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2025-11-17
26Shanghai, November 17, 2025 — Qiaotian Intelligent, a provider of robotic end effector solutions, officially announced the completion of its tens of millions of RMB Series A+ financing, exclusively invested by Zhejiang Venture Capital (ZVC).
As a key participant in the robotic end effector industrial chain, Qiaotian Intelligent has focused on the field of robotic end effectors since its establishment in 2016. Guided by long-term R&D, Qiaotian Intelligent Equipment adheres to high-quality localization and has broken the monopoly of foreign manufacturers through technological breakthroughs. Prior to this, the company had secured a strategic investment of over 100 million RMB co-invested by Geely Houtong Capital, Wan Niu Capital, and Midea Capital.
“機器人末端應用設備品類繁雜，過去長期被國外品牌主導，在產品更新速度、本地化服務響應及定制化能力上均難以匹配國內制造業升級需求，國產替代已是必然趨勢?！?/span>
橋田智能創始人劉小平表示，這一行業痛點正是公司的核心發力點。近3年以來，橋田智能設備在技術攻關、新產品研發、新工廠建設、產業并購等方面提速發力，取得了較大進展，快速成長為全球智能制造產業鏈中不可忽視的力量。
"There is a wide variety of robotic end effector application equipment, which has long been dominated by foreign brands. These foreign products struggle to meet the upgrading needs of China's manufacturing industry in terms of product update speed, localized service response, and customization capabilities—domestic substitution has become an inevitable trend."
Mac Liu , founder of Qiaotian Intelligent, stated that this industry pain point is precisely the company's core focus. Over the past three years, Qiaotian Intelligent Equipment has accelerated its efforts in technological breakthroughs, new product R&D, new factory construction, and industrial mergers and acquisitions, achieving significant progress. It has rapidly grown into an indispensable force in the global intelligent manufacturing industrial chain.
It is understood that Qiaotian Intelligent’s core product, robotic end effector quick-change devices, has been gradually integrated into the supply chains of mainstream automakers since 2020. Having obtained multiple authoritative industry certifications including TüV, VDA6.4, CE, and ISO, the company has solidified its technical compliance and market recognition. Currently, Qiaotian Intelligent has formed three core product lines: end effector solutions for body-in-white (BIW) assembly and welding robots, high-frequency rapid mold change systems and industrial connectors, and precision assembly systems for the three-electric (battery, motor, electronics) sector. These product lines specifically cover key equipment such as quick-change plates, gripping systems, grinding machines, and magnetic mold change systems, fully meeting the needs of end effector scenarios in intelligent manufacturing.
Illustration: Qiaotian’s Robotic End Effector Solutions
Illustration: Qiaotian’s Magnetic Mold Change System
In terms of technological R&D, Qiaotian Intelligent adopts a collaborative "industry-university-research-application" model. It has joined hands with the team from the Key Laboratory of Shanghai Jiao Tong University to delve deep into the pain points in the application scenarios of robotic end effectors, developing targeted high-tech barrier products and rapidly realizing their commercialization. Taking the electrode cap shaping machine—core equipment in the automotive industry—as an example, traditional cutting process equipment suffers from problems such as large grinding volume, short electrode cap service life, and unstable welding spot quality, which seriously affect production efficiency and cost control. The equipment launched by Qiaotian Intelligent, featuring a grinding process and a two-stage shaping mode, can significantly extend the service life of electrode caps and reduce the frequency of cap replacement. Currently, this product has been applied in dozens of first-tier automaker factories, with an annual shipment volume exceeding 6,000 units.
Illustration: Qiaotian’s Grinding Machine
In exploring its second growth curve, Qiaotian Intelligent has always expanded application scenarios around the core needs of downstream customers. Against the backdrop of the explosive growth of new energy vehicles and the rapid iteration of vehicle models, the industry has an inherent demand for fundamental technological upgrades in efficient, fast, and flexible mold change solutions—even many customers have not yet realized that the essence behind this phenomenon lies in the iteration of mold change methods. Qiaotian Intelligent has introduced a team of doctors from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and spent two years developing its 3rd-generation rapid mold change product: the Qiaotian Magnetic Mold Change System. By accurately identifying market positioning and customer stratification, the company has clarified the core value demands and differences in customization levels among different customer groups. Meanwhile, in terms of demand response, it has established a differentiated demand response mechanism to quickly match customers’ customized needs. Currently, this product has been implemented in dozens of leading enterprise customers, including Midea Washing Machine factories and Yanfeng factories.
Illustration: Qiaotian’s Magnetic Mold Change System
In terms of market layout, Qiaotian Intelligent has built a customer matrix covering new energy vehicles, 3C electronics, semiconductors, aerospace, and other fields. Leading industry enterprises such as Geely, Inovance, Midea, Hongqi, CATL, Yanfeng, and KUKA have all become its partners. Meanwhile, in the niche market of quick-change devices, Qiaotian Intelligent ranks first in annual shipments. To ensure service quality, the company has deployed after-sales teams in Beijing, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Changchun, Wuhan, and other cities, achieving rapid response and efficient on-site service for both pre-sales and after-sales support.
As revealed by Mac Liu , since the previous round of financing, Qiaotian Intelligent has continued to invest in optimizing its team management system and building a digital office infrastructure. It has also accelerated the R&D and mass production processes of new products, with 2025 revenue achieving significant growth compared to the previous year. Following this Series A+ financing, the company will further increase R&D investment, enrich its product matrix, and drive the domestic substitution of robotic end effector equipment to a deeper level.
Mac Liu , Founder of Qiaotian Intelligent Equipment, stated:
With the trust and support of everyone, Qiaotian Intelligent Equipment will continue to refine its technological breakthroughs. In the future, we plan to strategically allocate the funds from this round of financing to core technology R&D and production capacity upgrading, focusing on the performance iteration and new product development of robotic end effector equipment. We will tackle more "bottleneck" problems in the industry and further enhance product reliability and market competitiveness.
The integration of Zhejiang Venture Capital (ZVC) and its strong industrial resources is of great significance for Qiaotian Intelligent Equipment to improve its product integration capabilities. Taking this cooperation as a new starting point, Qiaotian Intelligent Equipment will continue to focus on technological innovation, constantly enhance the company’s international competitiveness, and strive to become the most trustworthy partner for global intelligent manufacturing customers.
The team at Zhejiang Venture Capital (ZVC) stated:
Qiaotian Intelligent has persisted in R&D and innovation in the field of robotic end effector products, breaking the monopoly of foreign capital and gaining recognition from numerous automotive OEMs. In the future, Qiaotian Intelligent boasts broad development prospects in the robotic end effector market. As a state-owned venture capital institution, Zhejiang Venture Capital (ZVC) will continue to provide regional empowerment and strategic support, accompanying the enterprise in achieving long-term sustainable development.
About Zhejiang Venture Capital
Zhejiang Venture Capital Group Co., Ltd. (ZVC) was founded in September 2000. As a professional venture capital institution registered and approved by the Zhejiang Provincial Development and Reform Commission (formerly the Planning and Economic Commission), it is among China’s first batch of professionally operated market-oriented venture capital institutions. With a registered capital of RMB 700 million, the company’s core business is equity investment, and it is a fund manager registered with the Asset Management Association of China (AMAC).
As a key investment entity with Zhejiang provincial state-owned assets background, the Group shoulders the important responsibility of building a high-level scientific and technological innovation investment platform. Over the past more than 20 years since its establishment, it has adhered to the mission of serving science and technology-based real economy, taken "high-quality venture capital" as its target positioning, and upheld the investment philosophy of "30% investment, 70% service". Aligning with the frontiers of world science and technology, the main economic battlefield, the country’s major needs, and people’s life and health, the Group focuses on the tracks of new materials, high-end equipment manufacturing, and next-generation information technology. Meanwhile, it has made in-depth layouts in fields such as AI+, life and health, and cutting-edge technologies, with a focus on early-stage and start-up projects. It has built a long-term and stable development model of "industrial chain + incubation + capital", playing an active role in cultivating listed company clusters and incubating innovative (leading) enterprises, and has become a core engine serving the development of the science and technology innovation industry.
