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Cardinal Operations

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Provides intelligent decision-making services for organizational growth

Dongcheng District, ChinaFounded 2016AI

Valuation $250–500M Last recorded · 2023

Total funding $100–500M Disclosed equity funding

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About Cardinal Operations

Shanshu.ai, developed by Cardinal Operations, specializes in providing advanced mathematical optimization solutions for large-scale problems. The company serves a diverse range of clients including academic researchers, business analysts, data scientists, IT engineers, and OR algorithm engineers. Operating in sectors such as aviation, education, energy, financial services, government, healthcare, insurance, logistics, transportation, manufacturing, media, entertainment, retail, software, and telecommunications, Shanshu.ai leverages its proprietary Cardinal Optimizer (COPT) to deliver linear, integer, and nonlinear optimization solutions. The business model revolves around offering high-performance solvers that implement the Simplex algorithm and support all major operating systems including Windows, Linux, and MacOS. The optimizer is accessible through various interfaces such as Python, PuLP, Pyomo, C, C++, Java, AMPL, and GAMS, and also supports the ARM64 platform. Revenue is generated through licensing fees for the COPT software, which includes a 180-day free trial for evaluation purposes.

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At a glance

Status: Operational
Founded: 2016
Headquarters: Dongcheng District, China
Open positions: None listed
Dealroom signal: 22.0/100
Industry: Enterprise Software
Sector: AI, Hard Tech
Technology: Artificial Intelligence
Business model: SaaS
Client focus: b2b
Links: Website

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Funding history

5 recorded events

Company financing events and reported valuations.

Deal type	Date	Amount	Valuation	Investors	Source
SERIES COther financing	Mar 2023	$69M	$275M	Yuexiu Industrial Fund · CDB Capital	↗
SERIES BOther financing	Jan 2022	$14M	$55M	Meridian Capital Asia · Harvest Fund Management	↗

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Cardinal Operations website traffic

Latest recorded traffic for Cardinal Operations is 2.3K monthly website visits, down 17.9% over the last three months.

Latest monthly visits2.3K 3-month web change-17.9%

Monthly website visitsOct 2020–Jul 2026

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