Best Internet of Things Infrastructure Companies in Shanghai, China
The 44 best Internet of Things Infrastructure companies in Shanghai, China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Unisoc.
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 Shanghai
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asiatelco Technologies Wireless access points and end user equipment provider | $8M | — | Early Stage | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Adups Provider of a cloud based IoT device management platform | — | — | Funding Raised | 121 | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Apemesh SOA, IoT gateway, & API management solutions | — | — | Unfunded | — | Miaobo Chen Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 4 | Artosyn Developer of System-on-chip (SoCs) for drones | — | — | Funding Raised | 300 | — | Apache HTTP ServerSwiperjQuery | — | — |
| 5 | Freevisioncorp Provider of access control solutions and more | — | — | Unfunded | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | HYCO Manufacturer of cloud-integrated wearable scanners and smart tags for industrial applications | — | — | Acquired | — | Heart Yang Founder | — | — | — |
| 7 | Kongtan Tech Provider of an AI and IoT solution to analyze real-time space free information | — | — | Funding Raised | — | Kono Kono CEO | — | — | — |
| 8 | Linksure Network Provider of mobile application offering shared Wi-Fi internet access | — | — | Deadpooled | — | Chen Danian Founder & Chairman | — | — | — |
Top 12 Internet of Things Infrastructure companies in Shanghai
#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
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
#3
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—
#4
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
#5
Series B · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2013 · 100 employees$11.4Mraised▾
Provider of Low Powered Wide Area Network solutions for IoT applications. It mainly provides coverage to battery-powered smart sensors. The technology used in the module is distributed through mesh access which establishes links between the devices. It also has its patented 'Virtual OFDMA', which uses a single Ultra Narrow Band (UNB) Channel to connect wireless sensors across a wide area. This can be used to collect and control millions of sensors. Its solution is used across sectors like healthcare, supply chain, mining, and more.
- Feb 2022Series B—
- Mar 2020Series B—
- Nov 2019Series B$11.4M
- May 2018Series A—
#6
Series B · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2006$15.8Mraised▾
Provider of an open-source operating system for IoT applications
#7
Early Stage · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2003$7.6Mraised▾
Asiatelco Technologies provides wireless access points and end user equipment to the telecom sector in USA, Brazil, India, Poland, Uzbekistan, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, etc. Its product portfolio includes 2G/3G/4G LTE modules, routers, wireless CPE (Customer Premise Equipment), LTE mobile hotspots, LTE USB dongles, wireless home gateways (LTE, UMTS, GSM, CDMA), IoT/M2M devices, and more.
#8
Series A · Pudong, Shanghai · founded 2013 · 8 employees$3.6Mraised▾
Provider of a cloud-based augmented intelligence software platform. The company's vertical industrial application leverages artificial intelligence to develop infrastructure-level smart services and smart devices that help in achieving automatic conversion from raw data to meaningful business-related conclusions by natural language, enabling manufacturers across different industries to increase their production efficiency.
#9
Series A · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2018 · 50 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Provider of radar-based sensors for diversified applications. It offers products like radar-controlled parking barriers. Also, it offers solutions for collision avoidance trajectory planning for drones, radar traffic monitoring solutions, and sensor streetlight control systems. It caters to transportation, road safety, industrial, and residential sectors.
- Jul 2021Series A—
- Jun 2020Seed$1.4M
#10
Public · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2007 · 578 employees$3.3Mraised▾
Provider of wireless communication chips, software, cloud, and AIoT solutions. They offer a range of SoCs, modules, and development kits for various applications. The company delivers software development kits, including those for matter, and cloud-based platforms. They provide resources, technical documents, and support services to assist developers.
- May 2018Series A—
- Dec 2012Series A$3.3M
#11
Seed · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2011$813Kraised▾
IOTelligent is a is a technology solution focused on R&D and development of semiconductor-based solutions. Currently developing RFID ICs and solutions for the emerging "internet-of-things" applications. Claims to have raised seed funding.
- Feb 2013Seed$813K
#12
Series D · Shanghai, Shanghai · founded 2014 · 6 employees—raised▾
Calterah is a fabless semiconductor company developing CMOS millimeter wave radar sensors. Products include Radar Transceiver chips, performance evaluation kits, radar development platforms, and data collection kits. It targets Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), autonomous vehicles, drone anti-collision systems and Radar 3D imaging. The engineering team consists of talents from top schools like UC Berkeley, Caltech, Northwestern, Fudan etc. and claims to have significant VC backing (no official information available).
- Dec 2025Series D—
- Jan 2022Series C—
- Sep 2021Series C—
- Oct 2018Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Internet of Things Infrastructure coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Iot in Shanghai is moving
A read on the academic research around Iot in Shanghai — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 424 papers.
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University134
- Shanghai Electric66
- Shanghai University36
- Shanghai Maritime University34
- University of Shanghai for Science and Technology21
- Internet of Things2→62
- Wireless3→44
- Wireless sensor network12→35
- Robustness (evolution)2→22
- Computer network3→16
- Internet of Things1→36
- Wireless1→17
- Wireless sensor network8→19
- Key (lock)1→10
- Algorithm1→4
- Internet of Things1→9
- Wireless sensor network1→3
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