Dalong Du
都大龙
Dalong Du is a Chinese AI engineer turned serial entrepreneur, currently founder and CEO of Zhangyu Power (章鱼动力), a robotics company that raised nearly $50 million in Series A funding co-led by Linear Capital in March 2026 and closed a $50 million new round in June 2026 . He previously co-founded PhiGent Robotics (鉴智机器人) in 2021, which was acquired in late 2025 . Du was among the first ten employees and served as algorithm director at Horizon Robotics, and earlier worked as an architect at Baidu's Deep Learning Institute, where he twice won Baidu's top engineer award . He holds a PhD from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and is currently an engineering PhD candidate at Tsinghua University .
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"Zhangyu Power" Closes $50 Million New Funding Round, Linear Capital Continues to Double Down | Linear Portfolio
Accelerate the development of world foundation models and a "hand-brain integration" platform.
"Octopus Power" Closes Nearly $50 Million Series A, Co-Led by Linear Capital and Others | Linear Portfolio
Building a sustainable, self-evolving embodied-intelligent productive force.
5Y News | 5Y Capital Portfolio Company PhiGent Robotics Closes Tens of Millions of USD in Series A+ Funding
Based on software-hardware co-optimization, we are building 3D intelligent computing for autonomous driving and robotics, enabling intelligent interaction between machines and the physical world.
5Y News | PhiGent Robotics Raises Tens of Millions of USD Within Two Months of Founding, Accelerating Deployment of Next-Generation Autonomous Driving Technology
Building robotic sensors, computing, and intelligent brains.
