Smart Future

What Smart Future does

Smart Future (legal entity: Zhixiang Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. / 职享科技（深圳）有限责任公司) is a Shenzhen-based private company that designs and delivers equity incentive solutions for Chinese technology and growth-stage enterprises. Its core product, the Intelligent Design Management System (智能设计管理系统), embeds equity incentive rules and common industry practices to enable online generation and management of customized equity plans, covering the full lifecycle from scheme design and grant signing through option exercise, incentive redemption, and departure handling. The system is built on Tencent Financial Cloud infrastructure to meet securities-grade data security, encryption, and access-control standards, and supports multi-language, multi-terminal access with configurable management plugins. Its professional services arm, Full-cycle Advisory Services (全程顾问服务), is staffed by consultants drawn from international equity incentive consulting firms and domestic technology companies, providing scheme design and ongoing advisory support alongside the software platform.

The company operates a hybrid go-to-market combining product-led growth with direct enterprise sales. Prospects can access a free plan design trial without registration on the lingdongweilai.com web platform, lowering the barrier to evaluation, while enterprise contracts and ongoing advisory engagements are sold through direct consulting channels. Go-to-market is amplified via Chinese digital channels including a WeChat official account, an audio mini-program, and Toutiao/Zhihu corporate profiles. Revenue is generated through two streams: SaaS subscription fees for the platform and professional consulting services for scheme design and long-term system building. The disclosed enterprise customer base spans financial services (Futu Securities), social/commerce internet (Xiaohongshu, Missfresh), insurance tech (Shuidi Huzhu), energy IoT (Envision Smart), and mobile devices (Transsion Holdings).

The business is geographically limited to a single country, China, with no disclosed international expansion. The company has completed at least one funding event (March 2019 from Futu Holdings, amount undisclosed) and operates with an 11-50 employee headcount, consistent with a services-and-software hybrid operating model. Pricing, revenue, and customer counts are not publicly disclosed, and the product has no public API or developer-facing integration surface documented.

Name

Smart Future

Legal name

职享科技（深圳）有限责任公司

Website

https://lingdongweilai.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Smart Future is a Shenzhen-based provider of equity incentive design and management solutions for Chinese technology and growth-stage enterprises, combining a Tencent-cloud-hosted SaaS platform with full-cycle professional advisory services across plan design, grants, exercise, and departure handling.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Nanshan

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription/SaaS Platform Fees: The company operates as a SaaS platform for equity incentive management, likely charging subscription fees for access to the intelligent design and management system.
2. Professional Consulting Services: Provides professional consulting services for equity incentive design, likely as a separate or bundled professional services revenue stream alongside the software platform.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Smart Future provides equity incentive design and management solutions through an Intelligent Design Management System (智能设计管理系统) SaaS platform and Full-process Advisory Services (全程顾问服务). The offering covers the entire equity incentive lifecycle including scheme design, grant signing, option exercise, incentive redemption, and departure handling, and is targeted at Chinese technology and growth-stage enterprises. The platform runs on Tencent Financial Cloud infrastructure to deliver securities-grade data security and multi-language, multi-terminal access.

Product overview

Smart Future (灵动未来) offers an integrated equity incentive management solution combining a core intelligent design management system with full-cycle advisory services. The intelligent design management system embeds equity incentive rules and common practices, enabling users to generate customized plans online. The advisory service module provides professional consulting support from consultants with experience at international and domestic tech companies. The system supports the entire equity incentive lifecycle including plan design, granting, signing, option exercise, incentive fulfillment, and departure handling, with multi-language and multi-terminal access capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Intelligent Design Management System (智能设计管理系统) A web-based SaaS platform that embeds equity incentive rules and common industry practices, enabling enterprise customers in China to generate customized equity incentive plans online. It covers the full lifecycle including scheme design, grant signing, option exercise, incentive redemption, and departure handling, and runs on Tencent Financial Cloud infrastructure with multi-language and multi-terminal access.
• Full-process Advisory Services (全程顾问服务) End-to-end professional consulting delivered by advisors with backgrounds at international equity incentive consulting firms and domestic technology companies, supporting enterprise clients in designing and building long-term equity incentive systems tailored to their business needs, with free initial plan design and free consultation offered.

Quantifiable outcome

• Has served clients including Futu Securities, Xiaohongshu, Missfresh, Shuidi Huzhu, Envision Smart, and Transsion Holdings, demonstrating cross-industry enterprise adoption.

Named customers6 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Tencent Financial Cloud (腾讯金融云)coreTechnology or IntegrationSmart Future uses Tencent Financial Cloud as its foundational infrastructure. The system meets broker/securities-level data security requirements in terms of code standards, encryption requirements, and authority management controls.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Beisen (北森): China's leading cloud HR SaaS suite, offering core HR, performance, payroll, and increasingly compensation/incentive modules to mid-market and enterprise Chinese companies—the closest domestic competitor to Smart Future across the same tech-company buyer base.
• Carta: Global category leader in cap table, equity management, and incentive plan administration for private and public companies; addresses the same equity-lifecycle problem Smart Future tackles, though with a stronger US/global footprint and capital-markets workflow.
• Pave: US-headquartered equity and total rewards intelligence platform helping private companies benchmark, model, and communicate equity compensation—directly comparable to Smart Future's plan-design and value-communication use cases.
• Pulley: Cap table and equity management platform built for startups, covering option grants, 409A valuations, and scenario modeling—matches Smart Future's grant-management and equity-scheme-design workflows for growth-stage companies.
• Moka: Chinese-born HR SaaS vendor recruiting, onboarding, performance, and compensation modules aimed at tech and new-economy employers—another China-native platform competing for the same equity-incentive workflow.

Broad incumbents

• Shareworks (Computershare): One of the largest global equity plan administration platforms, originally Shareworks and now owned by Computershare, offering full-lifecycle employee equity management for public companies—a scaled incumbent to Smart Future's lifecycle coverage.
• Fidelity Stock Plan Services: Fidelity's dedicated equity plan administration business serving thousands of US-listed-company stock plans; comparable incumbent in the equity-administration space where Smart Future is building, though focused on US public-company plans.
• Workday: Enterprise HCM and financial management platform whose Workday HCM includes stock administration and compensation planning, competing for the same buyer conversations Smart Future targets—but as part of a much broader HR/finance suite.
• Morgan Stanley at Work: Built on the acquisitions of E*TRADE Corporate Services and Shareworks, Morgan Stanley at Work is a leading equity plan administration platform for public-company stock plans—an incumbent analog to Smart Future's design-and-admin proposition.

Emerging players

• HiBob: Modern global HR/people platform whose compensation planning and equity module overlaps with Smart Future's incentive design use case for mid-market tech employers, though HiBob emphasizes broader HR workflows rather than deep equity specialization.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lingdongweilai

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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