Horizon Robotics

Horizon Robotics is a startup company developing artificial intelligence chips for smart vehicles. The company is dedicated to providing integrated and open embedded Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions in the smart mobility market with a focus on performance-cost-power optimization. Its AI-enabled platform is efficient, open, and scalable. Horizon Robotics' business model is flexible, allowing customers to choose from AI processors, AI toolchain, Deep Learning perception algorithms, or a perception compute box. It combines algorithms, software, hardware, and chip development capabilities as well as a strong R&D team with rich industrial experience to create intelligent AI chips for smart mobility, surveillance cameras, and other smart devices. Horizon Robotics received funding from multiple globally well-respected venture investors such as Baillie Gifford; YF Capital, CITIC Private Equity Funds Management (CPE); and Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), as well as Orix Group, CloudAlpha Tech Fund, Neumann Advisors, SDHS Capital, Aspex, Hermitage Capital, China Securities, and Yuantai Changqing Fund. It has also attracted substantial investment from Morningside Venture Capital, Hill House Capital, Sequoia Capital, GSR Ventures, Linear Venture, Innovation Works, ZhenFund, Wu Capital, Tsing Capital, and Vertex Ventures as well as from Yuri Milner, a legendary venture capitalist from the Silicon Valley. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Haidian, Beijing, China by Annie Tao, Chang Huang, Kai Yu, and Ming Yang.

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