Gridsum Attends the 9th China IP International Annual Forum

BEIJING,Jan. 23,2019 -- Gridsum Holding Inc. ("Gridsum" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: GSUM),a leading provider of cloud-based big-data analytics and artificial intelligence ("AI") solutions in China,today announced it attended the 9th China IP International Annual Forum ("China IP Annual Forum") which was held in Beijing,China,on January 12-13,2019. Ms. Wei Wang,Gridsum's Intellectual Property (IP) Department Leader,represented the Company where she was recognized with the "2018 Excellent In-house IP Manager in China" award.

Industry experts,government representatives,judges,and scholars from more than 30 countries attended this year's China IP Annual Forum where they discussed the function and value of IP in revitalizing and boosting the real economy as well as its application to business development and innovation.

Gridsum has consistently advocated for strengthened IP protection in China. The Company has filed patents for its big data and AI technologies which builds a strong foundation for future growth. Gridsum has built and integrated a sophisticated IP management system across its business which helps in managing the entire online patent and trademark application process and intelligently monitoring each patent's expiration. As of December 31,2018,Gridsum has applied for over 2,700 patents,of which big data and AI-related patents account for close to 1,000.

Mr. Guosheng Qi,Chief Executive Officer of Gridsum,commented,"I am extremely proud to see Ms. Wang recognized for Gridsum's IP operation excellence. We highly value IP rights and their key role in pushing technology forward. We will continue to focus on building out and securing our IP in order to protect the value of our R&D activities."

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 andthe Gridsum Prophet: Enterprise AI Engine,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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