- SynapX announced on Friday the completion of a nearly $50 million initial funding round, less than two months after its establishment in January.
- The founder of SynapX was one of the early core employees at Horizon Robotics.
Chinese AI startup SynapX announced on Friday that it has completed its first round of financing, raising nearly $50 million less than two months after its inception in January.
The round featured a strong lineup of investors, including Horizon Robotics, GL Ventures, Xiaomi Strategic Investment, Shunwei Capital, and Linear Capital.
The newly raised capital will primarily be used for core technology and product research and development, data system construction, and talent acquisition.
Meanwhile, the company is concurrently advancing its next funding round, which has already drawn attention from international industrial capital and top-tier dollar funds.
SynapX's core mission is to build sustainable, self-evolving embodied intelligent productivity. The company was founded by Du Dalong, who holds an engineering doctorate from Tsinghua University.
Du was one of the early core employees at Horizon Robotics. PhiGent Robotics, a company he co-founded, was acquired by NavInfo in 2025, marking the largest smart driving acquisition in the history of China's A-share market.
Yu Kai, founder and CEO of Horizon Robotics, spoke highly of Du, calling him one of the very few tech entrepreneurs capable of bridging forward-looking research, system architecture, and engineering implementation.
SynapX has introduced the SYNTH architecture, which is designed to enable robots to understand the world and complete operational tasks in real physical environments.
