Smart bud won US $300 million in round e financing, and Tencent and Softbank led the investment

On March 17, 2021, patsnap announced the completion of a US $300 million round of e-financing. This round of financing is led by Tencent and Softbank vision fund phase II, followed by CPE, and continued by old shareholders such as Sequoia China, Shunwei capital and Xiangfeng investment. Index capital serves as the exclusive financial advisor. Zhang Jihui, founder and CEO of zhihuiya, said that after this round of financing, the company will accelerate the investment in the R & D and application of big data and artificial intelligence technology, continue to consolidate the product capacity, increase market investment and develop more excellent talents, improve the comprehensive innovation ability and better serve customers. Yao leiwen, managing director of Tencent investment, said: "as a leading manufacturer of innovation and intellectual property services, smart bud has been deeply engaged in innovation and intellectual property services for more than 10 years, has forward-looking insight into the field of innovation and intellectual property, and has accumulated rich capabilities of big data and artificial intelligence. At the same time, we can start from the needs of customers, constantly consolidate products and improve services, and create unique value for customers and the industry. " Chen Xun, managing partner of Softbank vision fund, said: "Softbank believes that the power of science and technology can change the world. We can see that smart bud has the world's leading technological strength in big data and artificial intelligence, which is undoubtedly very exciting." Wisdom bud is a SaaS (software as a service) service provider of science and technology innovation intelligence, focusing on two parts: Science and technology innovation intelligence and intellectual property information services. Through machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing (NLP) and other artificial intelligence technologies, smart bud provides big data intelligence services for the world's leading technology companies, universities, scientific research institutions and financial institutions.