Best Connected Vehicles Companies in China
The 120 best Connected Vehicles companies in China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Horizon.
China's Connected Vehicles sector is moving fast, and this page ranks the companies driving it, ordered by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum. 120 firms tracked. $6.1B in total disclosed capital. Two unicorns. Those numbers tell you something is serious here.
Horizon alone accounts for $3.1B of that stack, and PATEO sits at $573M, with Nanjing Core Semiconductor at $365M behind it. So three names are pulling most of the weight, which is pretty typical of a sector still consolidating around platform bets. I'd watch the mid-tier closely too: Maxieye at $150M is the kind of company that looks undersized until it isn't. The global market sits at roughly $38.5B in 2024, forecast to reach $52.9B by 2030, and China's share of that trajectory is not small. Backers like Tencent, Qualcomm Ventures and SAIC Capital signal where the smart money sees the platform layer forming. And if you've been following where automated vehicles are actually heading or the cybersecurity pressures now hitting connected fleets, the regulatory heat underneath all this funding makes complete sense. Next-gen EV platforms and smart vehicle technologies are the hot themes right now, and this quarter, China's building the companies that will define them.
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Ranked: Best Connected Vehicles companies in China
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Horizon Platform for self driving car technology | $3.1B | 44 mo ago | Public | — | Kai Y Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 2 | Banma Network Technology 🦄 Connected car platform | $698M | 59 mo ago | Series B | — | Alex Shi CEO | Node.jsVue.jsExpress+2 | — |
| 3 | PATEO Saas & AI enabled infotainment solutions for connected vehicles | $573M | 26 mo ago | Public | 1,300 | — | PHPTenginecore-js+6 | — |
| 4 | Zongmu Technology 🦄 Tech-enabled platform offering ADAS and autonomous driving solutions | $382M | 50 mo ago | Series E | 835 | Rui Tang Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 5 | Nanjing Core Semiconductor Technology Developer of automotive-grade chips for intelligent cockpits, gateways, and controls 60Funding top 26%Moat top 31%Market top 39%Global bottom 38% All 4 signals ▾Fundingtop 26% Moattop 31% Markettop 39% Globalbottom 38% Funding: Raised $365M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 7 yrs (0.4/yr) Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · Soonicorn rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $365M | 23 mo ago | Series B | 400 | — | — | — |
| 6 | ECARX Holdings Developer of automotive chips, smart driving, maps, data, and IoT | $200M | 63 mo ago | Series B | — | Ziyu Shen CEO | — | — |
| 7 | Maxieye ADAS products & autopilot systems for automotive | $150M | 19 mo ago | Series D | — | Zhou Shengyan CEO | PHPLayuiBootstrap+6 | — |
| 8 | AutoAI Developer of connected car platform & enabling technologies | $104M | 88 mo ago | Series A | 1,000 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Jimu Developer of driving assistance solutions using computer vision technology | $52M | 56 mo ago | Series C | — | Jianwei Cheng CEO | — | 1 job opening · 3 launchs |
| 10 | MINIEYE Developer of intelligent driving, cabin, and vehicle infrastructure cooperative systems | $40M | 31 mo ago | Public | 80 | Liu Guoqing Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 11 | MOTOVIS AI-enabled platform offering solutions for autonomous driving | $38M | 48 mo ago | Series C | — | Bruce Wang Co-Founder & COO | — | — |
| 12 | Forvision Developer of smart parking systems and solutions | $33M | 14 mo ago | Seed | 30 | Xin Yonglei CEO | — | — |
| 13 | Raythink AR display system for assisted driving | $31M | 30 mo ago | Series A | 31 | — | — | — |
| 14 | AIDriving Advanced driver assistance safety solutions | $29M | 70 mo ago | Series C | — | Justin Xu CEO | — | — |
| 15 | Futurus Designs and manufactures advanced display technology for VR/AR content | $25M | 88 mo ago | Series A | 200 | Junfeng Xu Ceo | — | — |
| 16 | Beijing Bochuang Linkage Technology Manufacturer of networking & monitoring systems for commercial vehicles | $16M | 82 mo ago | Series B | 32 | Tao Wei Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 17 | Chu Hang Technology Provider of radar-based sensor systems for autonomous vehicles | $16M | 51 mo ago | Series B | 100 | Chu Yongzheng CEO | — | — |
| 18 | Megatronix Cloud-enabled platform offering in-vehicle connected car application development solutions | $15M | 40 mo ago | Series D | — | Zhuang Li CEO | — | — |
| 19 | SmarterEye Developer of driving assistant and perception solutions | $15M | 53 mo ago | Series B | — | Jiang An Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 20 | Roadefend Provider of driver fatigue detection & safety system | $15M | 86 mo ago | Series B | — | Wang Bo CEO | — | — |
| 21 | SODA Technologies Telematics and connected car services and products provider | $15M | 90 mo ago | Series A | 150 | — | — | — |
| 22 | Zhidi Automobile Technology AI-powered provider of V2X solutions for autonomous vehicles | $14M | 37 mo ago | Series A | 500 | Zhou Qiang CEO | — | — |
| 23 | PingJia Technology Data analytics platform and services for connected car | $14M | 100 mo ago | Series A | 10 | — | — | — |
| 24 | Renxin Technology Developer of high-performance SerDes chips and related software service solutions 27Talent top 38%Funding top 44%Market bottom 37%Global bottom 29% All 4 signals ▾Talenttop 38% Fundingtop 44% Marketbottom 37% Globalbottom 29% Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated Funding: Raised $13.9M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 3 yrs (0.7/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 27/100 | $14M | 3 mo ago | Series A | — | Liang Yuanjun Co-Founder | — | — |
| 25 | Voyager Technology Provider of ADAS and ADS to improve driving safety in autonomous vehicles | $14M | 26 mo ago | Series B | — | Brian Chen Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 26 | Benewake Developer of commercial LiDAR for Robots | $14M | 31 mo ago | Series C | 200 | — | Animate.cssMicrosoft ASP.NETVue.js+6 | — |
| 27 | 7invensun Provider of eye tracking technology for applications in VR | $14M | 43 mo ago | Series D | 100 | Thomas Huang Co-Founder & CEO | VideoJSMicrosoft ASP.NETTengine+6 | — |
| 28 | TimaNetworks Infotainment system provider | $12M | 131 mo ago | Series B | — | George Ye Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 29 | UBiAi Technology Connected car data & analytics platform | $11M | 67 mo ago | Series A | 60 | Jacky Zhu Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 30 | Anzhi Auto Developer of ADAS & automotive safety systems | $8M | 60 mo ago | Series A | — | Guo Jain CEO | — | — |
| 31 | Mapgoo Smart car solutions | $8M | 117 mo ago | Series A | — | Zhou Zhiwen Founder | — | — |
| 32 | Yi Truck Network AI-enabled crash detection solutions | $6M | 108 mo ago | Series A | — | Yin Jianhong Founder & CEO | Element UIVue.jscore-js+1 | — |
| 33 | Hongfans Smart hardware for in-car entertainment | $5M | 105 mo ago | Deadpooled | 50 | Ming Hong Fan CEO | — | — |
| 34 | Nebula Provider of V2X solutions for connected cars | $4M | 44 mo ago | Series B | 50 | Pan Jun Co-Founder | — | — |
| 35 | Shenzhen Beidouxing Chelian Information Technology Manufacturer of vehicle tracking & networking devices | $4M | 93 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | — | — | — |
| 36 | Guangzhou Ruixiu Information Technology Remote diagnostics & fleet management system for commercial vehicles | $2M | 71 mo ago | Series A | 130 | Li Liuhai Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 37 | DeepMotion Advanced driver assistance system and localization technology | $2M | 99 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | 20 | Kuiyuan Yang Co-Founder | — | — |
Top 12 Connected Vehicles companies in China
#1
Series A · Nanjing, Jiangsu · founded 2022$13.9Mraised▾
Developer of high-performance SerDes chips and related software service solutions. The company focuses on automotive electronic chip research, development, and sales. Its products include车载SerDes chips, used for high-speed video image signal transmission from automotive sensors to domain controllers, and from domain controllers to display screens. The company's single-channel 16Gbps车载high-performance SerDes is in mass production.
- Feb 2026Series A—
- Apr 2025Series A—
- Apr 2024Seed$13.8M
- Sep 2023Seed$13.9M
#2
Series B · Nanjing, Jiangsu · founded 2018 · 400 employees$365.2Mraised▾
Developer of automotive-grade chips for intelligent cockpits, gateways, and controls. The company provides processors for vehicle applications, including digital instrument clusters, display audio, in-vehicle infotainment, and cockpits. It offers gateway processors for central gateways, V2X gateways, and central computing platforms. The company also develops microcontrollers for HUD, ADAS, BMS, LiDAR, and ADCU applications.
- Jul 2024Series B$137.7M
- Nov 2022Series B—
- Jul 2021Series B$154.2M
- Sep 2020Series A$73.3M
#3
Series D · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2010$150.3Mraised▾
Maxieye develops advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) products and autopilot systems for automotive. Its range of ADAS products includes lane departure warning (LDW), front vehicle crash warning (FCW), pedestrian collision warning (PCW), autonomous emergency braking (AEB), intelligent distance optical switching, adapt to the headlamp system, and others.
- Oct 2024Series D$80M
- Aug 2022Series C—
- Nov 2021Series B$47M
- Mar 2020Series A$23.3M
#4
Seed · Suzhou, Jiangsu · founded 2017 · 30 employees$33.4Mraised▾
Forvision develops solutions for smart parking. Offers products such as automated parking assistance and smart parking systems with features including parking control, low-speed emergency braking, blind spot detection, low speed driving auxiliary function, driver assistance, and more. Additionally, it is developing low-speed automated driving and intelligent parking lot management systems.
- Apr 2025Seed—
#5
Public · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2009 · 1300 employees$572.7Mraised▾
Pateo providesSaas & AI enabled infotainment solutions for connected vehicles. It offers products that include connected car solutions packages for automotive OEMs including infotainment systems with related hardware and cloud-based telematics services. It has developed a smart car platform for OEMs to develop their infotainment dashboards and provide connected car services. It also has aftermarket products.
- Mar 2024Series D$208M
- Nov 2022Series C$41.2M
- Jun 2022Series C$149.4M
- Mar 2022Series B$47.3M
#6
Public · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2015$3.1Braised▾
Platform for self driving car technology. The platform supports development of intelligent driving systems that enable vehicles to navigate and operate with reduced human input. It focuses on software and system integration to support perception, decision making, and control within an online development environment.
- Sep 2022Series C—
- Jun 2022Series C—
- Jun 2021Series C$1.5B
- Feb 2021Series C$350M
#7
Series E · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2013 · 835 employees$382.5Mraised▾
Tech-enabled platform offering ADAS and autonomous driving solutions. It offers software and hardware enabled solutions in the automotive sector primarily aimed at improving safety and infotainment requirements. Their core product includes autonomous valet parking, driving assistance solutions, precision solutions, etc. It uses various technologies like computer vision, cloud, etc.
- Mar 2022Series E$157.1M
- Jun 2021Series D$190M
- Jul 2019Series C$14.6M
- Jun 2018Series C—
#8
Series B · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2015$697.7Mraised▾
Zebra Zhixing, a joint venture of Alibaba Group and SAIC Motor, has developed a connected car operating system named 'Banma'. Facilitates AR navigation, human-machine interaction, and internet connectivity & services in the vehicle as well as automates various vehicle functionalities such as engine start, vehicle diagnosis, lightings, seat adjustment, and more.
- Jul 2021Series B$464M
- Sep 2018Series A$233.7M
#9
Series A · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2019 · 31 employees$30.6Mraised▾
AR display system for assisted driving. It designs and manufactures car-mounted AR HUD products and solutions, including AR HUD, LBS imaging modules, and supporting software algorithm applications.
- Nov 2023Series A$14.1M
- Jun 2022Series A$15M
- Jun 2021Series A—
- Oct 2020Seed$1.5M
#10
Public · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2013 · 80 employees$40.2Mraised▾
Developer of intelligent driving, cabin, and vehicle infrastructure cooperative systems. The company provides solutions for intelligent driving, spanning L0 to L4 automation. These solutions are designed for integration into intelligent vehicles, enhancing safety and comfort across various driving scenarios. The company also develops intelligent cabin solutions that aim to improve in-vehicle experiences by anticipating driver and passenger needs. Vehicle infrastructure cooperative systems are offered to broaden application scenarios and support smart transportation development.
- Nov 2023Series E—
- Jun 2022Series D—
- Feb 2022Series D—
- Jul 2021Series D—
#11
Series B · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2013$13.8Mraised▾
Provider of ADAS and ADS to improve driving safety in autonomous vehicles. The company develops products and technologies in the fields of environmental perception, intelligent decision-making, and control execution for autonomous driving.
- Apr 2024Series B$13.8M
- May 2023Series B—
#12
Series B · Hangzhou, Zhejiang · founded 2016$200Mraised▾
Developer of automotive chips, smart driving, maps, data, and IoT. The company focuses on research and development within the automotive intelligent technology sector. Its offerings include automotive chips, smart driving technology, high-precision maps, big data solutions, and Internet of Things applications.
- Feb 2021Series B$200M
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