QCraft
QCraft develops autonomous-driving software and vehicle intelligence systems. Its full-stack technology covers perception, prediction, planning, simulation and deployment for passenger vehicles, robotaxis, robobuses and other automated driving applications in complex urban environments.
Market context
QCraft matters as a physical-world autonomy company with large deployment claims and OEM integration experience, making it relevant to robotics-adjacent machine intelligence beyond vehicle OEMs.
Facts
- Website: https://www.qcraft.ai/en
- HQ: Beijing, Beijing, China
- Founded: 2019
- Segment: autonomy software
- Known funding rounds: 5
Investors
- Liangxi Science and Innovation Industry Investment Fund Partnership - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-23
- Ningbo Ninghai Xingtaihe Fund - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-23
- Wonderland Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-23
- Cuihu Capital - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-06-26
- Zhongguancun Science City - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-06-26
- Fund under China Capital Investment Group - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-12-02
- M31 Capital - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-12-02
- TCL - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-12-02
- Yuanbio Venture Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-12-02
- Yunqi Partners - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-12-02
- Genesis Capital - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-08-16
- IDG - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-08-16
- Meituan Longzhu - Participant - Corporate / Cvc - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2021-08-16
- YF Capital - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-08-16
- IDG Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2020-04-03
- Tide Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2020-04-03
- Vision Plus Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2020-04-03
- Vision+ Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2020-04-03
Autonomous driving software expanding toward physical AI
QCraft develops autonomous driving software and intelligent driving systems. Recent company materials position autonomous driving as its commercial base for a broader physical AI strategy, with L2 and L4 systems sharing a common technology foundation.
- Target environment: Passenger vehicles, autonomous driving programs, robotaxi services, automotive OEM platforms and broader physical AI development environments.
- Deployment model: Autonomy software model built around intelligent driving systems, OEM partnerships, physical AI models, full-stack software and international expansion.
- Customer context: Automakers, mobility operators, autonomous driving partners, chip partners and customers deploying assisted or highly automated driving systems.
- Workflow context: Autonomous driving, perception, planning, vehicle control, robotaxi operation, physical AI, sensor fusion and automotive AI deployment.
- Commercial maturity: QCraft has commercial autonomous-driving activity and announced expansion beyond China. Robotics relevance is autonomy-software and physical-AI infrastructure rather than direct robot hardware.
- Market position: Chinese autonomy software company positioned at the intersection of intelligent driving and physical AI.
- Adoption constraints: Automotive qualification, safety validation, regulation, OEM integration, international expansion, compute cost and competition from other ADAS and autonomy suppliers.
- Adjacent context: Autonomy software, autonomous vehicles, physical AI, robotaxi systems, automotive AI and edge autonomy.
- Source confidence: medium
Events
- 2026-03-23 - Funding - QCraft closes $100M Series D financing - QCraft announced completion of a $100 million Series D financing round The company said the funding would support physical AI for autonomous driving and mobility QCraft said it planned to invest in world models, reinforcement learning, and global deployment
- 2026-01-26 - Product Launch - QCraft launches next-generation 500+ TOPS autonomous driving solution - QCraft launched a next-generation 500+ TOPS autonomous driving solution The company said its NOA technology had scaled to more than 1 million vehicles
- 2025-11-17 - Partnership - QCraft enters autonomous logistics sector with Chery partnership - QCraft announced a partnership with Chery focused on autonomous logistics The company said the collaboration would support L4 delivery commercialization QCraft said its Robovan had already begun operations in Suzhou and Jinhua
- 2025-09-08 - Facility Opening - QCraft opens European headquarters in Germany and partners with Qualcomm - QCraft said it would open its European headquarters in Germany The company also announced a partnership with Qualcomm QCraft said deliveries of its full-stack solutions in Europe, the United States, Japan, and South Korea were expected to begin in 2026
- 2024-06-26 - Funding - QCraft raises several hundred million yuan in Series C financing - Chinese media reported QCraft had completed a Series C financing round worth several hundred million yuan. The report said QCraft had raised more than 1 billion yuan across six funding rounds. The financing supports continued product development, deployment s…
- 2022-12-02 - Funding - QCraft secures round B1 financing for self-driving development - QCraft announced completion of a B1 financing round. Public reports described the round as led by M31 Capital and Yunqi Partners. The financing supports continued product development, deployment scaling, and commercialization of the company's robotics platfor…
- 2022-05-18 - Product Launch - QCraft launches DBQ V4, Longzhou SPACE, and QCraft Matrix - QCraft introduced DBQ V4, its fourth-generation mass-produced autonomous driving solution The company also launched Longzhou SPACE and the QCraft Matrix autonomous driving R&D toolchain QCraft said QCraft Matrix had already started serving external clients
- 2021-11-10 - Partnership - QCraft selects NVIDIA DRIVE Orin for next-generation autonomous driving hardware - QCraft announced it selected NVIDIA DRIVE Orin for a next-generation autonomous driving hardware solution The announcement covered robobus and robotaxi applications
- 2021-08-16 - Funding - QCraft raises $100M Series A+ round - QCraft completed a $100 million Series A+ financing round The round was led by YF Capital and Genesis Capital Meituan Longzhu and international pension-fund investors also participated
- 2020-04-03 - Funding - QCraft raises eight-figure USD seed round - QCraft announced an eight-figure U.S. dollar seed financing. Investors included IDG Capital, Vision Plus Capital, and Tide Capital. The financing supports continued product development, deployment scaling, and commercialization of the company's robotics platf…
Team
- James Yu - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer - Leads QCraft as it expands from autonomous driving into physical AI and international intelligent-driving markets.
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