About Us-DaoCloud

About Us

Founded at the end of 2014, DaoCloud is an innovation leader in the cloud native field. With the competitive expertise of its proprietary intellectual property rights, DaoCloud is committed to creating an open Cloud Operating System (Cloud OS) which enables enterprises to easily carry out digital transformation. Since its establishment, DaoCloud has been striving for business improvement in the areas such as Fintech, advanced manufacturing, intelligent vehicles, retails, and City Brain. Its benchmarking customers include Bank of Communications, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, SAIC Motor Corporation Limited, Dongfeng Motor Corporation, Haier Group, A.S. Watson Group, and McDonald’s Corporation. DaoCloud has been reputed as a quasi-unicorn enterprise in technology.

With branches and joint ventures located in Singapore, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Wuhan, Qingdao, Nanjing and other China’s cities. DaoCloud has over 350 employees. Reputed as National-level Specialized and Innovative "Little Giant" Enterprise, Shanghai Hi-tech Enterprise, Shanghai Emerging Tech Giant, and Shanghai Innovative and Specialized Enterprise, DaoCloud has been included in the cultivation list of the sci-tech innovation board by Shanghai Government.

Development Process

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2023

National-level Specialized and Innovative "Little Giant" Enterprise

Cloud-native local storage project, HwameiStor, entered the CNCF Sandbox

The only Shanghai-based Leading Brand Enterprise in Software and Information Technology Services in 2022

Roby, DaoCloud CEO, has been reappointed as an Ambassador of CNCF

Launched Cloud Native Talent Development Program with Sichuan Internet Academy

Established Joint Innovation Laboratory for cloud native applications with Huawei

One of the Sample Vendors for Container Management Products in China recognized by Gartner

2022

The first multi-cluster resource retrieval project, Clusterpedia, entered the CNCF Sandbox

The only Chinese enterprise: secured a Contribution Seat on the Istio Steering Committee

Merbridge, a service mesh accelerator, has been entered for Cloud-Native Landscape

Included in the 2022 Edge Computing Industry Lanscape by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT)

China Software Developer Network IT Influencial Star

2021

Obtained D+ funding over 100 million yuan led by Yuxin Shicheng (Xiamen) Private Fund Management Co., Ltd.

Ranked among the top nine globally in all contributions to Kubernetes

The first China's company that joined the eBPF Foundation

Listed in open source vendors and the Cloud-edge Collaboration Matrix by CAICT

Signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with Huawei

2020

Obtained D funding of over 100 million yuan led by Huatai Securities

Roby, DaoCloud CEO, was honored with a title of CNCF Ambassador

Kay Yan, DaoCloud’s Chief Architect, was listed in Forbes.

2020 Shanghai Emerging Tech Giant.

2019

Obtained C funding of over 100 million yuan led by Hundsun Technologies Inc. and China International Capital Corporation Limited.

Partnered with Pudong Development Science and Technology Commonwealth Specialized and Innovative Enterprise in Shanghai

2018

Obtained B funding of 100 million yuan led by Sichuan Development Holding Co., Ltd., Yuanyi Capital, and Sichuan Tianfu Bank

Established the strategic cooperation on public cloud with Microsoft and Github

The first fully CNCF qualified enterprise in China

One of core exhibitors for the World Artificial Intelligence Conferenc

2017

Obtained A+ funding of 100 million yuan led by Puhua Capital, Huatai Securities, and Aeternam Stella Financial Holdings Co., Ltd.

One of the members of the CNCF

2017 IDC Innovator

2016

Obtained A funding of ten million US dollars led by Fenghe Capital

Released as a container platform DCE 2.0

Listed in Top 100 Asia by Red Herring

2015

Included in the Forrester China Public Cloud Research Report

Honored with maintainers of top open-source projects.

Established the strategic cooperation with EMC^2.

2014

DaoCloud founded with a valuation of ten million US dollars and supported by famous investors from Silicon Valley, began with providing professional IT services for enterprises.

Honors and Qualifications