{"slug": "pokebot-raises-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-in-pre-a-funding", "title": "PokeBot Raises Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Pre-A Funding", "summary": "PokeBot, a Chinese embodied-AI startup, has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in a pre-A funding round led by Shunwei Capital and Matrix Partners. The months-old company is developing household robots for tasks including clothes folding and cooking, with a demonstration showing one robot autonomously cooking mapo tofu in nine minutes.", "body_md": "PokeBot, a Chinese embodied-AI startup, has [raised hundreds of millions of dollars](https://www.caixinglobal.com/2026-08-05/chinese-robotics-startup-pokebot-raises-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-102471583.html) in a pre-A round led by Shunwei Capital and Matrix Partners.\n\nThe months-old company is developing household robots for tasks including clothes folding and cooking. A demonstration showed one of its robots autonomously cooking mapo tofu in nine minutes. [TechNode reporting]", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pokebot-raises-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-in-pre-a-funding", "canonical_source": "https://technode.com/2026/08/06/pokebot-raises-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-in-pre-a-funding/", "published_at": "2026-08-06 06:15:09+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-09 12:49:41.012982+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["robotics", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["PokeBot", "Shunwei Capital", "Matrix Partners"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pokebot-raises-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-in-pre-a-funding", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pokebot-raises-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-in-pre-a-funding.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pokebot-raises-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-in-pre-a-funding.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pokebot-raises-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-in-pre-a-funding.jsonld"}}