In the wave of industrial digitalization, cloud native has become the general trend. On March 9, Alibaba Cloud announced that 31 companies including Kangaroo Cloud, Harmony Cloud, Black Lake Technology, and Qianyun Technology were selected as the first cloud native accelerator of Alibaba Cloud. For round C and above. The total valuation of the selected companies exceeds 33.8 billion, covering manufacturing, new retail, Internet, medical and other fields. Multi-party cooperation accelerates the new ecology of the industry and jointly realizes the upgrade of cloud-native technology.
It is reported that Alibaba Cloud launched the cloud native accelerator program in 2021, dedicated to discovering and finding outstanding innovative enterprises in the cloud native field, and helping enterprises crack the growth password. In the one-year accelerated growth plan, Alibaba Cloud Cloud Native Accelerator will open Alibaba Cloud ecosystem and business resources, provide technical and product support, link more capital and venture capital sources, and connect with accelerators through 2 times of assembly + N times of business docking. Member companies work together to create a new blueprint for cloud native.
In terms of technology, among the first batch of cloud-native accelerator member companies, cloud-native PaaS accounts for 55%, cloud-native applications account for 32%, and cloud-native basic technologies account for 13% . Among the member companies are not only unicorns, but also highly competitive companies in sub-fields such as Authing, StreamNative, vika, Xingyun Innovation, and Tongchuang Yongyi.
From the perspective of geographical distribution, the 31 selected companies are mainly concentrated in first-tier cities: Shanghai leads with 29%, followed by Beijing with 26%, followed by Hangzhou with 23%. The diversified industrial structure of the city better promotes the development of cloud native in China.
Previously, many people from the investment community have joined the Alibaba Cloud Cloud Native Accelerator expert team. Chen Xiangming, founder of Ginkgo Valley, said that the main body of cloud native implementation should be scientists and engineers, so resources must be matched to these people, so that they can use new ideas, new technologies, and new frameworks to serve the frontier of the industry; Qiming Venture Partners Partner Ye Guantai believes that cloud native focuses on efficiency, and how to use the latest cloud architecture to deploy more software in a fast, simple and efficient way; Zhu Yikai, partner of Yunfeng Fund , said that China's software industry should speed up the transformation Step by step, and gradually realize digitalization, informatization and cloudification. In the new direction, digitalization is actually cloud native; Ian Jiang, managing director of Shenzhen Venture Capital, believes that cloud native products and solutions are gradually developing towards integration, and the emergence of new architectures will definitely bring new security issues. Cloud-native security is also a track worthy of investment in the future.
Jiang Jiangwei, vice president of Alibaba and head of Alibaba Cloud's Intelligent Basic Products Division, believes that PaaS is a market where a hundred flowers bloom, with a lot of entrepreneurial innovation opportunities. "From a global perspective, cloud computing will subvert the original business model and bring a lot of innovation opportunities. Alibaba Cloud hopes to reach cooperation with more enterprises to build a new ecosystem."
Since 2020, Alibaba Cloud has launched the "Cloud Native Partner Program" - investing 2 billion special funds, preferably supporting 100 leading partners, empowering 10,000 partners and 500,000 developers, and jointly serving millions of Cloud customers, help partners realize cloud-native technology upgrades, and work together to accelerate the digital transformation of hundreds of industries.
This cloud native accelerator is an important measure for Alibaba Cloud to empower industry innovators, help all walks of life realize digital innovation, and expand the industry ecosystem. "Through integration and innovation, on the one hand, Alibaba Cloud's cloud-native technology and product capabilities are exported, and start-ups and capital markets are linked; on the other hand, high-quality ecological partners are used to jointly build a richer cloud-native industry ecosystem and accelerate the implementation of cloud-native." Jiang Jiangwei said .
The list of member companies of Alibaba Cloud's first cloud native accelerator is as follows: (Enterprises are sorted in order of roadshow) 
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