Recently, ONES announced the continuous completion of 300 million RMB B1 and B2 round of financing, a new high in the domestic R&D management industry financing. The new investors include XVC, SoftBank China Capital and Source Code Capital, and the old shareholder, Five Source Capital, supported them for four consecutive rounds. ONES has previously received several rounds of investment from Wuyuan Capital, Huachuang Capital, and Jiayu Fund. This round of financing will be used to strengthen product R&D and service investment, expand talent, build a first-class team, and further consolidate ONES ‘leading position in the domestic R&D management track.
ONES, founded in 2015, is a leading provider of R&D management solutions in China. Ones has eight specialized R&D management products throughout the R&D life cycle. In 2020, ONES acquired Tower, a well-known team collaboration tool in China, to further expand its business scope, covering small teams to medium and large teams, and providing one-stop solutions from various project management scenarios to professional R&D management.
Leading the domestic R & D management track to help enterprises succeed
Overseas, R&D management tools are already widely used. With a market capitalization of $60 billion, Atlassian’s JIRA, Confluence, Trello and other products have proven their value to enterprise software. In 2020, the acquisition of Tower by ONES is considered to be the domestic version of the “JIRA + Trello” combination, which can provide more comprehensive project management capabilities for start-up teams to very large groups, and comprehensively improve the level of enterprise digital management.
Software production “assembly line, digital transformation” new infrastructure
IDC believes that digitization is one of the important topics for the future development of global leading enterprises and organizations. Under the COVID-19 in 2020, global IT expenditure will far exceed the growth of global GDP. Software and technology are helping companies solve more of their business problems.
As the “new infrastructure” for digital transformation, ONES is committed to driving the continuous development of China’s software industry. Ones R & D management tools through the overall optimization of the software production process and process supervision and improvement, effectively organize large complex team collaboration, eliminate ineffective labor, improve the quality of software development and delivery, and then enhance the core competitiveness of the enterprise, is an indispensable “assembly line” in the software industry. Ones has a deep understanding and rich practical experience in the R&D management scenarios of domestic enterprises.
With the gradual maturity of controllable products and service capabilities, in the current complex international situation, domestic substitution has also become an important reason for the choice of ONES by more medium and large enterprises. In addition, ONES, as a member of China Communication Standardization Association, participated in the development of the R&D Operations Integration (DEVOPS) Capability Maturity Model standard. Recently, ONES officially became the “vice president” of Shenzhen Information Technology Application Innovation Alliance, committed to promoting independent innovation in the information technology industry and actively promoting the development of software in China.
“The software industry needs advanced management concepts and tools,” said Wang Yingqi, founder and CEO of ONES. “ONES will continue to focus on the software development and management track to drive the rapid development of China’s software industry.”