Zhenyu Li
李震宇
Zhenyu Li (李震宇) is the founder and chairman of Tashi Zhihang (它石智航), an embodied intelligence startup. Before that, he was head of Baidu's intelligent driving business group . In February 2025 he teamed up with Yilun Chen, fresh out of Tsinghua AIR, and former Huawei "genius youth" Wenchao Ding to formally establish Tashi . The company moved fast: a $120 million angel round co-led by Qiming Venture Partners in March 2025 , and by April 2026 a $455 million Pre-A round, which Li said would go toward accelerating its general embodied foundation model AWE and hiring top talent — with the next round earmarked for building robots that "actually work and actually ship" . Ding serves as the company's chief scientist .
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A Conversation with Tashi's Wenchao Ding: Embodied AI May Hit Its True Emergence Moment in 24 Months
"Trustworthiness" may be the final dividing line for embodied intelligence.
A Conversation with Chen Yilun of Tashi: In the Trillion-Dollar Embodied Intelligence Arena, Only Those Who Win the War Are Heroes
The first panoramic telling of the Tashi founding story.
Qiming Star | Tashi Zhihang's Yilun Chen: Third Attempt at a Trillion-Dollar Track
We're not afraid of failure at all, but we want to move fast and generate a lot of original, self-driven solutions and ideas.
BlueRun Ventures' Angel Project Tashi Zhihang Closes $455M Pre-A Round to Build Robots That "Actually Work and Actually Ship" | BlueRun Family
Let China's Embodied Intelligence Take the World Stage
"Tashi Intelligent Navigation" Raises $455 Million in Pre-A Round, Linear Capital Continues to Back Through Three Consecutive Rounds Since Seed Stage | Linear Portfolio
China's embodied intelligence sector has set two all-time fundraising records simultaneously.
Every company in the embodied intelligence space could be solid — the key is whether they've figured out who they want to become | Linear Voice
The embodied data foundation needs to be at the scale of 10 million hours or more.
Embodied intelligence startup Tashi Intelligent Navigation announced a $120 million angel funding round, continuing to push the boundaries of physical-world intelligence.
Exploring the unlimited potential of embodied intelligence.
Tashi Zhihang Raises $120 Million in Angel Round, Co-Led by Qiming Venture Partners
Tashi Zhihang is the only company in the industry that simultaneously possesses Embodied Artificial Intelligence large model capabilities, in-house robotics R&D capabilities, and mass production capacity for integrated hardware-software products.
BlueRun Ventures Leads $120 Million Angel Round in Tashi Zhihang, Embarking on a New Journey in Embodied Intelligence | BlueRun Portfolio
Not just a "robotics company," but an "industry scenario solutions company."
