Meituan Timeline

Events

• 2026-08-28 - Funding - Sharpa discloses CNY4.5B+ cumulative financing and CNY22B valuation - Named investors include Alibaba, Meituan, Tencent, JD.com, Transsion, Sequoia China, Qiming Venture Partners, Meituan DragonBall and Guanghe Venture Capital. The company said the capital supports core technology development, recruitment and the transition of… - source: m.x-techcon.com
• 2026-05-25 - Funding - Tianji completes combined CNY1B Series B and B+ financing at nearly CNY10B post-money - GL Ventures/Hillhouse Ventures and Meituan Strategic Investment co-led the combined financing. Tencent, Gaorong Capital, Photosynthetic Ventures and Granite Asia, formerly GGV Capital, participated. Proceeds support technology development, scaled production… - source: eu.36kr.com
• 2026-05-21 - Capability - Meituan puts low-altitude delivery network into regular operation - The company introduced M-Drone 4L Winch, M-Port 3 and M-DaaS 3 as an integrated logistics system. Meituan said the network had completed more than 900,000 real customer orders. The company began recruiting authorised service providers to expand the model… - source: meituan.com
• 2026-04-29 - Deployment - Meituan delivery robots enter Chongqing airport - The indoor-outdoor robots entered service at the airport's T3 terminal on April 29. Passengers can order from terminal merchants in the Meituan app and receive goods at departure gates. Meituan reported nearly 37,000 cumulative Little Hornet deliveries and… - source: meituan.com
• 2025-12-23 - Partnership - Hesai supplies solid-state lidar for Meituan’s Keeta delivery drones - Hesai’s FTX lidar delivers advanced 3D perception capabilities that ensure safe and reliable delivery drone operations in complex urban, low-altitude environments. Looking ahead, Hesai and Keeta Drone will continue to work closely together to enable Keeta… - source: hesaitech.com
• 2025-11-24 - Partnership - Benewake introduces terrain-following sensor for low-altitude drones - The downward-looking LiDAR maintains centimetre-level height estimates over changing terrain and is designed for all-weather flight-controller integration. Time-of-flight ranging measures reflected laser pulses to give the aircraft a direct altitude input… - source: en.benewake.com
• 2025-04-22 - Regulatory - Meituan earns nationwide low-altitude logistics certificate for delivery drones - The Civil Aviation Administration of China reviewed Meituan's fourth-generation drone. The certificate allows regular commercial drone delivery services across China. Meituan had opened 53 delivery routes and completed more than 450,000 drone orders by the… - source: global.chinadaily.com.cn
• 2025-03-20 - Deployment - Keeta Drone completes first cross-sea drone delivery in Hong Kong - Keeta Drone said Meituan completed its first low-altitude logistics delivery task in Hong Kong on March 20, 2025. The delivery landed at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology after a takeoff command from Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee. Keeta… - source: keetadrone.com
• 2024-12-17 - Deployment - Meituan opens commercial drone routes in Dubai - Dubai's civil aviation authority issued Meituan a BVLOS drone-delivery commercial-operation certificate. The company opened multiple commercial routes in the emirate on the same date. Meituan framed the deployment as an export of its urban low-altitude… - source: meituan.com
• 2023-07-05 - Product Launch - Meituan launches fourth-generation delivery drone - The aircraft was developed over more than two years for dense urban delivery routes. Meituan said it could operate from minus 20 to 50 degrees Celsius and in rain, snow, strong wind and darkness. At launch, Meituan reported nearly 170,000 drone deliveries… - source: meituan.com
• 2021-12-31 - Partnership - Meituan selected Hesai lidar for autonomous-delivery vehicles - Meituan’s autonomous delivery plans to cover 2,800 cities, including mountainous areas with harsh climates. Meituan had already started autonomous delivery project back in 2016 to explore the applications for autonomous logistics. Using logistics network… - source: hesaitech.com