Ounder,a one-stop software and hardware platform solution provider, bagged CNY 100 million(USD 13.9 million) from Series B funding round, led by DAHUA Group.
Ounder(Chinese:介方信息), a one-stop software and hardware platform solution provider, bagged CNY 100 million(USD 13.9 million) from Series B funding round, led by DAHUA Group, with participation by Yudao Venture Capital and ZBJL Capital.
Ounder provides one-stop software and hardware platform solutions for military equipment based on the concept of "software-defined." Specific products include Software Communications Architecture(SCA) software, Integrated Drive Electronics(IDE) tools, and high-end hardware boards. The products have been widely used in communication, accusation, electronic warfare, radar, satellite, rail transit, electric power, and other fields.
The money will be used for product iteration and market development.
Xu Sheng, the founder of Ounder, said that China's information equipment construction market has huge space, and the core team of Ounder has been deeply engaged in this area since 2011. In the future, they will also aim at the vehicle-level operating system for Software Defined Vehicle(SDV).
SCA is an intelligent operating system for high-end devices, the essence of which is to encapsulate and abstract the hardware environment of multi-core heterogeneous embedded systems using an underlying framework and manage it to open programming interfaces to software developers. Application areas include communication, radar, satellite, power, rail, and automotive.
Ounder has engineering experience in virtualizing a large number of heterogeneous Field Programmable Gate Array(FPGA), Digital Signal Processing(DSP), Central Processing Unit(CPU), and industrial buses into standardized software interfaces, and has achieved sufficient reliability and security. According to estimation, the company's products have an annual market space of CNY 40 billion(USD 5.6 billion) in the information technology equipment construction market.
Ounder's international competitors include BAE Systems(UK) and Collins Aerospace(US), and domestic ones include Sectrend (Chinese:安势信息), Moresec(Chinese:默安科技), and Sdrising(872496.NQ, Chinese:四川赛狄).