It was informed that the floral technology manufacturing business Aibida has late make out nearly a hundred million daily round A financing , led by Peakvalley Capital , Suzhou Youruike and other institutions and investors to clothe . Aibida ’s previous investors , Xiaomi Technology and Shunwei Capital , remain the large shareholder . This stave of financing will be used to expand product bases and promote sassy hardware products .
found in Kunming in 2014 , Aibida is a horticultural technology company specialise in the developing of bloom and related saucy computer hardware . In the early days , Aibida provided efflorescence for the B - terminal with the name of “ Flowers and Grass ” , and provided the sound monitor for the alimony of flowers at the C - terminal .
In early 2017 , it was rename “ Aibida ” and establish a Bluetooth smart flowerpot . Its function is similar to that of the intelligent monitor . The sensor of the pot can detect the environment of the plant life , and the user can aggregate the plant life database to maintain flowers .
At the end of this calendar month , Aibida will unloosen a second - generation smart flowerpot . Compared with the first coevals , it can be relate by WiFi , which is more in line with drug user habits . In addition to monitoring , the second - generation wise pot can mechanically water and provide light flowers as they need . As a Xiaomi eco - chain investiture company , the Aibida series of intelligent hardware merchandise have been sell to 170 country around the cosmos with the assistant of Xiaomi Mall .
Since the last account , the ability of Aibida ’s blossom supply has developed rapidly , mainly in four view :
In terms of product plate and electrical capacity , Aibida has constructed 112,000 m2 of smart greenhouses in Kunming and Yinchuan , with a production capacity of 1 million plants per mu and an annual output capacity of 20 million sens .
In terms of planting varieties and technology , mini rose , the independent efflorescence variety of the Aibida is relatively hard to plant . The general growers can only bring forth in the summertime , but the Aibida diversity can be produced all year around .
At the beginning of this year , Aibida began to operate the freshly - thin flower concern . The primary intersection is the Dutch cut bloom rose . At present tense , Aibida has constructed a 2000 - mu develop industrial parking area in Yunnan Malong . Li Lin said that this will be the most important flower production substructure in the next 3 - 5 geezerhood .
The flower provision channel of Aibida is mainly offline . At present tense , Aibida ’s regional partner and distributors have spread all over the country . At the same clock time , Aibida has also cooperated with large retailers such as Walmart , to become the first plant supplier to go into the national Walmart supermarket .
According to Aibida co - father and COO Li Lin , Walmart ’s previous peak suppliers are local and lack big internal cultivator . This is mainly due to the low standardization of the domestic flower industry and the large fluctuation in quality . It is difficult to guarantee the stable all - year - around supply ( consider the quality of the prime and the stability of the variety ) . Therefore , Aibida , with the big - scale of measurement planting and production of A - level quality peak up to 70 % , in term of scale and quality , is more in line with the needs of Walmart ’s national coordinated collection .
On the on-line epithelial duct , Aibida has Xiaomi Mall , Mijia Youpin , Taobao Tmall , Jingdong , and other online - workshop . According to Li Lin , on-line due east - commerce is more a channel to pass on directly with users and thus can react sensitively to the market place . At present , the monthly average GMV(Gross Merchandise Volume ) of Aibida online e - Department of Commerce is more than 2 million RMB .
Source:36kr(Huang Xuejiao )
