5Y News | 5Y Capital Portfolio Company "UHuila" Closes Nearly RMB 100 Million Series C+ Round
Solidify its leading position in AI-powered intelligent decision-making.
Recently, UHAlean — a leading Chinese AI-powered intelligent decision-making technology company — announced the completion of a nearly RMB 100 million Series C+ funding round, led by SAIC Hengxu Capital.
The new funding will be used to strengthen UHAlean's technical advantages in operations research and optimization, recruit top industry talent, continue deepening its focus on this vertical domain, and further refine its algorithms, products, and service systems — with particular emphasis on innovation and advancement in its intelligent supply chain planning and scheduling optimization platform. The company aims to further extend its technical leadership and accelerate the commercialization of its intelligent decision-making solutions.
At its core, intelligent decision-making is about optimizing the quality and speed of decisions. In recent years, global trends in this field have shown a marked shift toward data-driven strategies. Fangfang Xiao, Chairman and CEO of UHAlean, stated: "The massive volumes of data that enterprises have accumulated represent a new competitive weapon. The importance of activating and leveraging this data effectively is growing by the day. UHAlean has always focused on driving the adoption of AI-powered intelligent decision-making in China through massive data, with technological innovation and customer needs as our core drivers, building solutions that address our clients' complex planning challenges across diverse scenarios."
Dr. Xiao studied under Ellis Johnson, a winner of the John von Neumann Theory Prize — the highest honor in operations research. UHAlean's core team hails from leading institutions and companies including Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Georgia Tech, Intel, Dassault, and IBM, bringing together expertise in AI algorithms, technology development, and commercial execution.
From the struggles of a startup to becoming an industry leader, UHAlean's journey reflects continuous exploration and breakthroughs in intelligent decision-making technology. The company's flagship product — an integrated intelligent supply chain planning and scheduling optimization platform — was born out of solving long-standing supply chain management and production decision-making challenges in manufacturing. By combining operations research, reinforcement learning, and big data analytics, the platform improves planning accuracy, accelerates delivery speed, and maximizes capacity utilization. It fills a market gap, offering clients unprecedented efficiency gains and cost reductions. From 2019 to the present, the company's business in intelligent supply chain planning for manufacturing has grown at least twofold annually. In the first half of 2023, 90% of orders for UHAlean's intelligent supply chain planning products came from repeat purchases by existing clients — demonstrating strong real-world results that have attracted increasing interest from investors.
UHAlean "Integrated Intelligent Supply Chain Planning and Scheduling Optimization Platform" Product Architecture Diagram
In recent years, the global economy has faced multifaceted challenges and changes. From the post-pandemic recovery in 2021 to global supply chain disruptions in 2022, the lingering effects of COVID-19 increased supply chain uncertainty and accelerated demand growth for intelligent decision-making systems among manufacturing enterprises. The intelligent decision-making sector has shown a steep upward trajectory, particularly in improving operational efficiency, responding to market changes, and driving digital transformation. Against this backdrop, UHAlean's products and future growth potential have won broad recognition from industry professionals and investors.
Whether in fundamental technology R&D or market demand, both intelligent decision-making technology and integrated supply chain collaboration are in a steadily ascending bright period. At this stage, intelligent supply chain planning supported by self-developed algorithm platforms holds even greater imaginative potential.
Today, UHAlean's products and services hold a leading position in China. On the technology front, UHAlean has been named twice in Gartner reports, recognized as a benchmark intelligent decision-making service provider and a representative vendor in China's AI software market. On the market front, according to IDC's "China Supply Chain Planning and APS Solution Market Share" report, UHAlean ranks first among domestic suppliers and third among global suppliers.
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