Heiyi Technology Completes First Round of Strategic Financing to Accelerate the Integration of Spatial Intelligence and the Education Industry

36Kr learned that Black Ant Technology (Wuxi Black Ant Information Technology Co., Ltd.), a provider of spatial intelligence technology and application services, recently announced the completion of its first - round strategic financing. The investor is Shanghai Maiwei Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Maiwei Group. The funds from this round of financing will be used for technology R & D, product iteration, and market expansion to accelerate its in - depth integration in the fields of education technology and spatial intelligence and support the construction of industrial digital infrastructure.

Black Ant Technology focuses on the field of new - generation information technology, with digital twin technology at its core. It creates an intelligent service platform that integrates virtual reality, the Internet of Things, big data, and artificial intelligence. Its product, the "BlackAnt Clouds Digital Twin Platform", is designed for scenarios such as schools, factories, and industrial parks. By constructing mirrored and digital twin spaces, it breaks through the limitations of physical resources and time - space, and provides capabilities for optimizing operational decisions and integrating resources.

Xie Hui, the founder of Black Ant Technology, has more than a decade of experience in animation and game development. He once worked at the Hollywood (China) Digital Art R & D Center and led the development of multiple virtual reality projects. His cross - border background in art design and technology implementation provides professional guarantees for the visual effects and interaction logic of digital twin scenarios. Zhuang Guoyuan, the co - founder, was once the technical director of the listed company Great Wall Animation. He is responsible for building the underlying architecture of the BlackAnt Clouds platform. His experience in film special effects and computer interaction development enhances the functionality of the system.

In the fields of digital twin and industrial digitization, the process of upgrading traditional infrastructure to intelligence faces challenges such as data silos and low technology integration. Spatial intelligence technology is becoming a key tool to break through physical boundaries. Current leading companies in the industry, such as 51World and UINO Technology, have formed a certain market influence. Among them, 51World recently launched the IPO process on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, indicating the high - speed development trend of the industry. The differential advantage of Black Ant Technology lies in its dual - engine driving model of "education technology + spatial intelligence". Combining the resource integration ability in education scenarios, it attempts to build industry barriers through the integration of technology and scenarios. Black Ant Technology creates customized solutions for industry customers based on digital twin technology, achieving real - time mapping between physical and virtual spaces through 3D modeling, data simulation, and intelligent interaction. Its technological advantages are reflected in the in - depth development ability of cross - industry vertical scenarios, such as the digital twin factory project selected as an innovative leading application case by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the digital twin campus solution short - listed in the list of smart education suppliers. Currently, the company has been included in the panoramic map of the metaverse ecosystem of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and joined the NVIDIA Startup Accelerator Program, and its technological strength has been recognized by industry authorities. However, as a startup, it still needs to make breakthroughs in large - scale implementation cases and a mature ecosystem.

This strategic investment by Maiwei Group is the first publicly disclosed financing event for Black Ant Technology. Founder Xie Hui said, "Spatial intelligence technology is the underlying foundation for the digital transformation of the real - world industry. We hope to reconstruct the operational logic of traditional industries through the in - depth coupling of technology and scenarios." As the leader of the enterprise, Xie Hui's cross - field resource integration ability and the team's technical background provide basic support for promoting the digitization of vertical scenarios such as education and manufacturing.

Maiwei Group said that the key considerations for its investment are Black Ant Technology's ability to quickly implement in vertical scenarios and the adaptability of its core technology. With policies such as the "Overall Layout Plan for Digital China Construction" accelerating the industrial digital transformation, the market scale of digital twin in fields such as smart cities, smart industries, and smart campuses is expected to exceed 100 billion yuan. By focusing on small and medium - sized scenarios, Black Ant Technology can achieve lower - cost trial - and - error and more frequent iterations. In the future, it may form a unique ecological niche of "technology penetration" in niche markets.

With the policy promotion of new infrastructure construction and the surging demand for industrial digitization, the market scale of digital twin technology continues to expand. Black Ant Technology uses niche scenarios as an entry point to build a differential path through technology integration and ecological cooperation. Whether it can break through in the competitive landscape of leading companies depends on its product standardization ability and the speed of in - depth industry expansion. In the future, the intersection of education technology and industrial digitization may become the key battlefield for it to break the deadlock.