Unity Ventures Angel-Round Portfolio Company "Skywell" Lists on Nasdaq, Seven Portfolio Companies Announce New Funding Rounds | Unity Ventures Summer Chronicle
Thriving and Expanding, Pushing Boundaries Forward
Summer is when everything grows fastest — a season of exuberant, surging vitality.
Seven Unity Ventures portfolio companies announced new funding rounds, raising more than 1 billion yuan in total. On June 30, Skaige, a Unity Ventures angel-round investment, listed on the Nasdaq. From embodied AI to chips, biotech, and new energy, Unity Ventures-backed companies are pushing boundaries along their respective technological frontiers and embarking on new journeys.
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IPO Milestone
Unity Ventures Angel-Round Investment Skaige Successfully Lists on Nasdaq
On June 30 Beijing time, Skaige made its debut on the Nasdaq as the first US-listed new-energy intelligent commercial vehicle stock, under the ticker "SCAG." Unity Ventures invested in Skaige's angel round in December 2020 and continued to support its Pre-A round, making it the company's earliest and largest institutional investor representative.
Skaige is a global new-energy commercial vehicle company dedicated to accelerating the decarbonization of commercial transportation through advanced heavy-duty new-energy vehicle portfolios and innovative clean fuel systems. Through strategic partnerships with top-tier automakers and rigorous quality management systems, Skaige provides intelligent, high-performance new-energy vehicles serving logistics, mining, and port transportation scenarios. (Learn more)
Skaige plug-in hybrid heavy-duty truck product
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Unity Ventures Funding Compass
"Independent Variable Robotics" Completes Two Consecutive Rounds Worth Hundreds of Millions of Yuan, with Meituan Strategic Investment Exclusively Leading Series A
Embodied AI company Independent Variable Robotics completed a Series A round worth hundreds of millions of yuan, led by Meituan Strategic Investment with participation from Meituan Longzhu. In less than a year and a half since its founding, Independent Variable Robotics has completed seven funding rounds, with total capital raised exceeding 1 billion yuan.
Independent Variable Robotics is among the earliest Chinese companies to pursue general embodied AI large models through a fully end-to-end approach, building general-purpose robots with fine manipulation capabilities. Since late last year, the company has achieved breakthroughs in multimodal output and embodied chain-of-thought reasoning, while making continued progress in dynamic environment perception, real-time task planning, and long-horizon task execution. (Learn more)
"D-Robotics" Completes $100 Million Series A Round, Accelerating Embodied AI Ecosystem Buildout
On May 28, 2025, marking one year of independent operation, D-Robotics — under Horizon Robotics-W (9660.HK) — announced the completion of a $100 million Series A round with participation from Unity Ventures.
D-Robotics carries the founding vision of "becoming the Wintel of the robotics era," pioneering a full-stack product system spanning chips, algorithms, and software. On the commercial front, it has achieved scaled deployment in consumer robotics markets, incubated diverse categories of emerging intelligent robots, and collaborated with leading embodied AI enterprises — all to drive the intelligent evolution and scaled deployment of robotics. (Learn more)
"UltraBionics" Completes Series B Round, Accelerating Consumer Exoskeleton Robot Mass Production
Exoskeleton robot technology platform UltraBionics announced the completion of a Series B round worth tens of millions of yuan, led by Binfu Capital with continued follow-on investment from existing shareholder Guoyi Capital. This marks another capital infusion following UltraBionics' tens of millions of yuan Series A+ round in July 2024, bringing total capital raised to hundreds of millions of yuan. Unity Ventures led UltraBionics' Pre-A round.
Currently, multiple new consumer-grade exoskeleton robot products from UltraBionics have entered the trial production and mass production critical phase, kicking off the inaugural year of consumer scenario applications. The company plans to develop a three-pillar structure serving B2B, government, and consumer markets. (Learn more)
UltraBionics full product lineup
"Haawking" Completes Pre-B+ Round, Accelerating RISC-V DSP Chip Technology Innovation and Application
Unity Ventures portfolio company Haawking announced the completion of its Pre-B+ round, led by Huajin Capital with participation from Megmeet and others.
Haawking focuses on the DSP track, with fully self-developed cores and algorithms. It is the world's first company to design, develop, and mass-produce digital signal processors using the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture. Currently, more than ten chips in the Haawking-HX2000 series have taped out, with multiple models in mass production and annual shipment volume approaching ten million units. (Learn more)
"Endoangel" Raises Tens of Millions of Yuan in Series A Round, Accelerating Global Expansion of Domestic Flexible Endoscopes
Flexible endoscopy department-level solution provider Endoangel announced the completion of a Series A round worth tens of millions of yuan, led by Unity Ventures.
Endoangel continues to explore and develop next-generation domestic flexible endoscopy products. In just two years, its self-developed Alioth series electronic endoscopy system received National Medical Products Administration approval in May 2024. The product leverages proprietary all-electric transmission technology to significantly enhance clinical stability, while introducing a "full-scenario imaging" concept that comprehensively covers complex imaging needs from examination to treatment. (Learn more)
"Huawei Hengyuan" Completes Tens of Millions of Yuan Series A Round, Accelerating Cell Therapy and Assisted Reproductive Pipeline Innovation
Unity Ventures portfolio company Huawei Hengyuan recently completed a Series A1 round worth tens of millions of yuan, with investment from Yuanhe Capital and Shuimu Tsinghua Alumni Fund.
Huawei Hengyuan is a company with internationally pioneering, fully independent intellectual property rights in human immune-privileged Sertoli cell technology, with a core team from Tsinghua University. The company focuses on developing innovative cell drugs and medical devices for autoimmune diseases, regenerative medicine transplantation, and assisted reproduction. Its current pipeline includes assisted reproductive detection kits, in vitro spermatogenesis devices, rheumatoid arthritis cell injections, and immune-privileged artificial pancreas products — all at various stages of registration application, preclinical animal studies, and clinical trial filing. (Learn more)
"Zhida Technology" Sells Over One Million Bottles of "Qingyun" Reduced-Burden Oil, with State-Backed Investment Driving 100 Million+ Yuan Funding Round
Unity Ventures portfolio company Zhida Technology announced the completion of a Series A round exceeding 100 million yuan, led by Shenzhen Capital Group with participation from Jianhua Fund, Changzhou Red Earth Healthcare Industry Investment Fund, Changzhou Weiqi Investment, and Anyu Capital.
Zhida Technology is a high-tech biotech enterprise focused on low-burden fat substitute R&D, with flagship products including high-purity diacylglycerol cooking oil and globally leading low-calorie fat patent product lines. Using proprietary enzyme formulation and nationally patented gravity-driven heterogeneous continuous reactors, Zhida Technology became the world's first company to achieve scaled mass production of diacylglycerol products with over 95% purity. In 2024, the company's "Qingyun" reduced-burden oil brand sold over one million bottles. (Learn more)
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Unity Ventures Portfolio Highlights
"Noetix Robotics" Becomes Breakout Star at Humanoid Robot Half Marathon
At the world's first humanoid robot half marathon, Noetix Robotics' N2 robot team competed as a group, with the "Little Rascals" team emerging as the biggest dark horse and taking second place. Currently, Noetix Robotics has multiple humanoid robot product lines, including the athletic N2, humanoid robot E1, and bionic robots Hobbs and Xiaonuo. (Learn more)
Noetix Robotics product image
"LynkSoul" Heart Shadow Large Model Passes National Large Model Registration
The Heart Shadow large model has officially passed national generative AI service registration, becoming China's first AI large model deeply integrating game strategy guides with character companionship. Developed by LynkSoul's top AI team, the Heart Shadow large model has been fully deployed in the "HakkoAI" app, redefining the gaming assistant with precise strategy queries and emotionally resonant character interactions to help players navigate gaming worlds. (Learn more)
"Ancsonic Technology" Collaborates with Cambridge Audio on Melomania A100, Setting New Benchmark for British Acoustics
British殿堂级 music brand Cambridge Audio and Ancsonic Technology have jointly developed and manufactured the Melomania A100 in-ear true wireless earphones, combining high-fidelity sound quality with intelligent experiences. Ancsonic Technology collaborated with its client through multiple rounds of structural verification and acoustic cavity optimization design, improving speaker driver efficiency and frequency response performance to achieve high-fidelity standards among TWS earphones, while meeting noise cancellation demands across commuting, office, and sports scenarios for a stable, natural noise reduction experience. (Learn more)
Melomania A100 earphones
"Star Ring Energy" and Tsinghua University Launch Open-Source Fusion Data Annotation Platform to Accelerate Fusion AI Applications
Fusion energy development is entering an era of AI-driven transformation, yet data annotation in the fusion field remains largely in a primitive "slash-and-burn" stage. Star Ring Energy and Tsinghua University recently collaborated to launch toklabel, an open-source fusion data annotation platform based on Label Studio, aiming to significantly improve fusion data annotation efficiency, promote standardization and collaboration in fusion data annotation, and accelerate AI applications in fusion research. (Learn more)
"LiKe Technology" Upgrades IHB-LK® Benchmark, Releases Intelligent Chassis 2.0
At the Shanghai Auto Show, LiKe Technology debuted multiple versions of its IHB-LK® (One-box) brake-by-wire solution, with both the IHB-LK® GEN3.0 and GEN4.0 (One-box) solutions scheduled for mass production this year. Additionally, LiKe Technology unveiled new products including EMB and steer-by-wire systems.
With this, LiKe Technology has become an industry pioneer in developing brake-by-wire One Box with all-terrain functionality and achieving scaled mass production, while completing the full intelligent chassis 2.0 product layout. Its mass production shipments rank among the top three domestic suppliers, leading the domestic brake-by-wire market. (Learn more)
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Unity Ventures Spotlight
36Kr Equity Investment Industry Investor Rankings: Unity Ventures received 2025 honors for "China Top 10 Early-Stage Investment Institutions" and "China Top 10 Most Influential Early-Stage Investment Institutions." Unity Ventures founder Xiao Wang was named to "China Top 100 Most Popular Investors Among Entrepreneurs."
ChinaVenture Rankings: Unity Ventures ranked in the annual "China Top 20 Best Early-Stage Venture Capital Institutions" and "China Top 30 Best Investment Institutions in AI and Big Data Industry."
"Skaige" US Listing: Unity Ventures' Systematic New Energy Track Layout Enters Harvest Period
