Starmax

Starmax (星迈 / Beatbot) is a Chinese pool-cleaning robot brand founded in 2022 that targets the high-end market with premium pricing—its debut AquaSense Pro was priced at $2,199, several times the industry average and well above Dolphin's mainstream products . The company has since built out global distribution, including a partnership with French distributor Poolstar covering 2,000+ dealers nationwide . As of September 2025, Beatbot had raised over 1 billion yuan in a new funding round led by Meituan Longzhu, bringing total funding across three rounds to 1.5 billion yuan; Monolith砺思资本, an early backer, continued to participate . Monolith also counts Starmax among its portfolio companies, though it ranked behind Moonshot AI/Kimi and沐曦 in internal recognition surveys .