Use the power of science and technology to help “Star Kids” return to social life.
It is learned that “Rice and Xiaomi”, which is committed to the early intervention of children with developmental disorders such as autism, recently revealed that the company has completed a RMB 100 million Series B financing led by Yuansheng Venture Capital.
The founder Jiang Yingshuang said that after the investment is completed, rice and Xiaomi will continue to increase intervention and rehabilitation technologies for autistic children, AI solutions, RICE system development, and intervention and rehabilitation data for autistic children in China. Of investment and effect quantification system. In addition, the joint laboratory established by Rice and Xiaomi and a domestic university will soon launch the application of the autistic AI multimodal research results.
has previously reported rice and millet , the company Originated from the same name WeChat public account founded by the founder Jiang Yingshuang in September 2014. In September 2016, rice and Xiaomi started to develop offline, and opened the first intervention training center in Shenzhen. To this day, many child intervention centers have been opened in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai and Zhengzhou, and three cooperative integrated kindergartens have accumulated to serve more than 3,000 autistic and stunted children. Autism spectrum children’s service platform, providing integrated services such as rehabilitation services, integrated education support, online counselling courses for parents, and science popularization.
In the past 5 years, rice and millet have accumulated a large amount of rehabilitation and sociological data for children with autism. Based on this, the company organized a rehabilitation, internet, artificial intelligence, and machine for children with autism. Multidisciplinary cooperation teams such as learning to develop an intervention rehabilitation system suitable for children with autism and developmental disabilities. In October 2019, Rice and Xiaomi released their own intellectual property RICE rehabilitation system centered on improving children’s core obstacle, social skills.
According to reports, Rice and Xiaomi have reached cooperation with dozens of experts and research institutes in countries and regions such as the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mainland China, etc., and have started joint training institutes in many universities. Attempts to standardize talent are needed.
In April 2018, Rice and Xiaomi also received a 40 million yuan investment from Dachen Venture Capital.
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Chen Jie, founding partner of Yuansheng Venture Capital, said: “The number of autistic people in China is close to 10 million, of which over 2 million are children aged 0-14. The number of children with autism detected increases year by year. It is a group that cannot be ignored. However, due to various reasons, most children have not received good rehabilitation treatment. The industry has a bright future, the needs are far from being met, and it has great social significance. Yuansheng Venture Capital Team In the process of contacting the founding team of Rice and Xiaomi, I was touched by the feelings and persistence of the founder Rice. At the same time, I also found that the team has strong action, resource integration and cohesion. In just a few years, Rice and Xiaomi started A WeChat public account started, developed into a leading domestic autism rehabilitation institution, and built an excellent team that fully reflects the foresight and execution ability of the founder in commercial exploration. “
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