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 Wentai Zhantou, Wuyuefeng Capital, Horizon Capital, Yuanhe Puhua, Lenovo Venture Capital, Linxin Capital and China Automobile 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 with its chip+automotive senior compound team, self-developed core technology, industry-leading chip products and open ecological and business models. On the basis of capital investment, it will also provide strong industrial chain strategic resources 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, providing the company with dual assistance of industrial resources and capital for its subsequent development. The leading investment of Xiaomi Changjiang Industry Fund conveyed the important information that the industry's head enterprises are optimistic about black sesame intelligence.
Investment in many industries, such as Wentai and Fusai Automobile, also supports Black Sesame Intelligence. Fusai Automobile, jointly established by FAW Group, Fuao Automobile and Desai Siwei, has invested in Black Sesame Intelligence this round, and plans to deepen cooperation with Black Sesame Intelligence in the capital and commercial fields.
Wuyuefeng Capital, Yuanhe Puhua and Linxin Capital, as well-known domestic professional investment institutions focusing on hard technology and semiconductor fields, 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 the recognition and support of black sesame intelligence by industry capital.
The smart car and integrated circuit industry ushered in a golden period of development. According to statistics, in 2025, the market size of AI chips will reach 9 1 billion dollars, and in 2030, the market size of AI chips will reach 18 1 billion dollars. "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 intersection of this industrial transformation, the chip provides the underlying hardware support for the intelligent transformation of automobiles and becomes the new engine in the era of smart cars.
Black Sesame Intelligence was established in 20 16, focusing on high-tech research and development in the technical fields of computing chips and platforms for autonomous driving with large computing power. Since its establishment, Black Sesame Intelligent has adhered to the self-developed core IP, deeply cultivated the three fields of artificial intelligence, car gauge chips and automatic driving, and released four high-performance automatic driving computing chips of Huashan series for the second generation with independent innovation technology as the driving force. Huashan No.2 A 1000Pro released this year leads the development of self-driving chip products and technologies with the super computing power of106 (int 8)-196 (int 4).
At the same time, Black Sesame Smart 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 global intelligence of automobiles.
At present, Black Sesame Intelligence 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 Zhixing, Soto Ryan, Newco Technology and Lianyou Technology on L2/3 ADAS and automatic driving perception system solutions.
After the completion of this round of financing, the intelligent valuation of black sesame is nearly 2 billion US dollars, making it a super unicorn of autonomous driving chip. 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 to create future-oriented autonomous driving technologies and products, and lead the development of automobile intelligent industry in China.
Shan Jizhang, 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 era of "smart cars" and "integrated circuits" strategies 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 enhance 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, explore black technology together, and promote the popularization of science and technology to the people. "
Zhangqian, the founder of Sky Capital, said: "Sky Capital focuses on the layout and investment of electrification and intelligence in the field of travel. The self-driving 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 the industry innovation in the future. "
Xie Guosheng, president of Wentai Investment and Financing, said: "Automotive electronics is one of the important strategic expansion areas of Wentai Technology. Black Sesame Intelligent Technology is a global leader in self-driving computing chips, and its excellent team has made the achievements of Black Sesame Intelligent in the fields of self-developed core IP, visual perception technology and self-driving chips remarkable. Wentai firmly supports the cooperation between production and investment. The strong cooperation between Wentai and Black Sesame Intelligence will further consolidate the automotive electronics industry chain and contribute to the casting of the intelligent world. "
Black Sesame Intelligent Technology is an industry-leading research and development enterprise of auto-driving computing chips and platforms, which was established in 20 16. Since its establishment, Black Sesame Intelligence has focused on high-tech research and development in the technical fields such as high-power computing chips and platforms, and can provide complete solutions for autonomous driving and vehicle-road collaboration, including autonomous driving perception computing chips and autonomous driving computing platforms based on vehicle regulation design, learning image processing and low-power accurate perception, supporting the rapid industrialization of related product solutions in the autonomous driving industry chain.