Hong Lei, managing partner of Tianchuang Capital, said: “Our country’s industrial control field has been basically monopolized by foreign manufacturers for a long time, especially in the middle and high-end products. The emergence of the Zhongke era is not only expected to greatly improve the problem of “stuck neck” in the industrial field, but more importantly, it is expected to reshape the industrial control system from the framework. Although this challenge is difficult, but China as a manufacturing country, the prospect behind this challenge is more exciting. Tianchuang Capital has more than ten years of cooperation with CAS Institute of Computing Technology, and has invested in Zhongke Shuguang, Haiguang Information, Zhongke Times and Zhongke Jiahe. We have high respect for the technical heritage of the Institute of Computing technology. The founding team of Zhongke Times has accumulated many years in product research and development, and the company has set up a team with rich practical experience in the industrial field. Therefore, we also firmly chose to lead the investment this round. In the future, we will actively play the synergistic effect to support the development of the China-Kuwait era.”

Chinese Academy of Sciences Capital said that in the era of Industry 4.0, the demand for strong computing power, high precision and high reliability has brought broad development opportunities to PC-based control technology. The team of Zhongke Times comes from the Institute of Computing Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the company focuses on building an “integrated computing and control” industrial intelligent computer, bringing infrastructure empowerment to Chinese manufacturing and promoting the upgrade of intelligent manufacturing. In terms of industrial and intelligent machine products, the company has been established for more than a year, and has a variety of types of products from rack to embedded, while the product matrix supports the domestic underlying computing chip. Expect Zhongke era to stick to the attitude of dedicated research and development, down to earth, and keep up with the banner of “intelligent manufacturing in China”.

Guozhong Capital executive general manager Shi Xin said: industrial intelligence is the key to achieve manufacturing power, and intelligent computer control machine is the basis for the realization of industrial control intelligence, has a huge market space, belongs to the important technology field. Relying on the Institute of Computing Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongke Times is one of the few leading enterprises in the field of industrial control that adopts the localization solution to realize the integration of computing and control. With the help of PC architecture, it has re-cast the industrial control system to change lane and overtake with the new form of computing and control integration, subvert all kinds of traditional industrial control architectures on the production control side, and realize “software to realize industrial control”. Improve the precision and efficiency of industrial control. China Capital is firmly optimistic about the broad prospects of industrial control intelligence and industrial intelligence machine, and is more optimistic about the technical strength and product direction of Zhongke era. We believe that with the upgrading of industrial control technology and the two major opportunities of domestic substitution, Zhongke Era will lead the rapid development of China’s industrial intelligence with the support of various resources to achieve their own breakthroughs and innovations.

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Qin Shaobo, partner of Cornerstone Fund, said: The rapid development of information technology has accelerated the penetration of all walks of life from the Internet. Industrial control industry after a hundred years, the market size of more than 100 billion, is in the cycle of change, and the organic combination of information technology has become one of the future direction. Zhongke era was born at the right time, is one of the few industrial intelligent machine manufacturers and service providers in China, the team is composed of excellent talents in the field of computer algorithms and industrial control, and will win a place in the field of industrial control.

New Heng Lida Fund said: Looking at the country, there are actually many traditional PLC manufacturers, but the PC architecture is rarely involved, Ma and his excellent team along the way to focus on research and development, down-to-earth attitude, has aroused admiration. With the perfect integration of the domestic hardware incubated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences computer and the Runtime compilation environment of Codesys, Zhongke Times has won the favor of many customers and automation engineers with the overall solution provided by the massive algorithm library and the powerful ecosystem. Zhongke Times transcends traditional PLC, based on creating a safe, controllable hardware and software ecology to solve customer needs, and overcome the bottleneck. We are firmly optimistic that the company’s products can sink into the digital matrix of various industrial scenarios, leading the trend and trend of “industrial computing automation”.

Dr. Lin Haizhuo, Founding Partner and CEO of Zhuoyuan Capital, said: “The core R & D team of Zhongke Times is currently the most profound research and development experience in the field of industrial supercomputing platform in China, and it is also the most mature team of commercial products. We are optimistic that the” computer control integrated industrial intelligent machine and supporting software and hardware integrated product line created by Zhongke Times will become the global leader in computing and manufacturing core software and hardware products in industrial production scenarios.”

Song Chunyu, Vice President of Lenovo Group and senior partner of Lenovo Ventures, said: As an investee of Lenovo Venture Capital and a brother unit of CAS Institute of Computing, Zhongketimes inherits the three principles of “basic, strategic and forward-looking” adhered to by CAS Institute of Computing. Under the guidance of the national 14th Five-Year Strategic Plan, Zhongketimes breaks the monopoly of foreign automation brands by taking IT and OT as the technology path. Create computable manufacturing solutions with industrial intelligent computing as the core, and accelerate the upgrading of intelligent manufacturing industries; As a seed round and angel round investor, Lenovo Venture Capital is very optimistic about the team’s determination in this direction, and is pleased with the progress made by the company in more than one year, and will continue to support the development of the company in many aspects in the future.

Zhang Xin, head of the digital economy fund of Tongchuangweiye, believes that after the establishment of the company in August 22, the Zhongke era team set up a senior R & D and market team while completing subsequent rounds of financing, and ensure the stable shipment of the company’s products, the third quarter has appeared a large number of KA customers to re-purchase orders, and the performance of the year can be expected. This shows that the company has successfully completed the 0-1 work, and in the capital winter, the abundant capital reserves are ready for the next 1-100 ammunition. Tongchuang in the seed round investment is the team’s technical ability and industrial pattern, in the A round we continue to raise bets, optimistic about the team, especially the founder Ma Zong has been preliminatively verified management ability.

Lu Yuanhao, head of Bojiang Capital project, said: The current era of Zhongke is in the right place and time node, and the national policy level will raise the independent and controllable industrial infrastructure construction to an unprecedented new height. At the same time, in the process of transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, the traditional industrial architecture has been unable to meet the needs of high-end manufacturing. The team of Zhongke era brings together the top talents of the head industrial automation companies at home and abroad, and adopts the idea of “lane overtaking” in the technology accumulation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Computing Institute for many years, integrating PLC, operations control, vision and AI in one, supporting domestic chips and domestic operating systems, independently developing IDE, and creating a new form of computing and control machine. It is of great significance for breaking through the “jam neck” of industrial infrastructure and the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industry.