With millions of dollars in investment from DCM Ventures, APTSell hopes to become the AI version of chief sales officer

Text | Wu Sijin Editor | Deng Yongyi 01 One-sentence introduction Beijing Zhizhen Zhihe Technology Co., Ltd. was established in 2024. Its product "APTSell" (AI Power To Sales) hopes to become the AI version of CSO (Chief Sales Officer, Chief Sales Officer). Simply put, APTSell is a combined Agent that integrates and visualizes the entire sales process data to generate management decisions and implementation suggestions, in order to positively promote sales efficiency and performance, and reversely reduce reliance on traditional sales management experience and positions. Recently, APTSell announced that it has completed a multi-million dollar seed round of financing exclusively invested by DCM Ventures. The funds will be used for R&D iterations of product technology and actively carry out in-depth commercial cooperation. Previously, APTSell also received angel round investment from Atom Capital. 02 Team Introduction Founder Zhao Lei has worked for Oracle for 10 years, from front-line sales to general manager of the North District. He has built a large-scale industry sales system, achieving 300 million revenue in a single industry in 3 years, YoY>150%. After that, Zhao Lei worked as a sales VP at Weibu Online, generating revenue of 300 million for the company in 5 years. Subsequently, he also provided sales consulting services to 50+ companies such as PingCAP and Baheal Pharmaceuticals, and published the book "From Chaos to Scale" to break down how to build a replicable growth system. Co-founder Zhu Zhenbo has worked in IBM China Research Institute, Microsoft Enterprise and Cloud Division, and Microsoft Research Asia, managing a multinational team of more than 50 people. His main focus is the research and implementation of machine learning. After that, he founded the enterprise-level supply chain platform Yi Jiansuo and served as CEO. Later, it was acquired by Longfor Group and became a partner of Longfor Group. Other professional experiences include FlowGPT technical partner and PixVerse technical consultant. 03 Products and Business Almost all companies are exploring how to use AI to reshape business flows, but perhaps what business owners are most concerned about is the sales link closest to money. The sales management path in the past was: from the perspective of CRM