SEEU Technology Closes Nearly 100 Million Yuan Pre-A Round to Build Digital Foundation for Hydrogen Applications with Integrated Electronic Control Technology | Unity Ventures

九合创投·March 25, 2025·0·0

Driving Hydrogen Energy From "Infrastructure-Dependent" to "Scenario-Driven"

Recently, SEEU Technology, a Unity Ventures portfolio company, officially completed its Pre-A series financing round (comprising Pre-A, Pre-A+, and Pre-A++). The round was jointly invested by Topband, Bridge Capital, Jiangsu Jinqiao Fund, and Bozhon Precision Industry, with existing shareholder Wujiang Oriental State-Owned Assets continuing to follow on. The total amount raised was nearly RMB 100 million.

In China, electrification has become an inevitable trend. Traditional lithium battery energy storage struggles to meet long-duration storage demands, making hydrogen energy the key to solving the intermittency and volatility challenges brought by large-scale grid integration of new energy sources. Future society will ultimately achieve safe and reliable zero-carbon closed-loop operation of new energy systems through hydrogen-energy complementarity.

High-quality electronic control is a critical factor ensuring the stable operation of power-electronics-based new energy systems. Integrated hydrogen energy electronic control solutions that account for multiple energy forms represent core competitive advantage. However, due to the complexity of hydrogen-electric systems and their dependence on highly integrated high-frequency power electronics, the industry has yet to develop a new electronic control architecture fully based on hydrogen-electric system requirements.

Therefore, for Dong Zhen, founder and chairman, developing a fully self-developed, highly integrated hardware and software electronic control architecture that meets the industry's secondary programming and development needs is paramount — this is both the company's mission and a rigid demand for industry product iteration.

In 2023, SEEU Technology successfully developed the industry's first fully integrated electronic control architecture to pass Class 3 certification — achieving 20% reduction in equipment costs, 80% reduction in labor costs, and 50% shortening of product iteration cycles through highly integrated hardware, parallel and scalable software architecture, and user-programmable application ecosystems. This achievement was evaluated by multiple academicians as "filling a domestic gap with significant industry-driving importance."

Breaking Through with Technology: Leveraging a "Digital Foundation" to Unlock the Trillion-Dollar Hydrogen Market

"Hydrogen energy development shouldn't be limited to single applications — it should create more new value scenarios." Dong Zhen's conviction stems from his insight into the industry's essence: in the hydrogen energy value chain, the electronic control system functions like a "nervous system," determining energy conversion efficiency and scenario adaptability. SEEU Technology's integrated electronic control platform breaks through the constraints of traditional discrete architectures, reconstructing industry standards through three core advantages.

On hardware innovation, high-integration application of high-frequency power electronic devices increases power density by 20%; proprietary multi-module parallel self-current-sharing technology achieves flexible expansion from single-unit watt-level to hundred-kilowatt power, and megawatt-scale capacity through multi-agent parallel connection.

On software ecosystem, China's first user-programmable platform provides full-chain development support of "toolchain + model library + debugging system," with algorithm platforms compatible with multiple fuel cell technology routes including air-cooled and water-cooled stacks.

Scenario penetration capabilities enable SEEU Technology to span from "integrated hydrogen production, storage, and power generation" to "low-altitude hydrogen power," covering transportation, energy, and industrial sectors through deep partnerships with leading enterprises including State Power Investment Corporation, TBEA, Dongfeng, and EVE Energy, with nearly 3,000 units deployed.

"Integrated electronic control is not merely hardware integration innovation — it's about building a complete hydrogen energy digital ecosystem," Dong Zhen explains. Through the "digital foundation" of its electronic control platform, SEEU Technology is driving hydrogen energy from "infrastructure dependence" toward "scenario-driven" development, achieving highly integrated full-domain integration of subsystems, end-to-end development verification across electronic control-system-terminal, and forward product design and standard product incubation based on hydrogen energy characteristics — providing comprehensive solutions for diverse application scenarios.

Based on its integrated electronic control platform, SEEU Technology is gradually building a diversified ecological foundation spanning green low-altitude economy, shared green mobility, green energy storage and power generation, and hydrogen energy science and engineering discipline development. Based on energy routing concepts, it has developed standardized, modular, plug-and-play, clusterable smart energy power units, continuously advancing diversified community-based hydrogen energy applications under the zero-carbon society goal, and committed to addressing deficiencies in existing energy electrical systems in "dangerous, emergency, special, harsh, and cold" scenarios.

Capital Endorsement: "Consensus on Certainty" in the Trillion-Dollar Hydrogen Track

The coordinated entry of state-owned capital, industrial capital, and private equity funds in the Pre-A series financing reflects three layers of market confidence in SEEU Technology:

Under policy dividends, hydrogen energy has been formally incorporated into the Energy Law of the People's Republic of China. Driven by "dual carbon" goals, electrification has become an inevitable trend; abundant wind and solar resources have laid a broad market foundation for hydrogen energy development, comprehensively covering diverse application scenarios including multi-dimensional transportation, industry and commerce, culture and tourism, and energy — gradually reaching into millions of households.
On technology barriers, SEEU Technology has formed a patent wall centered on four core technologies: "integrated electronic control architecture, high-frequency control, cluster dispatching, and complex system optimization," with over 80 national patent applications filed and a projected 200 within three years. R&D investment exceeds 40% of revenue; in 2024, it received national high-tech enterprise certification and Suzhou "Unicorn" cultivation enterprise designation.
In scenario validation, SEEU Technology has penetrated zero-carbon scenarios including low-altitude economy, new energy interconnection, and electrified transportation and mobility. Its hydrogen-electric coupling system products have been applied to hydrogen energy storage and power generation, emergency power supply, electric vessels, light and heavy-duty vehicles, and large-payload long-endurance aircraft — achieving scaled mass production of standard products with average annual revenue growth of 300%.

The helm of SEEU Technology, Dong Zhen, is a young scientist, entrepreneur, and innovator. After obtaining his bachelor's and master's degrees through Harbin Institute of Technology's "Elite Program" in 2018, he pursued a fully-funded PhD in electrical new energy at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, subsequently serving as a research fellow at the University of Warwick's Intelligent Control and Smart Energy (ICSE) Institute, responsible for offshore hydrogen energy. In 2024, at age 29, Dong Zhen was appointed to the School of Electrical Engineering and Automation at Harbin Institute of Technology, becoming the school's youngest full professor. He has been selected for the 2024 Forbes Asia and 2023 Forbes China 30 Under 30 lists, the National Returnee Innovation Key Support Program, and has published over 120 papers, patents, and software copyrights in international journals and conferences including IEEE Trans., Applied Energy, and Automatica.

Under Dong Zhen's leadership, a group of young people with aspirations to serve their country have gathered at SEEU Technology — undaunted by difficulties, uncritical of conformity, jointly building a new hydrogen energy ecosystem. Core team members come from top domestic and international universities (University of Manchester, Technical University of Munich, Nanyang Technological University, Beihang University, Harbin Institute of Technology, etc.) and Fortune 500 companies (Huawei, Inovance, SAIC, National Instruments, etc.), with 100% holding master's or doctoral degrees and extensive experience in power electronic systems, control systems, and hydrogen-electric coupling system R&D.

Future Vision: Building a Hydrogen Ecosystem from "Pond" to "Ocean"

"The hydrogen energy electronic control platform was never a choice — it's a mandatory question," Dong Zhen states. Through its open integrated electronic control platform, SEEU Technology enables more enterprises to participate in co-building the hydrogen energy ecosystem, jointly addressing the problems that "hydrogen energy isn't being used well, and lithium batteries don't work well" — refusing to "cut the foot to fit the shoe," and instead defining good hydrogen energy products through hydrogen energy's inherent characteristics. Only through forward-designed hydrogen energy products built on the digital foundation of the integrated electronic control software ecosystem platform can industry value and market ceilings be truly elevated.

Green Low-Altitude Economy: SEEU Technology has developed standard hydrogen power module products and a hydrogen-powered aircraft development platform. The platform supports secondary development, with modular expansion covering multi-power aircraft needs, enabling multi-rotor aircraft payloads exceeding 100kg and endurance over one hour. It has established partnerships with Beihang University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and other institutions to provide UAV hydrogen power systems; collaborated with State Power Investment Corporation to tackle "fuel cell R&D and application for large-payload long-endurance UAVs"; and in 2024, its phase-validated product "intelligent safe hydrogen-powered UAV" consecutively won the Gold Medal at the 49th Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions, the European Academy of Sciences Gold Medal, and the特许金奖 & Geneva Organizing Committee Grand Prize at the 3rd Asia Innovation and Invention Exhibition (the only Gold Medal from mainland China) among other international honors.

Shared Green Mobility: SEEU Technology achieves integrated intelligent management of power system electronic control, motor ESC, and vehicle IoT, forming a full-chain closed-loop ecosystem of vehicle development-operations platform-product upgrades, providing standardized e-bike power system solutions while supporting platform-based development, transformation, and deployment of innovative products. It has established strategic partnerships with over 20 fuel cell stack enterprises, more than 10 hydrogen storage system companies, and frame manufacturers, with deployment and operations in multiple locations in the Yangtze River Delta region, accumulating over 40,000 user trips in five months.

Going forward, SEEU Technology remains firmly committed to advancing the hydrogen energy industry as its corporate responsibility:

Continuously contributing excellent electronic control solutions to the collective progress of the hydrogen energy industry chain.
Continuously providing forward development platforms for community-based hydrogen energy scenario applications (such as shared hydrogen vehicles and low-altitude hydrogen-powered aircraft).
Engaging in the long-term construction of hydrogen energy science and engineering disciplines, providing complete discipline construction solutions for higher education teaching and research.
Deeply undertaking or participating in national-level demonstration projects, tackling system-level bottleneck problems in energy interconnection.

SEEU Technology's growth validates the logic of "innovation-driven, ecosystem co-construction" in the hydrogen energy track. Under the dual impetus of policy and market, it is leveraging hydrogen energy electronic control as its fulcrum to unlock the trillion-dollar blue ocean of the energy revolution. When hydrogen energy truly integrates into low-altitude economy, smart transportation, and urban power grids, SEEU Technology will become an indispensable name in this transformation — witnessing and powering this unprecedented transition and development.

Source: 36Kr

Author: Zhang Bingbing