The Discovery Guangzhou “Future Unicorns" activities recently announced the list of 2019“Unicorn” innovative enterprise. Guangdong 3VJIA Information Technology Co., Ltd (be known as AiHouse for overseas) was once again awarded the “Future Unicorn” of innovation enterprise, which was awarded the honour for two consecutive years. As the leader and the home furnishing design to production innovative solution provider, 3VJIA-AiHouse has become the only IT company for the home furnishing industry in the top list. This honour indicates the recognition by the Guangzhou Government and the technological innovation institutions.
Guangzhou "Future Unicorns" of Innovation Enterprise in 2019
The activity of the ‘Unicorns’ of Innovative Enterprise by the Discovery Guangzhou was supported and guided by the Guangzhou Science & Technology Bureau, and jointly sponsored by the Guangzhou Technology Innovative Enterprise Association and ‘Fast Company’ Magazine. This evaluation explored excellent enterprises in detail by identifying the potentials of further development pertaining to the technology innovation, faster growth and future development prospect, focusing on strategic emerging industries such as Big Data, Cloud Computing, Information Technology, Internet of Things (IoT), Biomedicine, Artificial intelligence(AI), Intelligent Hardware, New Energy, New Materials, as well as Advanced Manufacturing.
The evaluation of ‘Future Unicorns’ represents forward-thinking and position on developing the companies to become the real ‘Unicorns’ which are valued from US 100 million to US 1 billion in the market. In this selection, a total of over 45 companies were selected in the list of 2019 Guangzhou ‘Future Unicorns’ of Innovation Enterprise, has become the most potential companies.
Continuous Innovation
In-depth Meld the Technology into Help the Traditional Business Development
At present, the Guangzhou unicorns ecosystem has grown into a considerable scale. The selected innovative companies mainly concentrate on strategic emerging industries, has developed as leaders in the deep integration of technological and commercial innovation in the respective fields. Since the establishment from 2013, 3VJIA-AIHouse concentrates in the home industry, relying on the development of the core technologies such as cloud computing, big data and Artificial Intelligence(AI) to build the home industry internet platform. As noted, the techniques apply in 3D cloud design, 3D cloud manufacturing and Numerical Control system(NC), which combine the SaaS software into a core product matrix on achieving efficient collaboration for the home industry from design to production to empowering the digitalization and intelligent transformation.
3VJIA-Aihouse has developed and applied its technical potentials in continuous innovation, including 75 software copyrights and over 50 patents. As such, it has also been awarded‘ The National High-tech Enterprise’ and ‘Top 100 Chinese Science and Technology Innovation Enterprises’.
In the meantime, 3VJIA-AiHouse is continuously merging with various business innovation to become a pioneer of the home new business ecosystem. In 2019, 3VJIA-AiHouse formally cooperated with Alibaba Group to jointly build F2B2C business solutions for the development of the home furnishing industry with the Tangping Apps, providing integrated professional solutions to consumers, designers and brand sellers. Through collaborating with Tangping and the existing 2 million designer users resource, 3VJIA-AiHouse and Tangping provide the platform, using the way of a design scenario-based shopping service to deliver a “What you see is what you get” one-stop experience to consumers. 3VJIA-AiHouse also helps the cooperated brand suppliers acquire the customer accurately by the cloud technologies and increase the efficiency of the marketing and sales to the production materials utilization and the C2M service.
In particular, with continued innovation and improvement in advanced technology, 3VJIA-AiHouse positively boosts new retail business model on the home furnishing retail and deliveries a more immersive and realistic experience to prospective end-consumers. On July 2019, the first offline showroom Living Gallery was launched in Qingdao, China, which jointly empowered by both 3VJIA-AiHouse and Tangping. It provides an integrated digital technology to link all categories of home furnishing manufacturers to offer a one-stop experience from design, presentation, ordering, brands supply chain, delivering and installation until implement completion.
Rapid Growth and Development
The Capital Investors Favour Future Unicorns
Since the activity of the Discovery Guangzhou “Future Unicorns" started in 2017, the companies listed over the years have been enthusiastically sought after by the capital market. Most of them are accelerating to proceed IPO (Initial Public Offerings) process. In this selection, the total valuation of ‘Future Unicorns’ will reach USD 14.61 billion, with an average valuation of USD 325 million. The average growth rate of primary business income in the past three years has been 37.87%. As a rapidly grown ‘Future Unicorns’, 3VJIA-AiHouse obtained continuous investments from strategic partners including Softbank China, Red Star Macalline and Alibaba Group etc. In Oct 2019, an RMB 500 million investment from Alibaba Group, one of the world-class leading e-commercial platform, indicates a recognition of the 3VJIA-AiHouse home industrial internet platform. Both of us hope to share insights and resources to make it easier for business in the home industry.
Additionally, 3VJIA-AiHouse was not only ranked in ‘ Unique Investment Value Enterprise TOP 10’ which is held by Ebrun, and was also selected into ‘2019 True List·TOP 50 Quasi-unicorns that Influence the Times’ by Pencilnews. These awards show that 3VJIA-AiHouse has become a vital reserve strength and potential to become the Guangzhou listed core companies.
Support by the Government
Empowering Future Unicorns to become Industrial Benchmark
Since service-providing industries now dominate our economy and high-quality of life, while technology innovation is critical to raise the convenience and efficiency for daily living and running companies. Therefore,government and investment institutions are increasingly recognizing and attention on the technology enterprises through policies and resources supporting, along with substantial investments.
In Guangzhou,‘Unicorns’ ‘Future Unicorns’ ‘High-precision Enterprise’ as main awards for innovative enterprise focus on evaluating technology innovation, the ability to sustained growth, as well as the influence over the respective industry. The evaluation and awards not only indicate comprehensive strength and also drive high-quality economic development. Innovation-driven development strategies and policies are implemented to create optimal entrepreneurship and business environment and to assist enterprises in running business faster and easier.
Mr. Cai Zhisen, the core founder of 3VJIA-AiHouse, said ‘If 3VJIA-AiHouse has made more contribution in solving the problem of data and process interconnection for the past seven years, then in the future we will have greater value creation to the industry.’ 3VJIA-AiHouse will continue to take root in the home industry for the development of the home Internet platform and supporting the global home furnishing business.
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