Gridsum Ranked Among 2018 Top 50 Chinese Big Data Enterprises

BEIJING,Aug. 20,2018 -- Gridsum Holding Inc.("Gridsum" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: GSUM),a leading provider of cloud-based big-data analytics and artificial intelligence ("AI") solutions inChina,today announced that it has been ranked among the 2018 Top 50 Chinese Big Data Enterprises by the Big Data Industry Alliance of China (the "Alliance"). Gridsum was recognized along with Alibaba,Huawei,Tencent,Lenovo,Inspur,Didi Chuxing,Xiaomi,and Microsoft (China).

The Alliance is a non-profit organization focused on facilitating the development of the big data industry in China. The Alliance is jointly run by a number of respected institutions and is led by China Center for Information and Industry Development (CCID),a research institute under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

The Alliance assessed potential nominees on a number of metrics including their big data application capabilities,investments in big data research and development,product innovation,case studies,financing needs and growth potential.

Mr. Guosheng Qi,Chief Executive Officer of Gridsum,commented,"More than 2,000 enterprises were assessed this year and we are excited to have been ranked among the top 50. Once again,this demonstrates our leading R&D capabilities and achievements in the big data industry. Our investment and allocation of resources towards R&D innovations and leveraging our core competency in big data analytics and AI to develop new enterprise-focused products are clearly paying off and well recognized. We will continue to leverage our extensive experience and technology to innovate new solutions to add more value to our clients and help them to make better data-driven decisions."

AboutGridsum

Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ: GSUM)is a leading provider of cloud-based big-data analytics and AI solutions for multinational and domestic enterprises and government agencies inChina.Gridsum'score technology,the Gridsum Big Data Platform,is built on a distributed computing framework and performs real-time multi-dimensional correlation analysis of both structured and unstructured data. This enablesGridsum's customers to identify complex relationships within their data and gain new insights that help them make better business decisions. The Company is named "Gridsum" to symbolize the combination of distributed computing (Grid) and analytics (sum). As a digital intelligence pioneer,the Company's mission is to help enterprises and government organizations inChinause data in new and powerful ways to make better informed decisions and be more productive.

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