The Venture Codex

Led · Series A · Feb 2026

Sleek EV is an IoT-enabled electric motorcycle manufacturer focused on urban mobility and vehicle electrification. Headquartered in Singapore with operations in Thailand, the company integrates hardware, software and charging solutions to support the shift toward sustainable transportation. Its product ecosystem couples electric scooters with the proprietary S-Charge battery-swapping network and accompanying software layer. Fresh capital will fund an expanded production facility in Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor, accelerate R&D in software and artificial intelligence, and boost the S-Charge network by more than seven-fold. Sleek EV is also forging deeper collaborations with partners such as PTT OR, Krungsri Auto, Toyota Tsusho and Grab while developing new relationships with dealers and regulators to set industry standards. Long-term, the firm seeks to build a full-stack electric motorcycle ecosystem spanning manufacturing, charging infrastructure and software services. CEO and co-founder Kantinan Tunveenukoon aims for Sleek EV to become Thailand’s leading electric motorcycle brand by the end of 2026. The recent US$8.5 million Series A tranche provides critical resources to execute this expansion.

Participated · Series D · Jul 2022

Emotibot develops NLP and multimodal emotion-recognition technology to integrate AI capabilities into enterprise business and power intelligent transformation. The company focuses on natural language understanding and cultivates digital employees by following the training path of human staff. It offers end-to-end solutions across AI+Finance, AI+Enterprise, AI+Medical, AI+Manufacturing, AI+Intelligent Terminal, and AI+Government. Emotibot says it has served more than 300 large enterprise customers, including Huawei, Minsheng Bank, Guangzhou Automobile Group, and China UnionPay. The firm aims to promote SaaS standardized products and maintain its technical and product advantages to help more large and medium-sized enterprises achieve intelligent transformation. Competitors named in the article include InterActions Corporation and Digital Reasoning internationally, and iFLYTEK, Unisound, and AISPEECH domestically. Emotibot develops computer vision and natural language processing (NLP) technology to enable visual and voice emotion-recognition in human-machine interaction. The company sells emotion-sensing chatbot and recognition services to financial institutions, e-commerce, call centers, and smart device makers. Key partners and customers include Tencent, iQiyi, UBTech, China Merchants Bank, China Minsheng Bank, and China Mobile. Emotibot also provides a Bot Factory platform that lets companies create their own chatbots; Huawei has built an employee service platform using Bot Factory. The startup says it will use the new funding to continue NLP research and further develop Bot Factory. Emotibot was founded in 2015 by former Microsoft director Kenny Chien. Emotibot is an artificial intelligence company that develops emotional robot solutions using deep learning, Chinese semantic understanding, emotional calculation and related computer science techniques. Its robots can read, see, listen, remember, self-learn and infer users' affective states, emotions and intentions. The company provides user-centered bots across the e-commerce cycle — pre-sale, sale and after-sale — and offers financial intelligence tools to identify needs of high-value customers and support advisory and after-sales service. Emotibot supports language, image and voice human-computer interactions and delivers customized development so devices can have a smart AI "brain." Through NLU and emotion recognition the system is designed to accurately understand user intent, reduce operational costs and improve efficiency. Financially, the company completed a $30M Series B in 2019.

Led · Series A · Aug 2018

Qeebike Technology operates a large fleet of shared electric bikes and a mobile app, and also supports payments via Alipay and WeChat Wallet. The company says it has placed tens of thousands of e-bikes in Chinese cities and reports a higher ratio of active users than rivals. Each bike averages about six rides per day, and the hourly price is CNY3 (USD0.44). Qeebike was founded in October 2016 and is active in Hangzhou, its stated home city. The company plans to use new funds to add more than 1,000 recharging cabinets in Hangzhou over the next six months. The fundraising comes amid a competitive, shrinking shared two-wheeler market in China where many startups have exited. Qeebike operates a docked electric bike sharing service accessible via its app, Alipay, and WeChat. The company charges 3 yuan per hour and reports a fleet of nearly 10,000 bikes, averaging 5–6 rides per bike per day, with average revenue per customer above 3 yuan and an average travel distance of about 4 km. Its product is an intelligent fusion of electric motorcycle and bicycle, targeted at the "last 2–5 kilometers" of journeys to complement car-hailing, bus, and subway systems. Qeebike emphasizes a distributed battery charging cabinet network to enable effortless battery swapping, reduce battery stock needs, and lower battery changing cost toward less than 1 yuan per bike per day at scale. The company has invested heavily in R&D, improved lithium battery safety, obtained CQC Mark Certification, introduced docking stations, and implemented preset speed limits on its bikes. Qeebike is planning to expand into more cities and had a new funding round imminent at the time of the report.