# Stepone

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/stepone-2

- Industry: Software
- Headquarters: Beijing, China
- Website: www.steponeai.com
- Total disclosed funding: $16M
- Latest round: Series B (Sep 9, 2021)
- Investors on record: 5

## About

Based in Beijing, China and founded in 2020, Jizhi Intelligent Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., doing business as Stepone ,is a provider of enterprise-level large-scale AI (artificial intelligence) application services in the B2B vertical sector. The company's main business is conducted through its wholly owned subsidiary Beijing Jizhi Technology Co., Ltd. which was established in 2014. The company has established its presence in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Xi'an, Shenzhen, China and other locations.

In March 2026, Richinfo Technology Co., Ltd. agreed to fully acquire Stepone from Luminous Ventures, SIG Asia Investment, Xinyi Capital, Tencent Investment, Ultrapower Fund and other individual and unspecified stakeholders for CNY 364 million.

Stepone provides enterprises with digital employee solutions focusing on conversational digital employee-specific business scenarios based on its self-developed large-scale model system. The company's core product is LLM (large language model)-based conversational voice agent digital employee, which can automate multiple scenarios such as outbound communication, customer marketing, intelligent customer service, process inspection, compliance auditing, and job assistance. The product is used in core vertical industries such as finance, IT, automotive, and the internet.

The company generates revenue from providing enterprises with intelligent digital employee solutions.

## Funding rounds

- Series B, Sep 9, 2021, $16M — Lightspeed Venture Partners, SIG Asia Investment, Ultrapower Fund, Xinyi Capital, Scale Partners
- Series A, May 18, 2021 — Lightspeed Venture Partners, Xinyi Capital

## Investors

- Lightspeed Venture Partners (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/lightspeed-venture-partners) — Series A, Series B
- Xinyi Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/xinyi-capital) — Series A, Series B
- SIG Asia Investment (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/sig-asia-investment) — Series B
- Ultrapower Fund — Series B
- Scale Partners — Series B