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Ninebot

Room 101, 1/F, No.2, D Area, Zhongguancun Dongsheng Technology Park, No.66 Xixiaokou Rd, Beijing, Beijing, 100192, China

Overview

Ninebot designs, develops, manufactures, distributes, and sells short-distance personal transportation products. It serves customers through a network of distributors and retail points in China and internationally. Ninebot offers eco-friendly, electric, and self-balancing vehicles for short range commuting. Gao Lufeng founded Ninebot in 2012, with its headquarters in Beijing in China.

Total investments
1
Lead investments
1
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
8

Sector focus

  • Electric Vehicle
  • Manufacturing
  • Mechanical Design
  • Robotics
  • Transportation
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Investment portfolio

  • Xiangke Intelligence

    Led · Series A · Apr 2026

    Xiangke Intelligence builds embodied-intelligence robotic systems tailored to restaurant and hotel scenarios, prioritizing standardized, scenario-driven products over general-purpose humanoid platforms. Its core product family includes the LAVA lightweight robotic arm (0.9 m reach, 5 kg payload) optimized for high-temperature frying; the company has delivered hundreds of units to the Korean market. Technically it reports over 60 core patents for its self-developed robot arm, a 1-billion-parameter embodied VLA model capable of planning and processing more than 100,000 tasks per day, and an R&D platform in collaboration with Tsinghua University. Commercial metrics cited include coverage of 7,000 hotels and 2,000 restaurants domestically, current overseas revenue of about 30% with a plan to exceed 50% in 2–3 years, and plans for pilot projects with two leading Western fast-food brands in the second half of the year. Future plans call for expanding from single-arm to multi-arm and multi-station systems, deeper overseas deployment (Korea, North America, Southeast Asia), and medium- to long-term R&D with academic partners to extend capabilities into other service scenarios and, eventually, consumer markets.

Team

  • Lufeng Gao

    Co-Founder and CEO

  • Ye Wang

    President

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  • Xiao Xiao ( Sherry) Yan

    Vice President of Domestic Sales

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  • Zhang Hui

    R&D director

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