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HangzhouFounded 2026
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Developing: it holds up against its sources so far, and firms up as more reporting lands.
The sources use different names for Hongfu ("Hongfu Assets" and "Hongfu Asset Management") and give different publication/report dates; the 36Kr dateline fixes the announcement date as 2026-10-17.
| Round | Amount | Announced | Lead | Buzz |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-seed angel funding round | $15.0M nearly RMB 100 million | 2026-10-17 | not stated | 2 outlets. #12 in Trending |
2 sources · checked 1 time, last 3h ago [ DEVELOPING ] Developing: it holds up against its sources so far, and firms up as more reporting lands. read against 2 sources
The sources use different names for Hongfu ("Hongfu Assets" and "Hongfu Asset Management") and give different publication/report dates; the 36Kr dateline fixes the announcement date as 2026-10-17. [ BUILT WITH ]·[ SEARCH ]found by Firecrawl search·[ SCRAPE ]2 pages read: eu.36kr.com, technode.com·[ JSON ]round read into a schema, with the sentence that states it·[ VERIFY ]correctedchecked against 2 sources·[ AGENT ]company research by the Firecrawl agent | ||||
The company is targeting a stated bottleneck in industrial robotics: vision alone cannot reliably handle contact-heavy work such as fabric slippage, jammed parts, and insertion resistance because robots lack information about force and contact state. Its nearly RMB 100 million angel round is intended to fund large-scale pretraining of its physics-inversion world model, hardware and robot-body development, hiring, and proof-of-concept validation with textile/apparel, optical-module, and automotive-component customers.
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