"Tashi Intelligent Navigation" Raises $455 Million in Pre-A Round, Linear Capital Continues to Back Through Three Consecutive Rounds Since Seed Stage | Linear Portfolio

Today, Tashi Intelligence announced the completion of a $455 million Pre-A funding round, setting the record for the largest single financing round and the largest Pre-A round in China's embodied intelligence history — reaching the first tier of the embodied intelligence industry in just one year.

Since its founding, Tashi Intelligence has achieved multiple key technical milestones, becoming the first to solve complex flexible wire harness assembly — the "Goldbach's conjecture" of industrial automation — and setting a Guinness World Record for the most sub-millimeter wire harness assemblies completed by a robot in one hour.

Linear Capital, an angel-round investor in Tashi Intelligence, has continued to increase its stake across three consecutive rounds.

On April 16, Tashi Intelligence announced the completion of its $455 million Pre-A round, setting the record for the largest single financing round and largest Pre-A round in China's embodied intelligence history.

With this round closed, Tashi Intelligence has reached the first tier of the embodied intelligence industry in just one year.

Vincent, Chief Strategy Officer of Tashi Intelligence, stated that this round was oversubscribed, primarily because Tashi has continued to earn the highest recognition and firm commitment from top domestic and international investment institutions:

On the financial investor side, Hillhouse and HSG co-led this round. Meituan Longzhu, CICC Capital, Kailian Capital, Oriental Fortune Capital, Junshan Capital, and other notable financial funds participated;

On the strategic investor side, TCL Capital, Shanghai Futen, Shoucheng Holdings (0697.HK), C&D Emerging Investment, Hengxu Capital, and China Intelligent Connected Vehicle further invested, which will strongly accelerate the company's commercialization across diversified scenarios;

On the strategic investor side, Meituan Strategic Investment, an important cornerstone strategic shareholder, made a significant additional investment and continued to co-lead, while existing shareholders including Qiming Venture Partners, Linear Capital, BlueRun Ventures, Xiang He Capital, and Hongtai APlus also made strategic additional investments;

On the state capital side, the Beijing Robotics Industry Development Investment Fund and Shanghai State Investment Pioneer made their first joint investment in an embodied intelligence company, supporting the company's alignment with national "15th Five-Year" robotics industry planning, helping Tashi become a regional chain-leading enterprise in embodied intelligence and drive industrial cluster upgrading.

Since its founding, Tashi Intelligence has remained committed to its original mission, achieving multiple key technical milestones, becoming the first to solve complex flexible wire harness assembly — the "Goldbach's conjecture" of industrial automation — and setting a Guinness World Record for "most sub-millimeter wire harness assemblies completed by a robot in one hour."

Dr. Chen Yilun, CEO of Tashi Intelligence, stated that the company has achieved密集 breakthroughs and commercial progress in full-stack AI deployment, human-centric data paradigms, and AWE3.0 — the world's first general-purpose embodied foundation model that can "actually work" — laying a solid foundation for future development. Tashi is committed to building trustworthy physical AI and becoming a pioneer in China's new quality productive forces.

Li Zhenyu, Chairman of Tashi Intelligence, stated that this round of funding will be used to accelerate the development of the general-purpose embodied foundation model AWE and to continue attracting top industry talent, while the next round will focus on building robots that truly work and can be mass-produced. The company will actively participate in global competition, bringing China's embodied intelligence to the world stage.