Distributed cloud service developer "Allegro Xile Technology" received a multi-million dollar angel round of financing, which was solely invested by Yaotu Capital

Recently, Sifu SegmentFault learned that, according to 36Kr report, Allegro Xile Technology received a $3 million angel round of financing, which was invested by Yaotu Capital alone, and Yuanhe Capital served as the exclusive financial advisor. This round of funds will be invested in the R&D and community operation of the open source project YoMo, distributed cloud R&D and market promotion, etc., to accelerate innovation in the field of Metaverse Infrastructure.

In terms of core business, Allegro Technology mainly provides two products and services, namely distributed cloud computing service (Geo-distributed Cloud) and open source low-latency streaming edge computing framework YoMo . With the deepening of the digitalization process, daily work, life, and entertainment methods have migrated online on a large scale. In the online era, people's attendance at conferences, interactive entertainment, remote collaboration, and sharing of life all require the full support of real-time interaction. More and more terminal devices (mobile phones, AR/VR devices, wearable devices, IoT sensors, etc.) connect the real life of users, and the data transmission between terminal devices constitutes an extremely complex data network.

With the explosive growth of data scale, how to ensure low-latency, orderly and efficient transmission, synchronization and calculation of data without increasing management costs and R&D costs on a large scale has become a common problem during application development. . Faced with this trend, in order to meet the real-time application requirements for ultra-low latency, real-time computing of massive data, and data security, Allegro has created a Geo-Distributed Cloud service for global users, providing global Ultra-low-latency and stable network transmission services within the range, providing easy-to-use data synchronization and computing standards, and providing computing resources are extremely close to users, enabling applications to use edge node computing power to complete ultra-low-latency real-time interaction and computing . In the application field, it is mainly used in , cloud games, AR/VR, online collaboration SaaS, electric vehicles, Internet of , etc.

At the same time, in order to help developers create low-latency real-time interactive applications more easily, the Allegro team led the development of the open source low-latency edge computing framework YoMo . In the process of building a real-time data synchronization system for applications and creating a real-time interactive experience, YoMo provides extremely easy-to-use best practices for application development. Based on the QUIC protocol, YoMo optimizes the data transmission rate and stability in terms of network protocols, data encoding and decoding, etc., to ensure that data is still transmitted and processed with ultra-low latency in complex network environments. YoMo natively supports multi-regional distributed deployment mode ( Geo-distributed System ), YoMo-based applications can be quickly deployed in nodes of different public clouds in different regions around the world, helping applications quickly migrate to distributed architecture ( Geo-distributed Architecture) , data between nodes can be transmitted and synchronized through YoMo with low latency, so that end users can access nodes nearby and interact with other users or services in real time.

From R&D to market launch, Fan Weixiao CC, founder of Allegro, said that the YoMo core framework had undergone three years of core technology testing before the team began to open source the code. In the first two years, the Allegro team put the YoMo framework into various scenarios for polishing, and through a large number of experiments and iterations, repeated tests in an environment with extremely stringent service quality requirements, provides ultra-low latency computing 24 hours a day Served a number of enterprise customers for the standard . In July 2020, due to the spread and aggravation of the epidemic abroad, users were forced to work from home and start the work mode of remote collaboration. This approach has led to a rapid increase in users' demands for fluency and low latency.

Faced with a large amount of demand growing in a short period of time, industry manufacturers began to think about how to realize real-time interaction of images, videos and other information by changing the underlying framework, and better adapt to different scenarios. However, application development frameworks that can achieve ultra-low latency were relatively rare at the time. Therefore, when the industry demand reached a breaking point, Allegro built YoMo in an open source way based on the polishing of the core technology in the previous three years to help developers solve a large number of real-time interaction needs.

From the perspective of business advantages, the distributed cloud services provided by Allegro mainly have the following advantages: providing geographically distributed computing nodes for global users to achieve low-latency synchronization of real-time data and computing experience; at the same time, In terms of "computing economy", Allegro distributed cloud can provide users with the most efficient and economical computing resources through real-time scheduling and cloud node performance optimization. Fan Wei Xiao CC explained to 36 Krypton that these advantages mainly come from two steps. First, Allegro and YoMo have changed the deployment structure of the application. By adding nodes, the concurrency pressure of the machine is reduced, and the cost is reduced . Therefore, To achieve the effect of user access nearby. Second, the update for WebAssembly, ARM and other technologies on the single-node computing architecture will also help greatly improve single-node resource utilization.

In terms of customer base, the customers currently targeted by Allegro are mainly concentrated in the metaverse field, which can be summarized into the following three categories:

1. universe game developers, such as Roblox , etc., focus on providing users with a smoother gaming experience;
2. To B-side Metaverse service provider , such as Metaverse Workplace such as Gather, to realize simultaneous online collaboration of global users;
3. VR\AR terminal equipment manufacturer , they use Allegro's technology to synchronize the new data generated by the product globally in real time and complete low-latency calculation at the node closest to the user.

In terms of team, Fan Wei Xiao CC revealed that the core founder members have many years of experience in the field of cloud computing. Founder Fan Weixiao worked for China Mobile Fetion , and served as the chief architect of social business. He has led a nearly 100-person R&D team to create social products that serve hundreds of millions of users, and has extensive experience in Internet communication protocols, networks and cloud services. Experience. The other members of the team are mainly from Internet companies such as etc. They are the core product developers of large-scale public cloud services in China, and have decades of experience in building cloud services and large-scale distributed systems. The company will also increase recruitment efforts this year, and plans to expand about 30 R&D personnel.

Regarding this round of financing, Yang Guang, the founding partner of Yaotu Capital, said that with the acceleration of the digitalization process of the whole world, the explosive growth of application data volume and the demand for ultra-low latency promote the extension of the cloud to the edge, and the distributed cloud will become the next generation of cloud computing. The core team of Xile, headed by the founder Fan Weixiao CC, has decades of experience in building large-scale distributed systems and cloud services. Yaotu Capital is optimistic that Xile will become the world's leading distributed cloud service company in the future.