Kinetix AI Raises Over RMB 500 Million for Embodied AI Robotics

Shenzhen-based Kinetix AI has closed an angel-plus round exceeding RMB 500 million, roughly $75 million, backed by Vertex Ventures, the venture capital arm of Singapore's Temasek Holdings, alongside Fangguang Capital and Vanshi Capital. Founded in September 2025, Kinetix AI is a full-stack embodied intelligence large model company built by a founding team that includes veteran executives from Huawei's autonomous driving division and technical experts from the University of Hong Kong.

A Full Stack From Data Collection to Deployment

Kinetix AI has already rolled out a suite of products including a native embodied large model and its KAI Embodied AI Infra platform, which spans the entire workflow a humanoid or embodied robotics company needs: data collection, model training, simulation evaluation, physical deployment, and iterative operations. Building that full stack in-house, rather than assembling it from third-party tools, gives Kinetix AI tighter control over how quickly its models improve as they encounter real-world deployment data.

Riding China's Embodied AI Funding Wave

Kinetix AI's round lands amid a broader surge in Chinese embodied AI and robotics funding, with the sector producing a wave of new unicorns over the first half of 2026 alone. The size and speed of Kinetix AI's raise, closing a nine-figure-yuan round within roughly a year of the company's founding, reflects how competitive the fundraising environment has become for founding teams with credible technical pedigrees in China's embodied AI space specifically.

Backers Betting on Regional Scale

Vertex Ventures' participation, as the venture arm of Singapore's Temasek Holdings, brings a state-linked regional investor into a deal otherwise led by China-focused funds in Fangguang Capital and Vanshi Capital, a combination that gives Kinetix AI both deep domestic manufacturing and talent connections alongside a path toward broader Southeast Asian expansion should the company look beyond China's domestic market. That mix of investor types mirrors the pattern this pipeline has observed elsewhere this month, where the largest and fastest-moving rounds increasingly combine specialist regional venture capital with sovereign-linked strategic capital rather than relying on either alone.

What This Means for Founders

Kinetix AI's round shows that founding teams combining deep technical pedigree, in this case veteran autonomous driving and computer vision expertise, with a full-stack product approach can raise substantial capital very early in a company's life when the underlying market is moving as quickly as embodied AI currently is. AngelLinx's AI and machine learning investor directory helps founders identify investors active in embodied AI and robotics, and the fit-scoring match tool connects founders with the right match as early as a company's first institutional round. The live listings page shows current founder campaigns performing against real investor interest today, and AngelLinx's guide to tracking ARR growth helps founders plan the growth story that follows a fast-moving early round. The AngelLinx newsroom tracks global embodied AI and robotics funding as it develops. Founders building differentiated AI robotics can register at https://angellinx.ai/register today.

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