Participated · Seed · Aug 2026

Founded in 2023 and incubated at Tsinghua University’s Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), DISCOVER Robotics develops consumer-grade embodied intelligence products and integrated software-hardware solutions for commercial services and domestic care. In July the company officially released its seven-axis robotic arm, the AIRBOT P7, which features built-in 10 TOPS AI computing capability and an eight-core ARM Cortex-A55 processor. The firm describes its focus on delivering high-performance robotics suitable for household and service scenarios and is part of a wave of startups aiming to bring AI-powered robotics into millions of homes. Founder and chief scientist Dr. Zhou Guyue is an associate professor at Tsinghua and previously spent nearly a decade at DJI, where he led product work on the DJI Spark mini-drone series. The company has rapidly attracted large institutional and strategic investment, including back-to-back fundraising rounds that lifted its valuation to at least $1 billion. No public revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the coverage.

Participated · Equity · Jul 2026

LimX Dynamics develops an integrated embodied AI stack and general-purpose humanoid robots, organizing its architecture into System 0 (whole-body motion control), System 1 (Vision-Language-Action and Whole-Body Action Model training infrastructure, including the FluxVLA Engine) and System 2 (the COSA embodied agentic operating system). The company introduced the full-size interactive humanoid LimX Luna in May 2026 and began customer deliveries in China and international markets within weeks of launch, and also offers TRON 2, a modular robotic platform launched in late 2025. LimX reports thousands of customer orders across its product lines since beginning commercial sales, with more than half of those orders from international markets. Target applications include research, education, commercial services, industrial operations, inspection and construction. Financially, LimX has raised roughly $400 million over the past six months, including the nearly $200 million pre-IPO round, and plans to use proceeds to scale manufacturing, expand delivery capacity and accelerate international commercialization.

Led · Equity · Jul 2026

BrainCo develops noninvasive brain-computer interface hardware and AI-driven signal-decoding software, aiming to enable wearable BCI applications. Its notable products include an FDA-cleared bioengineered prosthetic hand that decodes nerve and muscle signals to drive individual finger movements, and a wearable device intended to improve sleep via low-intensity electrical stimulation. The company emphasizes dry-electrode sensors that capture brain signals without conductive gel and proprietary AI algorithms to improve decoding accuracy. Founded in 2015 by Han Bichen at Harvard, BrainCo relocated its headquarters to Hangzhou in 2018. Financially, the company recently completed a financing round of about ¥2 billion co-led by IDG Capital and Walden International, which the company and observers cite as supporting its commercialization and continued technology development efforts.

Participated · Series A · Jul 2026

Grace Investment Machine develops financial time-series large models and positions itself as a next-generation self-evolving intelligent-agent investment platform. The company aims to use a multi-agent architecture to create AGI-era investment machines and an asset management platform, seeking to establish a new AI-driven asset management category. It is based in Beijing. Following its recent consecutive angel and angel+ rounds, the company plans to allocate capital to model R&D, build out compute infrastructure, and expand its team. The articles do not disclose revenue, user metrics, or a valuation.

Participated · Seed · Jul 2026

Sentient develops a decentralized AI infrastructure called GRID that connects more than 100 models, data sources and reasoning agents to enable compositional multi-model responses. Built products include Dobby (a family of open-source LLMs tuned for community-aligned values), Sentient Chat (an agent-aggregation interface) and Open Deep Search, which the team says outperformed closed alternatives on the FRAMES benchmark. The project issues the SENT token for staking, governance, service payments and contributor rewards to coordinate a distributed community of developers, data providers and infrastructure operators. Sentient was founded in January 2024 by Sandeep Nailwal, Pramod Viswanath and Himanshu Tyagi and has secured an $85M seed round plus a $42M grants/investment program for open AGI research, bringing total committed capital above $125M. The team emphasizes keeping advanced models and agents openly available and auditable rather than proprietary. Following a listing of SENT on a major exchange, the token jumped about 20% on July 9, 2026, an event the coverage characterizes as liquidity-driven and highlights execution and adoption risk as key determinants of long-term value.