Best Native AI Companies in Guangdong Province, China
The 69 best Native AI companies in Guangdong Province, China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: UBTECH.
Our analysis of 150 Native AI companies
$80.7b in tracked funding; 94% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Native AI companies in Guangdong Province
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UBTECH 🦄 Provider of service robots for diversified applications 90Funding top 13%Product top 17%AI top 20%News top 22% All 13 signals ▾Fundingtop 13% Producttop 17% AItop 20% Newstop 22% Innovationtop 25% Growthtop 29% Markettop 31% Moattop 31% Techtop 35% Talenttop 38% Globalbottom 48% Customersbottom 37% Partnersbottom 34% Funding: Raised $1.3B across 6 rounds · 6 rounds over 12 yrs (0.5/yr) Product: 7 distinct product lines · 9 published apps (98.9k installs) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 90/100 | $1.3B | 9 mo ago | Public | 800 | Zhou Jian Co-Founder & CEO | Node.jsElement UIAnimate.css+12 | 4 launchs · 1 partnership |
| 2 | ICarbonX 🦄 Provider of bioinformatic platforms for health management and drug development 67Moat top 26%Funding top 27%Talent top 28%AI top 30% All 8 signals ▾Moattop 26% Fundingtop 27% Talenttop 28% AItop 30% Markettop 38% Globalbottom 48% Newsbottom 27% Techbottom 21% Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 9/10 · Unicorn Funding: Raised $366M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 10 yrs (0.4/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100 | $366M | 62 mo ago | Series D | 300 | Yingrui Li Co-Founder & Chief Scientist | NginxMicrosoft 365jQuery+1 | — |
| 3 | IntelliFusion 🦄 Developer of AI chips, digital city platforms, and smart living solutions | $287M | 68 mo ago | Public | 833 | Ning Chen Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 4 | Xbiome Developer of an AI-enabled bioinformatics platform for the discovery of drugs using intestinal microbiome 64AI top 20%Funding top 36%Moat top 38%Market top 49% All 5 signals ▾AItop 20% Fundingtop 36% Moattop 38% Markettop 49% Globalbottom 36% AI: Classified as an AI company Funding: Raised $108M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 8 yrs (0.2/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $108M | 54 mo ago | Series B | 63 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Hyperparameter Technology Provider of artificial general intelligence technology solution | $100M | 64 mo ago | Series B | — | Liu Yongsheng Founder | — | — |
| 6 | Laihua Video creation platform | $82M | 55 mo ago | Series C | 120 | — | Node.jsFacebook LoginGoogle Sign-in+19 | — |
| 7 | Extreme Vision AI computer vision and analytics tool for surveillancce | $79M | 44 mo ago | Public | 300 | Lauren Luo Co-Founder & CTO | — | — |
| 8 | Shenzhen Zhuiyi Technology Provides development platform and services for virtual customer agents | $62M | 60 mo ago | Series D | — | Wen linding Co-Founder | — | — |
| 9 | Shenzhen Wanjiaan IOT Technology Provider of IoT and cloud-based solutions for industries, homes, and security | $53M | 60 mo ago | Series C | 523 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Leman Biotech Develope rof AI-based platform for cancer immunotherapy 21AI top 30%Talent top 38%Funding top 39%Global bottom 29% All 6 signals ▾AItop 30% Talenttop 38% Fundingtop 39% Globalbottom 29% Marketbottom 25% Techbottom 15% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-based Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 21/100 | $43M | 3 mo ago | Series A | — | Li Tang Co-Founder | PHPApache HTTP Servercore-js+1 | — |
| 11 | MINIEYE Developer of intelligent driving, cabin, and vehicle infrastructure cooperative systems | $40M | 31 mo ago | Public | 80 | Liu Guoqing Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 12 | Ai Linking Provider of AI and cloud-based industrial visual inspection solutions | $21M | 28 mo ago | Series A | — | Yingzhe Ding Co-Founder & Co-CEO | Windows ServerMicrosoft ASP.NETVue.js+6 | — |
| 13 | camsense Provider of visual spatial positioning technology products for robotics and VR/AR | $21M | 45 mo ago | Series C | — | Zhou wei CEO | — | — |
| 14 | Evomotion Provider of an AI and cloud-based platform for edge devices | $20M | 44 mo ago | Series B | — | Weibing Huang Co-Founder | — | — |
| 15 | Aegicare Developer of NGS-based genetic diagnostic devices | $20M | 65 mo ago | Series B | 9 | Yang Li Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 16 | XKool Tech Provider of AI-based applications for the architecture industry | $18M | 60 mo ago | Series A | 100 | Wanyu He Co-Founder & CEO | Node.jsEnvoyAnt Design+5 | — |
| 17 | Mogulinker Technology Provider of industrial AI solutions for equipment manufacturing and service | $16M | 45 mo ago | Series C | — | Shen Guohui CEO | — | — |
| 18 | Gongdadi Provider of a cloud-based automatic AI training platform | $15M | 48 mo ago | Series A | — | Renqi Zhang Co-Founder | — | — |
| 19 | DexForce Technology Co Developer of embodied intelligence engine and humanoid robot platforms 27Funding top 46%Market bottom 47%Global bottom 29% All 3 signals ▾Fundingtop 46% Marketbottom 47% Globalbottom 29% Funding: Raised $14.0M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 4 yrs (0.2/yr) Market: 69 employees (top 45% of Industrial Goods and Manufacturing) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 27/100 | $14M | 25 mo ago | Seed | 69 | — | — | — |
| 20 | AI-MALL Provider of AI-based image and video analytics solutions | $3M | 54 mo ago | Series A | — | Celine Co-Founder | — | — |
| 21 | Orbofi Online platform offering tools for creating virtual world using drag and drop interface | $3M | 37 mo ago | Funding Raised | 11 | — | RemixReact RouterReact+11 | — |
| 22 | Corerain Technologies Adaptable artificial intelligence custom chip | $2M | 29 mo ago | Series C | — | Wayne Luk Co-Founder | — | — |
| 23 | Shenzhen Hao Pigeon Technology AI-based communication platform for call centers | $2M | 96 mo ago | Seed | — | Li Ning CEO | — | — |
| 24 | Heils Technology AI-based classroom attendance solutions provider | $2M | 102 mo ago | Seed | 39 | Yang Zelin Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 25 | Cypheme Provider of AI-powered anti-counterfeit technology to protect products and documents | $1M | 62 mo ago | Seed | 23 | Min Wang Co Founder | WebflowGSAPHubSpot+18 | — |
Top 12 Native AI companies in Guangdong Province
#1
UBTECH 🦄Public · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2012 · 800 employees$1.3Braised▾
Provider of service robots for diversified applications. It develops programmable intelligent humanoid robots for learning. The robot has been designed as a family robot to help out in domestic tasks and also act as a personal assistant. The robot has 20 joints and can replicate the movements of the human body. The robot can act as a home guard and is remotely controllable over the internet. Apart from Alpha, the firm also makes children's robot called Jimu and Delta - a robotic kit, and a patrolling robot called Darwin.
- Aug 2025Post IPO$1B
- May 2018Series C$820M
- Nov 2017Series C$400M
- Jul 2016Series B$100M
#2
Series A · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2021$42.9Mraised▾
Develope rof AI-based platform for cancer immunotherapy. It provides a Meta 10 Metabolism-enhanced cell treatment platform that encourages the metabolic reprogramming of exhausted T lymphocytes by oxidative phosphorylation, restoring their ability to proliferate and kill malignancies.
- Mar 2026Series A$29M
- Nov 2024Series A$13.9M
#3
ICarbonX 🦄Series D · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2015 · 300 employees$365.7Mraised▾
iCarbonX provides a bioinformatics platform for health management and drug development. It plans to use big data and artificial intelligence to analyze omic data along with phenotypic, social, and environmental information. The analysis would be used by individuals for health management and by pharma companies for drug development. Solutions offered are Hey me, Healthtell immune response chip, and DigitalMe. Hey me is a digital health management platform that features genetic testing, sports data tracking, prediction, customized sports programs, personalized beauty products according to skin type, personalized dietary plans. DigitalMe is a health platform that tracks the health of patients suffering from chronic disease.
- Apr 2021Series D$151M
- 2018Series A—
- Jul 2016Series A$45M
- Apr 2016Series A$154.7M
#4
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—
#5
Seed · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2021 · 69 employees$14Mraised▾
Developer of embodied intelligence engine and humanoid robot platforms. The company offers a dual-PC distributed architecture and real-time joint control. It provides visual sensor technology, AI algorithms, and a simulation engine. The company's robots are designed for various applications.
- May 2024Seed—
- Oct 2022Seed$14M
- 2022Angel—
#6
Series A · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2020$21Mraised▾
Provider of AI and cloud-based industrial visual inspection solutions. Its offerings include a 5G cloud service, mobile edge computing platforms, base stations, and AI-based vision inspection solutions for AGVs and logistic robots. It caters to factories, highways, light poles, communities, and hospitals.
- Feb 2024Series A$21M
- Oct 2022Series A—
- Jul 2021Seed—
#7
Public · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2014 · 833 employees$287.5Mraised▾
Developer of AI chips, digital city platforms, and smart living solutions. The company delivers algorithm platforms, chip platforms, and big data platforms. It provides services such as data mining, algorithm training, and knowledge graph data. The company offers solutions for digital cities, smart security, intelligent transportation, and community governance. It also provides solutions for smart parks, buildings, and commercial spaces.
- Sep 2020Series D$146.5M
- Apr 2020Series C$141M
- Mar 2019Series B—
- Mar 2017Series A—
#8
Public · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2014 · 300 employees$79.1Mraised▾
Extreme Vision is a computer vision and big data analytics company. It provides analysis to retail stores, parks, restaurants, advertising companies to identify the number of consumers, gender, age, hot spots etc. Clientele includes China Unicom and Evergrande. Claims to have raised Pre-Series A/Seed round of funding from Chuxin Capital, DT Capital, and SU Venture Capital.
- Oct 2022Series C—
- Sep 2021Series C$77.6M
- Jan 2021Series C—
- Nov 2019Series B—
#9
Series B · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2017 · 63 employees$107.5Mraised▾
Developer of an AI-enabled bioinformatics platform for the discovery of drugs using intestinal microbiome. The company uses Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) technology for the development of drugs for multiple diseases. It includes extraction of microbiota from the stool of healthy people through various methods and then transplant it into patients and used to treat various diseases.
- Dec 2021Series B$100M
- Dec 2020Series B—
- Nov 2019Series B—
- Jun 2019Series A—
#10
Series C · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2015 · 120 employees$81.8Mraised▾
Laihua is a video creation platform for the education industry. Offers hand-drawn video customization for businesses and individual users. The hand-painted video platform is offered in WEB-side, UWP-side, mobile terminal
- Oct 2021Series C$41.6M
- Jan 2021Series B$25.8M
- Mar 2020Series B—
- Jan 2018Series A$9.3M
#11
Series B · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2019$100Mraised▾
Provider of artificial general intelligence technology solution. It provides AI solution that are equipped with various environmental sensing, game playing/decision making, cooperation/competition, survival/evolution, and comprehension/creativity capabilities. It also offers an open-world survival game that combines complex 3D environmental sensing, object search and usage abilities with multi-weapon combat and teamworking.
- Jan 2021Series B$100M
#12
Series D · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2016$61.6Mraised▾
Zhuiyi.ai provides a development platform to enable client organizations to build virtual customer service agents. The platform uses deep learning, big data and behavioral science techniques for building these agents. Zhuiyi also offers development services. These agents are optimized for multiple industries such as finance, travel, technical services, etc. Clients include Drop The Trip, Gome, Truck Help, Ofo, Huney Buds, etc.
- Jun 2021Series D—
- Apr 2019Series C$41M
- Nov 2017Series B$20.6M
- Sep 2016Series A—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Native AI coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
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How research on Artificial Intelligence is moving in China
A read on the academic research around Artificial Intelligence — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 3,673 China-affiliated papers.
- Chinese Academy of Sciences135
- Tsinghua University125
- Peking University92
- Zhejiang University86
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University81
- Feature (linguistics)10→301
- Robustness (evolution)1→252
- Pattern recognition (psychology)41→275
- Benchmark (surveying)15→154
- Artificial neural network12→144
- Feature (linguistics)1→90
- Artificial neural network6→74
- Pattern recognition (psychology)10→77
- Key (lock)1→47
- Convolutional neural network5→44
- Key (lock)2→25
- Artificial neural network1→8
- Benchmark (surveying)1→8
- Perspective (graphical)1→8
- Set (abstract data type)3→8
Where artificial intelligence 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 artificial intelligence patents in China
China artificial intelligence patent filing is accelerating — 45,640 filings from 7,428 assignees (2016–2025), led by Huawei TECH, Tencent TECH Shenzhen, Beijing Baidu Netcom SCI & TECH; annual filings 272→7584.
- Huawei TECH6811
- Tencent TECH Shenzhen3436
- Beijing Baidu Netcom SCI & TECH2732
- PING AN TECH Shenzhen1184
- Intel890
- BOE Technology Group807
- Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommun737
- IBM680
Common questions
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