Universal Database, a leading domestic hyper-converged database company, completed its Series A financing led by Rice Venture Capital, which is funded by the Shenzhen Municipal Government's two-level guidance fund.

"Universal Database" was established in Shenzhen in 2021, focusing on database software R&D and sales. The company completed angel round financing in June 2023, with the investor being New Guodu Wanlian, a subsidiary of listed company New Guodu. As a key part of Xintron's basic software, database is listed as one of the 35 necklace technologies together with photolithography, which is as important as chip and is the core support of information system.It connects hardware basic resources and application software, and is a bridge for data storage, calculation and application. The core technology team of "Universal Database" consists of database professors from Peking University and former Oracle database kernel experts.In terms of products, it has constructed an industry-leading new hyper-converged database product, which supports multi-modal heterogeneous data types including spatio temporal data, temporal data and object data. With the advancement of the trend of independent and controllable Xinchuang and the popularity of artificial intelligence applications, the database infrastructure will usher in a broad market space. At present, "Universal Database" has been running stably in dozens of customer units in the fields of banking, insurance, smart cities, and other industries, realising the technological leading edge such as performance enhancement, and a significant reduction in the cost of construction and operation and maintenance.

"Yan Zeng, Founder and CEO of Universal Database, said, "We are grateful for the recognition of Universal Database's technological strength and development prospect by investment institutions such as Rice Venture Capital, Shenzhen Angel Mothers' Fund and Longhua Capital.We will continue to adhere to independent innovation and deepen our core technology to create more secure, stable and efficient database products and provide better services to our customers.We have gathered a group of professionals who are passionate about database technology, they not only have excellent technical skills, but also have the spirit of innovation and teamwork.Such an excellent team has laid a solid foundation for the development of Universal Database."

Investor Wishes

Ai Min, Founder and Chairman of Rice Ventures, said, "Multi-modal hyper-converged database is the core of the underlying layer for the vigorous development of Artificial Intelligence, and we are full of confidence in the development of Universal Database."Universal Database is an innovative and representative enterprise of the new generation of hyper-converged database, and we are optimistic about the team's technical accumulation in database. We believe that with the support of this round of financing, Universal Database will be able to better grasp the market opportunities and achieve rapid business growth, and will shine in the future in the application scenarios such as artificial intelligence, and have the opportunity to become a core of the new round of artificial intelligence development in Shenzhen!"

Introduction to Universal Database

"Universal Database is a leader in the field of hyper-converged databases with excellent product performance.The core technology team consists of database professors from Peking University and former Oracle database kernel experts.It has leading technical advantages in the fields of multimodal data management and vector database for artificial intelligence, etc. The performance of its products is ahead of its peers, and it currently has outstanding performance in comparison tests in real scenarios of all customers, and all customers are tested in comparison.