AGILINK临界点
LatestNew round (Feb 2026, hundreds of millions RMB, led by a top internet company)
About $1B or more (per May 2026 media reports, under 5 months after founding)
Shanghai Linjiedian Innovation Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
The dexterous hand subsidiary spun off from Zhiyuan Robotics (AGILINK): completed three rounds within a month of founding and broke a $1B valuation in under 5 months; Tencent led a hundreds-of-millions-RMB new round, with funds going to dexterous hand foundation models, open datasets and hardware iteration
数据截至2026-08-24
About
AGILINK (Shanghai Linjiedian Innovation Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.) is the company incorporated in January 2026 when Zhiyuan Robotics spun off its dexterous hand division (RMB 5M registered capital; the legal representative is Zhiyuan partner Deng Taihua; held jointly by Zhiyuan Innovation (Shanghai) Technology Co., Ltd. and the Shanghai Zhiling Xinchuang partnership), seen as a key move in Zhiyuan's '1+5+N' ecosystem strategy — spinning off core component businesses so specialized teams can focus on dexterous hands with a more flexible mechanism, while sharing R&D investment through independent financing. Founder Xiong Kun graduated with an MS from the HKUST Robotics Institute in 2018, was deeply involved in building Tencent's Robotics X from 0 to 1, then worked at the IDEA Research Institute and Inovance Technology, and joined Zhiyuan in November 2024 to lead the dexterous hand business. The fundraising pace is extremely fast: three rounds within a month of founding; a new hundreds-of-millions-RMB round in February 2026 (led by a top internet company, with Baidu Ventures, Yunfeng Capital and others participating, strategic investors Synstellation Capital, Joyson Electronics, Longcheer Technology and SAIC Financial Holdings investing jointly, C Capital, 沃赋 and 慕华 following, and existing shareholders Lanchi Partners and Hillhouse Capital over-subscribing); by May 2026 its valuation had topped $1B within 5 months of founding. Funds mainly go to dexterous hand foundation model R&D, open dataset construction and dexterous hand hardware iteration. The business supplies Zhiyuan's Yuanzheng, Lingxi, Jingling and Qiyuan humanoids internally, and sells externally to robot body makers, research institutes, universities and humanoid startups.
Technical Approach
Positions itself in the dexterous hand track via a 'major OEM spin-off + specialized independent financing' model: Zhiyuan's robot shipments provide an internal-demand base, while it sells to the whole industry as an independent supplier, avoiding single-customer dependence; advances software-hardware integration — dexterous hand hardware iteration proceeds in parallel with dexterous hand foundation models and open datasets, replicating the 'body → model → data' ecosystem playbook in the end-effector segment.
Commercialization（4）
- Supplies Zhiyuan's Yuanzheng, Lingxi, Jingling and Qiyuan humanoid series internally
- Sells dexterous hands externally to body makers, research institutes, universities and humanoid startups
- Three rounds within a month of founding, with existing shareholders Lanchi Partners and Hillhouse Capital over-subscribing
- Strategic investors including Joyson Electronics, Longcheer Technology and SAIC Financial Holdings bring clear supply-chain synergies
Position & Strengths（4）
- An internal-demand base and real-scenario data from Zhiyuan's robot shipments
- Dexterous manipulation technology accumulation from the Tencent Robotics X team
- The 'spinning component businesses off a body maker' model combines independence with ecosystem synergy
- Bound from inception to top-tier capital — Lanchi, Hillhouse, Tencent-affiliated — with rare fundraising density