilot computing chip is an important cornerstone of automobile intelligence, especially in the transformation of automobile intelligence. As an important investment layout of Sky Capital's intelligent travel, Black Sesame Intelligence is a large-scale self-driving chip head company in China. Its products cover L2-L4 autopilot scenarios, with a maximum computing power of 196T. We expect Black Sesame Intelligence to continue to lead industry innovation in the future. "
Xie, president of Wen Tai Investment and Financing, said: "Automotive electronics is one of the important strategic expansion areas of Wen Tai science and technology. Black Sesame Intelligent Technology is the global leader in self-driving computing chips, and its excellent team has made remarkable achievements in the fields of self-developed core IP, visual perception technology and self-driving chips. Wen Tai strongly supports cooperation between production and investment. The strong cooperation between Wen Tai and Black Sesame Intelligence will further consolidate the automotive electronics industry chain and contribute to the casting of the smart world. "
Black Sesame Intelligent Technology, established on 20 16, is an industry-leading research and development enterprise of autonomous driving computing chips and platforms. Since its establishment, Black Sesame Intelligence has focused on high-tech research and development in high-performance computing chips and platforms, and can provide complete solutions for autonomous driving and vehicle-road coordination, including autonomous driving sensor computing chips and autonomous driving computing platforms based on vehicle regulation design, learning image processing and low-power accurate perception, and support the rapid industrialization of related product solutions in the autonomous driving industry chain.