3 Listed Companies Make Moves: Robot Leasing Platform Qingtian Rentals Completes Yuan-Level Financing

On March 18, Qingtian Rental, a robot leasing platform, announced the completion of angel round and angel+ rounds of financing, with a total funding amount reaching hundreds of millions of yuan. Existing shareholder Dafeng Industrial (603081.SH) continued to subscribe oversubscribe, with leading investments from Ocean Motor (002249.SZ), Muhua Tech, Minzhu Electromechanical, and others. Follow-on investors include Lehua Entertainment (02306.HK), Fuzhuo Investment, Ruizi Venture Capital, Tianji Investment, Jiaxing Nantou, Zhixing Investment, and more. Additionally, actor Huang Xiaoming’s Mingjia Capital participated in the follow-on investment.

Qingtian Rental stated that the funds will be primarily used to establish a nationwide standardized fulfillment service network, upgrade platform assets and dispatch systems, and leverage real-world scenario data to empower the upstream and downstream of the industry chain.

“Most investors in this round not only provide financial support but also bring business cooperation opportunities,” said CEO Li Yiyan. He revealed that Qingtian Rental has introduced diversified industrial capital in this round of financing, aiming to achieve deep strategic collaboration with ecosystem partners in application scenarios, channel expansion, supply chain systems, and regional service networks through capital linkage.

It is understood that entertainment and commercial performances are currently important scenarios for robot leasing, which explains the presence of entertainment industry figures among the investors. Huang Xiaoming, founder of Mingjia Capital, said, “The integration of technology and the broader entertainment industry will unleash enormous imagination. In the future, we will leverage our resource advantages and work with Qingtian Rental to develop innovative commercial scenarios.” Lehua Entertainment CEO Du Hua stated, “Relying on our extensive artist roster and fan ecosystem, we will collaborate with Qingtian Rental to explore innovative ‘robot + entertainment’ services, jointly creating more disruptive technological entertainment experiences for the public.”

In addition to support from downstream scenario capital, the robot leasing model has also attracted upstream industry capital. A relevant person from Qingtian Rental explained that the involvement of high-tech companies like Ocean Motor and Minzhu Electromechanical not only accelerates the validation of robot scalability in hardcore industrial environments but also significantly improves the circulation and maintenance efficiency of robot assets. The investment from the longstanding shareholder Dafeng Industrial directly introduces a vast nationwide retail network and cultural, sports, and tourism exhibition scenarios, speeding up the validation of robot commercialization and penetration.

Ocean Motor stated that as the robot industry accelerates toward real-world deployment and large-scale application, the platform model’s role in improving asset circulation efficiency and connecting industry chain resources is becoming increasingly evident. “In the future, both parties will leverage their advantages across the industry chain to explore deeper collaboration in ecosystem co-building and resource integration, achieving the deployment of embodied intelligence in manufacturing scenarios and the collection and recycling of high-quality real machine data.”

According to reports, as of the time of publication, Dafeng Industrial, Ocean Motor, and Lehua Entertainment, three listed companies, have not yet announced any disclosures regarding their participation in this round of investment.

Data platforms IT Juzi and Tianyancha show that, besides the three listed companies, several state-owned capital institutions are also among the investors. Muhua Tech is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tsinghua University Asset Management Co., Ltd. It is not only a shareholder of leading embodied intelligence company Zhiyuan Robots but also manages over a dozen funds, including “Gongqingcheng Mu Zhi He Chuang Venture Capital Partnership (Limited Partnership).” On February 26, Ocean Motor announced that it had invested 10 million yuan using its own funds to subscribe to shares of Mu Zhi He Chuang Fund.

Since launching on December 22, 2025, the Qingtian Rental platform has processed over 5,500 orders, with more than 3,000 robot devices available for dispatch across the platform. The number of city partners registered nationwide has exceeded 20,000.

(Source: Economic Reference Network)