🇨🇳 Hangzhou · founded 2025
Chinese embodied AI startup with Li Auto management DNA and rapid financing success
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Simplexity Robotics was founded in 2025 in Hangzhou, led by former executives from electric vehicle manufacturer Li Auto. CEO Jia Peng previously headed autonomous driving research, and Chairman Wang Kai was CTO at Li Auto. The startup develops humanoid robots for commercial and private applications.
Simplexity pursues a fully self-developed technology approach. Its proprietary foundation model LaST0 integrates world understanding and physical prediction in a fast-slow architecture (vision-language-action), enabling responsive and predictive actions in dynamic environments.
Simplexity has completed five financing rounds within six months, raising approximately 289 million US dollars (2 billion yuan) in total. Investors include Tencent, Alibaba, and HongShan Capital. The valuation exceeded the unicorn threshold within the first year.
Founded in Hangzhou by former Li Auto executives.
Achieved unicorn status after five rounds of funding totaling approximately 289 million US dollars.
Currently, distribution in Switzerland is handled through international resellers. No official Swiss distributor is listed.