March, Exploration and New Frontiers | 5Y News Monthly

5Y News Monthly

"5Y News Monthly" is a recurring column from 5Y Capital. At the start of each month, we look back at the past month's news from 5Y and our portfolio companies, sharing it with friends who follow us — so you can get to know us better.

01 Portfolio Company Highlights

Major news about our portfolio companies' funding rounds, IPOs, strategic partnerships, breakthroughs, and new product launches.

02 5Y Capital Updates

News about 5Y's honors, investor interviews, and thought leadership.

Note: Companies are listed in alphabetical order by pinyin.

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Portfolio Company Highlights

Horizon Robotics and UAES Form Strategic Partnership

On February 14, Horizon Robotics and automotive electronics technology company UAES held a strategic partnership signing ceremony in Shanghai. The two sides will leverage their respective industrial resources and technical strengths in automotive electronics and AI to collaborate on R&D for mass-producible cross-domain fusion vehicle computing platforms, fully realizing complementary advantages, building a sustainable strategic partnership, and accelerating the realization of software-defined vehicles. Read more

HAI Robotics Partners with Savoye

Following the launch of its first demo center in Fremont, Silicon Valley, HAI Robotics has expanded its global strategic footprint to Europe — partnering with top-tier global logistics solutions provider Savoye to make a stunning debut at the Log!Ville demo center in Europe. The company not only unveiled its most cutting-edge intelligent logistics total solutions, but also demonstrated its breakthrough technologies in smart logistics to local customers and partners. Read more

Kuaishou and Wuzhizhou Island Launch "Undersea Garden" Initiative

On February 15, Kuaishou and Wuzhizhou Island in Sanya, Hainan Province jointly launched the "Undersea Garden" initiative for coral conservation, comprehensively improving coral coverage around Wuzhizhou Island and increasing public participation in coral protection. Through this initiative, both parties will leverage Kuaishou's massive user base and diverse content ecosystem, along with Wuzhizhou Island's annual million-plus visitors and solid foundation in coral conservation, to expand the scope of underwater coral restoration beyond existing rescue efforts. They will also promote marine environmental protection through livestreams, short videos, and offline exhibitions. Read more

Regenerative Bio Closes Angel and Angel+ Rounds

Regenerative Bio, the world's first anti-aging biotech R&D company powered by AI and cloud supercomputing, announced in February that it had closed a multi-million-dollar angel and angel+ round. The angel round was led by IMO Ventures, with participation from K2VC, Uphonest Capital, and Taihill Venture. The angel+ round was led by 5Y Capital, with participation from Yael Capital. The proceeds will be used to complete its domestic laboratory, optimize its AI screening platform, and promote its scientific anti-aging brand LAIFE. Read more

WeDoctor Launches "Hong Kong Anti-Epidemic Platform"

Digital healthcare platform WeDoctor launched the "WeDoctor Hong Kong Anti-Epidemic Platform" in February, with 23,000+ mainland doctors providing online support, offering Hong Kong residents free 24/7 online consultations and pandemic prevention education to jointly combat the outbreak and protect compatriots' health. Hong Kong residents with pandemic-related health questions can access the platform via WeChat QR code or web link to receive free online consultations and scientific pandemic protection knowledge. They can also download the Chinese-English bilingual Novel Coronavirus Infection Prevention and Treatment Handbook free of charge, allowing Hong Kong residents to conveniently consult doctors from home during the outbreak. Read more

Unknown and Aurealis Therapeutics Enter Greater China Licensing Agreement

Shenzhen Unknown Biotech, an industry-leading AI drug discovery company focused on microecological therapeutics, and synthetic biology company Aurealis Therapeutics announced in February an exclusive collaboration and licensing agreement for the development and commercialization of AUP-16, a clinical-stage novel drug for diabetic foot ulcers, other chronic wounds, and inflammatory diseases, in Greater China. Under the agreement terms, Unknown obtains exclusive rights to develop and commercialize AUP-16 for all potential indications in Greater China (including mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan). Read more

Xiaoice and BlueFocus Form Strategic Partnership

Xiaoice Company and BlueFocus have formed a strategic partnership, with both parties fully leveraging their respective advantages in brand marketing ecosystem richness and AI framework completeness to jointly explore virtual human applications across industries. As a first step, BlueFocus's "Fenshen Youshu" digital human driving platform launched its initial application version built on the Xiaoice framework, providing low-cost, high-efficiency, hyper-realistic "sharing" scenario solutions to help all industries achieve "avatar freedom." Read more

Redmi Partners with Mercedes-AMG F1 Team

Redmi held a new product launch event in February, unveiling the K50 Gaming Edition flagship phone and officially announcing an exclusive partnership with the Mercedes-AMG F1 team — a first for Xiaomi phones in partnering with an automaker. Redmi announced that the K50 Gaming Edition will feature 120W fast charging technology and a built-in 4700mAh large battery, fully charging in just 17 minutes. For specs, the K50 Gaming Edition may feature a Snapdragon 8 processor and dual VC cooling system. Read more

Xpeng Motors Issues SZSE's First Carbon-Neutral Auto Leasing ABS

On February 22, Xpeng Motors announced the successful issuance of the "Changcheng Jiaxin-Guojun-Xpeng Financial Leasing Green Asset-Backed Special Plan (Carbon Neutral)" — Xpeng's first ABS issuance in the domestic capital market and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange's first carbon-neutral auto leasing ABS. The original equity holder was Guangzhou Xpeng Motors Financial Leasing Co., a Xpeng subsidiary. The total project size was 775 million yuan, receiving strong investor demand. The senior A tranche (rated AAA) had a coupon rate of 3.0% with a 3.10x subscription ratio; the senior B tranche (rated AA+) had a coupon rate of 3.50% with a 4.61x subscription ratio. The coupon rates set a new low for new automaker financial leasing ABS, expanding Xpeng's low-cost financing channels. Read more

Signet Therapeutics Closes Angel++ Round

Signet Therapeutics (Shenzhen), a cancer innovative targeted drug R&D company based on disease models + AI, announced in February that it had completed a tens-of-millions-yuan angel++ round from Pine VC. This financing marks Signet's third round completed within one year. The proceeds will be used to accelerate three innovative targeted drug pipelines toward clinical trials, expand the application of its existing disease model platform, and strengthen its R&D team to enhance independent innovation capabilities. 5Y Capital previously led its angel+ round. Read more

Xinhuazhang Partners with Calterah

Xinhuazhang announced in February that Calterah Semiconductor, a leader in CMOS millimeter-wave radar chip development, has partnered with Xinhuazhang to adopt its high-performance FPGA prototyping verification system product HuaPro-P1 to verify the design of its new generation of complex chips. Leveraging Xinhuazhang's proprietary software toolchain, Calterah can complete the partitioning and implementation flow from ASIC design to FPGA prototype with one click, enabling RTL-level deep debugging on the FPGA prototype to achieve full system verification and shorten the iteration cycle from design verification to software development. Read more

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5Y Capital Updates

Humans Will Always Need More Sentient Beings | 5Y Tavern x Li Di of Xiaoice

"5Y Tavern" is where 5Y and friends gather to chat about entrepreneurship and life. We hope this column connects us, unleashes imagination, and discovers more curiosity, persistence, and audacity. What chemistry happens when entrepreneurs and investors meet at the tavern? Welcome to 5Y Tavern.

In this episode of 5Y Tavern, Xiaoice CEO Li Di shared the company's growth story. Since the first-generation Xiaoice launched in 2014, the Xiaoice framework has incubated AI beings across different domains — teenage Xiaoice, teenage Rinna, Tsinghua University virtual student Hua Zhibing, Central Academy of Fine Arts' Xia Yu Bing, NBD AI anchors N Xiaohei and N Xiaobai, and Vanke virtual employee Cui Xiaopan. More AI beings will come to human society and begin their lives. Read more

A Thousand People, A Thousand Metaverses | 5Y Tavern x Yao Xing of XVERSE

How to understand the metaverse — the next stage of technology, a new civilization, or a future world? Metaverse seems to have been entrusted with the mission of succeeding the internet. Is this future world a better world? How do entrepreneurs and investors in this space view the metaverse?

In this episode of 5Y Tavern, Yao Xing, founder of XVERSE, and Cheng Yu, partner at 5Y Capital, discussed their visions of the metaverse from the perspectives of technology, business, and philosophy. Perhaps their conversation can offer some inspiration. :) Read more

Agora x 5Y, "Supersonic Plan" 2022 Spring Camp Opens Recruitment

On February 17, the "Supersonic Plan" 2022 Spring Camp, jointly launched by Agora and 5Y Capital, officially opened recruitment. Applications close March 6, with online camp opening on March 12.

This edition of Supersonic Plan is open to all early-stage companies in the RTE (Real-Time Engagement) space, with particular focus on startups in metaverse, IoT, and enterprise collaboration. To better help startups grow in value, the empowerment benefits have been comprehensively upgraded this edition, offering accepted entrepreneurs more free product packages, deeper technical and go-to-market support, and broader global coverage — truly helping founders address pain points in product, technology, capital, and market growth. Read more

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