Microsoft Ventures Accelerator and Fenxiang Sales and Testin Cloud Testing Strategic Cooperation

On January 24, the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator Showcase Day was held in Beijing. In addition to the 15 incubation teams of the fifth phase showcasing their innovative products and development results, the accelerator's first phase team Tesitn Cloud Testing and the second phase team Funshine Sales also signed a strategic cooperation agreement.

Microsoft Ventures Accelerator is held twice a year, each of which provides selected startups with 6 months of entrepreneurial acceleration, followed by a lifelong alumni system. Since its launch in China in July 2012, Microsoft Ventures Accelerator has been committed to providing "the most professional entrepreneurial services", tailor-made to the needs of each selected team, providing a full range of services such as "finding money, finding people, finding markets, and finding users", and providing startups with office space, entrepreneurial guidance and cloud services. Once a startup team is selected into the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator, all resources are provided free of charge.

Signing ceremony between Wang Jun, CEO of Testin, and Luo Xu, founder and CEO of Funshine

Funshare Sales: Connecting Everything in the Enterprise

At the signing ceremony, Luo Xu, founder and CEO of Funshare, said: "The signing between Funshare and Testin is to bring better experience to users through strategic cooperation between teammates. For small teams, Funshare will provide a free version for 20 people. For large teams, we will also provide corresponding services, especially for partners with distribution systems, which is a great benefit. In 2015, we proposed "connecting everything in the enterprise" in order to connect the distribution system with Funshare and make Funshare a standard configuration for future entrepreneurial teams!" In Luo Xu's view, Microsoft can bring together so many "alumni" who are specialized in their fields. They are the best teams in each field, and "alumni" should cooperate and assist each other more. Testin is an outstanding student of the first batch of Microsoft Venture Capital Accelerator. They are a professional team that tests software apps. Testin's services can reduce a lot of repetitive and boring human testing work.

Fenxiang Sales has overturned the complex and boring characteristics of enterprise software. It innovatively adopts the interface of Weibo and WeChat, which is simple and easy to use. Employees can use it without off-the-job training. As of January 2015, the number of companies using Fenxiang Sales exceeded 70,000, and the number is steadily increasing by thousands per month. Excellent companies in various industries, including CCTV, Autohome, Sina Leju, BOE, Haoshangni Zaoye, Pigeon, Minsheng Insurance, etc. are using Fenxiang Sales.

Funshine Sales received tens of millions of dollars in Series B financing in June 2014. Investors include Northern Light Ventures, IDG Capital (also an investor in Series A), ChinaSoft Ventures and Boyaa Capital. On December 23, 2014, Funshine Sales announced the news of Series C financing, led by the famous venture capital firm DCM, followed by IDG Capital, the investor in Series A, and Northern Light Ventures, the lead investor in Series B, and China Renaissance Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor. This is also the largest financing for a startup company in the field of mobile office in China in recent years.

Testin Cloud Testing: Mobile application and game cloud testing service platform

Testin Cloud Testing is an independent third-party mobile application and game cloud testing service platform. It has the world's largest mobile real-device cloud testing platform and China's first professional mobile application crowdsourcing testing community with more than 200,000 mobile application testing experts. It will use the paid enterprise version of Funshine Sales as a CRM and internal collaboration tool. Wang Jun, CEO of Testin Cloud Testing, said at the signing ceremony: "With the development of the company's business, the contradiction between time resources and goals has become a contradiction that cannot be effectively overcome in the entrepreneurial process. Professional tools and services must be used to improve efficiency. In addition to the Beijing headquarters, Testin also has a customer team of hundreds of people distributed across the country and overseas. They need to communicate frequently on a daily basis to solve various complex problems of customer needs and service delivery. They have been using the free version of Funshine Sales before. During normal work, team members can use their mobile phones to report and exchange work logs, update customer information, approve urgent items, and communicate at work. Managers can use their mobile phones to grasp sales data, understand customer dynamics, employee work logs, grasp the status of the front line of business in real time, approve urgent items, and arrange work. Data from the mobile phone and computer are presented synchronously, and the effect of improving corporate communication efficiency and execution is significant. However, with the rapid increase in communication content, it is necessary to resolve the contradiction between efficient team collaboration and time and resources, so we decided to adopt the paid enterprise version of Funshine Sales. It is natural to use professional tools to improve professional efficiency."

Regarding the strategic cooperation between Microsoft Ventures Accelerator and Funshine Sales and Testin Cloud Testing, Ms. Gao Xinxin, Executive Officer of Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in China, said: "The alumni team of Microsoft Ventures Accelerator are all the most innovative startups. Such a strong combination of companies will definitely provide users with more unexpected services in the future. Microsoft Ventures Accelerator sincerely hopes to promote more cooperation between innovative alumni in the future and develop rapidly together."

As the world's largest independent third-party mobile application and game cloud testing service platform, Testin Cloud Testing serves more than 350,000 developers. Its three core services, QAMaster, focus on App's automated real-machine cloud testing, crowdsourcing expert testing, and application performance management, providing indispensable mobile App quality assurance for mobile application and game developers, and focusing on solving the problems that most developers cannot effectively overcome, such as mobile terminal fragmentation, application compatibility, application performance, and application stability. Its customers include Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, almost all listed mobile game companies and first-line developers and publishers, as well as many mobile e-commerce, mobile finance, and O2O App developers. At the same time, it has established close communication and strategic cooperation with global ecological chain giants such as ARM, Intel, Microsoft, Google, and IBM. Testin Cloud Testing was established in 2011 and has service agencies in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Hong Kong, and New York. It has continuously served more than 330,000 developers and conducted more than 70 million tests for more than 750,000 apps. It has successively received two rounds of investment of tens of millions of dollars from IDG and Gaorong, a world-renowned venture capital institution.