HuaChuang Portfolio | AI sports hardware company PongBot raises hundreds of millions in Series B funding, using a sports large model to reinvent the autonomous tennis training experience

AI sports hardware company PongBot has completed a Series B round of hundreds of millions of yuan, led by Shanghai Guotou Xiandao Fund, with Yuanhe PuHua and Pudong Venture Capital participating and BlueRun Ventures increasing its investment. The company's self-developed sports large model has been deployed in its smart ball machine hardware; its PACE series tennis ball-serving robot raised over $2.7 million in crowdfunding, and in May 2026 it launched the Aura all-in-one AI coaching robot, with cumulative crowdfunding exceeding $4 million. PongBot has become an official partner of the Australian Open and a supplier to Tennis Australia's National Tennis Academy, with more than 300,000 users worldwide, and its platform has accumulated over 1 million table tennis shot patterns and over 200,000 tennis shot patterns.