Participated · Series C · Jul 2024

Huamei Haolian focuses on the financial and insurance sector, offering integrated health management services. It combines domestic and international medical resources with technology to provide four core solutions for financial and insurance institutions: customer acquisition, value-added services, risk control, and health-insurance product innovation. The company says it has delivered one-stop, full-life-cycle health management services to more than 20 million users. It has completed a Series C financing of nearly ¥100 million. The new funds will be used for product and service R&D, marketing, and to upgrade and build an AI-driven digital medical health service platform.

Participated · Series B · Sep 2021

SynSense focuses on neuromorphic (brain‑inspired) perception computing and delivers soft‑hardware integrated solutions for edge scenarios. Its product portfolio includes the Speck™ dynamic-vision SoC series, DVS event cameras, the Aeveon™ fusion camera, and neuromorphic processors such as DYNAP™-CNN and Xylo™. The core team was assembled in 2017 and the company was incubated from the Zurich Neural Information Research Institute; it operates R&D centers and joint labs in Zurich, Ningbo, Shanghai, and Chengdu. SynSense emphasizes low‑power, low‑latency, high energy‑efficiency perception and claims 2–3 orders of magnitude improvement in power, real‑time performance, and compute efficiency versus traditional AI approaches. The company is prioritizing DVS event camera mass production and integration with its edge neuromorphic chips, while also developing the next‑generation Aeveon™ fusion camera for mobile, automotive, robotics, and XR markets. Raised funds will be used for mass production of DVS and Aeveon products, R&D on high‑compute neuromorphic edge inference chips, and deeper collaboration with academic and research institutions. SynSense, founded in 2017, develops ultra-low-power neuromorphic hardware and application solutions that bring brain-inspired sensing and on-device processing to edge use cases. Its core products include Speck™, a smart vision sensor with an integrated neuromorphic AI processor that delivers real-time vision processing at milliwatt power consumption, and the Xylo™ product family for ultra-low-power audio and bio-signal processing. Speck has entered mass production, and Xylo-Audio is scheduled to enter mass production in the second half of the year. The company expanded into China in 2020 and has established partnerships with BMW, CETHIK, leading animal husbandry firms in China, and various European tech companies and innovation institutions. SynSense plans to use new capital to accelerate mass production of Speck and to support development of edge computing applications across smart homes, intelligent security, precision farming, autonomous driving, and drones. The company is a Venture Kick and Venture Leaders alum and received a CHF 10,000 Venture Kick award in 2016. SynSense is a neuromorphic (brain‑inspired) intelligent chip design and R&D company that develops ultra‑low‑power, ultra‑low‑latency solutions for edge AI. Founded in February 2017 in Zurich and relocated its headquarters to China in April 2020, the firm draws on more than two decades of neuromorphic research from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. In July it launched Speck, a fully event‑driven dynamic vision SoC integrating DVS sensing and a DYNAP‑CNN compute core, claiming milliwatt‑level power and millisecond latency for privacy‑preserving edge vision. The company reports R&D centers in Zurich, Shanghai, Nanjing, Chengdu and Suzhou and nearly 100 technical staff, with ~80% of employees in R&D and roughly half holding PhDs or equivalent. SynSense highlights broad industry partnerships and awards, small‑scale Speck production expected by end of 2021, and plans to use new funding to accelerate neuromorphic chip R&D and industrialization for AI edge computing. SynSense (formerly aiCTX) develops neuromorphic computing and smart vision sensor technology focused on ultra-low-power, ultra-low-latency edge AI. The company’s patented event-routing technology targets applications including autonomous robots, always-on mobile co-processors, wearable healthcare, security, IoT and network-edge computing. SynSense recently closed a Series A fundraising to fund R&D and business development and accelerate commercialization. Following the round it announced expansion into China with offices and R&D teams in Shanghai and Chengdu and a roadmap to commercialization in China in 2020. The funds are intended to sharpen the company’s technology and drive industrial penetration in Smart Home, robotics and smart surveillance markets. Leadership emphasizes using the new capital and investor resources to strengthen SynSense’s position in key sectors. aiCTX develops full‑stack custom neuromorphic processors aimed at ultra‑low‑power, ultra‑low‑latency AI edge applications such as autonomous robots, always‑on co‑processors for mobile and embedded devices, wearable health systems, security, IoT, and network‑edge computing. Its technology builds on over 20 years of neuromorphic computing hardware research from the Institute of Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. The company is working toward commercial, product‑driven solutions rather than purely academic computing fabrics, pursuing dedicated chips tailored to specific applications. aiCTX recently received a capital increase of USD 1.5M to accelerate development of commercial neuromorphic chips and their application-specific variants. It also secured a four‑year FET‑Proactive H2020 grant to explore brain‑silicon neural closed‑loop systems as a step toward compact brain‑machine interfaces. The new funding and grant support are intended to speed product development and commercialization efforts.

Participated · Equity · Nov 2019

Naive Blue is an imaging services brand that provides consumer imaging services through its flagship and sub-brands. As of October 2019 the company had established 58 stores across 20 large and medium-sized cities. Its sub-brands Fangkuai and Fangkuai PLUS operated 182 stores in 45 smaller cities and have served over one million customers. The company entered the market in 2010 and has been rapidly developing by horizontally enriching its product matrix and vertically expanding into lower-tier markets. The business recently completed a financing round of RMB45 million. The financing and the company’s store footprint support its continued expansion into China’s lower-tier cities.

Participated · Series A · Oct 2019

DeepRoute.ai develops end-to-end smart driving solutions centered on its DeepRoute IO model and is a pioneer in deploying end-to-end architecture for robotics via mass-produced passenger vehicles. The company intends to enhance R&D on the frontier DeepRoute IO and develop a next‑generation visual-language-action DeepRoute IO set to launch next year. Since August, approximately 20,000 vehicles integrated with DeepRoute IO have been delivered to customers. DeepRoute.ai plans to release more than 10 additional series models in collaboration with selective OEM clients next year and is exploring a future Robotaxi business. The company also aims to scale global automakers’ collaboration and recruit more AI-native talent. DeepRoute.ai is led by CEO Maxwell Zhou and has offices in Shenzhen, Beijing and Fremont, California. DeepRoute.ai is an international self-driving technology company based in Shenzhen and Fremont, focused on autonomy for urban logistics and robotaxis. Led by CEO Maxwell Zhou, the company develops self-driving systems for robotaxis and medium-duty trucks to improve transit, shipments and freight delivery. Its long-term strategy includes developing medium-duty trucks for urban logistics and growing its robotaxi fleet to more than 150 vehicles by the end of 2021. Operating in Wuhan and Shenzhen, DeepRoute.ai has driven more than 1.2 million miles on public roads and received a Passenger Carry Permit from the California Public Utilities Commission in June. The company intends to use new funding to further R&D, scale automaker collaboration and fleet operations, and expand its team. The report states the company closed a Series B described as totaling more than $300M, though it also notes the round's exact amount was not disclosed. DeepRoute is a full-stack solution provider focused on L4 autonomous driving with a global presence. Its core technology includes an early sensor fusion perception approach called Early fusion, which synchronizes time and location, fuses original sensor data, and integrates output and correlation information across sensors to stabilize detection of dynamic and static objects. The company's planning algorithm uses semantic maps and handles random scenarios to plan feasible and safe routes, timing of turns, lane selection, crossroads decisions and other driving behaviors. DeepRoute's research centers are located in Shenzhen, Beijing and Silicon Valley. The company raised approximately $50 million in a funding round led by Foshun RZ Capital with participation from GoldenSand Capital, Yunqi Partners, Ventech China and Green Pine Capital Partners. It intends to use the proceeds to continue expanding operations and its business reach.

Participated · Series A · Jul 2019

Pomona builds omnichannel marketing and sales software that enables consumer brands to offer cashback incentives and analyze customer engagement, offline sales conversion, and campaign effectiveness. Its core product lets consumers redeem cashback by scanning receipts in the Pomona app, and it also offers white‑label solutions for partners to launch branded cashback apps. The platform was developed for consumer packaged goods and fast‑moving consumer goods, and the company currently works with more than 50 brands, including Unilever, Japfa, ABC President, Sosro, Frisian Flag and Sungai Budi. Pomona says the new funding will be used to add services with the goal of becoming an end‑to‑end solution that provides brands with more data points. The company also plans to expand into additional Southeast Asian markets, though specific countries have not been disclosed. Pomona raised a $3 million Series A‑2 in this round.