It is reported that ByteDance has acquired Heipaiyun, several independent sources said that Heipaiyun team has been acquired by ByteDance, founder Chen Jinzhou and some team members have joined Shu Fei to take charge of Kunlun, the product of aPaaS, and it is also reported that ByteDance has acquired Heipaiyun.
It is said that ByteDance has already purchased "Black Card Cloud"1March 2 1. The original low-code manufacturer Heipaiyun announced that it would stop service at the end of May. According to insiders, its founder, Chen Jinzhou, will join ByteDance, and the team has been dissolved.
According to the official website message of Heipaiyun, its existing users can export data before May 3, 20221; Customers whose subscriptions have not expired before March 3 1 can apply for a refund before April 8, or move their business to other low-code manufacturers. Black Cloud officially recommends Ming Dow Cloud, Flying Book Multidimensional Table, Optical Flow, Simple Lu Yun, Easy Whale Cloud and Vig Table.
Starting from 0: 00 June 1 year, Black payun will delete all data including business data, attachments and comments, shut down all servers, and users will not be able to access any related services or data.
For the above-mentioned insiders, Interface News tried to contact Chen Jinzhou and ByteDance for verification, but never got a response.
Black cloud was founded on 20 19, which is a low-code product in the form of collaboration. The company is located in Wuhan.
Its founder Chen Jinzhou once founded another online form tool "Golden Data", and 20 15 was wholly acquired by AdMaster. According to public information, Chen Jinzhou once served as product director and chief consultant of ThoughtWorks, an international IT consulting company, and Golden Data was an internal incubation project of ThoughtWorks. Prior to this, he worked in Beijing Jushi Space Technology Co., Ltd. and China Agricultural Bank.
According to informed sources, the original black cloud team was basically dissolved. "The top management has almost left, and the production R&D team has long been' divided' by peers, and it was booked before leaving the company."
According to 36Kr's report today, after joining ByteDance, Chen Jinzhou will be in charge of aPaaS product "Kunlun", which is mainly aimed at big customers and has a higher rank, and will report directly to Xie Xin, CEO of Shu Fei.
Black and white clouds are closely related to ByteDance. In July, 20021year, Heipaiyun received tens of millions of yuan in Series A financing from ByteDance, which is also its latest round of financing. From July 2065438 to the present, Heipaiyun * * * has received four rounds of financing, including Seed Round, Angel Round, pre-A Round and A Round. Employers include Yingdong Capital, Chuxin Capital and ByteDance. However, at the beginning of 2022, ByteDance related capital withdrew from Heipaiyun's shareholding structure.
Some people in the investment circle told the Interfax news agency that at the end of last year, there were rumors in the industry that ByteDance would buy Black Card Cloud. Due to the momentum of the low-code track where Heipaiyun is located, many people in the industry believe that because of the poor performance of Heipaiyun, the employer chose to withdraw from the equity restructuring and will make an acquisition in the next step.
According to people familiar with the matter, Heipaiyun currently has about 200 paying customers, who can choose to refund or transfer their business to Ming Dow Cloud and other similar products.
Last year, the field of low code was one of the few hot spots in science and technology. Venture financing fever lasts from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. In the first ten days of March last year alone, there were five large-scale financing events in the low-code field. In contrast, during the three years from 2018 to 2020, there were only 16 investment and financing events in the low code field. Well-known companies such as partners Cloud, Optical Flow, clickpass, and Moore Number have successively obtained multiple rounds of holdings of head VC.
Under the enthusiasm of capital, the level gap of low-code companies that advocate "Lego bricks" is actually not big. Comparatively speaking, Heipai Cloud imitates the table function of Airtable before 20 18 to some extent, and the industry space is getting smaller and smaller in the face of cloud table giants such as Tencent documents, graphite documents, nail documents and flying books.
The new vendor partners cloud, Lightstream, Kendo Cloud and Ming Dow Cloud follow the example of American industry benchmark Airtable after 20 18. At present, they are more complete and competitive.
Now the end of the black cloud also marks the beginning of the elimination stage in the low code field.
ByteDance has purchased "Black Payment Cloud" 2. Today, the codeless manufacturer "Black Paycloud" announced that it would stop its service and maintenance. Users can export data before May 3, 20221. Customers whose subscriptions have not expired can apply for a refund or move their business to their partner Ming Dow Cloud Platform.
According to 36Kr report, several independent sources said that Heipaiyun team has been acquired by ByteDance, and its founder Chen Jinzhou and some team members have joined Shu Fei to take charge of the aPaaS product "Kunlun", which will be mainly aimed at large customers.
According to Tianyancha App, Chengdu Heipaiyun Company was established in April 2065438+2009, and its legal representative is Chen Jinzhou. It is a data collaborative management platform, which has obtained tens of millions of A-round financing in ByteDance.
At present, the company has three shareholders. The largest shareholder is Chen Jinzhou, holding 56.44643%. Shareholders also include Wuhan Maotong Technology Partnership.
Chengdu Heipaiyun Information Technology Co., Ltd. was founded on 20 19, and its founder Chen Jinzhou is the founder of online form design and data collection tool Golden Data. 2065438+09 June 5438+00 Heipaiyun was officially launched for internal testing. Up to now, tens of thousands of enterprise users have been provided with data collaborative management products and services, which support business personnel to get rid of outdated and rigid fixed software, liberate productivity and improve the digital level of enterprises.
The positioning of Heipai Cloud is an enterprise business information system, but the entrance is embodied in the form of a table. Business executives can use black cloud to establish an information system consistent with their own business and flexibly set data dimensions, fields, logic, etc. With kanban, tables and other systems, enterprises can find matching presentation methods for data.
At present, Heipaiyun is in a state of natural growth in its business. At present, there are tens of thousands of users, and the annual fee for a single account is around 240-480 yuan. In terms of customer stickiness, the frequency of paying users has reached 4 days a week. In addition, Heipaiyun also has preliminary commercial exploration such as project consultation.
"Benchmarking the US market, such as Smartsheet, has about 70,000 paying customers, but it has propped up a market value of 654.38+000 billion US dollars. China's small and medium-sized enterprise customers are rapidly maturing, and the future customer value will continue to increase. Heipaiyun is very optimistic about the future SME service market. " Chen Jinzhou said.
"For the future development, with the maturity of the market, SMEs will be a very broad market. Heipaiyun hopes to focus on making simple and easy-to-use products and serve a large number of' corporate customers' at a lower service cost. "
ByteDance has bought Black Cloud 3. Today, black cloud, a codeless manufacturer, announced that it would stop service and maintenance. As for the company's follow-up progress, several independent sources told 36Kr that the Heipaiyun team had been acquired by ByteDance, and the founder Chen Jinzhou and some team members had joined Shu Fei to take charge of the aPaaS product "Kunlun", which will be mainly aimed at large customers.
"Chen Jinzhou has a high level and reports directly to Xie Xin," many insiders in Shu Fei told 36Kr. Xie Xin is the vice president of ByteDance, in charge of the flying book business.
36Kr asked ByteDance and Chen Jinzhou for verification about the acquisition, but as of press time, no reply has been received.
In the announcement of Heipaiyun today, its team said that users can export data before May 3, 20221. Customers whose subscription has not expired can apply for a refund or migrate their business to the partner "Ming Dow Cloud" platform.
Heipaiyun was founded on 20 19, and its founder Chen Jinzhou is a serial entrepreneur. Prior to this, he founded Golden Data to locate online form design and data collection tools. Golden data 20 15 was wholly acquired by AdMaster.
The change of black cloud has been foreshadowed. In July, 20021year, Heipaiyun announced that it had obtained tens of millions of yuan in Series A financing from ByteDance. At the beginning of this year, industrial and commercial information showed that the original shareholder Wuhan Quanying Technology Partnership (Limited Partnership) and ByteDance subsidiary Beijing Quantum Yuedong Technology Co., Ltd. withdrew from the equity structure of Dark Beer Cloud.
A related person told 36Kr that the acquisition was promoted by the business team in Shu Fei, and similar products such as multidimensional watches have been listed in Shu Fei. After discussion, * * * decided to stop the related business of Heipaiyun.
The domestic low/no-code investment boom is concentrated after 20 19, and manufacturers such as Kendo Cloud, Tritium Cloud, Light Stream and Easy Whale Cloud have all obtained a lot of financing in recent years. Manufacturers are generally divided into two routes, one is to take the big customer market and focus on the project system; The second is to aim at the small and medium-sized enterprise market and take the product route. Black clouds prefer the latter.
The collapse of Heipaiyun also illustrates the difficulty of low/no yard+small and medium-sized customer market. An industry insider told 36Kr that Heipaiyun's team pays attention to production and research, and the production and research team is very capable, but the commercialization of products has not kept up for the time being, and it is aimed at the small and medium-sized customer market, which is the key reason why the company is unsustainable.
But in fact, not only the black cloud, but also the once hot "low/no code" outlets, the commercialization of such manufacturers is now experiencing a difficult climbing period. .
For a long time, the voice of low-code "new wine in old bottles" and whether it can really be commercialized is endless. Although the development threshold is lowered, IT is difficult to popularize low-code to customers in the form of pure production-for users without IT foundation, low-code still needs certain services from manufacturers; And professional IT personnel are more inclined to develop by themselves.
On the other hand, compared with the European and American markets, the informatization level of domestic customers is still in the primary stage, and the low/no-code products are more difficult in customer orientation. Low-code products, whether product development or implementation, are system-level projects with higher requirements for talents.
Therefore, at the commercialization level, it will be more difficult to be a small and medium-sized customer in the low-code field. For startups, capital and talents are expensive. For emerging products such as low/no-code products, the cost of education is particularly high.
Another variable is the entry of Internet giants.
Around 2020, big manufacturers such as Ali and Tencent began to enter low yards, which accelerated the shuffling of the track. At the beginning of 20021,Alibaba Cloud connected the internal low-code development platform "Yiya", and Tencent also launched a "micro-construction" low-code development platform; By 202 1, 10, 8 mainstream low-code manufacturers had joined the nail-nailed low-code aggregation platform, and * * * announced the establishment of a low-code alliance.
An industry insider told 36Kr that the closure of Black payun partially falsified the growth route of small and medium-sized customers and PLG in the low-code field. At this stage, it is difficult to directly benchmark Airtable, opinion and other products in China, and there is still a long way to go in the low-code field.
The sharp increase in investment enthusiasm and the entry of large factories can accelerate the development of the industry. But in the face of an extremely early market, it is more important for startups to find the target market as soon as possible.