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Lingyan Technology Completes Tens of Millions of Yuan Seed Round and Seed+ Round Financing
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Hangzhou Lingyan Technology has completed a seed round and seed+ round of financing totaling tens of millions of yuan. The seed round investors were Yingdong Capital and Zhejiang Torch Center; the seed+ round was participated in by Yida Capital, Meihua Venture Capital, and Linglu Capital, with Yingdong Capital making an additional investment after the seed round, and Linglu Capital serving as financial advisor for this round and subsequent rounds. The funds will be used for product iteration, core component R&D, algorithm platform construction, and team expansion. Lingyan Technology was founded by Zhao Changyi, a PhD from Jilin University. It focuses on the FaceSoul Agent full-stack bionic dexterous face solution, adopts a tendon-driven approach to achieve 32 facial degrees of freedom, and has self-developed a lightweight on-device expression generation model. It has launched four major series: Lingshu M1, Lingshu W1, Lingyun, and Lingneng. In the four months since its founding, the company has reached cooperation or intended cooperation with telecom operators, cultural tourism exhibition venues, commercial services, and some humanoid robot OEMs; reports say overseas partners have already proposed procurement demand for hundreds of units. This year the company plans to focus on To B/To C direct sales and IP customization, accounting for about 90% of total revenue; next year, as OEM demand scales up, the humanoid robot supporting business will account for half.
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- Hangzhou Lingyan Technology closes tens-of-millions-yuan seed round four months after founding, building bionic faces for humanoid robots
Hangzhou Lingyan Technology has completed a seed round and seed+ round totaling tens of millions of yuan. The seed round was backed by Yingdong Capital and Zhejiang Torch Center, while the seed+ round included Yida Capital, Plum Ventures, and Linglu Capital. Founded four months ago, the company's flagship product, FaceSoul Agent, uses a cable-driven design to achieve 32 facial degrees of freedom and features a self-developed on-device expression-generation model. It has launched four product series: Lingshu M1, Lingshu W1, Lingyun, and Lingneng. The funds will go toward product iteration, core component R&D, algorithm platform development, and team expansion.
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- Lingyan Technology Completes Tens of Millions of Yuan Seed and Seed+ Funding to Build Biomimetic Dexterous Faces for Humanoid Robots
Hangzhou Lingyan Technology recently completed a seed round and a seed+ round totaling tens of millions of yuan. Seed-round investors include Yingdong Capital and Zhejiang Torch Center; the seed+ round includes Yida Capital, Plum Ventures, and Linglu Capital. The funds will be used for product iteration, core component R&D, algorithm platform development, and team expansion. Founded by Zhao Changyi, a PhD from Jilin University, the company launched the FaceSoul Agent full-stack biomimetic dexterous face solution, which uses a tendon-driven approach to achieve 32 facial degrees of freedom and features a self-developed lightweight on-device expression generation model.
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