Caixin
Caixin Global – Latest China News & Headlines

Home >

TRENDING
Alibaba Tech Tapped to Provide Olympic Athletes With AI Assistants
Satellite-Maker Spacety Kicks Off IPO as China’s Commercial Space Race Heats Up
China's AutoFlight Rolls Out World’s First 5-Ton eVTOL
LATEST
China's AutoFlight Rolls Out World’s First 5-Ton eVTOL
Alibaba AI App Crashes After 3 Billion Yuan Giveaway Sparks Frenzy
Satellite Chipmaker Cygnus Raises $215 Million as China Internet-in-Space Push Accelerates
Alibaba Tech Tapped to Provide Olympic Athletes With AI Assistants
Satellite-Maker Spacety Kicks Off IPO as China’s Commercial Space Race Heats Up
Beijing Humanoid Robotics Hub Raises $100 Million in First Funding Round
Analysis: Alibaba’s New Processor Shows Applications Are Key to AI Chip Success
Aerofugia Raises Nearly $150 Million to Get Flying Taxis Certified
Alibaba Pledges $432 Million in Lunar New Year AI Subsidy War
In Depth: Megvii Co-Founder Is Back Riding the Latest AI Wave
China Fines Kuaishou Unit $3.8 Million for E-Commerce Violations
Chips Drive China’s Electronics Exports
Robots Take the Stage at China’s Spring Festival Gala
Alibaba Unveils New AI Chip to Rival Nvidia’s China Offerings
ASML Expects China Revenue Drop Following Backlog-Fueled Surge
China’s Telecom Industry Stalls as Traditional Revenue Dries Up
TikTok Outage Puts New U.S. Operations to the Test
Moonshot AI Gets More Into Agents With New Model
Texas Doubles Down on China Tech Ban, Adding AI and E-Commerce Giants
Chinese GPU-Maker Challenges Nvidia in Three-Year Development Plan

By Isabelle Li / Dec 19, 2018 09:48 PM / Business & Tech

Add another name to the growing list of Chinese AI unicorns.

4Paradigm, an artificial intelligence company focused on providing services to corporations, announced Wednesday that it had raised 1 billion yuan ($145 million) in its c-round of fundraising, taking its valuation to $1.2 billion.

The startup was founded in 2015 and is now headed by its founder Dai Wenyuan. The strategic investors in the latest fundraising round included China’s state-owned Citic Group and the state-owned banks Agricultural Bank of China and Bank of Communications.

Notably, 4Paradigm has now received investments from every one of China’s five largest banks, which also include Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Bank of China and China Construction Bank.

Dai said in the announcement that the company is now expanding its business from a focus on finance to broader applications in hospitals, civil services, retail and media.

Share this article
Open WeChat and scan the QR code