Green Rice completed more than 100 million yuan of B round of financing , will establish a smart home 4S service system.
January 4 news, millet ecological chain green rice today announced the completion of more than 100 million yuan of B round of financing. The new round of financing is led by Kaihui Fund, followed by Lanting Capital, and Star Han Capital as the exclusive financial advisor for this round of financing.
Green Meter will utilize the new round of financing to innovate the smart home channel model, establish the industry's first smart home 4S service system that includes Solution, Sales, Service and Survey, and promote the landing of smart home with service; meanwhile, Green Meter will develop the application of AI technology in the smart home products and continue to promote the development of smart home. At the same time, Green Meter will develop the application of AI technology in smart home products, and continuously improve the user experience of smart home.
Green Rice was founded by You Yanjun in 2009, is a domestic smart home and Internet of Things solution provider, is committed to building a smart life service platform centered on interconnected smart devices, big data and value-added services, mastered the core technology of single firewire switching, ultra-low-power consumption, system stability and so on. Previously, Green Rice had obtained tens of millions of financing from top international capitals such as Xiaomi, Shunwei and Banyan Capital.
In 2015, the company released its first product "Xiaomi Smart Home Kit", which made the smart home a popular consumer product that ordinary people can use, and in less than a year, the sales volume reached one million. Since then, the green rice and around the "millet smart home set" incremental release of smart socket, smart wall switches, air conditioning companion, smart curtain motor more than ten products, and other millet ecological chain products interconnectivity, the establishment of a low-power, high-stability, cost-effective as the core competitiveness of the whole-house smart home system.
From a single boutique, to a small set suitable for a certain scene, and then to the current whole set of smart home solutions, green rice is gradually integration of its products, packaged as a whole solution to land thousands of households, not just a single product or the use of a specific scene, but through the real realization of the interconnection between the various smart home products, the formation of a 1 +1 & gt; 2 system, so as to provide consumers with a complete smart home experience. consumers a complete smart home experience.
"In the past, Green Rice's product installation mainly relies on users' own DIY, but this part of the user is still a niche, in order to realize the vision of 'letting the smart home into thousands of homes, giving users a healthy, safe and comfortable home', Green Rice plans to spend the next three years and 500 Green Rice service providers to establish the industry's first smart home 4S service system." You Yanjun, founder and CEO of Green Rice, said, "Green Rice's smart home system is not only applied to the home, but is being applied to hotels and public **** buildings. According to statistics, hotels and public **** buildings installed with Green Rice smart home products can save 20% to 40% of energy by automating the settings for someone to automatically light up and no one to automatically turn off the lights and air conditioning. And in the next stage, Green Rice will rely on intelligent hardware and data platforms to realize the "connection + data + service" IoT strategic ecology in a wider range of fields such as smart home, smart security, community services, commercial and public **** buildings."
Mr. Mingpao Cai, Founder and Chairman of Caihui Fund, said, "China is becoming the most active market in the development of IoT, and the related technologies are maturing, with vast development and imagination in the fields of smart home, retail, mobility, industrial transformation and upgrading, and medical and healthcare, etc. We are optimistic about the development prospect of this field. We are optimistic about the development prospects of this field, and Greenmile's technological leadership in smart home and IoT and the solid advancement of landing and perfect ecosystem are the greatest confidence in our investment. We will give full play to Kaihui's resources and network advantages in Europe and the United States to help the company actively broaden the overseas market, and in the development of data service business, to promote exchanges and cooperation between Greenmile and other big data companies in the Kaihui ecosystem, to achieve **** win."
Liu Jiong, Founder and Chairman of Lanting Capital, said, "In the past two years, various types of Internet of Things (IoT) home furnishings and home appliances have emerged in the market, and we believe that only when we have done everything in the areas of systematic integration, product-level industrial design, and technological advancement can we call it a smart home that consumers really like and are willing to pay for, and GreenMe is undoubtedly a leader in these areas. We are very optimistic that Lumi will be able to achieve better results in the broader commercial smart home in the future. We are also willing to do more product and technology docking for Greenmi through our investment layout and industrial resources in the AI industry."