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Sixteen years in engineering.
A geek team building useful systems.

From a 7-person software team in 2010 to a 100+ person small-to-mid-sized tech company, Nearus keeps building long-term value through engineering culture and real customer problems.

/ ABOUT NEARUS

Technology advancing industry,
industry funding further innovation.

Founded in 2010, Nearus is a small-to-mid-sized technology company made up of engineers, product people and delivery specialists who enjoy hard technical problems. We work across cloud, AI, security, IoT, smart cities and digital finance with end-to-end engineering discipline.

By 2026 we remain a 100+ person team with several focused R&D squads, 40+ technical assets, and a product rhythm shaped by testing, customer feedback and field delivery.

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N · 2010 — 2026 CORE / PLATFORM / EDGE
2010
/ Founded
100+
/ Team members
12
/ R&D centers
40+
/ Technical assets
15%
/ R&D spend
Mission · Vision · Values

Why we exist.

Mission defines the long-term value we create. Vision points the way. Values shape how we act.

/ 01 · MISSION
A digital future for every business.

Technology should not be reserved for giants. Bringing reliable, transparent and maintainable infrastructure to small and mid-sized companies is what our engineers care about most.

/ 02 · VISION
The most trusted geek-built technology team for growing companies.

Choose the right thing over the easy one — for customers, employees, partners and society — and earn the compounding return of trust over time.

/ 03 · VALUES
Customer first · Long-term thinking · Engineering culture · Open collaboration.

We solve business problems the engineering way: honest with data, respectful of every line of code and every promise made to customers.

Milestones · 2010 — 2026

From seven engineers to a focused geek team.

2010
Founded in Chongqing

A 7-engineer team launches in Chongqing, focused on enterprise software services.

2013
NearCloud launched

First in-house virtualization platform, serving 50 mid-sized customers.

2016
NearDB goes commercial

Achieves financial-grade consistency; deployed in core systems of multiple commercial banks.

2018
Remote collaboration begins

Remote delivery, on-site support and partner collaboration become part of the way we serve customers beyond Chongqing.

2020
Smart city scales up

Smart city deployments in 10+ cities; gov-cloud share enters national top five.

2022
NEAR-1 model program initiated

A ¥10 billion in-house program to build a cross-modal foundation model.

2024
Product system takes shape

NearCloud, NearDB and NearShield mature into a coherent product system as the team grows steadily.

2026
NEAR-1 v2 reaches one trillion parameters

NEAR-1 v2 ships; customer base surpasses 200 across 10+ regions.

Field notes

The people pushing the product forward.

Our core team combines engineering, product and delivery experience. They write code, work with customers and use data and systems to make decisions.

L
Liang Ming
Founder · Chairman & CEO

Tsinghua CS PhD; former Chief Architect at IBM Research. Built Nearus from seven engineers into a focused small-to-mid-sized technology team.

W
Sara Wang
President · COO

Leads product commercialization and customer success, translating complex technology into understandable, testable solutions.

Z
David Zhang
Chief Technology Officer

Former Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia. Lead architect of NEAR-1 and NearDB.

C
Lily Chen
Chief Financial Officer

Leads finance, operations and organizational efficiency so the team can keep investing in R&D and delivery.

CARBON NEUTRAL · 2030
/ ESG · SUSTAINABILITY

Technological progress
and a liveable planet — together.

We treat ESG as part of product quality — green data centers, responsible AI, supply-chain ethics. We commit to 100% renewable electricity at owned data centers by 2030, and operational carbon neutrality by 2040.

  • Global PUE 1.18
  • UN Global Compact member
  • 38% women in management
  • Responsible AI council
Recognition

Recognized by customers and industry peers.

/ 01
ISO 27001 / 27701

Information security & privacy

/ 02
SOC 2 Type II

AICPA trust services criteria

/ 03
CMMI Level 5

Highest software maturity level

/ 04
MLPS Level 3 (CN)

National cybersecurity classified protection

/ 05
High-tech Enterprise (CN)

Maintained for 12 consecutive years

/ 06
Engineering innovation team

Listed for six straight years (2021–26)

/ 07
Gartner Magic Quadrant

Leader in cloud & database

/ 08
IDC MarketScape Leader

Gov & finance cloud reports

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next generation of infrastructure.

Engineers, designers, product managers, industry experts — Nearus offers room to grow.

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