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Tuya Global

3979 Freedom Circle, Suite 340, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, USA

Overview

Tuya is a global "AI+IoT" developer platform, and the world's leading voice AI interactive platform, connecting consumers, manufacturing brands, OEMs and retail chains, providing customers with a one-stop artificial intelligence Internet of Things solution, and covering hardware access, cloud services and App development, forming a closed loop of AI + manufacturing, providing technology and business model upgrade services for business with consumer IoT smart devices, in order to meet consumers' higher demands for hardware products. As of the end of October 2018, Tuya Smart has served 93,000 customers worldwide, connecting more than 100 million smart products in the market, creating a completely neutral "AI+IoT" model for empowering products, with total product listings of more than 30,000, selling to nearly 200 countries and regions. On the global IoT cloud platform with a distributed architecture, the daily processing device requests have reached nearly 50 billion times, daily voice AI interaction has exceeded 20 million times, and the accumulated data volume has reached 15 petabytes.

Total investments
1
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
7

Sector focus

  • App Marketing
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Cloud Computing
  • Consulting
  • Enterprise Software
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • Internet of Things
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Investment portfolio

  • Robopoet

    Participated · Series A · Jul 2026

    Robopoet’s flagship product is Fuzozo, a compact plush AI companion that interacts with users through movement, conversation and emotional engagement. As of June 2026, cumulative domestic sales of Fuzozo approached 300,000 units, and during China’s 618 Shopping Festival Fuzozo sold about 40,000 units and ranked first in Tmall’s AI toy category. Robopoet began working with Tuya Smart in 2025 when Tuya supplied the AI cloud platform used by Fuzozo, helping move the product from concept into commercial production. The company is positioned to pursue international expansion with support from Tuya’s AI platform, development tools and market channels. Reporting does not disclose revenue, founding year, or location.

Team

  • Jerry Wang

    CEO

    LinkedIn
  • Alex Yang

    Co-Founder and COO

    LinkedIn
  • Leo Chen

    Co-Founder and Chairman

  • Luckin Zhou

    Co-Founder and CTO