Elens

About Elens

Elens, registered as Beijing Yilanqunzhi Data Technology Co., Ltd., is a data analysis and artificial intelligence firm established in 2015 and headquartered in Beijing, China. The company has positioned itself in the big data and SaaS verticals, developing analysis technology to enhance enterprise efficiency.

The founding team is composed of individuals with deep expertise in artificial intelligence and various industry sectors. The chairman, Wen Jirong, is a “Thousand Talents Program” expert who previously served as a principal researcher at Microsoft Research Asia, focusing on search and AI for over two decades. CEO Yang Wanlin brings operational and investment experience from his time at TCL Corporation, Xiangcai Securities, and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. The technical side is led by CTO Dou Zhicheng, another alumnus of Microsoft Research Asia, and Chief Engineer Xie Feng, who holds a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University.

Elens's core business revolves around providing AI-driven solutions that perform real-time mining and analysis of both internet data and the internal data of government and enterprise clients. The company's technology stack includes natural language processing, text mining, multi-dimensional analysis, intelligent search, and machine vision. This enables the development of a standardized industry knowledge graph, which helps clients reduce development costs and improve the reuse rate of their data assets. Its product offerings include a government affairs platform, a probe engine, office search tools, and a big data collector. Elens serves a diverse client base, including government departments, state-owned enterprise headquarters, e-commerce companies, media groups, and financial institutions.

The firm has secured venture capital funding, including a Series A round of $21.6M in November 2018, with total funding amounting to $29M from investors such as Ceyuan Ventures, MPCi, and NNFE.