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36Kr first release | Fontan Robotics completes a new round of strategic financing of tens of millions of yuan, and the investor is Century Golden Resources

Big company news | SenseTime announces the launch of the Ark multimodal new intelligence platform for urban service scenarios

Overseas Market | Pando Electric Completes Pre-seed Round of Financing, Targeting the US Electric Vehicle Building Charging Market

Industry policy | The State Council issued a work plan to accelerate the establishment of a dual control system for carbon emissions

|36Kr first release

Fontan Robotics completes a new round of strategic financing of tens of millions of yuan, with Century Golden Resources as the investor

Recently, the construction robot company Fontan Robotics announced that it had completed a round of strategic financing of tens of millions of yuan, with Century Golden Resources as the investor. This financing was only half a year after the company's Pre-A round of financing, and the previous round of Pre-A round of financing was exclusively invested by Kinzon Capital. Founded in May 2022, Fontan Robotics is positioned as a paint engineering construction robot, focusing on the research and development, production and sales of construction robots. Its product matrix covers putty spraying, scraping, grinding, vacuuming and latex paint spraying. Fontan Robotics' technology has covered the entire process and scene of indoor paint engineering construction in buildings, and has been successfully applied in batches of projects such as the Zhongyifeng Yangtze River Delta International R&D Community, Shanghai Construction Engineering Zhangjiang Science Gate Project, Zhejiang Construction Engineering Yingwang New Energy Project, Beijing Construction Engineering Fangshan Renovation Project, Singapore Bishan, and Tengah New Town C8 HDB Project. The cumulative construction area of ​​the robot exceeds 500,000 square meters.

Li Zike told 36Kr: "Compared with manual work, construction robots have shown significant advantages in construction efficiency and quality control. In manual work, there are significant differences in workers' skill levels and sense of responsibility. A veteran worker with 30 years of experience and a worker who has just entered the industry have different work results. Differences in workers' sense of responsibility will also affect the quality of the project. If there is a lack of supervision and the requirements for work are relaxed, especially in areas that are not easily detected, such as hidden projects, this may have a negative impact on the overall quality of the project." In contrast, robot operations are not affected by these factors. Whether there is human supervision or not, regardless of the environment, robots can maintain consistent work performance and construction quality.

Fast-forward Stores Receives Multi-Million-Dollar Strategic Financing

Recently, "Fast Forward Store", a subsidiary of Fast Forward Times (Xiamen) Technology Co., Ltd., announced the completion of a multi-million dollar strategic financing, with the investor being Nasdaq-listed company The Ninth City. Founded in 2021, the company has transformed traditional retail stores through its self-developed intelligent software and hardware + retail SaaS model, achieved 24-hour operation, and built an intelligent retail platform. In the past year, "Fast Forward Store" has upgraded and renovated more than 1,000 cooperative stores, expanding from 35 cities across the country to more than 130 cities including Xiamen, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Zhengzhou, Changsha, etc.

In traditional retail stores, "Quick Store" can continue to operate stores without people by installing hardware equipment such as smart access control, smart monitoring, and smart intercom, plus a self-developed retail SaaS platform, which can solve the pain points of retail stores and free up store owners' time. However, this kind of operation is not truly unmanned, but the store owner can remotely guard the store through the customer service of "Quick Store" after closing. Retail stores pay "Quick Store" a one-time hardware installation fee and a certain percentage of the turnover in the unmanned state. Last year, "Quick Store" launched a new generation of hardware products with AI capabilities on the market. Under the application of multimodal large models, vision and audio are integrated through a variety of sensors. According to the customer's action language in different scenarios, AI assists manual work and responds quickly. For example, when a customer enters the store and asks high-frequency questions such as how to buy things, how to check out, and how to open the door to go out, AI can quickly identify and judge; at the same time, if the camera recognizes that the customer has opened the freezer door and forgot to close it, or someone is smoking in the store, AI can also intervene in time and issue an early warning.

|Big company news

SenseTime announces the launch of Ark multi-modal new intelligence platform for urban service scenarios

Recently, SenseTime announced that based on the new 5.5 big model system capabilities, it will upgrade the product architecture of its Ark City Open Platform and launch the first "big model + city service" solution and application practice "SenseFoundry-VL Ark Multimodal New Intelligence Platform", aiming to help smart city service scenarios further improve intelligent efficiency.

SenseTime revealed that the Ark Multimodal New Intelligence Platform has been implemented in urban service scenarios. On the 12345 public service hotline in a first-tier city, the platform has helped to increase the classification and allocation speed of 12345 work orders to more than 10 times the original speed. This upgrade not only demonstrates SenseTime's technical strength in the field of smart city construction, but also provides strong support for the intelligentization of urban services. The upgraded Ark Multimodal New Intelligence Platform integrates large model technology with urban services. The platform can more efficiently handle various work orders in urban services and improve the response speed and quality of urban services.

Yepeng Digital Technology Completes 30 Million Yuan Angel Round Financing

Yepeng Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Yepeng Digital") announced the successful completion of an angel round of financing of RMB 30 million. This round of financing was led by Fosun Capital and aims to support the company's further research and development and promotion of its digital software systems for office buildings and supermarkets. Founded in 2020, the company is a high-tech enterprise focusing on smart building and commercial facility management. It is committed to providing intelligent management and services for commercial spaces such as office buildings and shopping malls through innovative software solutions to improve operational efficiency and user experience. Yepeng Digital's products and services cover smart security, energy efficiency management, smart lighting, environmental monitoring and other aspects, and realize real-time monitoring and intelligent analysis of data through an integrated platform.

In the current context of digital transformation, Yepeng Digital Intelligence Technology has established partnerships with many well-known companies with its deep accumulation in the field of office buildings and supermarkets. The company's software system can not only improve the energy efficiency of buildings, but also predict maintenance needs through data analysis, reduce the occurrence of failures, thereby reducing operating costs and improving safety.

Boxin Quanyu Cosmos' parent company receives tens of millions of yuan in strategic investment from Shanghai Cultural Industry Development Investment Fund

Recently, the parent company of the large-scale immersive interactive content brand, Boxin Metaverse, Luwa Culture Communication (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. ("Luwa Culture"), and Shanghai Cultural Industry Development Investment Fund ("Shanghai Cultural Industry Investment") jointly announced that they have reached a tens-million-level investment agreement. As an innovative enterprise dedicated to integrating culture, art and technology through offline immersive virtual reality (VR) technology, Boxin Metaverse Project introduced the phenomenal cultural tourism project "The Vanishing Pharaoh" to Asia for the first time, and attracted 100,000 viewers in ten months, becoming a offline virtual reality (LBVR) project that has attracted much attention in the industry. At present, Boxin Metaverse has successfully operated multiple large-scale virtual reality immersive exploration venues in Shanghai, Chengdu and Xi'an, with an average daily reception capacity of more than 3,000 people.

In July this year, with the support of Shanghai Cultural Investment, Boxin Universe joined hands with Shanghai Museum to launch the virtual and real interactive special presentation of "The Vanishing Pharaoh" in conjunction with "Top of the Pyramids - Ancient Egyptian Civilization Exhibition". At the same time, the offline immersive exploration project "The Vanishing Pharaoh" issued by Boxin Universe has been listed as an innovative demonstration project of Shanghai Cultural Tourism Metaverse by the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism. It is reported that Shanghai Cultural Investment, the strategic investor of this round of financing, was jointly initiated by the Shanghai Municipal Government, the Pudong New Area Government and Shanghai Real Estate Group, and was jointly established by Shanghai Real Estate Group, United Sheng Group and Pudong Science and Technology Innovation. The fund focuses on investment areas such as cultural creativity, tourism, and sports, actively deploys new tracks of cultural technology and cultural consumption, adheres to the guiding principle of "government guidance and market operation", and has successively invested in a series of representative projects including the TV series "The World", The Paper, and Evernote; and through the leverage effect of the parent fund, it promotes the integration of the "culture +" field and promotes the innovation and high-quality development of the cultural industry in Shanghai and even the whole country.

|Overseas Market

Pando Electric Completes Pre-seed Round of Financing, Targeting the US Electric Vehicle Building Charging Market

Pando Electric, an American electric vehicle charging company, completed a pre-seed round of financing of over one million US dollars in June, led by UpHonestCapital, an early-stage investment institution in Silicon Valley. Pando was founded in 2023 and focuses on the building electric vehicle charging track in the United States. It is committed to providing stable and efficient electric vehicle charging solutions that can be deployed in large quantities for apartment houses, offices and other commercial buildings. CEO Aaron Li previously served as a product development executive in Apple's SPG team and NIO.

Aaron introduced that the vast majority of apartment buildings in the United States were designed and built without considering the large-scale popularization of electric vehicles, resulting in a huge gap in power infrastructure. The power distribution upgrade of apartment buildings is also a huge investment. "Generally, the power expansion of an apartment building requires hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars and a cycle of 1-3 years. At present, most of the home charging solutions on the market still follow the technical ideas of public charging stations. There are few charging piles, inflexible deployment, and high maintenance costs. They cannot fundamentally solve the huge contradiction between the deployment needs of building charging and the infrastructure gap.

Pando is targeting this user pain point and industry gap. Pando can provide a complete solution: simple hardware, intelligent software, and closed-loop services. "We want to build the Apple of the electric vehicle charging industry," Aaron added. Pando's self-developed 10kW smart electric vehicle charging socket eliminates the easily damaged charging gun wire, greatly reducing hardware and maintenance costs. The compact product form can be deployed in large quantities in apartment parking lots with limited space.

Osapiens receives $120 million in Series B funding

osapiens is an ESG software solution provider that develops software-as-a-service solutions to help companies across industries implement ESG requirements quickly, automatically, and securely. The core of the company is osapiens HUB, an AI-based cloud platform that creates compliance and transparency across the value chain. It allows companies to address all ESG challenges to identify risks, implement reporting requirements such as CSRD, EUDR, and CSDDD, and make their operational processes more sustainable in the long term. Recently, osapiens received $120 million in Series B financing, with Goldman Sachs Alternatives investing.

|Industry Policy

The State Council issued a work plan to accelerate the establishment of a dual control system for carbon emissions

The General Office of the State Council recently issued the "Work Plan for Accelerating the Construction of a Carbon Emission Dual Control System". The "Plan" clearly proposes to incorporate carbon emission indicators into the national economic and social development plan, and requires the establishment and improvement of policy systems and management mechanisms such as local carbon assessment, industry carbon control, corporate carbon management, project carbon evaluation, and product carbon footprint.

The plan requires the improvement of carbon emission-related planning systems. Reasonable determination of carbon emission targets for the five-year planning period, formulation of action plans for carbon peak and carbon neutrality, improvement of relevant laws and regulations on carbon emission dual control; establishment of a local carbon emission target evaluation and assessment system. Reasonable decomposition of carbon emission dual control indicators, establishment of a comprehensive evaluation and assessment system for carbon peak and carbon neutrality, and promotion of the establishment of a carbon emission budget management system at the provincial and municipal levels.

36Kr Author | Song Hongshan

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