# Auto Wise

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/auto-wise

- Industry: Automobiles, Other Vehicles & Parts
- Headquarters: Shanghai, China
- Website: www.autowise.ai
- Total disclosed funding: $75M
- Latest round: Series B (Oct 10, 2022)
- Investors on record: 10

## About

Established in 2017 and based in Shanghai, China, Auto Wise is a unmanned autonomous company that engages in the development of autonomous road sweepers and indoor scrubbers. The company's founder and CEO, Huang Chao, was the head of Didi's unmanned driving project. The core members worked at Baidu, Didi, Tencent, and Google. In June 2020, the company and Boschung Group established a company, WIBOT, and launched an unmanned sweeper suitable for the European and American markets. In December 2021, it completed the acceptance of the Duisburg project in Germany. In March 2025, Auto Wise closed a strategic invesment from Sinowisdom, Shandong Dongtai Huide Investment, Jinan Jingfa Capital, Tianjin Changhe, and Star Capital.

Auto Wise mainly provides unmanned driving solutions for urban sanitation vehicles, which can be applied to overhead, urban ground roads, and park cleaning vehicles. The company's main products are the autonomous road sweeper, AutowiseV3, the autonomous driving platform product, Roboard-X, the remote operation platform, Radar24 and the multi-purpose unmanned sanitation vehicle, Platforma-X. Its sweepers have lidars, cameras, mm-waves radars, and GNSS antennas. The company has deployed over 150 autonomous road sweepers in China, Switzerland, Germany, and America.

The company generates revenue by developing and providing driverless cleaning cars.

## Funding rounds

- Series B, Oct 10, 2022, $14M — Sense Capital
- Series B, Jul 11, 2022, $30M — SkyChee Ventures, Shanshan Venture Capital, Opple
- Series B, May 17, 2021, $19M — SkyChee Ventures
- Series A, Sep 24, 2019, $13M — Qianhai Ark Capital, Redpoint China Ventures, Zhongqi  Capital, Zhiyuan Private Equity Management
- Series A, Aug 20, 2018 — Lotus Lake Capital, Jianyuan Fund, Redpoint China Ventures
- Angel, Jan 12, 2018 — Redpoint China Ventures

## Investors

- Redpoint China Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/redpoint-china-ventures) — Angel, Series A
- Lotus Lake Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/lotus-lake-capital) — Series A
- Jianyuan Fund (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/jianyuan-fund) — Series A
- Qianhai Ark Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/qianhai-ark-capital) — Series A
- Zhongqi  Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/zhongqi-capital) — Series A
- Zhiyuan Private Equity Management (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/zhiyuan-private-equity-management) — Series A
- SkyChee Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/skychee-ventures) — Series B
- Shanshan Venture Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/shanshan-venture-capital) — Series B
- Opple — Series B
- Sense Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/sense-capital) — Series B