Horizon Robotics
VC Fund
Haidian, China
Horizon Robotics is a leading provider of ADAS and AD solutions for passenger vehicles with proprietary software and hardware. Our solutions combine cutting-edge algorithms, purpose-built software and state-of-the-art processing hardware, providing the core technologies for assisted and autonomous driving that enhance the safety and experience ofdrivers and passengers.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 31%
Last updated:
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Industries Horizon Robotics invests in
Stages Horizon Robotics invests in
Countries Horizon Robotics invests in
Contacts
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Annie Tao
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Chang Huang
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Kai Yu
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Yufeng Zhang
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Zhitai Zheng
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (50%)
- Robotics 5 (31%)
- Software 3 (19%)
- Autonomous Vehicles 3 (19%)
- Automotive 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (38%)
- Series A 4 (25%)
- Series B 3 (19%)
- Series D 1 (6%)
- Corporate Round 1 (6%)
Country
- China 10 (63%)
- United States 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Annie Tao
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
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Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Chang Huang
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
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Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Kai Yu
Founder & CEO
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Founder & CEO | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
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Yufeng Zhang
Vice President and General Manager of Smart Driving Products
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Vice President and General Manager of Smart Driving Products | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Zhitai Zheng
Chief Strategy Officer
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Chief Strategy Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Dingdang Power
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Dingdang Power builds large-scale spatial intelligence models that enable AI to perceive and act in the physical world by integrating robots and physical agents. Dingdang Power creates spatial AI models that fuse robotic systems with real-world perception, allowing machines to understand and operate in physical environments. Dingdang Power developsspatial intelligence for seamless AI–robot integration, empowering machines to sense, interpret, and interact with the physical world. | Seed / May 19, 2026 | |
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Z Truck
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Zaihe Automobile is the manufacturer of new energy commercial vehicles for logistics industry. | $146.8M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 15, 2026 | |
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Octopus Power
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Octopus Power develops physics-based artificial intelligence systems focused on physical AGI, enabling machines to perceive, reason, and act within real-world environments. The company builds models that integrate physical laws with data-driven learning to support embodied intelligence, allowing systems to interact with and adapt to dynamicphysical conditions. Its technology is designed to move beyond purely digital AI by incorporating simulation, control systems, and real-world feedback loops into intelligent decision-making.The platform supports applications in robotics, industrial automation, and complex physical systems where understanding motion, force, and environmental constraints is essential. It leverages continuous learning mechanisms that allow systems to evolve over time, improving performance through interaction and data accumulation. Octopus Power also develops infrastructure for training and deploying these models, including simulation environments and tools for integrating AI with physical hardware. | $50M / Series A / Mar 20, 2026 | |
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Octopus Power
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Octopus Power develops physics-based artificial intelligence systems focused on physical AGI, enabling machines to perceive, reason, and act within real-world environments. The company builds models that integrate physical laws with data-driven learning to support embodied intelligence, allowing systems to interact with and adapt to dynamicphysical conditions. Its technology is designed to move beyond purely digital AI by incorporating simulation, control systems, and real-world feedback loops into intelligent decision-making.The platform supports applications in robotics, industrial automation, and complex physical systems where understanding motion, force, and environmental constraints is essential. It leverages continuous learning mechanisms that allow systems to evolve over time, improving performance through interaction and data accumulation. Octopus Power also develops infrastructure for training and deploying these models, including simulation environments and tools for integrating AI with physical hardware. | Seed / Mar 12, 2026 | |
KargoBot
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KargoBot is an autonomous driving company that aims to commercialize robotrucks in a sustainable and scalable manner. | $100M / Series B / Mar 02, 2026 | |
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Unbounded Dynamics
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Unbounded Dynamics is a robotics and embodied intelligence startup focused on developing foundational AI “brains” and operational intelligence for robots and autonomous systems aimed at industrial and B-end scenarios. It works on the coordination of perception (“eyes”), manipulation (“hands”), and decision-making (“brain”) in physical robots bybuilding general basic models and expert system integrations as part of a hardware-software architecture to enable continuous iterative evolution of embodied intelligence. | $42.1M / Seed / Nov 10, 2025 | |
Yihang.ai
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Yihang.ai manufactures autonomous driving systems. Yihang Intelligent provides the host factory with a complete auto-driving solution with high reliability, high quality and low cost. Since its establishment, Yihang Intelligent has been aiming at productization and strictly follows the development process of the main engine factory. At present,Autopilot has been commercialized, and Autopilot function autopilot solution is provided for a certain production model. It is applied to Level 4 deep learning technology research and development. Breakthroughs have also been made to achieve real-time pixel-level image segmentation based on deep learning on a car-level embedded chip. Yihang intelligent team is proficient in artificial intelligence and core algorithms such as sensing, decision-making, control and fault diagnosis. It integrates the elites of the automotive industry and experts in computer vision and deep learning. The team members are from domestic and foreign OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, domestic and foreign. Leading scientific research institutions and famous universities at home and abroad such as Berkeley and Cambridge.It began operation in 2015, with its headquarters in Beijing in China. | Series D / May 12, 2025 | |
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Vita Dynamics
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Vita Dynamics involves learning through real-world interactions by developing robots that can physically engage with their environment, they can adapt more naturally and efficiently. | $13.8M / Seed / Jan 22, 2025 | |
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KargoBot
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KargoBot is an autonomous driving company that aims to commercialize robotrucks in a sustainable and scalable manner. | $82.6M / Series A / Jun 28, 2024 | |
PhiGent Robotics
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PhiGent Robotics offers autonomous driving solutions. | $30M / Series B / May 23, 2024 | |
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FAQ
What does Horizon Robotics invest in?
Horizon Robotics invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in China. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Horizon Robotics?
The team at Horizon Robotics includes Annie Tao (Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer), Chang Huang (Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer) and Kai Yu (Founder & CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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