Financing Release ｜ Vland Cloud obtained tens of millions of yuan of financing from Sequoia Shun on the spot to create a social interactive cloud platform of ＂Virtual Space as a Service＂

Source: Sequoia Capital

nearOn, Vland.live announced that it had completed tens of millions of angel round and Pre-A round of financing in half a year, with the angel round led by Shunwei Capital and the Pre-A round led by Sequoia China.

Vland Cloud Scene is a company that integrates real-time audio and video technology and gamification scene generation technology to create.Virtual Space as a Service, VSaaS)Social interactive cloud platform based on. This round of financing will be used for further iterative product update and team upgrade and expansion.

Different from the current C-oriented social products in the domestic market, Vland Cloud creates a virtual space as a service track on the spot, providing all walks of life with the ability to build a virtual space and helping the real economy and the real society and the virtual world to integrate.

Through the creative engine developed by Vland Cloud, everyone can build personalized virtual scenes online (such as community activities, business socialization, industry summits, offices, etc.) and invite others to participate in social activities.

Since the outbreak, every industry has been affected to varying degrees, and even undergone fundamental changes. Online remote interaction and virtual social interaction have become the new normal. However, the high technical threshold of audio-video interaction and the ability to build gamification scenes has prevented most non-Internet and non-game industries from rushing to the digital world. An innovation is ready to go. How to make everyone break through the limitations of technical, geographical and economic conditions and participate in virtual online experience equally is a topic that Vland cloud site has always wanted to solve.

Vland CEO Jin Qiuyuan said, "The initial intention of our business is to connect people, to create an inclusive virtual space technology platform, so that the threshold for participating in and building a virtual world is greatly reduced, so that the general public and all walks of life can gain more sense of participation and experience in the new generation of digital world, and the connection and interaction of each individual, company and organization can also create more value."

Using Vland cloud to build online virtual space can not only save the venue cost for organizers, provide real social experience for participants, but also empower space builders to quickly create "surreal scenes" (such as building an office into a castle and holding a press conference in a space capsule).

The freedom of constructing "surreal scene" strengthens the "gamification attribute" of Vland cloud scene, making the product have the advantages of immersive social games and online video conferencing, which has become one of the core competitiveness of the product.

Vland CTO Xu Jianglu said, "People can’ socialize’ in the virtual space. With Vland, as long as you have a brain hole, you can create a virtual scene in 5 minutes and invite friends to access it for 1 second. Future technologies will also bring revolutionary innovations, such as automatically generating visual content with AIGC technology, and the threshold for building virtual space will be lower."

During the internal test, Vland Cloud has served many enterprises and organizations to successfully hold virtual space social activities-Yale Chinese Venture Capital Club has set up a digital version of the club and held a venture capital sharing meeting; The Pinwan Science and Technology Innovator Conference set up a space capsule in Vland to open a new mode of interactive live broadcast; Partners in Shanghai Community of 706 Youth Space built Vland virtual living room, immersed in searching for puzzles hidden in the living room.

"Vland is a zero-code platform, and you can easily get started without knowing technology. This gives us a space to explore the Product-Led Growth. Each Vland cloud field user is both a virtual space builder and a participant; They are all co-founders of Vland, helping products to iterate and spread quickly.Vland COO Yu Cenning said.

Virtual and reality, online and offline, games and social interaction, all boundaries are being broken, re-integrated and new definitions are born. Vland cloud site regards itself as the infrastructure of virtual world, so that everyone can create the ideal virtual world like having fun.

It is understood that Vland Cloud was founded in May 2021, and the founding team came from the world’s top universities such as Yale, Cornell and Tsinghua, and famous enterprises such as Byte, Ali, Tantan, Bain and Morgan Stanley. The team has a number of virtual reality and computer vision technologies, and invites more partners to join in to create a future where the virtual world and the real society are intertwined.

Li Guangping, Vice President of Sequoia China

"Vland’s model has the characteristics of Zoom and Roblox. It not only has real-time audio and video and the underlying module of collaborative office, but also brings more’ unstructured interaction’ ways due to the introduction of space sense, which greatly increases the interest and immersion. At the same time, the open architecture also makes UGC possible, which has great imagination and meets our expectations for verse. The business model of’ virtual space as a service’ requires a lot of capabilities. The experience and capabilities of Vland’s three co-creation are just complementary and match this model, forming a competitive combination. "

Feng Zheng, Vice President of Shunwei Capital　

"Vland uses the engine as the foundation, and combines AI and audio and video technologies to build a brand-new virtual activity form different from video conferencing, which better conveys the existence of physical space, and can gradually expand to richer virtual interaction forms and even VR devices in the future. It can be said that this is one of the best ways to explore the virtual world experience from the beginning. Vland starts with the demand of conference activities, which helps to improve the organizational efficiency of offline activities and lower the participation threshold of users. It is also a model for virtual technology to empower offline economy and improve the efficiency of social operation. The CEO of Vland is an alumnus of Yale. I have known each other for many years. Several co-founders not only have excellent backgrounds, but also have social, game and SaaS backgrounds, which is a very matching and excellent team combination to accomplish this mission. "