Huang Xiaoming invests in robot leasing company Qingtian Zu, which secures over 100 million yuan in funding

On March 18, Qingtian Rental officially announced the completion of two funding rounds: the Angel Round and the Angel+ Round, with a total financing amount exceeding 100 million yuan.

It is understood that the current round of investment includes leading listed companies such as Daya Yang Electric, Minzhuo Electromechanical, well-known financial investors Muhua Tech Innovation, Fuzhuo Investment, and Ruisi Venture Capital. Top entertainment companies like Lehua Entertainment, Mingjia Capital, and Baijia Media also participated, with existing shareholders Dafen Industrial subscribing oversubscribe.

The funds from this round will be primarily used to establish a nationwide standardized fulfillment service network, upgrade platform assets and dispatch systems, and leverage real-world data to empower the upstream and downstream of the industry chain.

Li Yiyan, CEO of Qingtian Rental, revealed that most investors in this round not only provide financial support but also bring business cooperation opportunities.

Notably, this financing round also introduces a cross-industry ecosystem in the pan-entertainment sector. Mingjia Capital, founded by renowned actor Huang Xiaoming, and top domestic entertainment content company Lehua Entertainment are both included in this angel and angel+ round funding list.

According to relevant information, Qingtian Rental was jointly initiated and established by ZhiYuan Robotics, Feikuo Technology, and other companies in the embodied intelligence field in December 2025. The company is currently chaired by Jiang Qingsong, a partner at ZhiYuan Robotics, with Li Yiyan, founder of Feikuo Technology, serving as CEO.

As of now, Qingtian Rental’s platform has processed over 5,500 orders, with more than 3,000 robots available for dispatch across the platform. The number of city partners registered nationwide has exceeded 20,000.

In terms of technological evolution and industry collaboration, the platform emphasizes that as a new species, robots require real-world data feedback loops for rapid capability iteration.

Qingtian Rental aims to serve as a hub connecting users, leasing companies, content providers, and insurance and financial partners. By aggregating demand and data from across the internet, it accelerates technological iteration and industry standardization, jointly promoting the large-scale deployment of physical AI.

From a business model perspective, the robotics industry is still in a stage of rapid technological iteration and exploration of commercial models.

Domestic manufacturers like Yushu and ZhiYuan have seen explosive growth in humanoid robot shipments by 2025. However, with robot prices often ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of yuan and rapid industry iteration, it remains difficult for small and medium-sized companies to make direct purchases.

The “lease-to-own” model is expected to significantly lower the barriers to robot usage at this stage.

When the platform launched, Jiang Qingsong stated that this move aimed to bridge the “last mile” of humanoid robot popularization.

At the launch of the Qingtian Rental platform, he also introduced the “Qingtian Rental 1234 Strategic Plan”: by 2026, to connect more than 10 original equipment manufacturers, develop over 200 top leasing service providers, gather more than 3,000 content creators, and serve over 400,000 leasing customers.

Regarding market prospects, Li Yiyan told Observer Network and other media that he predicts the robot leasing market will grow from a spontaneous market size of 1 billion yuan in 2025 to at least 10 billion yuan in 2026, driven by platform-based operations and mass production.

As one of the lead investors, Daya Yang Electric expressed confidence in Qingtian Rental’s layout in robot leasing and service network construction. As the robotics industry accelerates toward real-world applications and large-scale deployment, the platform model’s role in improving asset circulation and connecting industry resources is becoming increasingly evident.

“We are optimistic about Qingtian Rental’s potential in scenario linkage and service system development. In the future, both parties will leverage their respective advantages along the industry chain to explore deeper collaboration in ecosystem co-building and resource integration, achieving the deployment of embodied intelligence in manufacturing scenarios and high-quality real machine data collection and recycling.”

Regarding the pan-entertainment cross-industry ecosystem, Qingtian Rental’s flexible standardized leasing model perfectly matches the “project-based, time-sensitive” equipment turnover characteristics of entertainment events.

Mingjia Capital founder Huang Xiaoming commented, “The integration of technology and pan-entertainment will unleash enormous imagination. In the future, we will leverage our resource advantages and work with Qingtian Rental to develop innovative commercial scenarios.”

Lehua Entertainment CEO Du Hua emphasized, “Relying on our rich artist roster and fan ecosystem, we will collaborate with Qingtian Rental to explore ‘robot + entertainment’ innovative services, jointly creating more disruptive technological entertainment experiences for the public.”

It is understood that Huang Xiaoming has appeared multiple times at events related to ZhiYuan. In December last year, during the mass production of the 5,000th Lingxi X2 at ZhiYuan’s factory, co-founder, president, and CTO Peng Zhihui personally delivered the robot to Huang Xiaoming.

Huang Xiaoming at ZhiYuan Factory

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