QCraft

Supply chain relationships

• Horizon Robotics

  Inbound - Compute & Control - QCraft’s Chengfeng highway and urban NOA configurations incorporate Horizon Journey 5 processors

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• NVIDIA

  Inbound - Compute & Control - QCraft’s L4 robotaxi configuration incorporates two NVIDIA DRIVE Orin processors

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• Hesai Technology

  Inbound - Perception - QCraft’s 2022 automotive-grade NOA configurations incorporate Hesai AT128 lidar

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• Ouster

  Inbound - Perception - Ouster lidar equipped QCraft’s 2021 RoboBus fleet under a customer agreement

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• 2026-03-23 - Series D - $100M - QCraft closes $100M Series D financing

  source: businesswire.com

• 2024-06-27 - Series C - QCraft raises several hundred million yuan in Series C financing

  source: cnevpost.com

• 2022-12-02 - B1 - QCraft secures round B1 financing for self-driving development

  source: pandaily.com

• 2021-08-16 - Series A+ - $100M - QCraft raises $100M Series A+ round

  source: cnevpost.com

• 2020-04-03 - Seed - QCraft raises eight-figure USD seed round

  source: qcraft.ai

• Cuihu Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-06-27
• Fund under China Capital Investment Group - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-12-02
• Genesis Capital - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-08-16
• IDG - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-08-16
• IDG Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2020-04-03
• Liangxi Science and Innovation Industry Investment Fund Partnership - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-23
• M31 Capital - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-12-02
• Meituan Longzhu - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2021-08-16
• Ningbo Ninghai Xingtaihe Fund - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-23
• TCL - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-12-02
• Tide Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2020-04-03
• Vision Plus Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2020-04-03
• Vision+ Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2020-04-03
• Wonderland Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-23
• YF Capital - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-08-16
• Yuanbio Venture Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-12-02
• Yunqi Partners - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-12-02
• Zhongguancun Science City - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-06-27

• James Yu - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer - Leads QCraft as it expands from autonomous driving into physical AI and international intelligent-driving markets.

• QCraft publishes autonomous-bus operations analysis

  2021-04-03 - Research Publication - The report focused on real-world unmanned-bus operations rather than a laboratory benchmark. It examined operating behavior and service data from QCraft vehicles. The publication was presented as an early domestic analysis of autonomous-bus operation.

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Events

• 2026-03-23 - Funding - QCraft closes $100M Series D financing

  QCraft announced completion of a $100 million Series D financing round The company said the funding would support physical AI for autonomous driving and mobility QCraft said it planned to invest in world models, reinforcement learning, and global deployment

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• 2026-01-26 - Product Launch - QCraft launches next-generation 500+ TOPS autonomous driving solution

  The company said its NOA technology had scaled to more than 1 million vehicles QCraft develops autonomous driving systems for automakers and mobility applications, spanning advanced driver assistance through L4 autonomy.

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• 2025-11-17 - Partnership - QCraft enters autonomous logistics sector with Chery partnership

  QCraft announced a partnership with Chery focused on autonomous logistics The company said the collaboration would support L4 delivery commercialization QCraft said its Robovan had already begun operations in Suzhou and Jinhua

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• 2025-09-08 - Facility Opening - QCraft opens European headquarters in Germany and partners with Qualcomm

  QCraft said it would open its European headquarters in Germany The company also announced a partnership with Qualcomm QCraft said deliveries of its full-stack solutions in Europe, the United States, Japan, and South Korea were expected to begin in 2026

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• 2024-06-27 - Funding - QCraft raises several hundred million yuan in Series C financing

  Beijing Zhongguancun Science City Holding and Cuihu Capital participated in the round. The funds will support driving-experience improvements, large AI models and end-to-end autonomous-driving technology. The financing is QCraft's sixth round, following two seed rounds, two Series A rounds and a Series B.

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• 2022-12-02 - Funding - QCraft secures round B1 financing for self-driving development

  QCraft announced completion of a B1 financing round. Public reports described the round as led by M31 Capital and Yunqi Partners. The financing supports continued product development, deployment scaling, and commercialization of the company's robotics platform.

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• 2022-11-10 - Regulatory - QCraft receives Beijing autonomous-bus demonstration approval

  The approval covered passenger-bus demonstration rather than unrestricted commercial service. QCraft used its L4 autonomous-minibus platform for the program. The milestone followed earlier road testing in the city.

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• 2022-09-08 - Partnership - QCraft integrates Hesai lidar into L4 autonomous-driving vehicles

  The technical configuration includes lidar. The work is scoped to L4 autonomous-driving vehicles. The announcement identifies a named and bounded programme or configuration.

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• 2022-05-18 - Product Launch - QCraft launches DBQ V4, Longzhou SPACE, and QCraft Matrix

  QCraft introduced DBQ V4, its fourth-generation mass-produced autonomous driving solution The company also launched Longzhou SPACE and the QCraft Matrix autonomous driving R&D toolchain QCraft said QCraft Matrix had already started serving external clients

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• 2022-05-09 - Regulatory - QCraft autonomous minibus receives Beijing road-test permit

  The permit covered QCraft’s L4 autonomous minibus. It authorized road testing rather than routine passenger service. The permit preceded QCraft’s later Beijing demonstration-service approval.

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• 2021-11-10 - Partnership - QCraft selects NVIDIA DRIVE Orin for next-generation autonomous driving hardware

  QCraft announced it selected NVIDIA DRIVE Orin for a next-generation autonomous driving hardware solution The announcement covered robobus and robotaxi applications QCraft develops autonomous driving systems for automakers and mobility applications, spanning advanced driver assistance through L4 autonomy.

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• 2021-11-10 - Partnership - QCraft and Volcano Engine collaborate on autonomous-driving toolchain

  QCraft opened parts of its underlying development capabilities to partners through the Matrix toolchain. Volcano Engine contributes cloud infrastructure and services intended to support larger-scale autonomous-driving development and deployment.

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• 2021-08-16 - Funding - QCraft raises $100M Series A+ round

  QCraft completed a $100 million Series A+ financing round The round was led by YF Capital and Genesis Capital Meituan Longzhu and international pension-fund investors also participated

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• 2021-04-03 - Research Publication - QCraft publishes autonomous-bus operations analysis

  The report focused on real-world unmanned-bus operations rather than a laboratory benchmark. It examined operating behavior and service data from QCraft vehicles. The publication was presented as an early domestic analysis of autonomous-bus operation.

  Source
• 2021-03-06 - Partnership - QCraft and Datang Mobile partner on 5G autonomous buses

  The programme includes demonstration routes that combine QCraft autonomous microtransit with Datang Mobile 5G infrastructure. The partners also planned regional smart-bus operating platforms and larger fleet services spanning technical and market work.

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• 2020-04-03 - Funding - QCraft raises eight-figure USD seed round

  QCraft announced an eight-figure U.S. dollar seed financing. Investors included IDG Capital, Vision Plus Capital, and Tide Capital. The financing supports continued product development, deployment scaling, and commercialization of the company's robotics platform.

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• 2020-01-17 - Partnership - QCraft and Suzhou High-speed Rail New City sign autonomous-driving trial partnership

  QCraft and Suzhou High-speed Rail New City signed a strategic partnership to run trial operations across multiple autonomous-mobility scenarios in the high-speed rail district, with expansion planned across Xiangcheng. At the same-day connected-vehicle fleet launch ceremony, QCraft demonstrated an L4 autonomous vehicle and its technical solution to professional attendees. QCraft describes the programme as a fixed-route, low- and medium-speed path toward driverless city mobility and logistics; the release records a trial-operation programme rather than a completed citywide commercial deployment.

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Relationships

• Volcano Engine

  Qualified Robotics/autonomy Relationship - QCraft and Volcano Engine have the bounded robotics/autonomy relationship documented by the cited evidence.

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Context tags

• Autonomous-driving technology stack - Stack Layer - QCraft documents production autonomous-driving software spanning perception, planning, control, urban NOA, robobuses and other vehicle deployments…
• Autonomous vehicle driving - Workflow - QCraft documents production autonomous-driving software spanning perception, planning, control, urban NOA, robobuses and other vehicle deployments…
• Autonomous urban driving - Workflow - QCraft documents production autonomous-driving software spanning perception, planning, control, urban NOA, robobuses and other vehicle deployments…