As a representative service and brand activity specially created for startups by Shanghai Pudong Software Park, the Pudong Software Entrepreneurship Camp has welcomed its "tenth anniversary." Recently, the 2024 New Quality Productive Force Ecology Conference and the 10th Anniversary Celebration of Pudong Software Entrepreneurship Camp were held.
The reporter learned from the event that since its inception in 2015, the Pudong Software Entrepreneurship Camp has held 10 sessions, empowering a total of 350 student enterprises, among which more than 120 have grown into high-tech enterprises, more than 40 have become specialized and new enterprises, 1 has successfully gone public, and 3 have grown into unicorns, helping Shanghai to build an innovative ecosystem, promote the transformation of disruptive scientific and technological achievements, and accelerate the incubation of hard technology enterprises.
Provide accompanying innovation and entrepreneurship services
As a new engine to promote high-quality economic development, new quality productive forces have been elevated to a strategic height by the country, and Shanghai has continuously achieved new breakthroughs in the cultivation and development of new quality productive forces. As the core area of the international science and innovation center, Pudong New Area has shown strong momentum in the development of leading industries such as integrated circuits, biomedicine, and artificial intelligence, demonstrating Shanghai's ambition and strength in technological innovation. Pudong Software Incubator, as an important carrier for cultivating small and medium-sized technology enterprises and developing new economic momentum, is continuously deepening its services, expanding its service ecosystem, and has also become a "magnet" for attracting makers.
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Shi Zheng, deputy director of Shanghai Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Center, said that 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of the construction of the Pudong International Science and Innovation Center core area, and the Pudong Software Entrepreneurship Camp also welcomes its 10th anniversary. Many student enterprises have grown and developed, continuously breaking through in cutting-edge fields such as hard technology and artificial intelligence, showing strong innovation vitality and industry-leading power.
Hu Ping, a mentor of Pudong Software Entrepreneurship Camp and a partner of Chenhui Venture Capital, has accompanied batches of entrepreneurship camp students from entering the camp to graduating, and has also witnessed the growth of start-up teams from "seedlings" to "big trees."
"The original intention of Pudong Software Entrepreneurship Camp is to incubate and cultivate early-stage enterprises. Over the past ten years, the curriculum has been updated and iterated many times, helping a large number of start-up enterprises learn how to solve market, sales, enterprise management, finance, and other issues through increasingly practical training," Hu Ping believes that in the future, only enterprises that are brave in innovation, solve actual pain points and have enough patience can have survival and development space.
Riding the high-speed train of China's technological development, Shanghai Pudong Software Park has witnessed the germination and development of countless technological innovations and has also promoted the journey of cutting-edge technology from the laboratory to commercialization. Looking forward to the future, how to better serve start-up enterprises and explore more potential "seedlings"?
Guo Bin, General Manager of Shanghai Pudong Software Park Entrepreneurship Investment Management Co., Ltd., said: "As the frontier outpost for cultivating and developing innovative entities, Pudong Software Incubator is committed to building a comprehensive, multi-level, and three-dimensional Pudong innovation ecosystem chain, providing accompanying innovation and entrepreneurship services for technological innovation enterprises based on different growth stages, promoting technological innovation and industrial development. In the next ten years, we sincerely invite all parties to join the Pudong innovation ecosystem chain and witness the new journey of technological innovation empowering new quality productive forces together."
Linking policy, industry, academia, and research resources for the technology industryFocusing on the cutting-edge of the new generation of information technology, the Pudong Software Park Entrepreneurship Camp has gathered a batch after batch of entrepreneurs who are full of ideas, momentum, and capabilities, leading the technological transformation and industrial innovation together.
On that day, the tenth batch of student enterprises from the Pudong Software Park Entrepreneurship Camp also took the stage one after another, starting the peak roadshow. Ten outstanding AI ecosystem enterprises stood out and competed on the spot, with more than 50 professional judges from well-known investment institutions, large enterprises, and industry experts raising their cards on the spot, and asking questions around the project's technical advantages and development space.
Although the Zhizhu Cloud Technology Company has just been established, it is very "senior". It was jointly initiated and created by a group of experts and entrepreneurs with rich experience in the construction industry, artificial intelligence, big data processing, and cloud computing, focusing on artificial intelligence technology and big data analysis, providing intelligent design solutions for the construction industry.
"We can provide designers and users with efficient, innovative, and personalized design technical support by using big data and AI deep learning technology. At the same time, it greatly reduces the cost, time of design, and improves the quality of design," said Sun Zhixing, the founder and CEO of Zhizhu Cloud Technology, who is currently empowering various vertical industries with AI, and the field of construction engineering has great potential.
Participating in the Pudong Software Park Entrepreneurship Camp this time also brought a lot of gains to Sun Zhixing. "Through the matchmaking of the Pudong Software Park Entrepreneurship Camp, more investment and financing institutions and industrial funds can see us, which is very important for the startup team. I have felt a very good atmosphere in Pudong, and we are actively negotiating to settle in the latest big model industry ecological gathering area in Zhangjiang, which focuses on the application of vertical category models."
After the exciting roadshow and the scoring of professional judges, the roadshow results finally came out - Songying Technology, QuickCEP, and Yiyan Technology won the first, second, and third places respectively. The event also held the tenth graduation ceremony of the Pudong Software Park Entrepreneurship Camp, awarded the Future Innovator Award and the Potential New Star Award, and signed an intention with the landing project. In the future, these students will start a new "Science and Innovation Dream Journey" in Zhangjiang Science City.
In the afternoon of that day, many industry bigwigs gathered in the Pudong Software Park, focusing on topics such as AI and new quality productivity, bringing a cutting-edge industry feast to the audience.
Shanghai Pudong Software Park said that it will continue to serve science and innovation enterprises, build an incubation investment carrier platform, continuously deepen services, expand the ecological "circle of friends", and link the technology industry with government, industry, academia, and research resources.