Geely Capital is a corporate venture capital firm based in Hong Kong, China, founded in 1997. Geely Capital has deployed $50M in robotics investments. Its humanoid robotics portfolio includes Robot Era, Unitree Robotics. Focus areas include automotive, EVs, mobility, robotics.
Round size: $21M
Round size: $21M
Round size: Undisclosed
Geely Capital is a corporate venture capital firm based in Hong Kong, China, founded in 1997. Geely Capital has deployed $50M in robotics investments. Its humanoid robotics portfolio includes Robot Era, Unitree Robotics. Focus areas include automotive, EVs, mobility, robotics.
In 2026, China has emerged as the global leader in humanoid robotics with two giants—Agibot and Unitree Technology—each surpassing 10,000-unit shipment milestones, collectively accounting for the majority of over 22,000 global humanoid robot shipments. Eight additional Chinese unicorns valued at over 10 billion yuan each are competing with differentiated technical approaches, from full-stack self-development to tactile perception hardware, while China's supply chain advantage enables rapid mass production at competitive price points.
Unitree Robotics completed its IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market, closing 460% up at ¥845 per share, valuing the company at approximately ¥342 billion ($50.9 billion USD), making it the first pure-play humanoid robotics company to trade on a mainland Chinese exchange and establishing the first real public benchmark for the sector.
Unitree, a Chinese humanoid robot maker founded in 2016, has priced its Shanghai IPO at 150.80 yuan per share to raise 6.1 billion yuan ($904 million), making it the first mainland-listed humanoid robot manufacturer. The company, known for its affordable quadruped and humanoid robots including the G1, H1 and R1, reported 2025 revenue of nearly 1.7 billion yuan with adjusted net profit of about 600 million yuan, with over 40% of sales coming from overseas markets.