Author Liu Bo Yang Wenjing Source Investment PEdaily
Shenzhen slowly unveiled. On March 6, two extremely typical financing official announcement Interactive power A round of financing closed, six months cumulative up to 500 million yuan A series of financing Chile square quickly took a new round of more than 100 million yuan of Pre A round of financing. And they are all from Shenzhen. Behind them, there are a lot of capitalists, including Alibaba Group, which invested in Interdynamic, China Merchants Venture Capital, Chip Capital, Azure Capital, Lenovo Venture Capital, Peer to Peer Group, NAIS Group, Oasis Capital, Minsheng Venture Capital, Fengrui Capital, Gaojie Capital, Nanshan Battle New Venture, and Dunhong Asset of ChiSquare, Yunqi Capital, and State Investment Capital, and other financial and industrial funds. This is a ray of Shenzhen robotics group epitomized. Before the Shenzhen thirteen taobao domination of the industry, after the Nanshan robot eight diamonds appeared. Recently released the robot group of biography of the popular, which represents the future of China’s robotics industry, seven companies, Shenzhen almost half of the river.
Shenzhen is slowly unveiled.
On March 6, two extremely typical financing official announcement of the inter-power A round of financing closed, six months cumulative up to 500 million yuan A series of financing Chile square quickly took a new round of more than 100 million yuan of Pre A round of financing. And they, all from Shenzhen.
Behind them, there are a lot of capitalists, including Alibaba Group, which invested in Interactive Power, China Merchants Venture Capital, Chip Chip Capital, Lenovo Ventures, Oasis Capital, Minsheng Venture Capital, Fengrui Capital, Gaojie Capital, Nanshan Battle New Venture Capital, and Dunhong Asset, Yunqi Capital, and China Investment Capital, which invested in Chi-Square, as well as other financial and industrial funds.
This is a ray of Shenzhen robotics group epitomized. Before the Shenzhen thirteen taobao domination of the industry, after the Nanshan robot eight diamonds appeared. Recently released the robot group of biography of the popular, which represents the future of China’s robotics industry, seven companies, Shenzhen almost half of the river.
Two financing a day, Shenzhen is the birth of unicorns in large quantities
This is a typical story of pursuing dreams in Shenzhen.
Located in Shenzhen’s Nanshan District, Interactive Power was founded in 2022. Before that, the founder Zhang Wei graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Automation undergraduate, and then went overseas to study, and for many years has been centered on robotics AI-related fields of research.
Until 2019, Zhang Wei joined the Southern University of Science and Technology as a permanent professor. After a long period of research, he realized that only 10 of the new value of the robotics industry comes from original academic innovation, and the remaining 90 comes from engineering realization. Although humanoid robotics was considered a cold industry at that time, Zhang Wei decided to start his own business after catching the opportunity and officially founded Interactive Dynamics.
Guo Yandong, the founder of ChiSquare, is also a returnee scientist. He graduated from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and then went overseas to study for a doctorate, and worked as a researcher in the core AI team at Microsoft headquarters. He has joined Xiaopeng Automobile and OPPO as chief scientist, and has promoted the intelligentization of various smart terminals, including quadruped robots.
In April 2023, Zhi square was formally established, is committed to the research and development of production of universal intelligent body terminal. 2025 since the beginning of the year, Zhi square in just two months to complete two rounds of hundreds of millions of dollars in financing, and now together with the by the inter-power, among the Shenzhen Nanshan Robotics eight diamonds.
This scene is not accidental. Right now, hardcore startups in Shenzhen are lining up to announce financing.
Hanyang Technology recently announced the completion of 200 million yuan of financing, led by Yuan Titanium Capital, followed by well-known industrial investors and financial investment institutions. The Shenzhen-based company, founded in 2015, specializes in the development and manufacture of full-scene general-purpose yard robots, and has grown into the head of the global snow-plowing robot.
It is also rumored in the circle that Zongke Technology has also completed a new round of hundreds of millions of dollars of financing, with funds mainly from the Middle East. Business information shows that new shareholders include Sailing Ltd Stone Robotics L L C FZ and Guo Xiang Capital. Founder Zhao Tongyang is the founder of the former Xiaopeng’s robotics team PENGXING Intelligent Company, ZQ Robotics was founded only 10 months ago, launched the first all open source full-size bipedal robot products.
A little earlier, the sweeping robot unicorn enterprise cloud whale intelligence, on the other hand, completed a new round of financing of hundreds of millions of yuan, with two major state-owned investors in Shenzhen and Wuxi. Since 2016, cloud whale intelligence has financed many rounds of financing, the amount of billions of yuan, behind the capitalists also include Li Zexiang management of the Clearwater Bay Fund Word Festival Jump Sequoia China Ming potential venture capital source code capital and other well-known institutions.
Automatic driving unicorns also have the figure of Shenzhen enterprises In November last year, Yuanrong Qixing announced the completion of 100 million U.S. dollars in C1 round of strategic financing, exclusively invested by the domestic head of the host factory. At that time, the investment community learned from people familiar with the matter that the host factory was Great Wall Motor. Zhou Guang, the company’s helmsman, a post-85 doctor, who returned to Shenzhen to start his own business in 2019, single-handedly founded Yuanrong Qixing.
The most sensational scene is Huawei’s citation company, announced that it has continuously received investment from Avita Technology Sailix Automotive, amounting to a total of 23 billion yuan, so that the valuation is as high as 115 billion yuan, which has become the largest emerging unicorn in Shenzhen in recent years.
Looking at the biomedical industry, Shenzhen only in January this year, the birth of a number of financing Ridgeline Biological Connoisseur completed more than 500 million yuan C round of financing, Kun for the completion of more than 100 million yuan A round of financing for science and technology, the particle shadow biological also won nearly 100 million yuan A round of financing too much to mention.
In fact, combing along the 20 8 industrial clusters in Shenzhen, we can find that almost every industrial chain is intensively born new financing, Shenzhen hides a batch of hard-core unicorns.
The Undervalued Side
Looking back at the past month, with DeepSeek’s popularity, Hangzhou’s Six Little Dragons caused a wave of reflection in various provinces and cities. Among them, the voice of no more Shenzhen innovation after DJI is particularly harsh.
But emotions aside, the real situation may not need to be so anxious. Unlike Hangzhou’s pursuit of model innovation, Shenzhen’s approach is to use technological innovation to lead the way, weaving each individual innovator into a huge ecological network, allowing large enterprises to stand on top of the sky, innovative enterprises to open up the sky, and small and medium-sized enterprises to cover the sky.
By the end of 2024, the number of state-level high-tech enterprises in Shenzhen had exceeded 25,000, and the total number of state-level manufacturing individual champion enterprises had reached 95. On average, there are 12 state-level high-tech enterprises per square kilometer, which is the highest density among the cities in China.
Among them, Nanshan District is a bright business card of Shenzhen. The investment community got a set of data As of the end of 2024, Shenzhen Nanshan District robotics backbone enterprises more than 200, of which 14 listed companies, specializing in new small giants more than 30.
Along with the AI wave, the embodied intelligence robotics industry began to explode, the Nanshan District took the lead in the layout, has gathered more than 20 high-quality industry chain upstream and downstream enterprises and institutions, forming a leading machine as a leader, software algorithms Core parts and components of the enterprise agglomeration of the situation. Among them, with the body intelligent unicorn Zhiyuan robot Yu tree technology also successively subsidiary landed in Nanshan.
Such a variety of things, just the rise of emerging industries in Shenzhen, a touch of portraits.
Not long ago, shenzhen official sunshine AI family bottom The city has gathered more than 2600 artificial intelligence enterprises unicorn enterprise 6, 34 robotics listed enterprises unicorn enterprise 9. Among them, seven robotics companies were selected by Morgan Stanley as one of the top 100 global humanoid robotics listed companies.
Specifically, Shenzhen’s AI industry chain covers the entire chain of chips, models, hardware and applications, and has formed a geese-type echelon led by Huawei Tencent and other leading enterprises, supported by high-growth enterprises such as Rabbit Intelligence and the development of startups.
Cities and enterprises are accomplishing each other. Mr. Zhang Li, co-founder and COO of Interactive Power, said that during the past few years of entrepreneurship in Shenzhen, the team deeply felt the advantages of this city of innovation and entrepreneurship in terms of supply chain ecology, talent aggregation, and diversified application scenarios, which can greatly help startups to complete the earliest metamorphosis.
This scene is also staged in the intelligent network connection new energy automobile industry. Driven by a leader, the industry chain supply chain is highly synergistic, including the vehicle power battery motor electric control intelligent cockpit automatic driving charging infrastructure automotive aftermarket and other areas of the complete industry chain of the rainforest automotive integrated industrial ecosystem, has been shaped in Shenzhen.
Zhou Guang, the founder of Yuanrong Qixing, was deeply touched, and he once confessed that Shenzhen’s accommodating environment and industrial chain support were important factors in his decision to take root here. In his view, Shenzhen is located in the Greater Bay Area has a complete automotive electronics industry chain, technology and production advantages, while gathering more scientific and technological talent at home and abroad, can provide a steady stream of vitality for the development of the company.
Looking around, in Shenzhen’s 20 8 industrial clusters, not only stands BYD Huawei such as the industry’s towering trees, but also nurtured a number of innovative enterprises like the sprouting up. It is no exaggeration to say that there are enterprises or industrial clusters in Shenzhen that can play a leading role in every link of the industrial chain.
The Journey of Shenzhen
After Hangzhou burst into flames, reflections are coming from all over the world, why is Shenzhen the most discussed city?
In other words, why is Shenzhen always being compared? Perhaps it stems from the fact that Shenzhen has historically carried the most hope on China’s science and innovation map.
Venture capital circles still remember that in 2022, Shenzhen took the lead in the cultivation mode of 20 8 industrial clusters, and the ensuing 100 billion-level guide fund set a precedent in the industry In 2024, Shenzhen took the lead in proposing Bold Capital, which supported the state-owned fund to make bold trial-and-error decisions, and canceled the hard constraints on the timing of the return of investment, which broke through the original shackles over and over again.
Shenzhen is a city with a sense of crisis. This is a phrase often mentioned by base Shenzhen investors.
As in the past half a month, Shenzhen has been busy. 23 February and March 2, held two press conferences, launched to create the best science and technology innovation ecology and talent development environment and optimize the market-oriented rule of law and internationalization of the business environment a series of initiatives. Immediately thereafter, the release of four major industrial policies in a day.
Specifically to grab talent As long as the employment or entrepreneurial talent in Shenzhen, are trying to find ways to provide them with a bed, a room, or even a suite of services, fresh graduates of colleges and universities to seek employment in Shenzhen can get 15 days of free accommodation for employment and entrepreneurial talent in Shenzhen, to provide the area of the guaranteed rental housing, so that all kinds of talent interested in the development of Shenzhen to come in, live in peace and stay in the industry can be accomplished.
As for robbing the industry, Shenzhen in artificial intelligence and its terminals with intelligent gazelles and unicorn enterprises set a flag By 2026, the city’s number of artificial intelligence enterprises more than 3,000, unicorn enterprises more than 10 Artificial Intelligence Terminal Industry scale of more than 800 billion Strive to 1 trillion By 2027, with intelligent robotics industry cluster more than 1,200 related enterprises Cultivate gazelle enterprises 1000 Unicorn enterprises 80
The investment world latest understanding, shenzhen state-owned state-owned enterprises will also for strategic emerging industries and future industries in the field of science and innovation enterprises to provide not less than 10 billion yuan of venture capital funding support and focus on artificial intelligence robotics and other cutting-edge technology fields, prepare to set up a scale of not less than 50 billion yuan covering the whole life cycle of science and innovation enterprises of the state capital fund. Another stream of living water is coming.
In the Shenzhen business circle, any cafe to sit for an afternoon, you will be able to hear these industry terms, from a few years ago the SKU sea supply chain, to the current multimodal large model intelligent body quantum technology here at any time may be born a new idea.
I remember three years ago, Princeton biology professor Yan Ning returned to Shenzhen, the first speech mentioned the expectations of life in Shenzhen!
On weekends, you can climb mountains in Maluan Mountain, go boating in Maozhou River, and go to the nature study in Jinjiu Village, where you can read quietly in the fragrant coffee and next to the exquisite desserts. On sunny days and evenings, the sunset in Shenzhen Bay is always crowded with a group of young people. The sunset will rise eventually, and wherever they go is the future.
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