Zebrafish Digital Intelligence Files IPO Prospectus Following Nearly RMB 10 Million Series Angel Funding from Jiacheng Capital

Benchmarking against Benchling, Zebrafish Digital Intelligence aims to drive data-driven automation in China’s biotechnology sector.

Recently,Zebrafish Digital Intelligence Announces Completion of Nearly RMB 10 Million Angel Round Exclusively Invested by Jiacheng Capital.

Named after these colorful little fish, the company is dedicated to providing scientists and R&D professionals in the life sciences sector with a suite of handy data management tools.

As the third most widely recognized vertebrate model organism in academia, zebrafish are extensively applied and offer researchers a range of benefits, including low experimental costs, short cycles, high throughput, and high efficiency. These are precisely the values that Zebrafish Digital Intelligence (hereinafter referred to as “Zebrafish”) aims to deliver to its users through its products.

Since its establishment in 2021, Zebrafish has undergone more than a year of research and development, initially completingEasyView Notesdevelopment. Designed from the outset to benchmark against Benchling, a well-known U.S. brand of electronic laboratory notebooks (eLabNotebook), this productThe system currently features core modules for project management, experimental record-keeping, a registry center, and inventory management, covering the vast majority of use cases in biological laboratories., and each module supports multiple interaction methods, allowing users to configure them according to their individual needs, offering a user-friendly and flexible experience.

“Although the digitalization of laboratory data and records management is an inevitable trend, significant efforts are still needed in user interaction and usability to help domestic users embrace electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) as readily as their international counterparts and change existing work habits.”

ZebraFish will use the proceeds from this financing round to expand its R&D team and upgrade and iterate its products in terms of functionality and user interaction. Dr. Jia Shuxin, founder of ZebraFish, places great emphasis on technological accumulation and product development. In just over a year,YiLan Notes has obtained ISO certification and a series of software copyrights, and was selected as a Nanjing district-level expert studio in 2022., Zebrafish will launch the cloud-based version of YiLan Notes and gradually add features for online biological tools, data processing, and report generation.。

“We have an excellent development team that is driven, technically skilled, professionally grounded, and user-savvy.”

Dr. Jia Shuxin possesses a complex interdisciplinary background. During his tenure at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, he conducted molecular biology experiments and mathematical modeling focused on regulatory elements of biological logic gates. While pursuing his Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, he investigated self-organizing oscillatory systems involved in cell division through experimental and computational simulation approaches, and also participated in theoretical calculations concerning carbon metabolism in Escherichia coli. Upon returning to China, he led the development of data platforms at a biotechnology company, accumulating extensive experience in project management and product design.

“Rolling up his sleeves to conduct experiments, sitting at a desk to write code, spreading out draft paper to derive formulas, and assembling a team to execute projects”—this diverse background and skill set have given Dr. Jia Shuxin the confidence to develop the best electronic laboratory notebook for biologists in China.

“Biology needs mathematics, and its specific forms should be big data, artificial intelligence, and automation.”

Leveraging his strong background in mathematics and statistics, Dr. Jia Shuxin places significant emphasis on the structured storage and annotation of data. The underlying data across several functional modules of Yilan Biji are fully integrated, utilizing a consistent data structure. This enables functionalities such as sample registration, retrieval, and inventory management within electronic lab notebooks, akin to Benchling. Crucially, it allows these data to be visually presented to users, facilitating the tracking of both physical and information flows, thereby enhancing the efficiency of experimental data analysis and supporting more informed decision-making for subsequent experimental design.

Yilan Biji, which was recently launched, has already gained recognition from multiple clients, including leading listed companies in the industry. As the SaaS version is gradually completed, Zebra Fish will reach more users through online services and plans to progressively open its academic edition to universities and research institutions, thereby serving a broader community of researchers.

“Users are our teachers. While we may have sufficient foresight, users enable us to see more clearly.”

As a preliminary step for the SaaS service, Zebrafish has signed a cooperation agreement with a Tier-1 agent of Huawei Cloud.Backed by Huawei Cloud, Zebrafish can more firmly advance along the path of developing domestically produced, autonomous, and controllable industry software. In the coming years,The Zebrafish Initiative aims to gradually establish standards for experimental data management and processing, while developing unified data retrieval interfaces to enable seamless flow and sharing of information across instruments, systems, and processing scripts.At that time, users will only need to sit in front of a computer to design experiments, collect data, perform data analysis, and ultimately draw scientific conclusions.

“Autonomous controllability is not simply about replicating what others have already developed; true ‘autonomy’ lies in participating in the formulation of standards.”

Zebrafish hopes to leverage its core product, YiLan Notes, to bridge data and algorithms, connect upstream and downstream users, link basic research with the life and health industry, integrate domestic and international markets, and connect the present and future of life sciences.

“We firmly believe that the digitalization of life sciences is inevitable. We aspire to participate in this great endeavor. The development of modern physics, beginning with Newton, has spanned several centuries; however, life sciences cannot afford such a lengthy timeline. We look forward to joining forces with more peers to accelerate this process. Centuries are too long; we must seize every moment!””