Xingmai Innovation
星迈创新
Xingmai Innovation (星迈创新), also known by its brand name Beatbot, is a high-end pool-cleaning robot company founded in 2022 by Wang Shengle, an engineer who had never been to the United States and had not even passed English CET-4 at the time of founding . The company targets affluent American homeowners with private pools, a market Wang first encountered through the 2019 Netflix series *Love, Death & Robots* .
As of September 2025, the company has raised over 1.5 billion RMB across three funding rounds, with its latest round exceeding 1 billion RMB led by Meituan Longzhu and with continued backing from existing investor Monolith . Cathay Capital also counts it among its portfolio of AI-application hardware investments . Its AquaSense 2 Ultra and AquaSense 2 products won 2025 Red Dot Design Awards . Wang has described the company's strategy as deliberately "more restrained and more difficult" — avoiding homogeneous competition by focusing on specific scenarios and user needs through differentiation and technical innovation .
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Every step is worth recording.
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