Unique Research · Company / weekly financing focus · September 27, 2023
Kaiwang Data
Sep 8, 2023 — multi-ten-million RMB Pre-A led by Yasheng Investment, with Qingzhi Capital. Proceeds for automated production lines and toolchains. Third raise within a year (prior angel / angel+ from Chentao, Plug and Play China, Sany Group, Xishan Angel Hui). One-stop AI data automation for OEMs and autonomous-driving companies—moving data production from craft shops to standardized, scalable automation.
Guiyi Intelligent
Sep 9 — multi-ten-million RMB strategic from Leo Fund and Weiling Tech. Funds to build marketing-domain models on general LLMs (AI ads + smart shopping guide). Deep-custom AI apps / private knowledge bases (“Guiyi Miaoyu” assistant, “Guiyi Jinnang” knowledge base). Two months after founding, launched “Leo Guiyi” marketing LLM.
Writer
Sep 19 — $100M Series B; post-money >$500M. Led by ICONIQ Growth with WndrCo, Balderton, Insight Partners, Aspect Ventures, plus customers Accenture and Vanguard. Enterprise writing AI (guidelines, company terminology)—not a consumer ChatGPT clone. 10× revenue over two years; >150% NRR; customers include Spotify, L’Oréal, Uber, Handshake, HubSpot, Deloitte.
Anthropic
Sep 25 — $4B strategic from Amazon; cumulative financing ~$5.5B (prior ~$1.5B across seven rounds incl. Google ~$400M, SK Telecom, Spark). Press: Amazon chasing Microsoft/Google for genAI cloud share.
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