Wanze Times kicks off its Series A1 round of financing, foraying into the AI industrial carbon management track.
Against the backdrop of the in-depth advancement of the Dual Carbon strategy and the explosive demand for green transformation in the industrial sector, an enterprise rooted in the AI+industrial Dual Carbon track is accelerating its breakthrough — Wanzera Times, China's leading industrial carbon management and energy-saving solution provider with AI technology as its core. Starting from the real pain points of industrial clients, Wanzera Times has spent nearly eight years developing a three-in-one full-link closed-loop service of "consulting + software + energy conservation", to solve the core problems of carbon management, energy saving and cost reduction for millions of industrial enterprises.
The origin of Wanzera Times' projects comes from the real pain points of industrial clients that its founder Zhang Jianzhong encountered: many large-scale industrial enterprises have strong demands for emission reduction and cost reduction, yet they are faced with fourfold dilemmas including heavy compliance pressure, chaotic data management, high energy-saving renovation costs and shortage of professional talents. Traditional carbon management modes generally have three core problems of broken points in data collection, broken points in consulting services, and broken points in energy conservation monetization — 90% of enterprises rely on manual Excel filling in of carbon emission data, with an error rate of over 15%, static consulting reports cannot keep up with changes in production processes, energy conservation benefits are disconnected from carbon emission reduction, the "two separate systems" problem is prominent, and enterprises are generally trapped in the awkward situation of "unable to calculate, unable to calculate accurately, wanting to renovate but dare not, having the intention but lacking the ability". Precisely to solve this common industry pain point, Zhang Jianzhong, who has been deeply engaged in the energy and enterprise service fields for more than 20 years, led the team to officially establish Wanzera Times in 2019, targeting the AI industrial carbon management and energy conservation track. During the entrepreneurship process, the core difficulty for the team lies in how to deeply integrate AI technology with the industry know-how in the industrial Dual Carbon field. It is necessary to not only overcome the technical difficulty of automatic collection and accounting of full-caliber carbon emission data, but also open up the entire business closed loop from consulting to implementation. Relying on the compound background of the core team in the fields of energy services, AI R&D, engineering implementation and other fields, Wanzera Times has gradually completed the key leap of technology R&D and business implementation. It has now grown into a national high-tech enterprise and a "specialized, refined, differential and innovative" enterprise recognized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, holding 5 invention patents and 30 software copyrights. With its headquarters in Beijing, it has built R&D centers in Xi'an and energy conservation centers in Taiyuan, and completed regional layout in Jinan, Chengdu, Wuhan and Guangzhou. Its core team covers the full chain of energy Dual Carbon consulting, AI R&D, and energy-saving engineering implementation, building an irreproducible competitive barrier.
In terms of technology, the core innovation of Wanzera Times lies in its self-developed SmartEnergy AI Agent industrial carbon management AI system, which builds a multi-level agent architecture covering six core modules: data management, accounting engine, business management, compliance performance, intelligent decision-making and supply chain collaboration. Relying on the RAG knowledge base and the driving engine that integrates data flow, energy flow, carbon flow and value flow, it realizes full-link automation from task decomposition to execution and implementation. Targeting the core demands of carbon management, the carbon check-up AI Agent launched by Wanzera Times can act like a "corporate carbon health doctor", completing five core functions: accurate verification of carbon emission data, equipment energy efficiency evaluation and optimization, root cause analysis of potential risk warning, carbon emission reduction potential assessment, and carbon market risk prediction. The AI carbon footprint quantification model can realize accurate accounting of full-caliber and full-process carbon emissions, solving the industry pain point of difficult Scope 3 supply chain carbon emission accounting. For core industrial energy consumption scenarios, the AI-enabled energy-saving solutions for refrigeration stations, air compressor stations and industrial circulating water can achieve comprehensive energy saving rates of 10%-25%, 15%-30% and 10%-20% respectively, which are far higher than the benefit level of traditional renovation solutions. Meanwhile, Wanzera Times has also launched the integrated energy and carbon management machine, which covers multiple scenarios from individual enterprises to large and medium-sized enterprise groups. Its out-of-the-box use greatly shortens the launch cycle of business systems, helping clients quickly implement Dual Carbon management demands.
From the market perspective, with the continuous expansion of the national unified carbon market, it will gradually cover multiple high energy-consuming industries such as petrochemical, chemical, building materials, non-ferrous metals, paper making and aviation before 2027. Coupled with the upgrading of ESG disclosure requirements and external constraints such as CBAM carbon tariff, the industrial carbon management and energy-saving service market has entered a period of rapid growth. According to industry forecasts, the scale of China's industrial carbon management market will exceed 1 trillion yuan by 2028, with a compound annual growth rate of 18.5%. The potential service groups cover more than 3,300 enterprises that are mandatorily included in carbon trading, more than 10,000 enterprises that need to disclose carbon emissions, and over 10 million industrial enterprises with energy-saving demands. A hundred-billion-yuan blue ocean market has taken shape. Wanzera Times has created an original business closed loop of "acquiring clients through consulting, implementing via software, and realizing value-added through energy conservation". It builds trust through consulting engagement, solidifies customized solutions into standardized software to realize normalized services, and then taps into energy-saving renovation demands based on accumulated data to achieve value appreciation, which can increase the customer life cycle value by more than 3 times. Compared with traditional enterprises that only provide single consulting, single software or energy-saving engineering services, it has significant collaborative advantages.
At present, Wanzera Times has served a number of industrial clients including Daqing Oilfield, Xinxing Ductile Iron Pipes, Shandong Iron and Steel Group, Yulin Energy Group and many others. According to feedback from early cooperative clients, after accessing Wanzera Times' AI carbon management platform, the statistical efficiency of carbon emission data has been improved from the original manual monthly statistics to real-time automatic collection, the error rate has been reduced from over 15% to less than 2%, the comprehensive energy consumption after the renovation of the air compressor station has decreased by more than 20%, saving nearly one million yuan in power costs every year, which not only meets the carbon compliance requirements, but also brings tangible cost reduction benefits.
Regarding the entrepreneurial journey, Zhang Jianzhong, CEO of Wanzera Times, said that Dual Carbon is not a policy concept, but a real compliance demand and cost reduction opportunity for industrial enterprises. From solving the pain point of one client to serving the demands of the whole industry, the team always believes that only by implementing AI technology into the specific scenarios of industrial production can we truly create value for clients, which is also the direction that Wanzera Times has been adhering to. At present, Wanzera Times is launching the A1 round of financing plan. The raised funds will be mainly used for the R&D and iteration of AI energy-carbon models and AI energy-saving models, as well as the expansion of the East China and South China regional markets and the construction of the core team. In the future, Wanzera Times will continue to deeply engage in the AI industrial carbon management and energy conservation track, continuously polish its technology and service capabilities, help more industrial enterprises complete green transformation, and jointly promote the implementation of the national Dual Carbon strategic goals.