PokeBot Raises Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Pre-A Funding

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.

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. The 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