KnowLeGene

About KnowLeGene

Beijing KnowLeGene Intelligent Data Technology Co., Ltd., operating as KnowLeGene, is a fintech company driven by artificial intelligence, established on November 11, 2016. The company was founded by Ren Liang, who serves as CEO and is a seasoned expert in knowledge graphs and financial risk. His background includes a role as a professor and deputy director of the Big Data Lab at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and experience at IBM's Global Business Services, where he developed AI-based financial services. This foundation in academia and enterprise consulting shaped the company's direction.

KnowLeGene focuses on applying big data, knowledge graphs, and machine learning to the industrial finance sector. It aims to create what it calls an "Industrial and Financial Cloud Map," connecting financial institutions with industrial entities. The company provides data and operational services for scenarios such as enterprise insight, risk control, targeted marketing, and supply chain finance, available through both localized deployments and cloud services. Its core product is a comprehensive knowledge graph platform that integrates extensive data points to model the complex relationships within industries. The platform utilizes a database of over 50 million enterprises, more than 2,000 characteristic tags, and over 2 million financial events, which are processed by more than 100 proprietary algorithms.

The firm's business model is centered on providing these advanced data services to financial institutions, including a majority of China's joint-stock banks, as well as industrial corporations and government bodies. Revenue is generated by offering solutions that enhance clients' operational capabilities in areas like customer risk perception, event detection and transmission, and identifying business opportunities through big data. KnowLeGene has secured significant financial backing to fuel its growth, raising a total of approximately $31.5 million over three funding rounds. These include a seed round in May 2017, a Series A in early 2018, and a Series B round in March 2020, with investors such as Source Code Capital, Lingfeng Capital, and Jinke Junchuang Capital participating.