Unitree Technology and Sequoia China Establish "ShanYu·Innovation Program" to Invest in Early-Stage Embodied Intelligence Projects

On October 28, Unitree Robotics and Sequoia China jointly announced the establishment of the "Shanyu·Venture Program," focused on discovering and investing in early-stage startup projects in embodied intelligence, robotics applications and their upstream and downstream key technologies, and other frontier hard-tech fields. The program is dedicated to becoming founders' "entrepreneurial partner," jointly exploring the infinite possibilities from technology origination to product application. Unitree Robotics is a leader in the global high-performance general-purpose robotics and embodied intelligence industry, with globally leading and profound understanding of frontier technology paths, cost curves, and engineering implementation; Sequoia China, with its forward-looking investment vision, rapid decision-making mechanism, and high-quality post-investment services, has invested in and supported a large number of well-known innovative enterprises over the past 20 years. The Shanyu·Venture Program can combine Unitree Robotics' engineering capabilities with Sequoia China's investment capabilities, systematically implementing the "engineer + investor" investment methodology, and creating a new entrepreneurial acceleration model for promising early-stage founders spanning technology R&D, product application, and financing growth. The Shanyu·Venture Program will adhere to the core strategy of "understanding technology and industry, discovering early, deciding fast, valuing people, and not causing trouble," providing scarce, high-quality industry and capital resources to potential early-stage founders in frontier hard-tech fields such as embodied intelligence and robotics, especially young teams, supporting them to start from an idea, a piece of code, or a prototype and gradually build scalable products and actively participate in global market competition. Understanding technology and industry: Unitree has deep roots in the embodied intelligence and robotics application industry and can provide the most frontier industry perspective, helping startups avoid detours and avoid falling into "feasible in experiments but infeasible in mass production and market." - Discovering early: focusing on the early stage, and having the ability to help companies achieve launch "from zero to one," co-creating around "one idea." - Deciding fast: following Sequoia China's efficient decision-making mechanism, further simplifying the investment process, so that entrepreneurs' enthusiasm does not cool while waiting. - Valuing people: focusing on young entrepreneurs who have keen insight, the courage to break conventions, and an extreme desire to accomplish something great. - Not causing trouble: maintaining a high-trust, low-friction communication style, giving methods, resources, and advice, being a good co-pilot without grabbing the steering wheel. Wang Xingxing, founder and CEO of Unitree Robotics, said: "Since 2019, Sequoia has been one of the earliest and most important supporters in Unitree's development process. The establishment of the Shanyu·Venture Program is a deep cooperation and natural extension between the two parties based on a high degree of mutual trust. We use the dual perspective and collaborative approach of 'engineer' and 'investor' to discover more potential high-quality entrepreneurs, help young teams avoid detours, find product-market fit faster, and spin the growth flywheel earlier—this is also the original intention and foundation of the Shanyu·Venture Program." Li Yannan, Managing Director of Sequoia China, said: "For many years, we have accompanied and witnessed Unitree Robotics advance the development of China's embodied intelligence from technical validation to industrialization breakthroughs. We look forward to the establishment of the Shanyu·Venture Program providing entrepreneurs with a 'double guarantee': Unitree provides the most frontier industry technical understanding and engineering guidance, while Sequoia can provide full-chain capital support and professional post-investment services, helping more entrepreneurs explore the uncharted territory of the technology frontier. The Shanyu·Venture Program will continue to help young people who remain pure, harbor dreams, and dare to change the world through technology and hard work under uncertainty. Starting from 0, together define the infinite future. (Statement: This article is reprinted from a third-party platform. The purpose of reposting this article is to promote information exchange and does not involve profit-making purposes. The views in this article do not represent the position of this site. Unverified information is for reference only and should not be used as a basis for any investment or trading. If there is any unintentional infringement of media or personal intellectual property rights, please call or write to inform us, and this site will handle it as soon as possible.)