BV Family丨"Shenshi Technology" has completed three rounds of financing in one year and used "AI + molecular simulation" to solve micro-scale industrial design problems

       

         On August 5, 2021, Shenshi Technology announced the completion of tens of millions of US dollars in Series A financing. This round of financing comes from Hillhouse Capital, Jingwei Venture Capital, and Baitu Biotech. Prior to this, Shenshi Technology has completed the Pre-A round of financing invested by Yuanjing Capital and Qingliu Capital, and completed the angel round financing invested by BV Baidu Ventures, Weihun Capital and Shengjing Jiacheng in July 2020. The important value of artificial intelligence technology in the field of solving micro-physical problems and the wide application space, as well as the "AI + molecular simulation" technology of Shenshi Technology, which leads the industry, are the reasons why Shenshi Technology has been continuously recognized by capital in a short period of time. 

         BV Baidu Ventures supported Shenzhen Tech's angel round of financing in 2020. 

         On August 5, 2021, Shenshi announced the completion of tens of millions of US dollars in Series A financing, which was led by Hillhouse Ventures, and followed by Matrix China and Baitu Shengke. This was also the third round of financing of Shenshi in one year. Prior to this, Shenshi Technology has completed the Pre-A round of financing led by Yuanjing Capital and co-invested by Qingliu Capital. In July 2020, it completed the lead investment by Baidu Ventures, and the following angel round of financing by Weihun Capital and Shengjing Jiacheng. The important value of artificial intelligence technology in the field of solving micro-physical problems and the wide application space, as well as the "AI + molecular simulation" technology of Shenshi Technology, which leads the industry, are the reasons why Shenshi Technology has been continuously recognized by capital in a short period of time. 

        Founded in 2019, Shenshi Technology was committed to using artificial intelligence and molecular simulation algorithms to create a new generation of infrastructure for the most basic life, energy, material science and engineering research of human civilization, and to provide R&D personnel with intelligent systems for micro-world computing and design. Molecular simulation has a large number of applications in drug design, material design and property prediction. The revolutionary "multi-scale modeling + machine learning + high-performance computing" new paradigm pioneered by Shenshi Technology has achieved a breakthrough in the unification of accuracy and efficiency in multi-scale molecular simulation, bringing great breakthroughs in the fields of drugs and materials Calculation simulation and design tools. At present, Shenshi Technology has implemented innovative products and solutions in the fields of drug design and material design, and has established in-depth cooperation with many leading companies in the field of medicine and materials. Sun Weijie, the co-founder and CEO of Shenshi Technology, said, "The new generation of molecular simulation technology has brought systemic changes and reshaping opportunities for the micro-scale industrial design industry. From a physical perspective, we re-examine industry issues at the electronic and atomic scales, making many new opportunities and possibilities found." 

       Shenshi Technology originated from academia. The founder and chief scientist Zhang Linfeng graduated from Yuanpei College of Peking University and received a Ph.D. from the Department of Applied Mathematics at Princeton University. His main research directions include statistical physics, molecular simulation and machine learning, as well as in chemistry, Applications in biology and materials. By combining machine learning, multi-scale modeling methods, and high-performance computing, he effectively solved a series of key problems in computational chemistry, molecular dynamics simulation, etc., and developed open source software such as DeePMD-kit and DeepModeling open source community with collaborators. , As a core developer, he won the 2020 ACM Gordon Bell Award, the highest award in the field of high-performance computing. Related work was also selected as the top ten scientific and technological progress in China in 2020 selected by the academicians of the two academies, and the top ten scientific and technological progress in artificial intelligence in the world selected by the Zhiyuan Research Institute in 2020. The other founder and CEO Sun Weijie also graduated from Yuanpei College of Peking University, and then went on to study at Peking University and obtained a master's degree in management. He has rich experience in analysis and investment in the fields of technology, education, and corporate services. At present, Shenshi Technology has gathered "scientists group" from many world-class universities, top scientific research institutions and industry-leading companies, focusing on creating a micro-scale based on the paradigm of "multi-scale modeling + machine learning + high-performance computing" Industrial design platform. 

        Micro-scale industrial design refers to industrial design with specific physical and chemical properties through component and structural design at the electronic, atomic, and molecular scales. For example, the essential requirement of many microscopic properties prediction is to accurately solve the interaction between atoms, and the key physical quantity describing the interaction between atoms is the potential energy surface between atoms. In this regard, people have long faced a dilemma that precision and efficiency cannot have both: methods based on empirical standpoints are fast but not accurate, and methods based on quantum mechanics are not fast and accurate. Moreover, although the traditional quantum mechanics model has high simulation accuracy, it will fall into a "dimension disaster" as the scale of simulation increases exponentially. It can only model tens to hundreds of atomic systems, which is difficult to support research on drugs and materials. The simulation of tens of thousands or even millions of atomic scale systems is required. The revolutionary "multi-scale modeling + machine learning + high-performance computing" new paradigm pioneered by Deep Power Technology has achieved a breakthrough in the unification of accuracy and efficiency in multi-scale molecular simulations. The most representative DeePMD method maintains quantum mechanics, on the basis of accuracy, speeds up the calculation speed of molecular dynamics by at least five orders of magnitude, and the demand for computing power is linearly dependent on the number of atoms in the system. To put it simply, compared with traditional quantum mechanics calculation tools, under the premise of the same accuracy, the efficiency of solving physical equations is greatly improved, thereby greatly expanding the ability of humans to use computers to simulate the objective physical world. Relying on this important breakthrough, the core members of Shenshi won the "Nobel Prize in Computing Application Field" and the "Gordon Bell Award", the highest award in the international high-performance computing application field, in November 2020. The American Computer Association ACM's evaluation of the research results is: "Molecular dynamics simulation based on deep learning brings accurate physical modeling into larger-scale material simulation through machine learning and massively parallel methods. In the future, it will play a greater role in solving practical problems (such as the development of macromolecular drugs) in the fields of mechanics, chemistry, materials, biology and even engineering." 

         Focusing on leading molecular simulation methods, Shenshi Technology will also continue to promote the construction of the DeepModeling open source community, and promote the development of global scientific computing with an open and inclusive environment. Since its release more than two years, the open source software in the DeepModeling community has been used by nearly a thousand research groups at home and abroad, covering many fields such as physics, chemistry, materials, biology, and geology. In the field of material simulation, high-performance alloy materials, lithium battery electrolyte materials, semiconductor materials and other application directions have been explored, and a number of valuable academic results have emerged, which have been published in top international academic journals such as Science. 

        With a new generation of molecular simulation technology as the cornerstone, Shenshi has built multiple sets of products and services in the fields of drug design and material design, supporting the entire chain from bottom-level innovation to industrial landing. The Lebesgue scientific computing platform launched by Shenshi Technology, based on the SCaaS (Scientific Computing as a Service, scientific computing as a service) model, can provide users with "one-stop flexible cloud computing power and in-depth application optimization" services, creating a more cost-effective Computing power services. For drug design, the Hermite drug design software SaaS platform of Shenshi Technology integrates self-developed new drug design solutions and many excellent drug design tools in the industry. It also provides drug design pipeline services for pharmaceutical companies. In the field of material design, the DP material design platform of Shenshi Technology has initially realized the solution of material structure search, component search and other solutions, and will be committed to the rational design of new materials for a long time.

       "AI+Molecular Simulation" is hailed as the next disruptive application scenario of artificial intelligence technology after the track of computer vision, speech and natural language processing. Relying on the new generation of molecular simulation technology, the great breakthrough that Shwnshi brings to the micro-scale industrial design will lead to disruptive innovations in the fields of life sciences and materials science. At present, Shenshi Technology has worked hand in hand with many top customers in the field of medicine and materials to jointly solve more world-class propositions. After the completion of this financing, Shenshi Technology will continue to strengthen its own strength and business layout, and gradually become a "technology company originating from China and influencing the world", building a solid ladder and bridge for human society to enter a new stage of development.