The Chengdu startup turning square footage into software - a cloud platform that lets landlords run their buildings on data instead of spreadsheets.
In most commercial buildings, the three teams that matter least often talk to each other. Leasing chases tenants. Project managers handle fit-outs and repairs. Asset managers try to make the numbers work. Each keeps its own records, usually in spreadsheets, and the gaps between them are where money leaks out. Spacesforce - known in Chinese as 空间原力, roughly "the Force of Space" - was built to close those gaps.
Founded in Chengdu in 2018, Spacesforce is a SaaS and IoT company for commercial real estate. Its platform connects leasing operations, project management and asset management into a single cloud system, so that a person responsible for a portfolio can see occupancy, tenants, contracts and building performance without walking every floor. The pitch to traditional developers is not revolution. It is digital transformation, delivered as fewer manual reports and a clearer view of what a building is actually doing.
The company operates under Chengdu Tianfu Hetao Network Technology Co., Ltd. and has covered roughly 1.2 million square feet of space across cities including Chengdu, Beijing, Suzhou and Guiyang, serving technology campuses, office buildings and coworking brands.
The platform aims to help traditional real estate developers achieve digital transformation - connecting leasing, project management and asset management on one cloud.
— Company description, via 36KrSpacesforce's value is less in any single feature and more in the connective tissue. It sits underneath the workflows a property team already runs and ties them together, then adds an IoT layer for smart, connected space on top.
Tenants, contracts, occupancy and renewals tracked in one place.
Fit-outs, maintenance and building operations coordinated digitally.
Portfolio performance and asset management, full lifecycle.
A cloud system unifying leasing, project and asset management for landlords and office-building operators.
Full-lifecycle tracking of occupancy, tenants, contracts and building performance across a portfolio.
Smart-building capabilities for tech campuses, offices and coworking spaces, tying physical space to software.
Spacesforce sells B2B software subscriptions priced by managed floor area - reported at roughly 0.24 to 0.5 yuan per square meter, per month, billed annually. Revenue scales with space rather than seats, which lines the company up with the size of the buildings it serves. The illustrative chart below shows how a fixed rate turns floor area into recurring revenue.
Figures are illustrative, derived from publicly reported per-square-meter pricing - not official revenue disclosures.
Spacesforce's customers are concentrated in first-tier and new first-tier Chinese cities - commercial real estate holders and operators that manage office space at scale. Named clients span major developers and holding companies.
Master's in Real Estate Development from Columbia University; former Vanke Group investment executive. Named to Forbes China 30 Under 30.
NYU dual degree in Economics and Psychology; previously at JP Morgan and Ralph Lauren before returning to build in Chengdu.
Built on Node.js and React Native with Nginx and cloud infrastructure - a modern stack for a traditionally analog industry.
After the angel round, Spacesforce is actively preparing for Pre-A financing to fund product R&D and market expansion.
— Donglai Du, Co-Founder & CEO, via 36KrChina's proptech field is crowded with dashboards, and its largest developers often build property systems in-house. Spacesforce's wager is different: rather than replace the tools a property team already uses, it connects them. The differentiator is not a flashier interface but the fact that leasing, projects and assets finally reconcile against one another.
That choice shapes everything - the floor-area pricing, the focus on established developers, the emphasis on fewer manual reports over a wholesale reinvention of how property people work. It is proptech that asks a building owner to keep thinking like a building owner, and quietly does the technology in the background.
Donglai Du and Mike Zhang launch Spacesforce under Chengdu Tianfu Hetao Network Technology.
Major Chengdu property developers begin using the platform for space and asset management.
Raises tens of millions of yuan from real estate VCs, reaching a reported valuation near 100 million yuan.
Coverage expands across Chengdu, Beijing, Suzhou and Guiyang while preparing Pre-A financing.
It provides a cloud-based SaaS and IoT platform for commercial real estate that connects leasing operations, project management and asset management, helping landlords and operators run their buildings digitally.
It was founded in 2018 in Chengdu by Donglai Du (Co-Founder & CEO, a Columbia-trained former Vanke executive) and Mike Zhang (Co-Founder, NYU graduate and former JP Morgan employee).
Commercial landlords, office-building operators and coworking brands in first-tier Chinese cities, including named clients such as Longfor, Shimao, Zhongtian and Santai.
Through B2B SaaS subscriptions priced by managed floor area - reported at roughly 0.24-0.5 yuan per square meter per month, billed annually.
It completed an angel round of tens of millions of yuan, reaching a reported valuation near 100 million yuan; later records label a subsequent round as Series B with about $4.82M total funding.
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