Unique Research · Company / financing · June 13, 2023
On June 5, 2023, AI management/collaboration vendor StarWhale (星鲸科技) raised a multi-million RMB angel from Nanshan Capital and Yuanjing Ventures (远镜创投). Proceeds: data + model platform modules and StarWhale Cloud for SMEs/individuals (fine-tune, eval, deploy).
Beijing, founded 2022; founder Xu Chuan ex-Baidu Cloud chief architect / Megvii chief architect. MLOps platform: train, evaluate, deploy, dataset hosting — unifying ML dev and ops for continuous high-performance delivery. Market cited ~$1.1B (2022) → ~$5.9B (2027).
Strategy: open-source productized third-party path (avoid cloud lock-in; private deploy for privacy-sensitive buyers); beachhead autonomous-driving compute demand. Early partners: several AV startups/suppliers; commercialization accelerating in 2023.
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