Spirit AI Ranks No. 2 on "2025 Most Promising Startups Worldwide" | Oasis Capital Vitality

Recently, Spirit AI, an Oasis Capital angel-round portfolio company, was named to The Information's annual authoritative ranking, "The 50 Most Promising Startups of 2025," where it ranked second in Asia for its innovative embodied intelligence technology and high growth potential — making it a rising hard-tech star on the global stage.

Often called the "Oscars of the startup world," the list identifies the most promising and influential emerging companies worldwide. The Information's senior team conducts the selection through in-depth industry research and proprietary data analysis, evaluating candidates across multiple dimensions including technological leadership, business model, revenue capacity, and growth potential. Only 50 companies were chosen from tens of thousands of startups globally, with an overall selection rate of less than 0.5% — making the ranking's authority widely regarded as a key barometer for global tech entrepreneurship and investment.

Founded in February 2024, Spirit AI has rapidly risen with embodied intelligence and humanoid robotics at its core, demonstrating strong momentum in funding, technology, and commercialization in less than two years.

The company is led by an acclaimed "iron triangle" core team: founder and CEO Fengtao Han is a veteran product and engineering expert in robotics with over a decade of startup and落地 experience; co-founder Yang Gao is a top-tier young AI scientist returning from UC Berkeley, whose VLA model has become a benchmark achievement in international embodied intelligence; and co-founder Lingyin Zheng has spent years in the robotics industry as a pioneer in industrial robot globalization, having built overseas teams from scratch to explore international application scenarios and rapidly achieve commercial results.

The company's backbone team hails from world-leading institutions including UC Berkeley, CMU, Tsinghua University, and Peking University, with deep R&D backgrounds at ByteDance, Xiaomi, and Tencent, forming a powerful talent system that blends top academic vision with cutting-edge industry experience.

In June 2025, Spirit AI released Moz1, China's first high-performance full-body force-controlled humanoid robot, featuring 26 degrees of freedom and the world's highest power-density integrated force-control joints, with a 1:1 payload-to-weight ratio — a key hardware breakthrough.

Its self-developed Spirit v1 VLA model further pushes the boundaries of robotic intelligence, enabling autonomous completion of continuous long-horizon tasks such as folding clothes, tidying desktops, and heating food in microwaves. The system not only solves the industry challenge of manipulating flexible objects but also achieves generalizable learning and execution across task scenarios.

The company expects to begin mass commercial deliveries in 2026. With its outstanding cross-scenario adaptability, it is positioned to build significant competitive advantages across multiple verticals and reshape the commercialization path of embodied intelligence technology.

This selection for The Information's global most promising startups ranking, placing among Asia's top positions, marks international authoritative recognition of Spirit AI's technical strength and growth potential. It affirms the company's full-stack capabilities spanning "hardware-algorithms-scenarios" and signals that Chinese embodied intelligence companies have entered the first tier globally, providing strong endorsement for its subsequent international market expansion.