A New Map of the World Is Unfolding | Unity Ventures New Year Edition
The Old Rules No Longer Apply, a New Continent Emerges
The Unity Ventures Quarterly tracks the latest developments across our portfolio over the past three months — funding rounds, business milestones, and recognition earned by our founders and our team.
We journey alongside entrepreneurs on the trajectory of technological evolution, continuously observing the shifts underway and, across longer time horizons, identifying the direction of the tide.
Portfolio Funding Updates
"Momenta" partners with Grab and secures strategic investment
Momenta has entered a strategic partnership with Grab, Southeast Asia's leading mobility and everyday services platform, and received a strategic investment from Grab to jointly advance autonomous driving technology across Southeast Asian markets. Momenta's global ecosystem continues to expand steadily. In May 2025, Momenta established a strategic partnership with Uber, the world's largest mobility platform, to explore cutting-edge autonomous driving technology for future shared mobility networks. The two parties expect to officially launch commercial operations in Munich, Germany in 2026. (Learn more)
"Noetix Robotics" closes nearly RMB 200 million Pre-B+ round, raising nearly RMB 500 million in one month
Noetix Robotics announced the completion of a nearly RMB 200 million Pre-B+ funding round, led by CICC Capital with participation from Yuntai Capital and Houwei Capital. Combined with its previous nearly RMB 300 million Pre-B round, the company has raised nearly RMB 500 million in total within a single month, bringing its year-to-date fundraising to five rounds. Concurrently, Noetix Robotics formally unveiled its strategic partnership with CodeMao, a leader in programming education, to jointly establish a "Humanoid Robot Programming Education Lab." (Learn more)
"ONE2X" completes Series A, officially launches conversation-centric video creation tool Medeo
ONE2X announced the completion of its Series A round in mid-2025, bringing its cumulative historical funding to nearly USD 23 million. The new round's investors include Qingliu Capital, Unity Ventures, and Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group, while existing investors Meituan Longzhu and Xiaomi co-founder Wang Chuan continued to follow on. Historical investors include HSG and Baichuan. Founded by the former head of foundation model products at Moonshot AI, ONE2X's product Medeo is a conversation-centric video creation tool that enables video production through chat — requiring only creativity, no editing. (Learn more)
"ArtArch" announces two consecutive funding rounds, launches debut product Skira
ArtArch announced two consecutive funding rounds completed in early 2025, with Jinqiu Fund leading the seed round and Unity Ventures and Baidu Venture participating in the angel round. Founded by Yan Huang, former head of intelligent creation engineering and R&D at ByteDance, ArtArch released its first product Skira in late October, packaging complex editing and orchestration into "play modes." Users simply input basic instructions or materials to invoke underlying capabilities and generate viral content with one click. (Learn more)
"AutoGame" secures tens of millions of RMB in new funding, pioneering AI-driven sandbox gaming paradigm
AutoGame announced the completion of a new funding round of tens of millions of RMB, invested by Cuican Capital. AutoGame is a "pioneer of the AI-driven sandbox gaming paradigm," elevating AI from a辅助工具 to a co-creator of game worlds. Through its self-developed HTN + large model architecture, it enables NPC autonomous decision-making and natural language interaction, allowing players to generate missions, maps, and character relationships in real time through text commands. (Learn more)
"Laimo Technology" completes tens of millions of RMB in Series A+ funding, four rounds in one year
Intelligent lawn mowing robot manufacturer Laimo Technology announced the completion of a tens of millions of RMB Series A+ round led by Unity Ventures, marking Unity's follow-on investment after its Series A participation. This represents Laimo's fourth funding round in 2025 alone, with cumulative funding reaching hundreds of millions of RMB. Laimo has chosen to enter the market by targeting large lawns over 1,000 square meters in North America with differentiated products. Having already crossed the mass production threshold, the company is now pushing for greater market share in North America. (Learn more)
"Squirrel Dynamics" completes hundred-million-RMB Pre-A round, building an "outdoor lifestyle base station"
Smart electric RV brand Squirrel Dynamics announced the completion of its Pre-A round, led by a prominent industry investor with follow-on from existing shareholders. Founded by Ang Xiao, former general manager of product lines and director of products at Anker, and pioneer of Anker's charging and energy storage business, Squirrel Dynamics received investment support from Anker's two co-founders at inception and has since completed multiple funding rounds. The company's first smart electric RV has completed engineering validation and will be officially unveiled at CES 2026. (Learn more)
"Antwork" completes Series C+ round, with dual state capital investment in low-altitude economy
Low-altitude logistics company Antwork announced the completion of a tens of millions of RMB Series C+ round, jointly invested by Hangzhou Low-Altitude Industry Development Co., Ltd. and Zigong Aviation Industry Development Equity Investment Fund Partnership. Antwork's drones have conducted commercial deliveries across 57 cities nationwide, accumulating over 3 million kilometers of flight distance, providing urban aerial logistics solutions for leading enterprise customers across medical emergency response, same-city instant delivery, fresh e-commerce, postal express, and campus delivery. (Learn more)
"Infinite Aerospace" completes Pre-A round, accelerating development of maiden space bus flight product
Commercial space in-orbit services company Infinite Aerospace announced the completion of a tens of millions of RMB Pre-A round, led by Shenzhen Guarantee Ventures with joint follow-on from Shouren Co-Creation, Qianhai Honghui, Nanxun Talent Fund, and Shenzhen Angel Fund. Infinite Aerospace focuses on R&D of in-orbit service spacecraft, orbital transfer, multi-satellite deployment, in-orbit life extension, and space transportation technologies and applications. In the first half of the year, the company successfully completed full-system ground testing of its space bus IH-1, achieving substantive breakthroughs in spacecraft engineering validation. (Learn more)
Portfolio Milestones
"D-Robotics" unveils embodied intelligence high-compute development platform S600, leading new paradigm of edge-cloud integrated robot evolution
Robot hardware-software general-purpose infrastructure provider D-Robotics successfully held its DDC2025 Developer Conference in Shenzhen. Addressing the extreme demands of embodied intelligence-era robots for edge-side compute power and development efficiency, the company announced upgrades to its full-stack development infrastructure, unveiling the embodied intelligence robot high-compute development platform S600, scheduled for official release in Q1 2026. It also launched the "D-Robotics One-Stop Development Platform" covering data closed-loop systems, embodied intelligence training grounds, and Agent development services — accelerating robot intelligence evolution through hardware-software integration and edge-cloud unification. (Learn more)
"Noetix Robotics" launches new product "Bumi" at RMB 9,998, firing the first shot for humanoid robot popularization
On October 23, 2025, Noetix Robotics' "Bumi" humanoid robot went on sale on JD.com, priced at RMB 9,998. Orders exceeded 100 units within one hour, and the initial batch of 500 units sold out within two days. Positioned as a family companion providing emotional value and educational enrichment, the robot stands 94cm tall, weighs approximately 12kg, and features over 21 degrees of freedom, capable of flexibly performing complex movements including walking, running, and dancing. It also integrates smooth voice interaction and zero-threshold graphical programming capabilities. (Learn more)
"Moying Technology" partners with KA to create new paradigm of unmanned CNC workshops
Moying Technology successfully delivered a benchmark unmanned CNC workshop transformation for global manufacturing giant KA. In a mobile phone mid-frame/cover plate CNC processing workshop, through deep integration of mobile collaborative robots and flexible management systems, the company completed full-process automation upgrade of over 500 machine tools in just 45 days, achieving triple breakthroughs in capacity, efficiency, and workforce optimization. Daily workshop capacity increased by 8%, with overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) improved to 85%. The solution also features low-code, modular deployment advantages, supporting rapid replication across other factory sites. (Learn more)
"Leekr Technology" signs MOU with Vietnam's Geleximco Group, deepening industrial collaboration
Intelligent chassis system solutions provider Leekr Technology formally signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with Vietnam's Geleximco Group to deepen industrial collaboration in core components for automotive intelligent chassis, providing an efficient pathway for Leekr's entry into Vietnam's rapidly growing market. Leekr Technology represents China's emerging intelligent chassis component suppliers, having achieved scaled mass production with multiple mainstream Chinese automakers including Chery Automobile, Seres, and FAW. Its line-control braking One-box product ranked among the top three Chinese brand suppliers by market share in its segment in 2024. (Learn more)
"Yaotang Bio" receives FDA approval to launch world's first Phase III clinical trial for in vivo gene editing therapy for PH1
Yaotang Bio announced that its self-developed in vivo gene editing drug YOLT-203 injection has received Investigational New Drug (IND) approval from the FDA, officially launching a global multi-center, double-blind, randomized controlled confirmatory clinical study for the treatment of primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1), becoming the world's first in vivo gene editing drug for PH1 to enter a confirmatory clinical trial. (Learn more)
Spotlight Moments
Unity Ventures received over 10 awards including Zero2IPO "Top 20 Early-Stage Investment Institutions in China," ChinaVenture "Top 50 Best Early-Stage Investors," and Forbes China "2025 Venture Capitalists 100."
Congratulations to "JD.com" for its successful listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on December 11, 2025, advancing the digital and intelligent transformation of industrial supply chains. In 2020, JD.com announced the acquisition of Unity Ventures portfolio company "Gongpinhui."
Leekr Technology, Yunxigu, and Botao New Materials were simultaneously selected as national-level "Little Giant" specialized and innovative enterprises.
Independent Variable Robotics, Noetix Robotics, D-Robotics, Star Ring Energy Fusion, Yaotang Bio, and Leekr Technology were selected for Zero2IPO's 2025 VENTURE50 list.
Tungee was selected for Jazzyear's "China AI Agent Sector Most Commercially Potential List" and Huxiu's "2025 Great Whale List · GenAI Strongest Implementation Companies."
INMO's latest product INMO GO3 was honored with the Golden Gyro "Excellent AI AR Glasses of the Year."
Ulsrobotics' VIATRIX™ extended-range powered exoskeleton robot won the "2026 CES Innovation Award."
