Xingchen Intelligence announced that it has completed a new funding round of about 1 billion yuan, with a post-money valuation of 15 billion yuan. Investors include Toukong Donghai, Hongtai Fund, Ninghai Xingtaihe Fund, Shanheng Capital, and existing shareholder Xianmu Capital. In June 2026, the company had just completed a Series B round with a valuation exceeding 10 billion yuan, bringing the total to about four rounds within half a year.
Lai Jie, founder and CEO of Stardust Intelligence, said in an interview that embodied AI is an easy industry to make money in, and shared the company's commercialization progress: the robot MART with Jinma Amusement, AI retail solutions in six cities, T1 hardware gross margin, software services for higher returns, thousand-unit deployments with ThunderSoft and overseas expansion, and collaboration with Xiangong Intelligent in industrial, logistics and research education scenarios.