Best Internet of Things Infrastructure Companies in China
The 219 best Internet of Things Infrastructure companies in China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Tsinghua Unigroup.
China's Internet of Things Infrastructure sector is one of the more consequential corners of tech funding right now, and this directory ranks the best Internet of Things Infrastructure companies in China by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum. We're tracking 219 companies here, with $5.9B in total disclosed capital behind them.
The concentration is striking. Tsinghua Unigroup alone accounts for $1.5B, Unisoc pulls $1.4B, and Terminus sits at $899M, meaning three names absorb the lion's share before you even reach the rest of the field. Three unicorns have emerged from that pile. So what's driving the next tier? Median install growth of roughly 13% year-over-year across internet and internet retail apps signals that demand-side pull is real and still building. Thematically, the capital is chasing green infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, and safe water initiatives, which tells you regulators and investors are reading from the same page. IDG Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, and Baidu Venture Capital are the names showing up most often on cap tables, and if you want a read on where conviction is concentrating, that investor list is your fastest shortcut.
Our analysis of 50 Internet of Things Infrastructure companies
$10.3b in tracked funding; 83% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Internet of Things Infrastructure companies in China
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tsinghua Unigroup Semiconductor and electronics device manufacturer 62Market top 31%Funding top 41%Talent top 41%Moat top 48% All 6 signals ▾Markettop 31% Fundingtop 41% Talenttop 41% Moattop 48% Newsbottom 48% Globalbottom 36% Market: 45,000 employees (top 1% of Semiconductors) Funding: Raised $1.5B across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 8 yrs (0.2/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | $1.5B | 47 mo ago | Acquired | 45,000 | Weiguo Zhao Chairman & CEO | — | — |
| 2 | Unisoc 🦄 Provider of SoCs for mobile communication, IoT connectivity and other applications 72Funding top 23%Talent top 28%Moat top 31%Market top 33% All 8 signals ▾Fundingtop 23% Talenttop 28% Moattop 31% Markettop 33% Growthtop 35% Techbottom 42% Globalbottom 37% Newsbottom 18% Funding: Raised $1.4B across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 16 yrs (0.1/yr) Talent: Analyst team rating 5/5 · 2 named leaders on record rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $1.4B | 20 mo ago | Acquired | 5,000 | Steve Chu CEO | Node.jsElement UIVue.js+7 | — |
| 3 | Terminus 🦄 Develops connected end-to-end IoT smart city solutions | $899M | 29 mo ago | Series D | 800 | Victor Ai Founder & CEO | NginxBaidu Analytics (百度统计)Open Graph | — |
| 4 | GigaDevice Semiconductors Provider of non-volatile memory devices | $610M | 72 mo ago | Late Stage | 1,700 | — | PHPAnimate.cssBootstrap+11 | — |
| 5 | ASR Microelectronics 🦄 Manufacturer of modem and a baseband platform | $319M | 73 mo ago | Series D | 31 31 → 48 (+55%) | Vincent Tai Founder & CEO | anime.jsAnimate.cssBootstrap+10 | — |
| 6 | DEEPEXI Provider of a big data stack | $256M | 47 mo ago | Public | 700 | — | Node.jsTailwind CSSVue.js+4 | — |
| 7 | Root Cloud Provider of Internet of Things-enabled solutions for enterprise | $195M | 66 mo ago | Series C | 1,512 | — | anime.jsAmazon ALBNginx+9 | — |
| 8 | Acadine Operating systems & software services platforms for Smart Applications | $100M | 131 mo ago | Deadpooled | 120 | Li Gong Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 9 | Defeng Xinzheng Technology Provider of an IoT platform and industrial solutions | $91M | 61 mo ago | Series B | 400 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Shanghai Xinwang Microelectronics Technology Provider of MCUs for IoT applications | $61M | 44 mo ago | Series C | 266 | Ding Xiaobing CEO | BootstrapNginxSwiper+2 | — |
| 11 | Yeelink Platform for enterprise to create electronic, connected devices and App-enabled hardware. | $47M | 53 mo ago | Series E | — | Daping Liu Founder | — | — |
| 12 | Gizwits Open source PaaS for smart devices | $46M | 42 mo ago | Series C | 108 | — | PythonBootstrapDjango+8 | — |
| 13 | Canaan Developer of ASICs for block-chain computing 55Funding top 32%Growth top 35%Talent top 38%Moat top 39% All 7 signals ▾Fundingtop 32% Growthtop 35% Talenttop 38% Moattop 39% Markettop 47% Techbottom 40% Globalbottom 29% Funding: Raised $43.7M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 9 yrs (0.6/yr) Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $44M | 15 mo ago | Public | 541 | Fertil Dieujuste Founder & Director | DrupalPHPZURB Foundation+19 | — |
| 14 | Core Wing Information Technology Provider of system-on-chip systems for IoT applications | $43M | 39 mo ago | Series C | 100 | — | PHPanime.jsGSAP+8 | — |
| 15 | Jiangxing Provider of edge computing hardware and software for applications in AI and IoT | $33M | 24 mo ago | Series B | 100 | Haitian Pang Co-Founder & COO | — | — |
| 16 | Nurlink Developer of SoCs for IoT applications | $29M | 69 mo ago | Deadpooled | 80 | — | — | — |
| 17 | Sensoro iBeacon provider and manufacturer | $28M | 88 mo ago | Series D | 52 | Tony Wuyang Co-Founder | — | — |
| 18 | Fibocom Provider of wireless communication solutions for IoT applications | $28M | 139 mo ago | Public | 1,907 | Should Peng Co-Founder & CEO | Animate.cssMicrosoft ASP.NETSwiper+6 | 1 partnership |
| 19 | Altobeam Fabless IC design | $20M | 169 mo ago | Series D | — | Steve Chaohuang Zeng Chairman & CEO | Windows ServerThree.jsMicrosoft ASP.NET+6 | — |
| 20 | RT-Thread Provider of an open-source operating system for IoT applications | $16M | 78 mo ago | Series B | — | Bernard Xiong Founder | Tenginecore-jsSwiper+4 | — |
| 21 | yMatrix Provider of a database platform for IoT applications | $16M | 31 mo ago | Series B | 59 | Yanqing Weng Co-Founder | — | — |
| 22 | Hangzhou Ruer IOT Technology Provider of end-to-end IoT components | $16M | 55 mo ago | Series B | 20 | — | — | — |
| 23 | Wood Chain Technology Provider of industrial threat assessment solutions for IoT | $16M | 61 mo ago | Series B | 150 | Meng Lei Co-Founder & CTO | — | — |
| 24 | Nanjing Chuangxin Huilian Technology Provider of 5G communication ICs | $15M | 40 mo ago | Series C | 200 | Ni Haifeng Founder | — | — |
| 25 | Blockcloud Provider of blockchain-based connectivity solutions for IoT applications | $14M | 86 mo ago | Deadpooled | 15 | Dai Pan Co-Founder & COO | — | — |
| 26 | Jiangsu Youwang Provider of cloud-based data storage and 5G IoT networking solutions | $12M | 62 mo ago | Seed | — | Zhang Lixu Founder | — | — |
| 27 | ZiFiSense Provider of Low Powered Wide Area network solutions for IoT applications | $11M | 51 mo ago | Series B | 100 | Zhuoqun Li Founder & CEO | — | 1 award |
| 28 | Shenzhen Rakwireless Technology Provider of transceiver (Wifi ) modules and middleware for IOT devices | $10M | 61 mo ago | Series A | — | Ken Yu Founder & CEO | Cart FunctionalityShopifyApple iCloud Mail+40 | 3 launchs |
| 29 | SMARTBOW Provider of wireless smart sensors and sensing cloud services | $9M | 73 mo ago | Series B | 100 | Wang Pengjun CEO | — | — |
| 30 | Asiatelco Technologies Wireless access points and end user equipment provider | $8M | — | Early Stage | — | — | — | — |
| 31 | Qinglianyun Cloud platform providing intelligent networking hardware | $5M | 81 mo ago | Series A | 30 | Dong ` Fang Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 32 | AbleCloud Provider of cloud-based platform for smart device management and connectivity | $5M | 92 mo ago | Series A | — | Cui Yiyang Co-Founder | — | — |
| 33 | BeeTech Wireless sensor network and monitoring system solutions provider | $5M | 176 mo ago | Series A | 589 | — | — | — |
| 34 | Scinan Provides cloud-computing platform and networking products for IOT Applications | $4M | 129 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | Leon Zhang Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 35 | R&B Technology Developer of online AI and IoT-enabled data platform for multiple industries | $4M | 77 mo ago | Series A | 8 | Charles Wong Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 36 | Espressif Provider of wireless communication chips, software, cloud, and AIoT solutions | $3M | 97 mo ago | Public | 578 | Swee-Ann Teo Founder & CEO | DrupalZohoSalesforce+24 | 3 launchs |
| 37 | IOTW Provider of a blockchain-based data platform for IoT applications | $2M | 85 mo ago | Seed | 14 | Marcin Dudar Co-Founder | — | — |
| 38 | Wisdom Life Internet of things platform to create intelligent products | $2M | 126 mo ago | Seed | — | Tian Peijin CEO | — | — |
| 39 | Kunlu IoT Provider of AI and IoT development services and products | $1M | 46 mo ago | Seed | — | Xu Yanan Co-Founder | — | — |
| 40 | Xircom Cloud Technology Provider of IoT and edge computing communication solutions | $1M | 78 mo ago | Series A | — | Wen Hong CEO | — | — |
| 41 | Radar Eye Provider of radar-based sensors for diversified applications | $1M | 58 mo ago | Series A | 50 | — | — | — |
| 42 | Homi Provider of end-to-end home automation solutions for residential buildings | $1M | 82 mo ago | Deadpooled | 7 | — | — | — |
| 43 | Iotelligent IoT enabled semiconductor-based solutions | $813K | 160 mo ago | Seed | — | Theodore Zhu Founder and Chairman | — | — |
| 44 | Wuhan Jingfeng Micro Control Technology Provider of robotic universal controller based on SoC | $218K | 90 mo ago | Seed | 10 | — | — | — |
Top 12 Internet of Things Infrastructure companies in China
#1
Unisoc 🦄Acquired · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2001 · 5000 employees$1.4Braised▾
Unisoc provides SoCs for communication. It offers mobile chipsets (chipsets for 5G communication, mid-end processors for 3G mobile devices that co-exist with WCDMA/GSM modem), SoC LTE platform for multimedia processing, Internet of Things (IoT) enabled chipsets, and solutions for a smart inter-connected world (RF front-end solutions), chipsets for data transmission via BT, IoT solution for smart traffic management & digital and analog TV chipset solutions. Additionally, it provides solutions for modem/ basebands (TD-SCDMA, WCDMA), power management (PMU, audio devices & peripherals). Additionally, it provides turnkey solutions for helping its customer launching their products & end-to-end system support.
- Sep 2024Series E—
- Apr 2021Series E$814.8M
- Mar 2020Series D$635M
- Mar 2010Series B—
#2
Public · Hangzhou, Zhejiang · founded 2013 · 541 employees$43.7Mraised▾
Developer of ASICs for block-chain computing. Its chief offering is a mining chip. It also offers semiconductor chips for repetitive computing. It has use cases in multiple industries including smart homes, healthcare, education, and the agriculture industry.
- Mar 2025Post IPO$200M
- Nov 2024Post IPO$30M
- Sep 2024Post IPO$50M
- Dec 2023Post IPO$25M
#3
Terminus 🦄Series D · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2015 · 800 employees$899Mraised▾
Terminus Technologies develops an end-to-end IoT solution for deployment at large scales (including urban scale). Its chief solutions are connected access control solutions. It also offers parking management systems using sensor hardware and a cloud-based data collection and analysis solution.
- Dec 2023Series D$276.5M
- Sep 2021Series D$93M
- Aug 2019Series C$283M
- Oct 2018Series B$172.9M
#4
Acquired · Beijing, Beijing · founded 1988 · 45000 employees$1.5Braised▾
Semiconductor and electronics device manufacturer. It develops a broad range of products including semiconductor chips and electronic parts used across different industries. The platforms operations cover design, fabrication, and supply of hardware components as a full-service integrated device manufacturer.
- Jul 2022Series D$1.5B
- Jul 2018Conventional Debt$1.8B
#5
Series B · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2018 · 100 employees$33.3Mraised▾
Provider of edge computing hardware and software for applications in AI and IoT. Its offering comprises of hardware devices and a software platform. Its hardware devices are ARM-based and come with storage capacity. It supports communication protocols like WLAN, Bluetooth, Ethernet, among others. Its use cases are in the areas of grid monitoring, wind power maintenance, among others. It provides related consulting services to enterprises.
- Jun 2024Series B—
- Nov 2022Series B$13.7M
- Jun 2021Series A—
- Nov 2020Series A$15.2M
#6
Public · Haidian, Beijing · founded 2018 · 700 employees$255.5Mraised▾
Provider of a big data stack. The product offers a series of product that provides business and industrial interconnection intelligence. The features of the product include data annotation, a visual training interface, privatization deployment, data management, and more.
- Jul 2022Series B$16.4M
- Aug 2021Series B$100M
- Dec 2020Series A$40M
- Nov 2020Series A—
#7
Late Stage · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2005 · 1700 employees$609.9Mraised▾
Provider of non-volatile memory devices. Its product portfolio includes flash memories, sensors, microcontrollers, and power ICs. It caters to automotive, electronics, IoT, telecommunication, and IT industries.
- May 2020Post IPO$609.9M
#8
Series D · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2015 · 31 employees$319Mraised▾
ASR Microelectronics develops and manufactures modem and a baseband platform. Offerings include a smartphone with 10-core CPU, 4K2K video, 21M camera, 5 mode modem with Cat.6 and a modem with an internal integration of 32MB of memory. Target markets include mobile intelligent communication terminals, Internet of things, navigation and consumer electronics chips, including 2G, 3G, 4G, and multi-standard communication standards. The company acquired Marvell MBU in 2017.
- Apr 2020Series D$119M
- Mar 2020Series B—
- Jul 2018Series B$100M
- 2017Series A$100M
#9
Series C · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2017 · 100 employees$43.5Mraised▾
Provider of system-on-chip systems for IoT application. It also offers security chips, mobile payment chips, communication RF chips, and identification chips. It provides R&D services for the development of multiple chips including RF, analogue chips, algorithms and software.
- Mar 2023Series C$43.5M
- Sep 2021Series B—
- Jun 2020Series A—
- Oct 2018Series A—
#10
Series B · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2020 · 59 employees$15.6Mraised▾
Provider of a database platform for IoT applications. It offers an AI and cloud-based data platform for IoT applications that enables developers to access libraries and access historical data. It also facilitates real-time data collection, storage, processing, and caching.
- Nov 2023Series B—
- Nov 2021Series A$15.6M
#11
Series C · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2008 · 266 employees$60.6Mraised▾
ChipON provides MCUs for IoT applications. It offers a series of general and automotive MCU for different AIoT applications which are claimed to be ultra-low power consumption with anti-interference ability, built-in 1 million erasable EE, analog peripherals, operating voltage, and operating temperature range.
- Sep 2022Series C—
- Dec 2021Series C—
- Mar 2021Series B$46M
- Sep 2020Series A$14.6M
#12
Series C · Guangzhou, Guangdong · founded 2014 · 108 employees$45.5Mraised▾
Gizwits is a Chinese IoT technology platform that connects home appliances and consumer electronics products to the internet and smartphones. GizWits provides IoT developers with data analytics modules as well as management tools such as remote access, notification, and Over the Air (OTA) firmware upgrades. As an open source platform, Gizwits provides developers with API access to create new applications. As of June 2015, it supports 3 million smart home devices or wearables. It launched a self-serve software development platform Gizwits 2.0 and a programmable microcontroller board GoKit, for smart home gadgets.
- Dec 2022Series C$14.3M
- Aug 2015Series B$31.2M
- Aug 2014Series A—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
How research on Internet of Things is moving in China
A read on the academic research around Internet of Things — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 6,850 China-affiliated papers.
- Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications282
- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China191
- Southeast University190
- Tsinghua University158
- Xidian University148
- Wireless13→551
- Wireless sensor network82→600
- Computer security13→385
- Computer network30→380
- Robustness (evolution)5→255
- Wireless sensor network81→376
- Wireless11→279
- Computer security10→210
- Computer network35→232
- Key (lock)7→172
- Key (lock)7→58
- Big data3→34
- World Wide Web2→33
- Computer security18→48
- Cloud computing5→32
Where iot is researched across China
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing iot patents in China
China iot patent filing is accelerating — 116,627 filings from 8,000 assignees (2016–2025), led by Huawei TECH, ZTE, Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommun; annual filings 7172→13059.
- Huawei TECH52976
- ZTE17743
- Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommun9482
- Tencent TECH Shenzhen5966
- Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software5197
- VIVO Mobile Communication4296
- Huawei Device2082
- Xiaomi2015
Common questions
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