Best Assistive Tech Companies in China
The 52 best Assistive Tech companies in China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: UCAR.
China's Assistive Tech sector is moving faster than most people realize, and this directory ranks the 52 companies we track there by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum. Total disclosed capital sits at $1.7B, which sounds tidy until you notice that one name, Ucar, accounts for $1.4B of it on its own, leaving the rest of the field operating on a fraction of that base.
So what does the remaining stack look like? Hypershell leads the non-Ucar cohort at $120M, followed by Shenzhen Rice and Xiaomi Culture Communication at $61M and RoboCT Technology at $29M. The global market for assistive tech is pegged at roughly $4.1B in 2024, growing at a 12.6% CAGR, pulled by aging populations and accelerating automation in healthcare. China fits that story well: the country's demographic curve is steep, government procurement is expanding, and active investors like Shunwei Capital, SOW Asia and Fortune Capital are keeping deal flow alive. If you want a read on where the innovation frontier sits right now, BCIs are quietly rewriting the hardware assumptions that have defined this category for a decade. And the broader conversation, as AI's role in assistive contexts gets debated more seriously this year, is shifting toward integration over replacement. No unicorns yet in this cohort, but the funding concentration and investor roster suggest that gap won't stay open indefinitely.
Ranked: Best Assistive Tech companies in China
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Stage | Founded | Founder | Employees | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BNET-TECH Company Provider of smart walking cane stick for visually impaired & elder people | — | — | Funding Raised | 2015 | Brian Lam Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 2 | Caretia Provider of an online platform for booking nurses for home care services | — | — | Funding Raised | 2018 | Philip Tsang CEO | — | — | — |
| 3 | eGuideDog Online platform offering suite of tools for visually impaired | — | — | Unfunded | 2006 | Cameron Wong Founder | — | — | — |
| 4 | Fiope Provider of monitoring devices for elderly patient | — | — | Deadpooled | 1992 | Fiona Li Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 5 | FreedomChair Developer of electric wheelchair for rehabilitation | — | — | Deadpooled | 2015 | Joseph Scheigert CEO | — | — | — |
| 6 | Full Heart Medical Developer of electric wheelchairs & mobility aids | — | — | Deadpooled | 2014 | Yan Wang CEO | — | — | — |
| 7 | Hift Mobile dating app for people with STDs | — | — | Deadpooled | 2015 | Marie Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 8 | HiNounou Provider of AI-powered home wellness solutions for seniors. | — | — | Funding Raised | 2016 | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Assistive Tech companies in China
#1
Series B · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2024$120Mraised▾
Manufacturer of AI-powered wearable exoskeletons for mobility enhancement. It provides advanced wearable robotics featuring adaptive AI-driven systems that amplify human strength and endurance in recreational hiking, industrial tasks, and physical therapy. It produces portable shoulder/back assist devices with extended battery life and natural motion integration to boost performance across diverse applications.
- May 2026Series B$50M
- Nov 2025Series B$70M
- 2025Series A—
- May 2024Seed—
#2
Series B · Hangzhou, Zhejiang · founded 2017 · 100 employees$29.4Mraised▾
Digital platform focusing on rehabilitation and elderly care by combining human-computer interactions. The company's products include exoskeleton robotics, robot joint modules, mecanum wheel modules, and servo motion control solutions. It also operate a rehabilitation cloud platform that supports remote rehabilitation guidance and a rehabilitation intelligence evaluation system that generates detailed assessment reports for users to track progress and effectiveness.
- Mar 2026Series B$13.7M
- Feb 2022Series A$15.7M
- Mar 2021Seed—
#3
Public · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2014 · 5767 employees$1.4Braised▾
UCAR is an online platform where users can book cab services through its mobile app. Offers chauffeured car service in China, covering 60 cities nationwide. Operates on an asset-heavy model i.e. the company's services are offered through an in-house car fleet and has the permit to run ride-sharing services. The start-up is valued at US$3.55 billion in the latest round.
- Jul 2017Post IPO$382M
- Mar 2016Series C$569M
- Jan 2016Series B$60M
- Sep 2015Series B$550M
#4
Series D · Guangdong, Jilin · founded 2014$61.1Mraised▾
Online platform offering information regarding mental disorders. It offers mental disorders information and learning courses enabling clinicians to register and learn about autism, mental retardation, etc.
- Jul 2022Series D$42M
- Dec 2019Series B$12.8M
- Apr 2018Series A$6.3M
#5
Series B · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2015 · 100 employees$14.7Mraised▾
Developer of orthopedic rehabilitation robots for healthcare providers. Its flagship product, ArmGuider is an upper limb rehabilitation training robot. Another product, Nimbot is a rehabilitation robot for joint surgeries.
- Feb 2023Series B$14.7M
- Jan 2021Series A—
- Mar 2019Seed—
- 2017Angel—
#6
Series B · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2016 · 40 employees$14.9Mraised▾
Shanghai Bangbang Robot provides an assistive robotic solution for individuals with mobility issues. Its offering Bonbon intelligent mobile robot is in the form of an assistive scooter that can carry an individual and help him sit and stand via its electronically seat height adjustment and maneuver via an integrated joystick and other controls. The offering comes with a companion application that can be used to configure the scooter for sitting and standing exercises. Claims to offer a range of 15 km on one charge and have a side built-in sensor detection to ensure that all its parts operate normally.
- Jun 2022Series B$14.9M
#7
Seed · Dongguan, Guangdong Province · founded 2021$1.4Mraised▾
Cloud-based care monitoring app and device for elderly. The company has developed a home care device that assists with remote monitoring and voice-based interaction. It has features for analyzing health information, caregivers' intimate reminders tools, telecommunication, and more.
- Jan 2024Angel$1.4M
- Aug 2022Seed—
#8
Series B · Hangzhou, Zhejiang · founded 2006$16.2Mraised▾
Zhejiang Norcong Neuroelectronics is mainly engaged in developing and manufacturing multi-channel cochlear implant, and nationalization and clinical application of auditory brainstem implant equipment. Products include two speech processors and an implant.
- Sep 2020Series B—
- Dec 2013Series A$16.2M
- Sep 2011Seed—
#9
Deadpooled · Hangzhou, Zhejiang · founded 2016 · 26 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Hangzhou KR-VISION Technology develops video navigation applications. It offers services for information optimization, precise positioning, yaw reminder, and campus accessibility. The company also offers sight glasses; Venus (used for scene positioning, image identification, and route memory) & Pathfinder (used for obstacle & pathway detection, scene detection, precise positioning, and navigation). The company offers visual experience tours across multiple continents including Ethiopia, Dubai, North China, South China, and the Philippines.
- Feb 2018Seed—
- 2016Angel$1.6M
#10
Late Stage · Xuhui, Shanghai · founded 2008$1Mraised▾
Provider of wearable hearing aid devices
#11
Seed · Wuhan, Hubei · founded 2014 · 25 employees$919Kraised▾
Tinglibao is a self-test mobile app that tests the hearing of the users. It delivers the result analysis to the users via the app itself. It also connects the users to doctors for professional advice based on evaluation results and gives nearby stores to find a hearing aid.
- Dec 2015Angel$919K
#12
Seed · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2022—raised▾
Developer of exoskeleton equipments intended for therapeutic purpose. The company is committed to the innovation of consumer exoskeleton products, through the optimal exoskeleton solution optimized by simulation technology and artificial intelligence, providing users with therapeutic equipments.
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