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Lightwheel
China
Raised roughly RMB 1 billion (about $147 million) across stacked Series A++/A+++ and Series B rounds in the first half of 2026, becoming what backers call the world's first unicorn in embodied data; more than 80 percent of the simulation assets used by leading embodied-AI teams reportedly originate from its platform, with partners including NVIDIA, Figure AI, Toyota and BYD.
CountryCN
CategorySimulation and tools
Stageseries B
Founded2,023
Funding (USD)$147M
What they doBeijing-based physical AI infrastructure company building SimReady 3D assets, synthetic and egocentric human-demonstration data, and evaluation benchmarks (RoboFinals) that let robotics and embodied-AI teams train and test models without costly real-world data collection.
Headcount125
Seen atMACHINA 2026
Sources : EqualOcean (2026-03-11)Signalbase (2026-06-28)NVIDIA (2026-05-01)
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