Code Moment | "AD+" Announces Completion of Several-Million-Dollar Series A Funding Round, With Existing Shareholder Source Code Capital Following On

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Recently, construction technology solutions company "ZhuoZhuHui" announced the completion of a multi-million dollar Series A funding round, co-led by Poly Capital and Hillhouse, with Source Code Capital and K2VC participating as follow-on investors. Previously, ZhuoZhuHui received a Pre-A round led exclusively by Source Code Capital, as well as an angel round from K2VC, bringing total funding to over ten million dollars.

Founded in Tianjin in 2019, ZhuoZhuHui is dedicated to driving informatization reform in China's construction industry and improving architectural design efficiency. Its intelligent architectural design solution "AD+," built on a fully self-developed graphics engine and structured data design engine for architecture, assists designers with large volumes of repetitive mechanical work without disrupting traditional design workflows — dramatically boosting efficiency. "We want to give architects back their original passion for design," said Wei Wang, founder and CEO of ZhuoZhuHui.

Currently, the mainstream design solution in China's construction industry is Autodesk CAD, an industrial general-purpose tool whose underlying layer is based on discrete data from basic geometric primitives. This makes it difficult to construct application logic specific to construction, let alone enable the development of intelligent architectural design applications — rendering industry informatization and digitalization little more than empty talk.

Meanwhile, in this environment, architects must handle vast amounts of repetitive mechanical work such as matching local design code requirements and drawing basic building components. Because different types of analysis are needed throughout the design process, requiring different software tools, architects find themselves constantly switching between programs, rebuilding models, and transcribing large volumes of drawings — creating significant frustration, severely reducing productivity, and constraining their creative thinking.

"Honestly, I feel pretty hopeless about my work these days. Is creativity supposed to be the core of design? I don't feel it at all — I can't even recognize my own value as an architect," said a senior architect at a well-known domestic design institute.

To address this, ZhuoZhuHui developed "AD+," a vertical, integrated intelligent forward-design solution for the construction industry. Built on a fully self-developed graphics engine and a structured data design engine tailored to architectural practice, it matches actual design needs, workflows, and habits. Based on these purely native underlying engines, "AD+" further constructs a design platform containing thousands of intelligent applications. While greatly improving design efficiency, it also optimizes the entire architectural design process. In short, "AD+" is a fully self-developed, domestically created intelligent forward-design solution covering the complete design workflow.

The fully self-developed graphics engine gives "AD+" complete 2D+3D modeling capabilities. The structured data design engine imbues every graphic element in "AD+" with component meaning adapted to vertical architectural needs. The coordination of these two technologies — combining the expertise of architects and software engineers — creates the necessary conditions for intelligent design applications, forming "AD+"'s technical moat.

Take solar access analysis for above-ground massing schemes: under traditional workflows, architects must perform numerous manual steps with very low efficiency. In "AD+," users simply input relevant parameters, and real-time solar analysis generates results in seconds during the massing process, allowing designers to observe solar conditions live — improving efficiency by hundreds of times while greatly ensuring design quality.

For above-ground massing and underground parking design, traditional workflows require architects to juggle both above- and below-ground work with extremely fine-grained verification. In "AD+," designers can directly select target unit types from a library for above-ground layout with one click, and complete parking arrangement and equipment room placement just as easily — reducing design time by nearly 10x.

China generates enormous demand for architectural design annually, and has produced several companies in this space valued at over 100 billion RMB. By切入 at the source of informatization, ZhuoZhuHui may have the potential to become a leading player in the niche of architectural design informatization. "AD+" has already gained recognition from multiple top-tier design institutes, and will continue exploring and extending downstream into construction and operations based on structured data.

Yi Luo of Source Code Capital commented: "AD+ is not a simple domestic clone of CAD, but a cross-generational innovation built on fundamental logical reconstruction. Compared to CAD-based workflows, AD+ offers practitioners an entirely new intelligent experience and lays groundwork for digitalization and intelligence across the entire industry chain. Source Code has long focused on informatization and technology sectors, and we are particularly bullish on first-principles innovation rooted in China: the team's thinking about the industry is deep and nuanced, and they have the grit to tackle the 'hard bones' of self-developed technology. We very much look forward to the company becoming an important force in the wave of domestic software innovation."

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