Fund Raising

  • Xpeng leads latest round of funding in LiDAR maker Zvision

    This is the first time we have seen Xpeng invest in a LiDAR maker. The LiDAR supplier for the Xpeng P5 is Livox and for the G9 is RoboSense.

  • Nio Capital joins Pre-C round of funding for industrial robot maker Standard Robots

    Standard Robots was founded in 2016 and focuses on autonomous mobile robot manufacturing and flexible logistics solutions.

  • Svolt charges up global EV battery race with $943 million in new funding

    The newest entrant from China thinks it could take up nearly a third of the global market over the next five or six years.

  • Svolt Energy closes about $940 million in Series B+ financing

    The funds will be used mainly to develop new technologies and build new production bases and R&D centers.

  • Nio-backed 3D printing service provider closes new $55 million round of funding

    WeNext received more than RMB 100 million in investment led by Nio Capital in late January.

  • WM Motor says it has raised $152 million in Series D2 funding

    The financing was led by real estate developer Agile Property, bringing its total Series D funding to $457 million.

  • Nio completes at-the-market share offering, raises about $2 billion

    This is higher than the $1.8 billion raised by Xpeng in its Hong Kong listing and the $1.5 billion raised by Li Auto in Hong Kong.

  • Nio-backed EV charging service provider Yunkuaichong secures investment from OPPO

    Yunkuaichong closed the Series B3 funding round, two months after Series B2 funding from Nio Capital.

  • BYD closes private placement of additional shares in Hong Kong, securing $1.77 billion in funding

    BYD's shares traded in Hong Kong rose 3.36 percent to HK$314.2 as of press time, and it is up about 26 percent in the past month.

  • Chinese self-driving unicorn Momenta closes over $1 billion in Series C funding

    In 2017, Momenta received a $46 million Series B investment led by Nio Capital, the venture capital arm of Nio.