Huaxi Intelligence raises new funding for essential elderly care robots

Huaxi Intelligence announced the completion of its second angel round financing in 2025. This round was led by Guanggu Coffee Venture, a leading hard tech investment firm, with participation from strategic investors in the senior care industry. The funds will be primarily used to accelerate the mass production and market launch of the industry's first consumer-facing embodied elderly care robot, the "HT-X2."

Prior to this, Huaxi Intelligence's first product, the HT-X1, has already entered mass production and commenced batch deliveries to various senior care scenarios. It has rapidly expanded its coverage to over 8 provinces across China within a short period.

Huaxi Intelligence was founded by Yan Chunqiu, former Product Line and GTM Director of Tmall Genie. The core team comprises veterans from leading technology firms and research institutes such as Huawei, Sensetime, and Alibaba, with expertise spanning key areas including AI algorithms, hardware development, and the implementation of healthcare products for the elderly. With technical staff accounting for over 90% of its workforce, the company has established a comprehensive technological closed-loop, from core algorithms to real-world scenario applications.

"The elderly need not flashy tech toys, but reliable helpers that solve real problems," stated Yan Chunqiu, founder of Huaxi Intelligence. He explained that his core entrepreneurial logic stems from practical experience gained while serving hundreds of millions of households during his tenure at Tmall Genie. By analyzing tens of millions of interaction data points from elderly users, he identified consistent, universal needs spanning the entire spectrum of home-based elderly care. A key insight was the prevalent shortcomings of existing products: excessive complexity and disjointed functionality.

Based on this insight, Huaxi Intelligence developed the industry's first consumer-facing embodied elderly care robot, "HT-X2." Built upon advanced embodied intelligence and large language model technologies, the product adheres to a philosophy of "extreme simplicity + precise practicality."

The product has already completed small-scale pilot trials in 12 communities in Hangzhou, achieving a user intention-to-order rate of 92%. Notably, 83% of elderly participants reported feeling "uneasy without it," strongly validating its essential utility.

The investor composition in this round strategically aligns with Huaxi Intelligence's development needs across "technology R&D - market commercialization - ecosystem building," demonstrating strong market recognition of its core value.

Leading this round, Guanggu Coffee Venture, known for its rigorous "Hard-tech, Heavy-capital, High-IQ" project selection criteria, underscored its confidence. Founder Li Ruxiong emphasized: "Huaxi's core competitiveness lies in its ability to translate complex technologies into essential products. As one of the few elderly-care tech brands globally with multiple core proprietary technologies—including embodied AI, large language models, dexterous hands, and robotic arms—Huaxi possesses immense potential in the vast elderly-care robotics segment." It is understood that Guanggu Coffee will leverage its network of over 600 tech projects to facilitate supply chain and channel partnerships for Huaxi.

Notably, the strategic senior-care industry investors participating in this round will open up their extensive domestic and international deployment networks. This collaboration will form an industrial closed loop of "product development - scenario validation - scaled promotion," accelerating the market penetration of these essential products.

China's population aged 60 and above has surpassed 310 million, with 18.3% being disabled or semi-disabled individuals. While the home-based elderly care market has long exceeded the trillion-yuan threshold, consumer-facing products in this sector have consistently faced the dilemma of "critical acclaim without commercial success." Industry data reveals that the primary reason 80% of elderly users reject smart devices is that they are "overly complicated to operate"—a pain point that Huaxi Intelligence's product innovation precisely addresses.

"The success of Tmall Genie demonstrated that good smart products should 'understand users' rather than 'educate users'," revealed Yan Chunqiu. He shared that post-funding, the company will prioritize two key strategies: first, iterating its proprietary large model and product features based on pilot data; second, deepening its multi-technology stack approach to age-appropriate design, developing solutions tailored to specific users and scenarios.