在拿到了奇绩创坛领投的天使轮投资后，方海涛出来创业成立了Sealos。Sealos于23年完成了A轮和A+轮融资，22年完成了总计2000万元的天使轮和天使+轮融资。其中，A轮融资、天使+轮都由高捷资本独家领投。天使轮融资由奇绩创坛领投，清华信息学院院长李军、中科大微电子康一教授和coding创始人张海龙跟投。A+轮投资方还包括微致资本、一村资本。① Industrial and commercial change information shows that Zhuhai Huanjie Cloud Computing Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as: Sealos) has completed equity financing, with Alibaba Cloud as a new investor, and its registered capital has increased from 2.679 million yuan to 3.349 million yuan. ② Sealos CEO Fang Haitao previously worked at Alibaba Cloud, responsible for the cloud-native integration platform.
According to the Star Daily on December 13 (reporter Huang Xinyi), recently, industrial and commercial change information shows that Zhuhai Huanjie Cloud Computing (abbreviated as: Sealos) has completed equity financing, with Alibaba Cloud as a new investor, and its registered capital has increased from 2.679 million yuan to 3.349 million yuan, with Fang Haitao as the legal representative.
A reporter from Star Daily learned from informed sources that Sealos CEO Fang Haitao previously worked at Alibaba Cloud, responsible for the cloud-native integration platform, and subsequently led the sealer project, which was donated to the CNCF Community.
After receiving angel round investment led by Qiji Chuangtan, Fang Haitao started his entrepreneurship and founded Sealos. Sealos completed Series A and A+ rounds of financing in 2023 and a total of 20 million yuan in angel rounds and angel+ rounds of financing in 2022. Among them, the A round financing and angel+ round were exclusively led by Gaojie Capital. The angel round financing was led by Qiji Chuangtan, with co-investors including Li Jun, Dean of Tsinghua Information School, Professor Kang Yi from the University of Science and Technology of China, and Zhang Hailong, founder of Coding. The A+ round investors also include Weizhi Capital and Yicun Capital.
According to the Tianyan Check APP, Fang Haitao currently holds 24.1% of Sealos shares, making him the largest shareholder, while Alibaba Cloud holds 20%, making it the second largest shareholder.
The core team of Sealos comes from companies like Byte and others in the cloud service and Internet Plus-Related sector. Its core business and product is the Kubernetes-based cloud operating system distribution, Sealos Could, and its open-source cloud development platform, Laf. Currently, registered users have surpassed 100,000. Previously, it was announced that monthly revenue would exceed 300,000 at the beginning of 2024.
Since Wu Yongming became CEO of Alibaba Group and concurrently assumed the position of Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Cloud last September, he has been driving the new Global Strategy of "AI-driven, public cloud first." The Star Daily noted that this year, Alibaba Cloud's investments have also been concentrated in two major areas: cloud computing and AI. In August, Alibaba Cloud officially invested in Suzhou Yuling Artificial Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. According to industrial and commercial change information, Suzhou Yuling's registered capital increased from approximately 1.1579 million yuan to approximately 1.4363 million yuan, and new shareholders include not only Alibaba Cloud but also Suzhou Yuanzhixin Phase II Venture Capital Partnership (Limited Partnership).
In June, Alibaba Cloud invested in the AI Chip company Hanbo Semiconductors, which previously also received financing from Alibaba.
According to the latest Earnings Reports, from July to September this year, Alibaba Cloud's revenue was 29.61 billion yuan, averaging about 10 billion yuan per month. The revenue was mainly driven by double-digit growth in the Public Cloud Business, with an increase in the adoption of AI-related products. Revenue from AI-related products has achieved triple-digit year-on-year growth for five consecutive quarters.
