MaKe | MaHui Member Keyi Tech Closes New Funding Round of Over 100 Million Yuan, Unveils New Product at CES

MaHui member Keyi Tech recently completed a new funding round totaling over 100 million RMB. The round was jointly led by Wuzhong Financial Holdings and Yuanhe Taihu Bay, with follow-on investments from Cornerstone Capital, Wanqiang Li, and other notable financial institutions and investors. Previous investor BlueRun Ventures continued to increase its stake, and Gengxin Capital served as the financial advisor. The proceeds will primarily fund continued R&D of the company's robot emotional interaction model technology, mass production and marketing of new products, and recruitment of top AI talent.

Source Code Capital led the company's 2020 funding round and participated in a follow-on round in 2021.

Founded in 2014, Keyi Tech is an innovative company engaged in the R&D and production of interactive robots. Its self-developed emotional interaction model deeply integrates multiple cutting-edge technologies to achieve efficient coordination between AI and human emotions, establishing itself as a foundational technology for human-machine emotional interaction that leads industry development and is capable of large-scale deployment. Since its founding, the company has raised multiple rounds from investors including Source Code Capital, BlueRun Ventures, Xiaomi, Shunwei Capital, Anker, Songhe Yuanwang, and other well-known institutions.

Keyi Tech's first home pet robot, Loona, achieved impressive results with its cute design and practical features, raising $4 million in just 45 days on Kickstarter in 2022. To date, the product has reached over 150 countries and regions globally, with cumulative sales of nearly 100,000 units.

Loona integrates biomimetic movement, visual perception, and natural language understanding and expression. Through its high-definition RGB camera, it can accurately recognize family members and provide emotional interactive feedback, with facial expression and gesture recognition accuracy of up to 95%. Equipped with a 3D ToF sensor, it proactively senses surrounding obstacles, provides real-time feedback, and plans navigation routes. Through touch sensors, Loona responds to behaviors like petting and fist bumps. Deeply integrated with the latest AI large models, it quickly answers everyday questions and can analyze history, explain science, and enrich daily life.

Loona enables rich emotional interaction, entertainment, offline communication, remote monitoring, laser tracking, and other functions. It also supports graphical programming education, making it widely applicable in smart home scenarios such as youth education and companionship for children and the elderly.

Keyi Tech is committed to developing human-machine interaction technology, deeply integrating AI with robotics, creating different types of robot products around users' life scenarios, and building an AI robot ecosystem. During this year's CES, the company will launch Loona Deskmate, the world's first desktop assistant robot, further expanding its product ecosystem.

According to reports, Loona DeskMate is precisely positioned for personal office scenarios, providing each user with a robot assistant that feels alive. Equipped with the emotional interaction model, it can truly understand your emotional intentions without requiring wake words — like a little assistant that's always by your side, communicating and interacting with users naturally and vividly while providing emotional value. When working, it transforms into a secretary that truly understands you, helping users manage schedules, reply to emails, handle daily chores, and even serve as a meeting assistant. It is also an all-in-one desktop workstation, offering up to 180W GaN fast charging and Qi2-certified magnetic wireless charging.